Paul Schrader on Martin Scorsese

Taxi Driver, famously, had some of this tension present.

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One of the annoying things is there is a secret killer out there which we know has terrible associated health effects even though its near undetectable by human senses.

But it's not infrasound, or em waves, or even nuclear radiation.

It's air pollution, and people barely give a fuck about it.

Everything about goldwater’s 1964 campaign to start

I wanna expand on this bc IMO it's a weird rosetta stone to "being right about things" so: by "abandoning the US in very particular ways" I don't mean they're dumb for thinking the US can't be saved. They might be right. The mistake is thinking it can be ignored. It still is a center of gravity.

Timothy Snyder and Tooze are alike in that they both wrote very good books about central and Eastern Europe surrounding WWII and have basically good politics today but have become cranks around the edges due to an obsession with abandoning the US in very particular ways

Guns cocking and doors being smashed in to the beat. Money stacking up on a table cut to cut.

I’m desperate to hear Randy Newman’s “It’s Money that I Love” used in a crime flick montage

Oh yeah. Totally. Nobody’s cultured anymore. Everyone I know who is is indescribably old or some varietal of historian

Like w the fascism?

Cheap materials and expensive labor

Oh 😭

They think we are cavemen?

Surely 2026 is peak emissions year

Well a defining feature of Albionism is a zealous application of the appeal to nature fallacy with “fire” as more “natural” than “microwaves”

Imagine how good things could be if the US had kept on w the climate buildout

peter thiel, the atheist who uses drugs

was the speech writer (as a ghost writer) of William Bennet former Reagan Drug Czar and Education Secretary

when William Bennett was doing his Book of Virtues tour, and developing a gambling addiction

But I still think that’s the whole point!

The whole *point*, the central conceit of the whole series, is to think about what problems a society WITHOUT materially driven political questions would face.

Featured in the latest Digest: Long-Run Evolution of the Size Distribution of Businesses

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I have qualms w the degree to which you’re implying that the combination wasn’t itself innovation. Like sure the Byrds played Shankar for them but to put raga influences into pop music is innovative in of itself

>imagining a world where urban turnout was 10% higher

Well that explains a lot

My most paternalistic opinion is that cigarettes should be outright banned.

Feeling a decent amount of contempt for the people who argued that it's "just a tool". This technology was produced by fascists, for fascists - and those who created the actually programming are at best amoral or utterly naive.

The shape of things to come couldn't have been any clearer.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

monsters inc

dense mixed use walkable urbanism like this is illegal in most american cities

I hate how Americans will fetishize other cultures in a neo-nobel savage way.

This framing is wrong. It wasn’t these guys, who were already rich, warm, and well fed, who most stood to benefit from sanctions relief. It was the Syrian people. And Republicans held their future hostage until congressmen got free dinners and vacations and dangled a golf course in front of Trump.