I'm sure a lot of people are under a lot of pressure right now, but a global head of commodities research should be aware of the concept of chokepoints.

We're in uncharted territory- if WTI crude holds these gains tomorrow- the current rise of 29.9% or $27.16/bbl would be its largest single day price jump- in both percent and amount- ever. Ever. EVER.

everyone has completely lost sight of the fact that offsides is meant to take away an offensive advantage (of being ahead of the last defender). when your toe is a milimeter over the theoretical line, there is NO actual advantage there...

wrexham play damn well. a joy to watch

been trying to apply michael denning's theories from "noise uprising" to the iron age. here's what i got:

for an absolutely sickening example of horseshoe theory, look no further than Food Not Bomb's main website, where one of the co-founders has a link to a substack he wrote entitled: A CABAL OF SATANIC ZIONIST CHILD-RAPING CANNIBALS ARE SENDING US TO WAR

been trying to put my finger on what bothers me so much about the “anti-racist” ideology, and I think I’ve landed on something I heard one presenter say about people who believe in “color blindness.”

not a great system of government when all branches have to show extreme deference to the executive during times of war and the executive can (essentially) unilaterally declare war whenever it pleases...

1) it's not "ironic," it's an age-old strategy that literally has a name ("orwellian") 2) you don't "fall" for something when it is your strategy (even if that strategy might have blowback that ends up esnaring you as well)

supreme court: executive can't do this stuff if the country isn't at war. executive: got it! thanks for the tip.

going to keep harping on this point: the fact that trump and his administration so blatantly does not consult or care about what the public thinks of its actions at home or abroad is a huge tell regarding how it will treat future elections...

every single psycho thing Donald Trump does he does only because almost every single federally elected Republican has chosen unilaterally, independently, and with complete freedom to go along with it unconditionally

we need a "catch-22" style parody novel about the anti-racist milieu

i just love that the response to saying, "we must transcend racial thinking because that is the root of white supremacy" is for people to be like, "you are only saying that because you are white."

the more i go to anti-racist workshops, the more i'm like this ideology suucks

still think the media is actively culpable for getting us into these wars with they way they covered trump

i wonder if the affordability crisis is just an inherent part of ever increasing human and labor mobility. it's impossible (or very hard) for cities to get ahead of the curve.

something i don't quite understand about sharing your pronouns is why do people tend to include the subject, object, and possessive forms of the pronoun?

the underappreciated thing about this is that it is exporting the affordibility crisis abroad. for example, everyone and their brother is moving to spain, driving rent and prices way up

people treat epstein like he is the center of a massive conspiracy. my question is: how many more dudes are there out there that are exactly like him...

my sense is that all these people resigning from their positions due to their affiliation with epstein think they will have to lay low for a couple of years and be back in good standing within five years. that's basically what happened to a lot of them during the first round of epstein revelations.

if only there millions of emails available to the public that outlined the crimes of the billionaire class and permitted the government to kneecap their out-of-control political power...

one of the worst things to happen to the left has been their embrace of liberation struggles that are fought under the banner of nationalism.

the common view that african nation-states "don't make sense" and that they were poorly constructed (on purpose) by colonial powers which has led to decades of conflict and bloodshed bugs me insofar as europe had a very similar bloody process of nation-state formation

the reason the left almost exclusively focuses on israel/palestine at the expense other conflicts is not because of anti-semitism, it's because israel is the last remaining active settler-colonial state. which is itself evidence of how the left is stuck in mental models of the world from the 1960s

people use the shorthand, "it's because of capitalism" to explain why our modern condition is so fucked, but i think "it's because of nationalism" might be equally if not more accurate

really think there's an opening for someone to write a great book that takes existing theories of how sailors, pirates, merchants and enslaved people moving from port to port created the conditions for revolution in the 18th century (and 20th century) and apply it to the iron age mediterranean

people confuse being a know-it-all snob with being on the left, when the two are antithetical

i would HATE being a defender with these VAR offside rules. you play the attacker offside but then have to run like hell to get back and keep playing until the play is over, only for the sideline referee to raise his flag AFTER the play is done

the ultimate triumph of an ideology is when it is understood as being imposed on by "nature"

not sure if it's a good thing or bad thing that real madrid does better the worse their coach is. they're an uncoachable team that thrives on individualistic brilliance. and it's a model that has worked for them for decades

from the amarna letters to the epstein emails: a history of ruling class culture through elite correspondence

my 13 year old niece just told me there's some song memorializing charlie kirk that every kid knows by heart...kill me now

don't love that this epstein stuff is turning me into a pizzagate conspiracist but from the left...

still waiting for disney/pixar to make a movie that doesn't glorify royalty and chieftains

if 'one battle after another' takes place in present day then that means that the french 75 were operating in the 00s, which means that bush was president, which means that... NO! stop it. that's not how fiction works

i keep seeing this stuff, and it still does not square with the fact that trump has gotten more votes every time he has run.

I generally just assume people post like me, which is to get the thoughts out of their heads that otherwise won’t leave

Trump as the first fandom president makes a lot of sense to me

IRS: You owe us taxes. Americans: How much? IRS: Figure it out yourself. Americans: So I can pay how much I want? IRS: No. We know exactly how much you owe us but you have to figure it out yourself. Americans: What if I guess wrong? IRS: Jail.

This WSJ article adds some fascinating context to the NYT article that has the mother of a 14 year old model brought to Mar-a-Lago for a party having Maples come up to her and saying keep those girls away from these men and my husband. Maples denies she said it.

i don't know who is responsible for unleashing the curse that made us be stuck talking about right-wing culture grievances from the nineteen-eighties FOREVER...but they must atone

the right has been blowing this precise racist dog whistle for literally 50 years now this was one of peter thiel's favorite issues to bitch about in the stanford review back in the fucking 80s it helps to know the history of ethnic studies in the US...

2000s was the era of aussie actors, 2010s the era of kiwi actors, 2020s is just all irish actors

the main reason not to go after billionaires is because it might discourage investment in innovations that will more quickly destroy the social fabric via the plundering of planetary resources

people get that going after billionaires is about their political power and not about government finances, right??

this is why i think the way to defeat trump is to abandon centrism. the opposing candidate cannot be one that is held to moral standards while trump is not. you need another "unconventional" candidate who the centrist pundit class sees (and accepts) as being "outside the bounds of criticism"

Real "oh my god, she admit it" moment here. Trump is treated as an uninteresting figure without agency so we can dump endless criticism on liberals for how they react to his "natural disaster." He "doesn't participate in moral frameworks" lmfao

pedants who get hung up on the literal meaning of slogans like, "abolish billionaires" and spend all their time arguing against the slogan do more harm to the general cause of progressive politics than people who think that the slogans are actual political programs