It bears repeating.

Good news: 2,000 years ago we killed God and this happened.

Something I struggle with is trying to imagine how history will describe not only the events of the early 21st century, but if it will or is even capable of describing the profound stupidity of our cultural and political moment.

I'll never let them forget.

Tons of downstate Illinois counties have tried multiple times through ballot measures to secede from the entire state because they hate Chicago so much. Nevermind that it would be economically suicidal.

There are good reasons to be very suspicious of an AOC run for the presidency, but the age thing is not one of them.

If you're a young leftist looking for an inspirational model for politics and can't come up with anyone better than Stalin or Mao I'm going to encourage you to read a second book.

To most people this might sound like it isn't a huge deal. To people with any expertise in international comparative politics or international law it is the single biggest blinking red light in international political economy now or at any time in this century so far.

When your own party's state officials rat on you.

Couldn't care less either about his interviews with tech people. But his series of lectures and interviews with Sarah Paine from the US Naval War College is one of the greatest series I've heard in years on geopolitical history and international relations. I couldn't recommend it highly enough.

We all should be humorless assholes about things that are not true. It is the only way in which people can be made uncomfortable by the truth, which is the most effective form it can take.

Bill Bramhall, New York Daily News

Fixed it.

Donald Trump's father was arrested at a Klan rally in New York in 1927 protesting the inclusion of Catholics in the police department.

Christianity is also incompatible with the political idealism that nationalism relies on. It teaches us that humans are neither wholly good nor wholly evil. As such, any political system that relies only on our virtue will fail. But one that relies on our lack of virtue will become intolerable.

Research is about uncovering the truth. Writing is about communicating the research in a way that shows you can explain it. Anyone can use AI to write papers. Not everyone can write good papers.

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’ ‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’ ‘Hello’ is not related to either. Goodbye.

For freedom we are apparently always supposed to sacrifices for the enrichment of the gas companies, insurance companies, and weapons manufacturers. You never hear them tell us that freedom means sacrificing for the immigrant, the person without healthcare, or the parent who can't afford daycare.

"The obvious," for those who are not tracking, is that he's a senile, geriatric fool who has become completely unmoored.

Indeed.

This is probably an unpopular opinion these days but plebiscites are bad and always have been.

Who's gonna tell him?

Anyone who knows the history of the Vietnam War alone knows that to believe such a thing is plainly ludicrous.

A lot of people epically failed to accept the basic reality that the 2024 election was an election with huge moral stakes and a clear right and wrong answer (for a wide range of reasons). They now are twisting themselves into knots to protect themselves from accepting that moral failing.

Operation Epic Fury brought to you by Secretary of War Epic Slurry.

Childish memery as we start a real war which will kill real human beings.

I am begging people to stop making laws requiring age verification on tech platforms. You think it's a good idea and will protect the young. What it is is a massive personal data handover to tech companies.

Ah, I see that we have finally decided that the solution to our health problems is to embarrass us all to death.

It is difficult to fathom just how weird it is going to be to read the history of this era of American politics. Mass narcissism empowering a populist movement led by a man who runs the country from a Floridian carnival where people get plastic surgery to fit in. Debauched late Roman Empire shit.

Well enough and all but even if they got that, which they won't, it does very little to address the fact that this level of federalization of election practices is blatantly unconstitutional.

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

Politics and governance is just vibes to people now, isn't it?

It's also okay to let yourself be gullible and immature when it comes to romance. It's one of the things that makes it exciting, real and imagined.

I find,ironically,that the people who think a fascist President means a fascist country are the very people who believe that the President “runs the country” because they don’t understand federalism and the horizontal and vertical lines of authority that exist. They already have a fascist mindset.

There is a section of people on this site who seem to want everything to burn down just so they can say they were right about everything being about to burn down. It's a shocking way to admit you are so scared that you can't function.

Minneapolis' "playbook" is not the Viet Cong's; it's the organizational skills you develop as an active Lutheran.

Alleged? They've all but admitted that's what they're doing.

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

It is exceedingly disturbing. In no way did this video read at all as police under any kind of threat. They threw a man to the ground, beat him, and shot him. Criminals.

You don't say.

Uhhh no, Make-A-Wish kids smile for real. His smile is that of a corpse whose face has been stitched to resemble a human being smiling for a canned photograph.

I realize that she has done this to massage his ego and get him to put her in charge of Venezuela or whatever but we must take seriously the danger that he may have wanted it to complete his shrine to a primordial chaos God and open the portal to the warp.

There needs to be a serious conversation regarding any kind of regulations that might make this kind of career route impossible. Social media companies need serious penalties for not vetting journalistic content or the people who engage in it before slopping it into people's minds.

I would suppose it's because essentially everyone, even those on his own side, can see him for the limp, cowardly, opportunistic careerist that he is.

You know for all of the political angst and gravity we center around this guy (rightfully so, he basically runs the government), it always shocks me just how juvenile his conception of American history and policy really is.

The CIA agent who blew the whistle on the torture program was told by Giuliani's team that if he wanted a pardon it would cost him $2,000,000.

They're not even trying anymore.