gonna try to call it quits on this site. i've long known that these platforms are an addiction and a disease, and that they make me feel the way an addict feels (both amped up and emotionally hollow). doesn't matter the platform. they are all designed to make you feel like shit

Remember. You can always just put it in the group chat.😬

BREAKING: an even more cartoon-villain-looking-dude has now taken the title of world's richest man

the know-it-all vibes in this place are very strong

an ongoing list of things that will not save us: - the courts - congress - the markets - the press - unions - the military - the police - billionaires

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

Genuinely interested in how many of these prominent have switched their views to support Trump despite their original assessment being obviously correct. The vast majority I would assume.

almost forgot about how a lot of academics are giant assholes

not forgetting bouie, who i am very very glad is still at the times, but ezra's podcast seems orders of magnitude more popular among normie liberals than bouie (or any other columnist)

I'm seeing a relative continuity of colonial imaginary - a sadly very relevant subject in both Chile and Poland. That it's more speculative there compared to, say, Britain or the US is a difference but not disqualifying.

The original post was describing this as a narrative built on paranoid delusion - why are we requiring historical accuracy?

it's good that there is a ny times columnist that is as popular as ezra klein who is openly calling this administration authoritarian

my class on "epic of gilgamesh" was a huge success. what a rich text

another way to frame this is that immigration is the labor market correcting itself for misallocated human capital and price distortions wrought by empire its all banal market dynamics and economic forces onto which nativists are projecting their lurid, status anxiety driven replacement fantasies

all "immigration" discourse boils down to former empires complaining about colonial subjects infiltrating the metropole

shaggy and sting chopping it up about reggae at the tennis match

It's worth noting that Scheidel is pushing his own competing--highly pessimistic--sweeping theory of social change (things only improve by accident, following system collapse) so he has some skin the game.

one thing i will say about 'abundance' is that the right has been very effective at casting the modern left as a bunch of hall monitors with no positive vision of society, just a bunch of naggers repeating negative historical context...

Simpering cowards one and all. This is almost unbearable to watch.

i am sorry, why is noah smith's avatar dr. strangelove? is it because he likes to pal around with nazi scientists?

If you’re reading this you’re a Lib 🫵

allow me to be super simplistic (this is social media after all): continental philosophy predicted the harm and analytical philosophy caused the harm have a nice day

enjoyed this podcast series. got me thinking that analytical philosophy has done way more harm to the earth than continental philosophy pca.st/episode/516f...

Lord save us: "Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

i think one of the things we are constantly debating (either implicitly or explicitly) is whether or not powerful movements that are built around grievance, resentment and victimhood become stronger if you attack them

no, and it was in large part because i hadn't fully internalized the fact that fascism could arise in response to a completely made-up threat. that is to say, i didn't fully appreciate the way our media environment could completely manufacture a leftist threat

twitter is a bubble where everyone agrees with each other that bluesky is a bubble

can't emphasize enough how much this one idea that everyone should be allowed to say slurs without any social consequence has been the animating feature of the rightwing movement for 30+ years

it's pretty obvious that the right thought that talking about "political correctness" wasn't enough of a dog-whistle and so they replaced it with an african american vernacular term that conveyed the same idea but with stronger racial overtone

we are going to get another radiohead album, i just feel it

the quick turn toward blood and soil as the main republican talking point is a little distressing

did he say this before or after the invited US senator came on to give his blood and soil speech?

we are in stage four lung cancer and paying the tobacco companies to put on a cabaret

you can really tell that this is capitalism's last gasp by how much influence petro-states currently wield in an era of indisputable climate crisis

"the typical black American has much deeper American roots than the typical white American. Trump himself, whose grandparents were all foreign-born, is an excellent example of relatively shallow white American roots." www.niskanencenter.org/logic-populi...

a sequel to "revenge of the nerds" where we follow the characters as adults, with the nerds becoming fascist political leaders as a response to their feelings of inadequacy and victimhood from their time being bullied by jocks in college

"liberals and progressives typically dismiss these complaints as racist and no doubt there are plenty of bigots who believe them. but maybe some measure of understanding ought to be extended to ordinary voters who merely wonder why there are so many n-words living in their neighborhoods."

This is literally what scholars mean when they speak of the fascist ethos of “blood and soil.” It’s adapted from a European context, but it’s the real deal. We’re in it.

serious/silly question: if this had happened, would it have led to an actual war?

the true blueskyism is getting played by aaron rupar or a click-baity politico headline

listened to this clip and it's...fine? he is being asked about housing and whether trump should use executive authority on the issue and jeffreys is saying he shouldn't use executive authority because he is overusing that authority and it will get struck down by the courts.

Hello everyone! I am working on a story for The Guardian about how Chicagoans are preparing for the possible arrival of federal troops, following President Trump's statements on the matter. Right now, I'm looking for residents, community organizers, business owners, and other folks to talk to!

really wish i knew more about the politics of national guardsmen from different states right now

I do think the administration is overrating the difference in using out of state guardsmen cus it's not like TXNG are magically fundamentally different kind of dudes from ILNG, yeah it isn't there home but sectionalism isn't that massive pronounced anymore

our era of politics is the leader of one nuclear power responding to a threat of nuclear annihilation from the leader of a rival nuclear power by tweeting out the mocking spongebob meme

it's cool that the future of politics is this

but their fertility rate is still dropping...

it's almost like blueskyism is all in the eye of the beholder...