lee a pseudogrammaton

Yeh there's that. Altho propaganda runs cover for corruption

Im surprised that "Sphincter mouthed dingleberry" didn't make the list (We yanks can do it too...)

this was very well done

Again, what do the Dems have to lose by being more vocal in their opposition to his misrule? They owe their constituents the courtesy of an explanation, if it's not too much to ask.

Again, what do the Dems have to lose by being more vocal in their opposition to his misrule? They owe their constituents the courtesy of an explanation, if it's not too much to ask.

Again, what do the Dems have to lose by being more vocal in their opposition to his misrule? They owe their constituents the courtesy of an explanation, if it's not too much to ask.

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"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."

Actually the US Constitution has such glaring defects that they're contributing to the mess & are worth remedying.

What's wild about the US tariffs is that they are not coupled with any industrial policy or public investment strategy that could plausibly deliver US re-industrialization. The result is that the tariffs will likely accelerate US industrial decline and general economic degradation.

Circling the drain

The rise of the rentiers has hit its apex. Down they go.

... MAGA is a vast psy-op that took decades to build up, foment.

Normalizing, habituation is necessary to phasing in the draconian measures necessary, inducing societal mobilization by steps.

To what end? Continued imperial overreach, carried on the backs of the hoi poloi, of course. 5/7

But as you may have noticed, the chaos seems to be self defeating, unless we look at it thru the lens of incrementalism , that chaos isn't a flaw, it's a feature. The far right has dabbled in psy-war, disinfo, propaganda, & ideological manipulation for decades, 4/7

Cramming down the populace with austerity measures is SOP here, even as the rentier elite continues as free riders. 3/7

That is, an amalgamation of militant rentier agendas: a plantation economic model, a caste system galvanized by reactionary populism to support it, a plutonomy to feast upon it, an imperial presidency to lead it, & a refreshed hegemonic military footprint to expand & enforce it in the Americas. 2/7

Behind the veil of lunacy lies a calculating & militant rentier bloc, whose dream is a a mix of neo-feudalism & neo-fascism. 1/7

AKA stuffing money under the mattress. USA is practicing Economic Nationalism, incl. offshore assets losing value for tax evasion's sake. 2-party complicity but the Repubs include reactionary populism as part of rentier wealth defense. All in service to empire.

AKA stuffing money under the mattress. USA is practicing Economic Nationalism, incl. offshore assets losing value for tax evasion's sake. 2-party complicity but the Repubs include reactionary populism as part of rentier wealth defense. All in service to empire.

Pythogoras meets the Circle of Fifths? When systematized in a 12×12 PC×Key schema, it forms a tonnetz. Implications? No idea.
#musictheory #tonnetz #12TET #acoustics #physics #quantum

Neil deGrasse Tyson debates a right-wing commentator over COVID vaccines. Bet-David is in an epistemological battle to make knowledge & facts a matter of preference, in order to defend a vaunted but eroding ideology. Thats not conservatism that's reactionary populism in service to militant capital.

when people call music theory “gay math” they’re making it sound slightly cooler than it is. i still like it. but let’s temper our expectations

Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes

We can even observe sky cooling when opening the door of a car that was kept shut overnight, the air inside the car will be cooler than the surrounding summer air. Sky-cooling paint is how we can take this idea in principle & at max efficiency provide a net geophysical effect!

"Sky cooling paint" works by the same principle as making ice in the desert, even when the air is above freezing. It's not evaporation that does this, it's the heat in shallow ponds radiating into space on a wavelength different than that of any greenhouse gas that could trap it.

To Help Cool a Hot Planet, the Whitest of White Coats (Published 2023) Scientists at Purdue have created a white paint that, when applied, can reduce the surface temperature on a roof and cool the building beneath it.

"Sky Cooling Paint" literally ejects local heat back into space, bypassing greenhouse gasses. If 1% - 2% of the Earth's surface was covered by such paint it could mitigate global warming. By comparison all of the cities on Earth cover 3% of the planet's surface.
www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/c...