if you don’t feed me grapes when i ask for grapes, you are a bad ally. 🍇

what if he doesn’t defy the Supreme Court because this Court defers to him and gives him whatever he wants (perhaps withholding a few tokens for a fig leaf of independence). is our democracy not at risk then?

i think an easier case to make is sane elevator standards are European and the US left looks to European social democracy as its north star. we all just want @holz-bau.bsky.social housing.

can’t. it leaves unsightly stains when i do.

i always do.

we really need alternatives to corporate mass media that aren’t corporate social media.

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i remember when every day had a main character rather than a main catastrophe.

i haven’t read “Abundance” yet, but here’s a bit i wrote when i knew it was coming. drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/17/a...

you only press “sleep” when it is time to wake up.

when the executive has discretion over who has “the right to have rights”, then no one has any rights at all.

as occurred with Russia, some US citizens are also beginning to feel that way.

did he? i mean, he had a run, but when was it fine? i fully support being generous just to talk him down, though.

(maybe you need to question that last parenthetical. politicians and civil servants are not in fact universally the ghouls “public choice” theory makes them out to be.)

i don’t think so. we are living in the slipstream, the predictable developed-world reaction to neoliberal globalism, and it is pretty catastrophic.

engendered a global plutocracy now destroying liberal democracy. hollowed out developed-world middle class rendering that politically possible, even to some degree popular. we are living the catastrophe.

most of the time i like to think that i’m hysterical. then i read the news.

was it Patrick Henry who wrote “give me liberty or pay me off”?

the way you reduce Federal interest outlays is you retire debt with wealth taxes.

i really hate the conflation of globalism and neoliberalism. neoliberal globalism was a catastrophe. but other globalisms are possible, globalism per se is a mark of freedom and taking pleasure in the variety that springs from the humanity and dignity we share.