omg it’s finally happening. i’m going fungal.
enter, withdraw. enter, withdraw.
Paris Agreement is for lovers.
a very possible future for US jews, i think.
rather than, or supplementing, rank old-school antisemitism…
“i think it may look more like, hey, of course we love you, but you were never more than visitors here. we just cleared out some nice beachfront real estate in your true homeland. don’t you think you wouldn’t be happier there? we’ll increasingly insist you would be happier there.”
( quoting myself, transplanted from a BlueSky conversation https://bsky.app/profile/interfluidity.com/post/3laolsgkiee24 )
“The Party Should Throw Them a Party” by @resnikoff https://resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/the-party-should-throw-them-a-party
// excellent on the need for thick ties between real-life humans to build coalitions and realities resilient to a captured, fickle parasocial online
@ItsThatDeafGuy the advice stands.
when history is on the march, run.
This post is all I’ve done with my life.
his growing scandal will become known as elongate.
@Canevecchio until around Y2K, i don’t think it was obvious that China was the essential rival or partner. but around Y2K, yeah. that’s when the US ought to have been doing some hard thinking about what kind of relationship it wanted to forge with an ascendant China. instead of hard thinking, we adopted a wooly market triumphalism that presumed commerce and development would automatically turn everybody into friends.
one path by which this event may mark the end of the American century is that whatever vestiges of a soft power / aspirational advantage the United States still had over China are lost.
if the indispensable nation is going to be a venal autocracy anyway, China may seem a lot more attractive than the United States. alliances and inclinations of the US’ erstwhile foreign partners may quickly reconfigure themselves to that.
@dedicto @MamasPinkyToe immoral purposes are now obligatory here. you can transport yourself across a border if you intend moral purposes.
@BenRossTransit yeah. i think that’s right too. although i think by emphasizing “strong man” rather than “fix everything” we deny for ourselves an ethical path to compete. he said he would fix everything! he said things would be great, a new golden age. dems are too “reality based” to let themselves promise that anything will fundamentally change. it’s hard to get people excited over the slow boring of hard boards when the other guy is offering an amazing (if brave) new world.
@BenRossTransit i mostly think the campaign was lost not because of bad targeting or particular issues, but because the Trump campaign used new media to create a kind of tribe, in which belonging and (mostly false) worldview reinforced one another, in which the tools of a confidence man did their core work, engendering trust. https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/11/08/its-the-parasocials-stupid/index.html
“We're still the same country that we were on Monday. We just have changed our form of government.” #HeatherCoxRichardson https://youtu.be/D7cKOaBdFWo