I do not care what any consenting adult of any gender configuration does sexually with other consenting adults, and also my God, could you sweaty freaks who tragically currently run the world be a little a more goddamned discreet about it?

Tell me why!

If you can't accomplish something within a needed timeframe, the effort is only gonna make things worse for you.

Humans were not "fine" pre-civilization! Industrial modernity and urban living is way better than nomadic pastoralism!

Your infrequent reminder that Iraq and Afghanistan devastated the British Armed Forces financially.

Christ Almighty.

The oil & gas industry has Landman, what we need is Woke Renewable and Woke SMR propaganda.

this is the correct way to take a tempban ftr

Look it's weird to say "the city is liberation. Bigness is liberation. Bureaucracy is liberation." But it so often is. The village is inherently tyrannical. Sherly Jackson knew this.

bsky.app/profile/rach... I hate the death penalty, I hate this twee uwu pro-death penalty stance even more.

The sisters being dead and, uh, lobotomised, didn't help.

Look, the internet is a cesspit, everybody knows that, now to take a take a big sip of coffee and check in with what's going with the media and professional commentariat.

Yes and this was bad, vendetta are bad, the earliest human civilisations tried to prevent these.

I've occasionally made the case that Augustus wasn't the first Emperor but was the last leader of the Republic.

Ok, putting on training wheels for this conversation. The main reason historians don't really like the notion of a "fall" of the Roman Empire anymore is because the transition between the Western Roman Empire and its barbarian successor states was far more orderly than people imagine

one side said the constitution was a document dedicated to the preservation and expansion of slavery. that was the dred scott decision in a nutshell. you seem to be endorsing that argument by claiming the original constitution was fundamentally pro-slavery, meaning those who seceded had a point.

Cubicle 7's main book could be the base and you could build a DLC around every other one!

Nalvany was a Russian nationalist not a Russian imperialist these are distinctly (bad) things.

if white voters in southern states were the same as white voters in New York this would be every electoral map of our lifetimes

Why would they? The Revolutionairies loved landlords rights! They opposed *feudalism* which was different.

many YIMBYs i know are actually quite explicit about working against their own financial interest

There are occasionally efforts to establish a British Army Sikh Regiment because of how awesome the Sikhs are, and those attempts always flander for equally obvious reasons.

@dov.bsky.social once pointed out that Ancient Rome had way more to do with modern Tunisia then say modern Lithuania.

To be (perhaps?) charitable to them, they've seemingly confused being a journalist as a role with the role of journalism- acess to privileged information and circles stops becoming a means to an end and becomes and end itself.

And of course Musk is neither, he's a bigoted ethnonationalist white supremacist.

What does Wu think the WB is?

The Press hated how Biden obviously despised them, and reacted by destroying his Presidency. They'd rather Trumpian fascism than Biden's 'disrespect'.

It's all about the rent.

What I wanted from this government: trains, frigates, some houses. What I'm getting: whatever the fuck this is.

This is true, but the fact that the Trump Admin is treating them all he same is changing things.

One of the things you'll notice if you pay attention to British politics is the repeated phrases "Treasury concerns" and "Treasury objections", as if the Treasury were a co-equal branch of government not a department of it.

I know too many people who were forced to flee their homes at gunpoint to think our asylum policy is anything other than abhorrent.

Irish neutrality is so cool, I wish it were real and that Ireland wasn't military dependent on the UK.

I often have trouble explaining to people that the Russian youth is just as dumb and evil as the rest of the population

bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on

How the fuck is that supposed go work?!

This is why they'll lose.

This is sensible and well thought put but sadly no party will implement it, because it it involves liberalising immigration and no one wants Farage to write angry letters to the Mail about them.

There's a possibility they never looked or *did* look and it turned out there was nothing new criminally but something new that was incredibly embarrassing.

I remain convinced that this because the history of the British Empire has become the history of post-colonial states and therefore is seen as irrelevant by the people who create our history curriculum.

Liberalism > people’s conception of what liberalism is

I have of late started identifying as an American prison abolitionist. Our specific prisons need to be abolished. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be replaced with like, Norwegian prisons.

You said we can have a world where there is not interpersonal violence because the reasons for such were eliminated and when people pointed out that people sometimes just do evil shit, you responded like this You can get rid of much crime by addressing material issues you can't get rid of all of it

To claim that the Jews have "nothing to do with the place" is insane.

The response to this is someone saying antisemitism isn't real, so I think Nimrod has a point.

Once again begging to people to understand that "Semite" is just as teal as "Aryan": not a fucking all.

The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark

rewatching MIND HUNTER with someone who has never seen it before. the show's flaws are pretty obvious (especially in the first season) and it never was perfect but what i particularly admire is the show manages to simultaneously communicate a seeming paradox: serial killers are "special" losers.

The underlying problem is that a lot of tax systems have incentives not to offer goods or services, but rather to seek rent or interest.

Am Georgist, can confirm.