There was a "nomad warriors for Pritzker" meme account in primary season when he was less well known, that I think single-handedly forced it to be a thing

I think there's a cluster of people in creative industries who are often pro-housing or pro-renewables with marxist affect, and also are anti-ai with marxist/environmentalist affect. Like reciting "it wastes water" is a way of expressing sympathy/solidarity with your artist coworker.

My middle school required everyone to take home ec, and it seemed like a positive thing, in both a 'boys are expected to know how to do these things' sense, and a 'learn to cook for yourself at least a little' sense. Shop definitely still had a weird gender/class thing going on.

They are torturing people for the crime of legally seeking asylum in the United States.

Someone who is trusting and trustworthy enough to be useful in building a democratic government is also unlikely to live through an ugly civil war in a leadership position.

looking forward to how this gets defined as a high-lethality warfighting makeup studio

Materialism is when you think a nation has an inherent essence.

We all need to dedicate the rest of our lives to destroying the republican party

I think he means coal forming. Like there's some planet out there with water and a magnetosphere but they didn't get a Carboniferous Period so we'll never hear from them.

Ataska Daavir, Fourth and Final Emperor of the Great and Holy Empire of Khanum:

They're rats fleeing a sinking ship. It's not that they deserve credit, it's that it's good the ship is sinking.

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Is it even that? If they believed in an ideology district from the left of the Dems or Trumpism, they could push it. They're either Trump sympathizers, or they fear conflict and reliably work backwards to 'believe' in doing nothing.

There was a PBS spacetime ep about terraforming mars a while back. The takeaway IIRC was that a society capable of moving enough asteroids to do it could also, like, melt down mars to atoms for construction material. Or fix Earth's climate by blinking. So a ways off.

Peter Thiel said he was afraid of her, which makes me forgive a lot

Thank god Dems didn't give up that valuable weapon, the filibuster! How would they oppose this administration without it?

This is 24 hours apart.

Never forget this. They are liars. Their resistance is fake. They want to be powerless so they can reap the rewards of pretending to resist while risking nothing and attempting nothing. They are the reason the country is where it is and we won't be safe until they're gone.

can't overstate the cowardice of hiding behind federal workers when their unions are taking the position that a shutdown is preferable to the CR

The Balatro guy has talked about how he chose his publisher over others who had on-paper better offers, because the one he went with had a reputation for being honest. The way to sign the the Balatro guy is to earn a reputation for being honest!

A lot of very fancy thinkers love to say "I may not agree with what you have to say but I'll die for your right to say it" as long as the people saying the thing are, like, white nationalists.

Chattel slavery wasn't universal to colonial empires, but I would definitely describe chattel slavery as a colonial institution.

I mean more the distinction between US conservatives and European fascists. It's all colonial for sure

The link is that in the US, it's slavery as the model more than colonialism as the model. If slavers are your model of a good father, leader, or political order in general, then domestic abuse is real baked in. Domestic abuse of the planters' white families shows up a lot in the legal record, FWIW.

Saving democracy for the content

We're talking about what kind of democratic party we want, so bringing up trump supporters is a non-sequitor. One thing that I would like Dems to win is a future government where it is possible for Dems to ever enact policy again.

at some point you gotta decide if you want to win or just lose slowly

I think the real risk is that Dems don't retaliate at all. But also, if they do start going tit for tat in a way that could stop the ratchet, the current media might treat it as a kind of violent escalation.

The thing about American reactionaries online is that they’re like “under a true Christian monarch, the West will flourish with the enlightened guidance of a philosopher king…” and it’s meant to justify supporting a senile gameshow host and a drug-addled manchild who cheats at Diablo.

thanks for pointing me to the actual thing!

That's fair - I meant it as a virtue ethics shitpost.