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we’re living in an 80s movie in which the bad kids occupy the principal’s office and announce over the squealing PA there will be changes. all the kids cheer! you are supposed to cheer.

sometimes you lose touch with it in the confusion of the quotidian. but then all of a sudden clear and pure the stupidity shines through, blinds you and leaves you breathless.

(One way to think about it, maybe, is that Canadians live broadly like Americans but on average have had to devote more emissions to heating living and work spaces.)

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“you can be ground to dust, and the echoes of your ghost will be used by your grandchildren to justify new atrocities. the death of your babies will be used to explain why someone else’s babies must die.” ~Phillip Mendonça-Vieira okayfail.com/garden/theyr...

is that true?

(one way to think about it is they want normal people to access only mobile apps, over which they have more control and surveillance than apps on somewhat less compromised desktop platforms.)

[new draft post] Plutocracy as a positive ideal drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/11/19/p...

“A central pillar of American democracy is that no man is above the law. But Mr. Trump isn’t an ordinary man.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o... ht @jamellebouie.net // well then. which truths do we hold self-evident?

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“i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked” i think to myself, man, y’all really dodged a bullet.

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are you a warrior for free speech, patriot?

that’s a plan, but it’s been a plan for a long time, and best case scenario if somehow you improve it and continually maintain that even in ways that impair the interests of the ruling political party is a decade of lead time. it’s worth doing, on its own terms! but i think we need other ideas too.

what have we got to lose?

meritocracy failed, so we're trying meretrocracy.

may be right, but not very useful. the electorate is what it is. it's what we have to work with. when people look for "reasons" beyond characteristics of the electorate, we are not overcomplicating. we are looking for ideas that might guide useful action.

wait, i don’t get it. who’s today’s main character?

i think the public remains broadly in denial about how dangerous John Roberts’ decision in Trump v United States is.