COEXISTential

How to tell you're an older person at the gym.

I make more noise getting on and off the bench than I do lifing weights.

About the same amount of noise as that gym bro on his first rep.

Seems an odd rule to enforce given Farage's attendance as an MEP.

Well, that graphic suggests 127 in 75 years, And your stats suggest 30 in the last 25 years of that range. Still seems at least plausible.

You're the best, AOC!

Dear America
If the shut down happens, y'all should just go on a general strike. Especially the air traffic controllers. And say on every platform and placard available that it's on the GOP.

Can anyone explain to me how it is that Angela Rayner has had to resign, yet from the omnishambles of the Johnson government, only Matt Hancock did?

Good luck!

I am able to dig the 'planets.

It feels like they learned the wrong lessons from Kamala losing. Seems like they're blaming Walz's style or something?

I wrote down some notes on privatization and the transfer of wealth. Tell the MAGA in your lives that they’re subsidizing billionaires by voting for republicans.

As someone from outside America, is the National Guard not also obliged to refuse illegal orders?

"I would say, on the basis of having observed a thousand people ... if a system of death camps were set up... of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would be able to find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town."
Stanley Milgram, CBS, 60 Minutes, March 31, 1979

Sadly, I don't think that's true. After the debate, despite Drumpf's own clear mental decline and propensity for lying, anyone on the fence would've gone for Trump. Biden's confusion and "we beat Medicare," sealed it.

You seem to be saying, 'but he had a VP,' that's not a winning electoral slogan.

"The barrier for entry in the marketplace [of ideas] was now so low that drawings [of the Laffer Curve] on napkins and large block quotes from David Hume were taken seriously by many, including the president of the United States."
--Jason Stahl in 'Right Moves', p. 100-101

Yet she didn't, until ery late, and with poor preparation of the public for the change (like highlighting what she'd done as VP, a weakness successfully played on by Faux News and the right). Such that it seemed like the decision was forced on Biden. That didn't seem like succession planning to me.

Then again, if nothing else, given his age when he took on the presidency, the Democrats absolutely should have started succession planning on day one.

Not sure how many people are following UK news, but the spurious arguments against the assisted dying bill are doing my head in. Foremost amongst them the doctors invoking the Hippocratic Oath.

I'm sorry, but calling ending a person's intolerable and immedicable pain "harm" is a misuse of the word.

It was all a lie, even most Tories probably don't know what Neoliberalism is supposed to achieve.

We're well beyond "first step".

Neoliberslism is "commodifying our attention and profiting from our impulses, it is limiting our opportunities and forcing us to work bullshit jobs..."

More:
sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2024/03/...

I said using quotes ran the risk of being pretentious, but what is it when the quote is good, but not cited, and not actually a quote by the named individual?

At least in this case the quote is a paraphrasing of something Lincoln did say.

THAT is genius AND hilarious!

Ah, the old 'boys will be boys' scenario.

For a split second I did wonder what an "un-ionized Asian guy" was 🤪

AVALANCHE!!!

With all three exclamations included by necessity.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -- Abraham Lincoln

It can be a bit pretentious starting a paper with a quote, but this seems highly apt.

www.humanitiesforwisdom.org/uploads/5/8/...

It's been a while, and this post isn't ist if the ongoing series on Authoritarianism, instead it's about the Sharon Statement, the finding document of US Conservatism (so it's a little bit about authoritarianism):
www.coexistential.net/index.php/20...

The attack on Ivy League tax status feels a lot like the right-wing "think" tank ecosystem getting their own back after all their struggles with tax exemption... Admittedly that was mostly in the 70s.

For those following English news, I reckon Judas Priest sounds buy the Scunthorpe steel plant.

I read this as though it was "What Is A Booty?" from Del tha Funkee Homosapien's first album.