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Gandhi was at the end of a centuries-long independence movement, and he used nonviolence as a lever to make negotiating with him preferable to dealing with the armed insurgents.

The lesson from Gandhi is that there is power in being the one to provide a stable alternative when the empire collapses.

That was Political Science 101 when I went to college - the radicals make the space for the moderates to negotiate.

Judd Winick has made some OK comics.

the new stand anthology, the end of the world as we know it, was the most solid anthology i may have ever read.

my favorite stories of the bunch were the ones by cat valente, cynthia paleyo, and usman t. malik, but many have stuck with me.

As someone who is following the long covid research, it’s clear that we are engaged in a real fun worldwide battle to see whether viral infections are more powerful than human denial.

Denial is winning at the moment, but my money’s on the viruses long-term.

We decided that the rich and powerful don’t have to follow the laws long ago, and this is the result.

GM seeds are planted in the soil on farms - i.e. traditional agriculture. Traditional agriculture has always been high tech.

We’re just not getting vertical farms or urban lettuce warehouses, since they cannot compete with a field and farm equipment.

It’s hard to compete financially against traditional agriculture.

I did my graduate degree in history, and the microfiche will never go out of style in that field.

The golden age of digitization is over, and most of the 20th century’s newspapers and magazines are still in those reels and nowhere else.

I don’t want to talk about this because I don’t want to be a target

But on just a human decency level the person tirelessly deleting Gazans just permabanned the guy who uses his thousands strong platform to boost the fundraisers of literally anyone who needs money or mutual aid every single Friday

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement?

The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.

At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

When the Orwellian named Dept of Homeland Security was created … MANY of us predicted that it would eventually be doing all the things that it is doing right now

Pinning it uniquely on Trump really misses the point in a bunch of ways

The year is 2025. There are three social networks remaining. They are run by Dweeb Lowtax, Tweaker Lowtax, and Girlboss Lowtax. You have to pick at least one.

The Democrats like to jump on “the crisis on border” because it’s plausibly deniable racist hysteria.

I think Swift sidesteps this by never having had a normal life. Her entire bio reads like the parody of a Disney film.

I think one of the reasons The 1619 Project freaked out so many people was that, if they accepted structural racism was real, then they were personally implicated.

The Hidden

Great SF action horror comedy with a fun Kyle McLaughlin performance.

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

It’s the same attitudes that Hunter S. Thompson was writing about in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72.

They think this is all a game, winning is the point, and a good lie shows you know how to play. Dirty tricks and gutter tactics are admired.

This long predates the current mess.

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Hypocrisy bothers people.

I mentioned that Hillbilly Elegy was popular with liberal readership because it countered the take that the Democrats lost voters due to their trade policies, putting it instead on the pathologies of the poor.

Not a “who votes for who” argument, but about why Vance got NPR love.

In Eastern North Carolina, NAFTA caused a collapse in the Black vote. That region was a stronghold of Black unions, NAFTA gutted it, and the Democrats lost NC and multiple presidential elections.

Equating “working class” with “white” was one of Vance’s tricks to let liberals feel better.

JD Vance gave liberals absolution for NAFTA and other policies that battered the working class Democrats
that were once the party’s loyalist base.

“They” were all lazy junkies with a failed culture, so no real harm was done.

I’ve also not seen any coverage of the memorial service’s ratings, but my feeling is no one watched it.

Kirk was a preppy racist who was good at “Stop hitting yourself!” rhetorical bullying.

His wife’s going for “Living Orthodox Icon”, and that’s a different product with a much smaller audience.

dd

I think we do need a catchy ethnograthic moniker for the "wealthy, white, no college" demographic that is radioactively Trump - the spiritually and actually at Jan. 6 crowd.

Armentraut: that just happens to be my latest book
Armentraut: I've infused it with a Hellmans original garlic aioli smell
King:
Poe:
Barker:
Lovecraft:
Koontz:
Barker: why
Armentraut: for booktok, of course
King: oh right right booktok
Poe: yes that scans

As long as the loudest folks on the left insist tone-policing, compromise on human rights, and acquiescence are our only options for a unified country, they will continue to lose the faith of the marginalized. And even when they win, they’ll just be waiting to lose the same way again.

But the people who made the 21st century version of the phone book but with more scammers and porn ads are not going to invent the computer god, no matter how much the government gives them.