Nobody thinks that why are we saying this

It's also been funny to watch him get madder and madder he converted into the wrong religion

He looks like absolute shit right lately

Whiplash how fast they went from sadistic triumphalism to pants pissing

AGI should, in theory, be able to do basic arithmetic correctly

In retrospect it kind of sucks we let conservatives get away with saying things like Thomas Jefferson was for democracy and the common man and Hamilton/Adams were elitist monarchist authoritarians. Makes me think they weren't really being on the level with us kids.

The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!

I've managed to get introduced to a couple authors socially who I really loved and they were very unimpressed with me

Trump should start talking about he gets a third term more

Republicans currently in the "hmm what if I try to stand up, no ok what if I try to jump up and down" stage of getting arm barred over the shutdown

Again, zero respect for Americans. Trump has been around for 8 fucking years.

The psychosexual aspect of talking about politics means, for progressives, the urge to be seen as cool and countercultural leads us to a lot of bad places

I know Douthat is just trolling for engagement but like, women *are* the modern workplace? How do you think white collar world functions if it's just the guys

Remember when people used to complain about how they didn't get paid to do stuff like volunteer or talk to neighbors or cook dinner

antisocial impulses of some kind are probably universal - what matters is the particular outlet you find for them, art being one. there's a weird sort of parallel here between like, death in june and tubby suburbanites in straw cowboy hats getting wasted before seeing florida-georgia line

i really do think this is the core of it: trump himself is mostly impervious to the consequences of his antisocial behavior, and because of this he can uniquely create space in which people feel permitted and safe to act on their own antisocial impulses which would otherwise ruin them.

lol

Against hipsters in politics, against hipsters in philosophy

I would be great but there isn't going to be Woke II rather it will be like the 70s where there's a decade long reaction and then a lot of the radical social gains of the previous twenty years are quietly accepted as having always been norms and the way there are.

Holy shit

God I was just thinking about this, he's so stupid he's so fucking stupid

really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt

hell yeah eugene debs

PROP 187 MOMENT

www.continuousvariation.com/p/smith-keyn... New CVAR about the work of @michaelpettis.bsky.social & Matthew Klein’s book Trade Wars Are Class Wars

Ah yes the sexy heroine from that inspiring movie The Witch

I want everyone to know that I also shorted Nvidia and Palantir for one Billion dollars

Another thing I enjoy about the Pope is his Italian feels very Spanish-y to me in that I can understand him pretty well

Well today we're winning but since that would be good it is important I also be a stinker

In 2025 people will keep thinking there's another electorate out there

Drowned out by K Pop Demon Hunter's "This is What it Sounds Like"

MTG would be an interesting spoiler candidate to fracture the GOP coalition's horniest racists

We have a clear set of class interests of our own: a state strong and functional enough to guarantee the systems of modernity, liberal legal protections to limit the tyranny of the strong state, and public investment in those systems. It's why the PMC's most politicized members are socialists.

Cringe will win 🫡

wasn't really an issue in the election but low key important that with spanberger as governor D.C. will be bordered by two states whose national guards are led by democrats

This is stupid unless the point is to try and teach Americans the Genetic Fallacy www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz-beyond-...

The Trump Gatsby Party looks like it smells a kind of way

I REPEAT OBAMA IS BACK

Holy shit Obama is back

Whataboutism is usually correct

At this point yuppies are preferable to artsy types

why would he come for online trads like this

Chicago Pope is going to say some things we all dislike because he is the Pope and still very Catholic but he is spending enough time poking directly at the worst Catholics alive that I’m ready to put him in the Pretty Good For A Pope bucket already also the sports jersey thing is incredibly funny

John Paul Newman is a really interesting and important figure and he was also really on the wrong side of the British debates about racism and slavery

Which is my bitchy way of saying you were all scammed and it pisses me off

People just will not accept that they talk about what's on their phone and if it's not not their phone they don't talk about it.

Bill Kristol wants us to tear down Trump's ballroom and libs are saying we're fucked

across the board, this week has felt something like watching a boxing match a few rounds in where one fighter starts flagging and stumbling and the other one just starts pounding him, even if there are several rounds to go.