With Trump v United States, it was clear he was going for it. The mask is off, there’s no pretense of balls and strikes. Either the legalized corruption, gerrymandering, voter suppression, and vindictive executive succeed in preventing any real transfer of power, or they know they are at grave risk.

Perhaps I owe some duty to Hanlon’s Razor, but I think he’s quite the opposite of incompetent. He set on a project as early as the Reagan administration and has spent decades bringing it to reality. Plutocracy and a powerful executive to enforce it. No one has been more effective.

basically the world’s policeman is now a mob guy.

oh.

representative democracy can be good democracy, but it has to be participatory representative democracy. representation on autopilot becomes corruption however noble the intentions of the representatives.

i thought i’d made a mistake but i was mistaken.

whatever else is going on in the world, this is about as gracious as a person in this situation can be. credit where due.

seems like a pretty mutually cooperative endeavor!

entirely orthogonal to the question of whether it's right or wrong, AGI-ism behaves precisely as a millenarian cult. much can be dispensed with or tolerated, because ultimately all that matters is what we know will come.

now it’s in the Oval Office.

i confess that sometimes late at night, like now, i wish i were not so woke.

they are achieving ever greater shares of the ecosystems they’re destroying.

I’m happy to defer to you on that. I’d have to look into the question a lot more than I have or intend to do before I’d have much of a view on whom King would have been referring to. I do rather like Phil Ochs, foolish, ivory-towered, and quite out of touch as he may have been. youtu.be/oJRJdrcrX3M

i’m not trying to adjudicate the dispute. just saying that “liberal” as a category accused of being to the right or selling out was current then as now, whatever the merits or demerits of the accusation.

i don’t really have a dog in this fight (i think of myself as a liberal social democrat), but by 1966, three years after the letter, this was current. youtu.be/3cdqQ2BdgOA

he just uses the nuclear codes. there's always a guy right next to him who can remind him.

Excellent.

under its newly ascendant "unitary executive theory", i suggest we refer to it as the Supreme Court Royale Of The United Monarchy". (sorry.)

does Trump really conduct internal administration communications via TruthSocial DM? now there's quite the hacking target, for a foreign state actor or anybody else. re xcancel.com/RichardHanan... sorry not the loveliest source.