Goodbye to the post-2020 Tejano red wave

My favourite theory for this is the combination of it no longer being worth stealing a bunch of consumer items because the resale value went down (China shock), and that this was a career criminal crime and they all moved to scamming people online in the 2010s.

It's hilarious how much more coherent Hasan sounds in text without the constant fumbling pauses and being repeatedly one-guy'd by any mild criticism in his chat.

Posting anything 14 words long: fascism Continuing to post on X: based apparently

When historians look back on democratic backsliding in the Trump era it won't be journalists, Congress, Democrats or even Republicans that are apportioned the blame in a pure "how was this literally possible" sense. It will be the Supreme Court.

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It’s always struck me as really strange that provincial legislatures have the right to selectively overturn the charter. S33 was a necessary compromise at the national level to get the charter passed, fine. But at the province level it mainly benefited Quebec, which still didn’t support it anyway.

Kruger was behind David Cameron’s legendary ‘compassionate conservatism’ drive. His departure exposes the hollowness of this period in Conservative history.

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Gentle reminder that Trump also declared Antifa a terrorist organization once in 2019 and once in 2020, and Congress also entertained resolutions to this effect in 2019, 2021, and in January of this year. I don't think democracy is dead. I think Trump is, once again, flailing.

In which I read Danny Kruger's 'On Fraternity' (2007) so you don't have to, and get unreasonably mad about a social policy debate from two decades ago. via @theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-latest-t...

'Wear Orwell's clothes' being the optimal phrase in that apparently the sum total of Musk's reference was pointing to his t-shirt, which wasn't even a quote.

It's absolutely Indecent Proposal isn't it

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Basically after a century of trying not to be the party of monocle-in-the-champagne dropping gentry who want Tory men with Whig measures that's now the actual marketable demographic for the party not disappearing.

Danny Kruger wrote Cameron's 'hug a hoodie' speech and alongside Phillip Blond was seen 15 years ago as Conservative counterpart to Giddens and the Third Way. If you go back and read what they actually wrote though, there was always a much darker side to the 'broken Britain' rhetoric they peddled.

Wasn't there a South Park episode like 15 years ago about this?

Say what you like about Kier Starmer but apparently he conquered France while we weren’t looking

Why are the Telegraph using the This is Fine meme? That's the exact opposite of the message.

Worth watching the full interview. A tiny silver lining here is this happened in a GOP state where the Governor seems to be a genuinely decent and level headed guy.

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Someone got a meeting without coffee at Fox HQ

Also when was the last time the Greens had a plurality share of a major demographic? You saw this a bit in the Miliband era but a green-left centred on young people, especially women, is another ironic example of the Europeanisation of British politics in the post-Brexit era.

One reason we don’t call them football hooligans any more is clubs and the FA actually did a pretty good job in the last two decades of squeezing them out of the game and changing the norms around football. Probably some lessons there.

Unironically though engineering and technical courses are historically hotbeds of violent extremism way more than liberal arts.

Exactly. People are acting like there isn’t a long history of leftist and rightist political violence. But in a normal country the existence of the Bader-Meinhof cell would be an unhinged reason to never vote SDP, and the CDU isn’t held responsible for the 2022 Patriotic Union coup attempt.

Also Adolf Hitler... (the Nazis regularly used appeals to free speech in the years before coming to power)

An interesting thing about Mormons in the current Republican coalition is that they are rock solid conservatives but also capable of seeing the other side as human beings worthy of compassion. I don't think I've seen another GOP politician acknowledge the full list like this.

Orrr... it could be a century old design 🤦‍♂️ Still though that optic and the materials in the new ones aren't anything like the historic models. It's still in production and a reasonably popluar hunting rifle www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKG3...

On the other hand, this is exactly what you might wear if you'd meticulously planned out your hit down to the exit strategy. Still too soon to say anything.

Important point. What distinguishes the US today is not just number and availability of guns but mass technical proficiency and a consumer base driving consistent "improvements" in manufacturing, design, and ergonomics. www.americanhunter.org/content/how-...

The small caveat being if “here we go” means turning the military industrial complex machine to brr and maxing out sanctions then it doesn’t matter much what he says. I don’t think it does mean that though and that’s the real issue.

NFTs also didn't die. Most modern crypto projects are functionally indistinguishable from them, shorn only of the worst of the cringe, and the President of the United States made a notional $20 billion selling various rubes his 'coin' this year.

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Can we be like our present day Saxon cousins instead and live in a social democracy with strong workers rights?

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Blairite is odd because it existed mainly in phonetic imitation of Thatcherite. But the latter was mainly a post-hoc description not used initially, whereas the former was used all the way through even as personalities and priorities changed over a decade.

Radical realists sounds like one side of a philosophical debate from the 1840s

The plot of Tom Clancy’s Clear and Present Danger (1989) is about the US government conducting an elaborate secret scheme to employ military force in South America in the drug war. Apparently they should have just put out a press release. Saved Jack Ryan some time.

Okay but that’s what the demonstrations and the street level journalism is for. Ezra Klein didn’t get secretly talked to by someone. He reacted to the situation on the ground and the people calling attention to it. This is how it should (and does) work.

A key cause of radicalisation into extreme groups is people who messed up their lives in some (often criminal) way. Not only do you have less to lose reputationally but if anyone brings it up you can say it’s about your “political beliefs”. See also Russel Brand.

We make a lot of the parliamentary skills of U.K. politicians but a) members of Congress are also very good and b) Farage is not a true Westminster politician. The European Parliament is not like this and he can’t handle it.

Members of Congress get $1.4m to employ up to 18 staff. MPs in the UK get £250k for 3-5. You can see the difference in the prep work for things like this.

People underestimate the extent to which democracy was an elite project. It empowers ordinary people, sure, but it also made inter-elite competition significantly safer. Popular losers consent was signalled by politicians who didn’t worry about going to jail if they lost power.

Famously the primary problem in the DPRK is the ten year gilt yield

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