That mean spritied curtain twitching neuroticism that forms such an ugly part of our national character is being made into a legal mandate.

Beyond the obvious illiberal immorality of this, how do they expect to enforce this?

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1990-2001 was marked by 3 broadly sucessful Western interventions, one failed one and one non-intervention.

i dunno tho i think being well-educated, decent, and prosperous is not a bad thing to aspire to. it might even be good actually

It turns out that "engaged with politics but totally unconcerned with policy" is even *worse* for the Democratic Party than "unengaged with politics and totally unconcerned with policy".

What the fuck do cattle ranches have to do with the day-to-day lives of the majority of Americans??

Bike storage sheds are a thing?

The other one was COVID and fir much the same reason: both are forces immune to any kind of individual threats, persuasion or bluster.

Apartheid South Africa did not collect census information about Black South Africans because under the legal framework of Apartheid, they weren't South Africans at all.

Feast days were not leisure days. Your goat needs milking as a matter of health and safety, and the goat does not particularly care if it's the feast day of St. Boniface

Denying supply and demand is common place!

Something I've only just sort of put my finger on is the wide spread assumption that a political ideology is something you are rather then something you have. Not in the casual sense of "I am a liberal" but in the sense that being a liberal is understood as innate to my personhood for example.

As somebody who gets called a Rich Tech Person all the time and implicitly told things like that I must not be really transgender for it: the way people like me should contribute to society is through more taxes! Don’t get rid of my employer, tax me!

Dude isn't subsistence farming, he's larping.

The Royal Navy is rotting away and we're buying Russian oil.

Yes you will pay less in taxes then you would if you were doing it privately, but you will still be paying more tax!

The average American does not pay more in taxes then their European counterpart, what are you on about?

So many arguments I've had on Bluesky are basically me trying to explain basic statistical facts to people.

Farming fucking sucks.

Taxation is good. Civilisation is good. The liberal and social democratic state is good.

Where and when the DP does have power, trans peoples lives do get better.

Ultimately respect, power, prestige and wealth are different things. Musk has driven himself totally mad trying to buy prestige and respect.

This is both not true and the reasons you *think* it's true have more to do the size and quality of houses back then and also the fact that supply exceeded demand.

Hey, uh, historian here! This is total bullshit!

Something I've thought about a lot, particularly having done a PhD about Colonial Rhodesia, is the extent to which wealth people are willing to sacrifice economic power in favour of attempting to buy social prestige or to otherwise maintain *other* kinds of hierarchy. They aren't utility maximiser.

There's also the fact that so many of these billionaires are a bunch of interfering know nothing know it alls.

That's because Elementary's Sherlock Holmes is in fact Sherlock Holmes and not The Doctor.

If he wins in '68, America is in a far, far better place.

It's true, no one has time to make home cooked meals and never has. French peasants ordered from DoorDash constantly.

Nobody speaks to this moment more wisely than @sifill.bsky.social. Here she writes that the 14th Amendment "forged in a time of national fracture, widespread white supremacist ideology, and insurrectionist fervor" was "uniquely created for such a time as this." sherrilyn.substack.com/p/trumps-ins...

Don't like how ZOG posting has gone mainstream like this.

Eg Hasan Piker isn't really a "socialist" in any practical or robustly ideological sense, he's a solo capitalist entrepreneur with an aesthetic affinity for Communist dictatorships. Guess what the socialism of resentful small-time capitalists tends to look like?

This Government is like "we're going to make the hard choices needed for the country!" and then sells off another bit of the Royal Navy and eases sanctions on Russia.

Could be worse, could be the Vanguards.

there should be a surprisingly moving episode on PTSD *and* an episode where Mandalorian learns to ride one of those little space scooters from the Book of Boba Fett *and* an episode where he has to do drag for some reason but keep the helmet on that everybody loves

The show was uhhh not great but it was a good time seeing a show so fucking obnoxiously wear its politics on its sleeve that isn't some Sheridan conservaslop

Rare miss from the Menswear Guy.

I hate how unserious our Government is, how uncomitted it is to dealing with defence, with energy, with housing, with the CoL.

Raising taxes to pay for expanded and improved government services is literally the opposite of austerity politics. Anti-tax leftism has got to be strangled in the crib before it destroys what scant hope we have of ever implementing a social democratic system in America.

We should be buying more Typhoons and frigates not bullying trans people and refusing to allow fuel duty to rise.

- Subsidising consumption in the face of a supply shock - reducing incentives to drive less/switch to EVs - using up limited fiscal space to help better-off drivers rather than the most vulnerable. Hard to think of a worse policy right now.

AOC remains GOATed with the sauce.

Republicans are secretly supporting a shady PAC to spread hate and division. Antisemitism has no place in Texas and no place in our democracy. We won’t stay silent while extremists help to spread this dangerous rhetoric.

I'm reminded of how Putin is apparently obsessed with the death of Ghaddafi.

FDR failing to purge anti-dixiecrat democrats in 1938 is an understate inflection point in US politics

Missing underpants ass plan honestly.

The Red States war on the Blue Cities will end badly for the Red States but the hooting morons are too dumb to realize it.

And it’s also 100% constitutional too. Theres no clause for example saying a state government has to have a presidential system, it just has to be small r republican. You can in theory create a unicameral state legislature with a premier and a ceremonial governor