Piker’s argument is that the post-WW2 US was such a terrible, violent hegemon that it wouldn’t have been any worse if the Nazis had won? Surely I’m misunderstanding something here?

probably the basic thing to understand is what matt darling explains here: economic fundamentals like unemployment and wages were in fact very good predictors of economic sentiment pre-2020. like you have to at least start there besttrousers.substack.com/p/the-vibece...

Thrilled to see the Disc Horse has already incorporated Contrapoint’s tweet from the last few days as a new template. Looking forward to where it goes

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

The crunchy-to-fashy pipeline is mostly conspiracism. When one adopts a conspiracy theory, anti-establishment mindset — essentially when instead of “this beneficial system has flaws and needs improvement” it’s “They did this to You and all the authorities are lying” — fascism becomes more appealing.

on this episode of Naked and Afraid, they just stuck a newborn baby out there in the woods. it's not even afraid yet...

Platner supporters saying it better than I could.

Oh boy, yeah there’s a real desire for someone who cares about the people “on this soil” and want some kind of socialist nationalism or national socialism idk whatever has a better ring to it I guess I don’t know much about politics I’m just an astrologer

The left socialist flank…of an ethno-nationalist movement…so like some sort of “national socialism”? Am I adding those up correctly? Uh…

Wake up sheeple? They’re…they’re uh… They don’t want you to know…things…um about uh Hang on, let me get back to you, something sure seems suspicious about this

Drop your crime fighting Catholics

Yeah that makes a lot of sense (re: Clavicular & looksmaxxing)

My cat posted something weeks ago that just got our account suspended for 3 days :( I think it’s an edge case but don’t feel like bothering with an appeal, so we made an alt account which has the benefit of being able to see Jamelle Bouie’s posts again, hooray!

i'm afraid i just mogged myself