if they make America shitty enough, then who wouldn’t want to Make America Great Again!

We’ve had a lot of initiatives intended to do that. Remember Al Gore? The issue isn’t so much superannuated regulations we’d get rid of if we noticed them, but that the regulations that slow things down and create veto points have constituencies that actively preserve them, for reasons wise and not.

if only they’d been as clever as Stephen Miller.

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could the Alien Enemies Act have been used against The Beatles for the British Invasion?

[new draft post] Delivering rough consensus https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/26/delivering-rough-consensus/index.html

if they weren't so woke they'd plan these things on onlyfans.

@hannahstoryb.bsky.social (here's a dumb question! if i am referring to you, do you prefer "Brown emphasizes..." or "Story Brown emphasizes...")

Innocent civilians were harmed and killed. It definitely does matter. But that was something they chose to do when they undertook the operation, whether justifiable or not, rather than a side-effect of their incompetence.

( the part about eliminating consideration of civilian harm doesn't make anyone meaningfully richer, but it does make them much, much eviler! )

it feels like tech and government are converging on a new motto: "let's be evil."

knowing you, then it's pretty much all tyranny, right? 😜

i wonder if they're coming to revisit their enthusiasm for "2nd Amendment people" given whose tyranny it is they now might revolt against. ht @niral.bsky.social

we have always been at war with Tren de Aragua.

“Rather than the regulations themselves, we need to look at the overall system by which the regulatory state is brought to a place where it prevents things happening which have majority support.”

if you really want clean opsec, you do these things on bluesky.

“It remains notable that DOGE hasn’t so much as hinted about doing something about overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans run by private insurers, which we know are costing taxpayers tens of billions a year.” @pkrugman.bsky.social

so much of the Trump/Musk crew’s impunity comes from their being so open about their maleficence people have a hard time processing it as crime. not so this case.

looks like i misinterpreted this! MAR is a genuine duplicate, but the others reflect overlapping screenshots. thanks @gregbrown.bsky.social @mayfaircynic.bsky.social!

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