Ruin a science fiction story by replacing a character: Foundation, but instead of Hari Seldon it’s Nicholas Nassim Taleb.

i made a model to assign scores for how robustly US politicians oppose fascism & graded 13 leading dems criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:

If you’re going to say that, the least you can do is be logically consistent and oppose nominating him on the grounds that you might accidentally make Kavanaugh’s evil doppelgänger a Supreme Court justice.

Imma be real with you guys the "TESCREAL" stuff is basically the libleft version of rightist paranoia over "Cultural Marxism", where you just smash together a half-dozen things that annoy you and go "these things are all connected and being pushed by a nefarious secret cabal of my political enemies"

Happy Gathering All The Generals And Admirals In A Single Location Day to all those who celebrate!

(someone who has heard today that today is the start of the apocalypse, didn’t pay attention to the details, and is frantically trying to check whether it’s started yet): “Status” “Skills” “Stats” “Inventory” “System information” “Log out”

“Curtis Yarvin and I discuss how creating hereditary duchies in California, New York, and Vermont will secure our nation’s ideological diversity.”

Who decided to call it the Moreau envelope instead of The Envelope of Dr. Moreau? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreau_...

I think often of Tether. It is my claim to fame. You haven’t heard? Sit down, dear friend, and let me tell you about a money printing machine the likes of which the world has never seen before.

Department of War, but the wars are: War on Drugs War on Terror War on Woke

It's fitting that "kitchen table issues" is a reference to sitting down at your kitchen table to pay your snail-mail bills and balance your checkbook on physical paper, something which has been obsolete for decades.

(For those keeping track at home, Mark Cuban's post below is dramatic foreshadowing for Trump arresting him on a pretext sometime within the next year.)

"Join the National Guard and fight vagrants"

I want to write a time loop story with Trotsky as the protagonist, where he loops back to Lenin’s death whenever he dies. My working title so far is “First Pick.”

There was a request for Benny Hill

The people who are supposedly guarding this system from misuse are in some cases “former military personnel with little coding experience who are paid barely more than minimum wage for the work.” yikes

I would heave a massive sigh of relief if I found out that Trump had been magically replaced as President by King George III. It’s not even close.

“The Declaration of Independence is the ringbolt to the chain of your nation's destiny…The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.” —Frederick Douglass

I have grown increasingly more sympathetic to Lincoln’s argument that the slave power was preparing the way for another Dred Scott decision that would prohibit states from banning slavery. When I first read it in grad school, I thought he was being paranoid. No more.

this is an elite thing, but i also just see it among my lib friends--the feeling that even knowing stuff about how modern militaries operate is a bit distasteful, impure, sus--"why are you so interested in all that military stuff? isn't that a conservative thing?"

If I was trying to join an established institution in a leadership position, I would simply do every single thing possible to show that I took it seriously and was willing to work to show that I belonged.

Absolutely. I’m personally incredibly grateful to the people like @wlknsn.xyz who were writing about “liberaltarianism” in the early ‘00s and helped provide me with an ideological bridge to becoming a plain old liberal.

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I'm a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan. You're a part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor. Take her away!

FYI: Among the documents carried inside the Presidential Emergency Satchel—aka the “Football”—are the extremely classified Presidential Emergency Action Documents, or PEADs, a set of plans first codified during the last years of the Eisenhower administration, and updated periodically ever since.

Just a reminder that these were scenes after the Dodgers won the World Series last fall, including buses burning, stores looted, fires, Mexican flags waving - all on scale dwarfing anything that has happened in LA now. And no one called for the Marines being sent in www.marca.com/en/mlb/los-a...

If you’re looking for a good set of people to follow about defense policy and the military, I’ve really appreciated this starter pack: go.bsky.app/L8jnuau

I am always fascinated by the almost religious belief of certain Marxian sects of the class reductionist persuasion that class struggle is a popular concept and antiracism is not.

Just to be clear, Governor Newsom hasn't broken any laws. If this line is crossed, and the President has a sitting governor arrested, then the choice for Democratic leaders, senior military officers and federal employees becomes one of accepting dictatorship or taking drastic action.

You can see America as a nation built on a monstrous agenda of genocide, enslavement, apartheid. Or you can see America as a nation of people who - massacred, enslaved, disenfranchised - absolutely refused again and again to accept that agenda. I am so proud of that second nation.

“You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade….The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, June 6, 1944.

The consequences that befall Musk now that he's attacked Trump publicly will be a measure of how well the US fits the competitive authoritarian model. The more severe, the better the fit. I despise Musk, but for the sake of US democracy, I hope his punishment doesn't violate the rule of law.

Make sure to call your doctor in case of schadenfreude lasting longer than four hours.

What the world really needs is a dark comedy where a group of friends invent a time machine and try to use their knowledge of niche Internet personalities to try to identify when and how the world started spiraling down into dystopia.

New piece: Most Trump voters did not "vote to deport moms." They voted bc inflation was high under Biden, to deport criminals, or something else. Many do not support Trump's policies. Welcoming those voters back into the tent is key to future Dem victory. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-trump...

This is why "you're right, it isn't what you voted for, because your values aren't shared by the Republican Party" is a much more effective message to help build a better America than "yes you did vote for this, you bad person" which fails to take advantage of this once-in-a-generation opportunity

"I want to focus on the strangest aspect of Trump being the Republicans’ man: his consistent, public, unapologetic disrespect for the military." www.liberalcurrents.com/donald-trump...

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social From “Habeas Corpus” to “Posse Comitatus”, President Trump Is Making Latin Relevant Again.

That’s the combination I have on my luggage!

is abundance based? Is mastercard a queer ally? Is this TV show my friend?

My granddaddy hated pessimistic outlooks. He had survived too damn much to ever think there was no hope. When I got to that point he'd either say "Can't never did do nothing" or if he was REALLY pissed "Find the steel in your spine and then use it like a fucking sword against those stopping you."

build more housing hopecore

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Anyone who ever expressed concern that Bush II was paving the way to authoritarianism has been completely vindicated.