we need to make it so so we can all afford not to be dicks even when our bosses are trying to make us and are threatening to fire us if we don’t do dickish, stupid things. “just say no” to sociopaths.
it’s a golden age AND we won the war!
it’s no longer relevant. the fools have escaped temporal containment.
the line between cold peace and frozen conflict is very slim.
just for the record, i request a ceasefire.
i wonder whether we shouldn't treat social media like kindergarten and preschool, lots of positive reinforcement, let any scolding (of people, as opposed to vigorous but amiable criticism of ideas) subsist only in silences.
it would be nice if this iranian government would collapse, even nicer if this israeli government would, and nicer still if this american government would.
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(to be very clear, this post in an american context advocates "collapse" in the sense of impeachment and conviction of members of the current administration, of if that cannot be arranged, overthrow and repudiation at the ballot box.)
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you know initiating a war was a great idea when your own financial markets grow euphoric on the prospect of surrender.
the project of our times, at which we are currently failing, is to dissolve culture into subculture.
forget blood plasma we can sell our pee. ht @bakerblue.bsky.social
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from Biden's we hate what we see in Gaza but won't actually do anything about it for reasons to Trump's we want to do that too. ht @bananapantz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...
Iran Condemns Attacks on Its Universities, Warns of Retaliation
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the wars—Ukraine and Iran—are such mirror images. wars of aggression, planned impetuously, prosecuted by fascist militarist leaders who thought they could attain military glory on the cheap, against governments galvanized by attack to become more resilient than most would have predicted ex ante. 1/
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in so many ways, the Iran War is great for Putin. yeah, there's the oil revenue pouring into empty coffers. but also, what vestiges of a righteousness against which its aggression could be held in contrast the US can now lay no claim whatsoever to. /fin
israel/palestine is supposed to serve as an object lesson against colonialism, but to me it's the opposite, a case for the necessity of a strong state qua empire whose legitimating ideology is not attached to any particular ethnos or religion, but that insistently and actively subsumes many.
Excellent. cc @poetryforsupper.bsky.social
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i hate this era we are living through.
if we were serious, wouldn’t we revert to COVID-style collective hibernation to help neutralize the oil weapon? as scale of sacrifice during wartime goes, that seems well within bounds. maybe harder since no one bothered to persuade the public this war was a just cause or a good idea?
the choice is never neoliberalism or fascism. insufficiently managed and regulated economic liberalism yields social dysfunction then fascism as backlash and synthesis. they are complements, not substitutes.
it turns out that the antidote to the pathologies of the best and the brightest is not in fact the worst and the stupidest.
the story about the employer who had no clothes is not about the king nor about the kid but about everybody else.
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* emperor! sheesh.