Dan Tuke

He’s just like me frfr

I mean we are currently deporting people for being vaguely critical of *a completely different country* right now, I figure that should be the easiest 1A case imaginable.

Eh, if the natsec libs actually had power Trump would have been <redacted> at any one of several points.

Me when I try to say someone said the opposite of the thing they actually said

Fuck apologizing, I want Dems that believe things with their whole chest.

we still do not know what kash patel was doing between january 6th, 2021 and january 20th, 2021. what we do know is that whatever it was, it got his badge deactivated and got him locked out of the Pentagon.

The sad part is 6) will probably happen. Capital got away with murder in 2008.

There it is.

Fwiw young men will generally come out for non-shitlibs running on left-populist policies and affordability, (IMO) the issue Dems have had with them has been a result of the failure of neoliberals to really articulate how that project was making things better for young men.

Honestly good, let the trash take itself out.

(I spend a ton of time in Central PA and the southern tier of NY myself, have a bunch of friends and family through the US15 corridor

Familiar in process of abandonment but not in scale. The only place in the US that I have ever seen which really approximates it would be Gary Indiana.

Shit is definitely rough in central PA but like you can still call 911 and get an ambulance, you can get things delivered by post or Amazon, etc.

Speaking to my other reply, I think you could probably make the argument that in Moscow/St. Petersburg/a few other places the ranking would be 2025, then 75, then 95, but there are a ton of places where I’d probably take 75 over the others. The collapse in living standards has been NUTS.

Yeah except most of the roads there haven’t been meaningfully maintained/repaired in decades and the schools and healthcare and even basic power infrastructure is a fraction of its former self

Infant and maternal mortality rates are another one that is really just crushing to look at

Real struggle was that the state capitalist west was terrified to have a power out there showing a non-capitalist path to human development and yeah the 1990s dip was huuuuuge

Off the top of my head - I was teaching about the Cold War in my US foreign policy class the other day and threw up estimated household wealth and income per capita, as part of a broader set of data to illustrate that the Cold War was never *really* a standoff between peers, but that the…

There are a lot of charts where the collapse in *insert metric here* is as bad or worse than WWII.

I’m glad those types stay away tbh, keeps the ticket prices a bit more affordable. If people have been doing nothing but talking shit about a place during its struggles, they shouldn’t get to participate in its successes.

I am glad the republics got their independence. I hope the rest of the non-Russian territories eventually get freedom from Russian imperialism and colonialism. Empire is bad.

But the USSR was an objectively better version of empire than the mafia state that has replaced it.

The transformation is WILD. When my wife and I moved in during late ‘21, the number was 337. We are on pace to finish the year in the 130s-140s. Going from an average of 1 homicide a day to ~2.5/wk.

This city is OBJECTIVELY getting better.

Obviously it had a ton of problems, but the collapse set living standards back by decades, ESPECIALLY in places other than Moscow and St. Petersburg. In many places outside of the imperial core - especially in many of the fmr. Republics - living standards *still* have not recovered to ~80s levels

As a “former USSR/Eastern bloc” scholar, nothing makes me want to walk into the void like this.

Not an apologist either, but the USSR *objectively* delivered one of the single greatest transformations of quality of living to its people. And the same is true in most of the Warsaw Pact too.

More like Debbie Dingus

Gorsuch is going to save Obergefell because it infringes on the rights of indigenous peoples who have traditionally accepted non-cishet relationships and family structures

BREAKING: Andrew Cuomo flees New York.

I don’t want to rebuild any of that though

So @schumer.senate.gov sucks ass, but his political instincts being the worst in history is also worth mentioning. Imagine being the Democratic Party 'leader' and not endorsing or voting for the first NYC Mayoral candidate to get 1M votes since 1969. This guy is a dick AND bad at politics.