sometimes i worry that it is our inclination to insist upon competent fascists.

the richest man on the planet understands that you may suffer some hardship.

“even if i am lying to you, the sin is yours for failing to give me the benefit of the doubt.”

They’re just not even pretending anymore. Except when Democrats threaten to do anything similar. Then it’s *Radicals Destroying The Constitutional Order*. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... via Kevin Drum

would the bluesky analog of “tweep” be “skype”?

i mean i want to say it’s because she should have run on muscular social democracy and reigning in corporate malfeasance. maybe it’d have helped! but i think the marginal voter just thought she was squirrelly and he was real and meant to do something.

No, no, it's science. Science! Science, I say!

all these takes as if Harris lost on "the issues". her takes on the issues poll much better than his takes, my dear popularists. she lost because he was perceived by low information, go-with-your-gut, voters as someone willing to let it hang out while she was cautious, scripted, hiding something.

before Trump, in these United States, what fraction of Congressional elections are competitive?

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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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