ringo Starr is a great drummer- what would come together sound like without those jazzy drum rolls?

Good point. Although there's weak evidence of an ASD-acetaminophen link, there's somewhat stronger evidence of links between ASD and environmental ills that, unlike acetaminophen, have no offsetting virtues. Why not go after those first, instead of targeting a drug that relieves a lot of suffering?

Well I am glad some local police can be civil once in 100 years (the January 6th police nonwithstanding )

Look I don’t think mutual aid is workable on a permanent national level but fucking Eric adams , mate I pray mamdani’s election is revenge for this place having to close gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

??? Choitner doesn’t like Kissinger, ma’am

I mean it is the one time Kissenger made a decent Point We all already know samantha power made the stupid deciso to post about her Yankees game trip with kissenger

the policy landscape of education is bleak dude. GOP want to burn public education to the ground and put kids in megachurch clickfarms or homeschool them so dems are sort of the only game in town if you actually give a shit about schools, and the lib education establishment is plenty flawed

I am not taking trump’s word on it

well ma’am, they are still gonna lose customers I bet Damned tarrifs

"Democrats should create social clubs and provide extensive constituent services!" Okay while I don't disagree with that, a whole lot of you won't admit you supported the Democratic nominee in the last election without doing a "but we all know I don't really support Democrats" catechism first.

like this feels to me like people forget *why* OH/NE/IA vote red now and are trying to rationalize it for why the party as a whole needs to move to the centre

I found Bernie 2016’s rhetoric repulsive as a man with a fancy Econ degree but I will cede that I think it’s exactly the model of “moderation” that probably would work best. “Trans issues are a distraction from how the greedy grocery stores are price gouging you”

I mean we had strong leadership during the Obama years in the form of Pelosi and everyone hates her. People like the party being weak and useless because weak and useless parties are easier to extract concessions from.

Like Trump’s weakest point right now is tariffs but you can’t really push back against them too much because no one wants Shawn Fain issuing a fatwa against them as the greatest enemy of workers who harbors a personal hatred against Michigan and Pennsylvania

agreed! but then you have to deal with the issue that the average voter basically shares Sirota's folk theory of politics (e.g. we must fight the "Blackrock bastards" who are using leverage to make housing expensive) instead of actual good policy that provides abundance

I mean, Sirota is being a dick, but also I understand the abundance theory to be "it will work to lower prices and then voters will be happy"

i feel like this is the dialectical contraction between popularism and abundance: if your goal is to essentially lower costs and produce more goods (housing/energy/etc): you are odds with the folk theory of politics the average voter holds

Our library has the cartoon aeon flux dvd and I should rent it Apparently the series is about Gnosticism which I alwqys forget the definition of

yo, if you're not willing to describe justice thomas as anti-liberal then i really don't know wtf liberalism means to you unless your answer is "what it meant to the german middle classes in 1849" in which case i'd say "ok cool that's not liberalism by any serious modern understanding of the term"

A majority of the court are absolute monarchists, which is the opposite of liberal, and I argue its decisions in this vein are invalid.

I mean I unsubscribed to hulu after they got rid of the criterion collection 12 years ago

Fuck off- the London mayor is one of the labour politicians who still defend trans rights

That was basically the conversation - that he's kind of stuck in a nebbishy typecast where he's a sweet shy guy and a decade from now he'll do a villain role and people will go OMG I NEVER KNEW HE HAD IT IN HIM

Oh they are damned talented

Much as I enjoy Star Wars and dislike Kissinger , Kissinger was right for once

We gotta Bring back independent zine culture THAT is how you can publish groundbreaking fanfic

Industrial policy cultivating transit-focused urbanism for some, high wages permitting conspicuous consumption for others.

This ain’t it, mate

I dunno if chomsky passed away or not but his last twenty years of rhetoric had been terrible I’m glad he made it to his 90s though

What if there was a mass transit truck that the whole neighborhood could own and each week, someone drives the carpool?

Matty getting negatively polarized against YMIBYism as soon as it started taking ground on the left was probably inevitable.

Why did Scott weiner decide to go On this podcast- they seem Like dinbasses

"People like their giant trucks and exurban sprawl so to win elections we have to support their giant trucks and exurban sprawl." Bro, why do you even want to win power, then? Republicans have this covered.

Truck Abundance

I find it very ironic that this thing which began as taking cues from urbanism has now become an everything bagel that includes advocating for SUVs lol

It turns out that letting Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's book become synonymous with an urbanist movement was really terrible for everyone involved.

I saw the clip and she seems to pretty clearly endorse him, I think you're making things up here

Friend, Schumer and Jeffries are adults we are free to criticize them on their own terms

@figgityfigs.bsky.social on a lighter note (haw not really) ahve ya seen the long walk Yet? I liked David Johnson’s platonic chemistry in alien Romulus and I really liked him and cooper hoffman together Mark hammil was too cartoonish though

I don’t wanna get fatalistic and I think we should do everything we can on every front we can, but I also think looking at Biden’s popularity as strictly Biden’s fault, either for age or for Gaza or for messaging or whatever, is fundamentally question-begging.

People care more about prices going up than their wages going up is part of it, but we shouldn't neglect that the Democrats are Mom and the Republicans are Dad, and voters were mad at Mom for telling them they couldn't see their friends in 2020, even if Dad was in office at the time.

a lot of politics has become about cultural grievances in such a way that people no longer care as much about whether you’re helping them as opposed to hurting the correct people

America forgot who was President in 2020.

I mean some of them are new! (From covid, basically) But also like... I dunno, it's a whole twisted thing, where like, we don't really like Trump but we also aren't really prepared to do the things it would take to shut him out of our politics, and so people just kind of got resigned to him?

"Deep national psychological problems" basically

its unclear to me how they thought deliverying and getting people to vote were linked

lacked mediating instutitional to operationalize the policy wins into activated partisans

societal trauma gets punished, car juice important, people like stimulus, and not losing wars on tv and hate non lasting immunity, and inflation. They especially hate it when all these happen within 3 months in 2021 which is why his polling basically never moved past that point in time

We tried deliverism and right wing supporters still hated it

I always made fun of pre-2020 German politicians that were afraid of inflation like the Plague, turns out they were right!! Prices rising are the one thing that cuts through every messaging, chart and metric that you can throw at people, it is not even irrational per se!