Deplorable state of U.S. media on display here, deliberately misleading the public. You can literally type into Google the same question @aoc.bsky.social was asked and the AI will give you her same answer because "strategic ambiguity" has been official U.S. policy her whole life.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

For all the AI hate on here, it honestly is very funny the extent to which our tech overlords have to force the engineers to do gymnastics to prevent the computer from being a Democrat.

Arguing often has the shape of an idea discussion but the intent of a dominance ritual, some are less subtle about it than others.

>least nationalistic korean

President Tadeusz Kościuszko (1797-1805)

at the risk of sounding glib, the whole issue could be solved overnight if a few powerful men could find a way to chill out about two countries coexisting with the phrase "中华" (china/chinese) in their official title (re: 中华人民共和国/中華民國)

big emphasis on the "long walks" too -- simmering with notions like stew on a stove --

Sure feels like the 'AOC is a foreign policy lightweight' would be a more interesting argument if every president since George H.W. Bush hadn't also been a foreign policy lightweight when not actively a Dunning-Kruger disaster.

What’s so awful and stupid about this is that it applies to every single right-wing “Intellectual.” The whole culture is a snake pit of race science cranks and misogynist perverts. They have not changed their positions meaningfully since the civil war began.

A British man who ran orphanages in rural China during the Second World War died not from anything related to the conflict, but because he stubbed his toe while playing basketball and it become infected with tetanus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

The MTA x Titus Andronicus is the crossover I didn't know I needed view.info.mta.org?vawpToken=J4...

are these still around? one of my more salient childhood memories is my mom making me read this book out loud cover-to-cover to her (rather than just quietly looking at the pictures), and I wonder if this experience was a lot more load-bearing than ~5 y/o me could ever imagine

Yes. And mostly children. Children naturally have weak immune systems. Child mortality statistics before modern medical science is horrifying.

Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras. This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.

"Is Will Stancil a liberal Antonio Gramsci" -- the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

I think it's ok to feel a little squeamish about it, and that the effects of conventional strategic bombing are under-discussed compared to the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki in the popular discourse www.ditext.com/japan/napalm... (fwiw, I also have an avro lancaster lapel pin ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

To kick this off: everyone who crows about German technological superiority should explain how the Allies could develop 6 different 4-engine bombers (3 US, 3 UK) and the Germans couldn’t even develop one

placing hand into the discourse blender: to what extent does this include 'Abundance' (capital-A) advocates

A basic survey of the history of technology in human history would reveal that technology has rarely, if ever, made labor "go away". We just end up doing more of it, differently.

Year of the Horse―Happy New Year As in America in the late 1800's, China saw a huge societal shift with the Flying Pigeon #bicycle, offering new mobility for the masses. 500 million Flying Pigeon PA-02 bicycles have been made since 1950. As of 2007, more've been made than any other model of vehicle.

The biggest irony of all is that for all the misery it has wrought, the best way to blunt population growth turned out to be improving peoples lives through increases in womens educational attainment.

My man… all this analysis is useless. The Trump regime is just not gonna do it. They do not care. Who suggested you put this together? cc @kevinerdmann.bsky.social app.realai.com/public/analy...

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honestly my priors for rating a democratic elected is (1) how much they hate republicans and (2) if they're good soldiers, whether they are more ideological moderate or liberal is secondary

Every President's Day, we gather round and sing this old, traditional hymn www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...

contrast this to a year ago when there was very little anti-Trump messaging in public from anyone in a position of power or influence this is an big change and it does indicate his power over the elites - who have been much more deferential than society at large - is starting to wane

IF YOU ARE SOMEWHERE THAT ICE IS TARGETING PLEASE HIT US UP FOR WHISTLES! WE WILL HOOK YOU UPPPPP WhistleGoblins.fun

In @thewalrus.ca, I argue it's time we talk about what the US administration really is, and what that means for Canada's survival. thewalrus.ca/canada-is-be...

New in People's Daily: Automation Comes for the Central Military Commission Political Work Department Song and Dance Troupe

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Additional pro: Panavia Tornado

Still processing this choice by @chicagomag.com. No matter how they couch it, they’re elevating an unapologetic bigot. There’s a lot of real estate between ignoring him and ranking him among the most powerful people in Chicago (ahem, Berwyn), and Chicago Magazine jumped over all of it, eyes closed.

tbh this is how I kinda feel about the notion of statsminister klobuchar in mn

Dairy Queen on Franklin Avenue East (1970s; 1980s) 500 Franklin Ave. E Source: Hennepin County Library

This is basically where I'm at The billionaire, like the dreadnought, is a "threat in being," his mere presence on the board affecting the way we interact with the political domain. He's great when he's on your side. He's a problem when he isn't. And unlike a dreadnought, we can't control him.

The Wordle Company is not a reliable curator of news or opinion, and should no longer be thought of that way.

during the second world war, my grandma's house in china had rats because unstable prices led her family to hoard as much rice as possible at the start of each month (which pests then got into)

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

we should retvrn tbh

I think “Biden’s economic policies were morally correct and successful but also unpopular” is something American progressives need to grapple with, because it’s important. We need to be trying to figure out what was COVID and what was voter preferences that could happen again.

"OUR NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCKS ICE" banner hangs on Chicago Avenue and 38th Street at George Floyd Square. Minneapolis, February 2026

I think folks who call the UN "starry eyed idealists" are pretty much just reactionaries? There's so many criticisms to make about the UN founding (tethering world security specifically to US, UK, Russia, China? woof), but calling the founding of a global org "idealism" is kooky HL Hunt shit

trvth-strategic bomber (because nuclear weapons didn't exist in the 1920s and large-scale conventional aerial bombing occupied a space similar to nuclear weapons today in minds during the 1920s and 30s)

I could use an egg tart right now

I’ve been thinking about Canada’s intention to become more economically independent from the United States, and to connect more with Europe. We should do the same thing with our city-building. Our city-building has always been too influenced by the U.S, especially with car dependency. Thoughts?

Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell

Pretty sure WW2 in the European Theater was entirely about an ideology that embraced multiculturalism (Soviet, American etc) against an explicitly anti multiethnic culture (Nazism).

There are fundamentally two Americas: the Union and the Confederacy. Our current struggle is about which we choose to be.

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