willy nilly

new high score

like yeah it’s Really Bad that the president is constantly threatening to do things that blow up the us/world economy but after the 50th time we should probably skip past the initial “haha he‘s gonna tank the economy” phase to the “he’s a blowhard whose words mean nothing” that it always ends up at

delta etc’s stock won’t even move tomorrow on this info because financial markets know that TACO, and I think we all as posters could learn from them on this one

in china they have the 9-9-6 system, where you only have to work 9 hours a day, 9 days a month, 6 months out of the year. we could very easily have this system in america if billionaires weren’t so greedy

overall they see political capital as something to be jealously hoarded and only ever spent on getting reelected, not for doing anything their consultants could imagine republicans cutting an attack ad over

I’m too young to remember the before times but my understanding reps used to try to get pork for their districts ofc, but besides that they’d do their jobs as legislators, trying to solve problems according to their own beliefs, not viewing *everything* they do in the context of the next election

I think it’s less about how they posture when they’re running and more about how they govern. the extension of election season/discourse to the entire 2 year cycle means that they don’t stop pandering to the median voter when it’s time to govern

the doomers who want to preemptively surrender are wrong too obviously but the whole “where in the constitution does it say he can do that” thing just feels naive, the real checks at that point would be in the consciences of the men with guns and those who give them orders

it’s not an instant make america 1935 germany button, but these are utterly deranged people who control a preponderance of force in this country, i don’t think you can say with high confidence that combo will be restrained by any legal or constitutional mechanisms

it probably won’t work out well for them, the military is better trained, more diverse, and less ideologically aligned etc than ice/cbp, but I don’t get this posture that pretends it’s beyond imagination they eg order the military to fire on protestors and those orders get followed

got (minorly) tear gassed for the first time today 🙃

the woke historians don't want you to know this but the assassination of franz ferdinand was ultimately (mostly) successful in achieving the black hand's political aims of freeing bosnia from austro-hungarian rule and establishing a yugoslavian state

I’m so good at tests

Waow

Yeah I really enjoyed those parts portraying the books as a work of history existing in the world created by its events, but imo it could've benefited from more info about what was being suppressed (maybe as marginalia?). though it's possible some of that was there and would show more on a reread

i think you’re right that it’s not supposed to be a straightforward endorsement of the events in the book but imo she makes that reading too easy for it to effectively grapple with the problems it raises. don’t want to spam your mentions but here are some slightly more extended thoughts:

literally 0% chance my car starts in the morning

fuck my stupid chungus federally occupied city

i will never forgive elon

my understanding is that essentially what it boils down to is a central bank needs to be able to credibly threaten to cause a recession if the government is spending too much money

i‘m basically the modern day gandhi the way i’m willing to sacrifice for the cause (i skeet threads into the void here that would easily get 3 likes and maybe a reply over on x formerly twitter)

11 fucking years of this and people are still treating him like he mental faculties (ie attention span, values, theory of mind, etc) surpassing those of an average five year old

the things he won’t say are often important (”i will concede if i lose the election,” “i respect denmark’s sovereignty,” “putin is bad,” etc) but the specific things he does say almost never are, they’re just the ravings of a narcissistic idiot

trump 1 the problem was every time he tweeted stupid they’d go “omg trump overturns constitution,” but their reaction to that was to just only report on the “serious” version of what he said (aka the part r pundits on cable news were willing to defend) instead of just not paying attention

been saying this for years but it’s so undignified for outlets to report on the shit he says in his incoherent rambles as if they’re serious measured statements guiding u.s. policy. like letting a dog piss on your shoes then examining the shape of the stain to divine what it’s trying to tell you

idk there are much bigger problems in the world but it sure doesn’t feel good when people tell you you should feel defective and inferior because of the way you were born and every other version of that seems unacceptable on here

it’s actually really appropriate how people call it a “napoleon complex,” cause, like, napoleon was neither short nor particularly insecure about his masculinity, his so called complex is how people think short men *should* feel about their height