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democracy, whatever.

In any case, China seems the senior partner in that relationship, so even if their current “no limits” partnership holds, if European countries are China-allied, it seems unlikely Russia would risk something, um, bold.

thanks!

is there a way to download archives of one’s BlueSky posts?

“We're still the same country that we were on Monday. We just have changed our form of government.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/D7cKOaBdFWo

i feel like some random kidney cell still kidneying in the body of a thing that just blew its own head off.

from Thomas Frank www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/o... (the piece is badly titled.)

“How Harris Lost the Working Class” by @davidsirota.com jacobin.com/2024/11/harr...

during the 1920s and 1930s, “fascist” was a descriptive term, referring to particular political movements and politicians. by the 1960s, those movements and politicians were so fringe, so widely considered beyond acceptability, the term became a mere epithet. in the 2020s, it is descriptive again.

if they had actually understood what they were doing as politically motivated, they would have known that if you come for the once-and-potentially-future king, you'd better not miss. for all the accusations of lawfare, that wasn't in fact how they saw what they were doing. and so here we are.

"How Baltimore Locals Beat A Right-Wing Media Tycoon" by Marcie Jones www.wonkette.com/p/how-baltim...

liberal elites are constrained by manners — which they understand as scruples — from fully adopting, endorsing, or even tolerating certain cultural signifiers perceived as working class. right-wing elites have no such scruples, so are able to adopt any cultural signifiers that help them win power.

people act like i’m not resisting because all i do is sit on the couch and watch tv and eat junk food. what they don’t notice is i’m eating Cheetos.

it is really hard. i hate the shit my kid listens to. but i don’t forbid it. my wife and i try to keep open an invitation to a civilized worldview, without letting the crap he will inevitably be exposed to seem edgy or insider or delicious forbidden fruit.

[new draft post] It's the parasocials, stupid drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/11/08/i...

yeah. i suspect the first order of these calls is to say all of that is gone. for all the sacrifice Ukraine might have hoped the sop of a diminished NATO, but no, not even that. but hey, it wouldn’t have been much anyway, as you say, why get hung up on symbols?

to salve the wound, Trump / Elon can console Zelensky that while, sure, there will be territorial concessions and no NATO membership, there won’t really be much of a NATO anyway so that’s not giving up all that much, is it?