#scary

seems to depend for whom.

#neofeudalism

i’m grateful you’d want me as a neighbor.

i wonder if any of the people on that boat had children?

( contains useful information on relative responsibility for political violence in the recent past. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o... )

i despair i may never stand on land that isn’t sliding.

whatever they are, the decor is often sparkling something!

as kind of a rule of thumb, try not to be governed by people who like palaces.

🙁❤️

no.

that pales in significance next to the question of which fellow citizens.

once you understand that the right is them and the left is anyone who fails to cherish, worship, and protect them, you understand that of course it is the left who has attacked them.

we believe in your freedom to speak admiringly of us.

a job you’ve considered secure and built your budget around is a great point of leverage.

i think this is unfortunately accurate. towards the end of the Biden Administration, i'd have said the ship of state was turning, insane doctrines ("no industrial policy") of prior decades were cast aside. although it would be coming from behind imperfectly, you should not count the US out. now?

before the civil war we were "these united states". after these guys are through, that might seem aspirational.

we are united in our opposition to political violence.

“Authorizes the State Department to revoke passports to any individual who been charged, convicted, or determined to have knowingly aided, assisted, abetted, or otherwise provided material support to a foreign terrorist organization.” // how narrow or broad might such a determination be?

they were tired of being mocked as conspiracy theorists, so when they found themselves in power, they had an idea. “let’s us actually conspire! *we* then can mock them as conspiracy theorists, if they accuse us of what we’re obviously doing. if they don’t, well, then they are just vain dupes!”