At the rate this year is going I'm expecting an imminent WSJ article saying Trump is in a payment dispute with the Witch of Endor over consulting McConnell's ghost for counsel about the midterms.

Australia-Egypt is a great matchup bc a lot of the ancient Egyptian gods made out of 3 animals grafted together are actually naturally occurring animals in Australia

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Starting to think the major thing that's getting revealed in the wake of these "the author used AI to write this" scandals is that so few people are well-read enough to determine what actual human writing looks like. Even, distressingly, the people whose job it is to hand out prizes for writing.

What the hell are you talking about?

DC is, flatly, owed statehood after what they have been through under this man to make sure this shit never happens again

Lmfao

is overpopulation a "serious issue that requires tough decisions" or did you just fall for green washed nazi propaganda??

Also there’s gotta be far less suffering in the aggregate right now than during 99.7 percent of history, American and otherwise. If you’re EVER allowed to be joyful I guess this is as good a time as any.

it's unfortunate that trump is back in power during the nation's 250th *and* while we're hosting the world cup, both would've been vastly improved by a better president, but it is what it is, and i don't think wearing a hairshirt to satisfy people online whom i'll never meet is really necessary

Many of you have an unexamined parasocial obsession with Will Stancil.

One of the most interesting things to me regarding Kissinger's assessment re: foreign policy in Diplomacy is a sort of pathetic pining for an age before mass politics made Bismarck-style cabinet diplomacy unworkable, and sadly that's an all too common sentiment in IR circles.

i tend to think many people who approach the question of government reform approach it like the blind men and the elephant. but governance is a system, and it is the system that needs to work. some remarks, on how we can return to an honest mass politics.

DSA unaware that republicans exist, exhibit 328.

The "obviousness" of this was constructed in hindsight and, again, as a way for Platner's early backers to save face now that the milkshake has been thoroughly ducked. But yes, I do agree the Democratic Party underestimated how much antisemitism there is on the left.

Yup, vote blue no matter who, no matter who says it, even if that person is a hypocritical asshole.

This entirely ignores the fact that nobody else wanted to run against Collins (hence the oversaturated governor race) combined with the Bernie wing helping to clear the field for Platner in the progressive lane. "Mills was a bad candidate" is cope for people not wanting to admit they were conned.

Happy Henry Hunt day to all who celebrate!

The virgin Mark 14 versus the chad Whitehead.

“We’re a republic, not a democracy” isn’t good faith confusion. The US is clearly both, a democratic republic with elected representatives, and this isn’t hard to understand. As Steven Taylor explains, the phrase has always been an assertion of minority rule, a slogan of slavers and segregationists.

The eternal question: did the Southern aristocracy actually have better generalship (lol) or was George McClellan simply kind of a dumbass?

Similarly, efficiency gains in development from technology also get eaten up in this way. Vibecession Theory and Greedflation Theory are not mutually exclusive and can in fact coexist to varying degrees.

“The American project is an experiment in democratic self-governance, aimed at maintaining rights that are inalienable, universal, and equal.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reconstructi...

I do not think it a coincidence that Sandersism only came to prominence after a Black man and then a woman became the faces of the Democratic establishment.

“ Whether we wish to be generous and say that some of these assertions are good faith misunderstandings or bad faith obfuscations, it should be clear that there is no sophistication to the deployment of the phrase, “we are a republic, not a democracy.’ It is sophistry at best… vapid sloganeering.”

"The conferral of citizenship on Black Americans was premised on common law principles, Black Christianity, and the aspirations set forth in the Declaration of Independence. All men are created equal, and endowed with inalienable rights, including the right to citizenship."

Brits (mostly English Brits, at that) spending the last week so getting increasingly deranged over the rest of the world advising they adopt the use of AC is doing a lot of work to validate my "Britain stopped being an empire logistically but never learned how not to be one emotionally" thesis.

The "Voters should never be blamed for their vote because I'm sure they're just poor beautiful souls who wanted the best" mindset is genuinely incompatible with democracy. Living in a democracy demands voters be responsible and educate themselves, they have all the power.

It’s been clear since spring/summer 2022 that Russia will never be able to conquer Ukraine, at least not in the way they want. And they’ve spent 4 years causing so much death and destruction and misery rather than admit the obvious.

This Uyghur scholar says that as the Chinese government tries to destroy Uyghur culture in their homeland, the Uyghur people have to shift to a diasporic model of keeping culture alive - and cites Jewish history as a model for how to do this.

Going back in time to tell the radical republicans that their party was taken over by confederate sympathizers and the first black president was a democrat

I was wrong. Leo excommunicated every priest and bishop of the society, even the ones who didn't participate.

I’ve got folks arguing that when Kiros defends the “elimination of the Israeli state” and its replacement by a single state “under the historic Palestine,” you can’t assume she means Israel will cease to exist. Guys, words have meanings. These words don’t seem particularly ambiguous, to me.

Who up apostolic they succession?

"Actual socialism" is a relict ideology of the industrial period and has very little relevance in a society where the bulk of the population are categorically bourgeois. The countries you are describing are all varying degrees of capitalist.

Between this, that, and calling Jeffries "AIPAC Shakur", I think that this former Republican might believe that the government is secretly controlled by a cabal of Israelis in the shadows who own all the mainstream politicians. A sort of Zionist Occupied Government, if you will.

This is because the core of America that is worth celebrating are the liberal values of the Enlightenment that the fascist regime rejects in whole. To believe in universal human values is to celebrate immigration. To be proud of what we have accomplished is to acknowledge how we've fucked up.

I'm having quite a hard time finding a difference between this and the strategies used by TERFs.

Tell me again how Democrats are the enemy and hate trans people as much as Republicans.

anyway i hope qatar enjoys their “we bribed trump with a plane and all we got was this lousy destroyed LNG facility” t-shirt

They won’t teach you this in schools but the Minions were part of the Taiping Rebellion.

We would be so much better off if they did go back to video games (playing them, I mean; not making a hobby out of watching the most antisocial pieces of shit imaginable vomit toxic opinions at them under the guise of video games).

I feel like the racism & transphobia made him far-right.

Inshallah.

my essay this week was, icymi, on the people who wielded the declaration as a weapon against bondage (gift link)

I am actually a time traveler from the future. In 2028, DSA will not endorse AOC due to her insufficiently leftist position that Israel shouldn’t be wiped off the map. They will smother her candidacy in the crib, and their wackadoo candidate will lose to a liberal and they’ll say it’s rigged.

knock knock who's there it's the balkan wars