1/ There's sort of a fundamental denialism at play in how Florida operates. If you live on the Florida coastline (and most Floridians do), there's like a 5% chance your home will be seriously wind-damaged or flooded per year. This is higher than anyewhere else but the Gulf Coast.
there was a lot of talk early in the war about "economic sustainability." what economists misunderstand is that the real question is political sustainability. the magic of debt isn't economic but political: it lets people pretend they're not suffering as much as they are
see also "liberals need to stand up for themselves more, be more agressive"
from people who fall down on the floor & cry if we use sharp words
like, do you get why that pisses people off?
the position of some of y'all seems to be that it's liberals responsibility to persuade people to vote against fascism & we're to blame if they don't
but you have no such responsibility & will constantly critique our efforts & yell at us if we do it wrong
"vote shaming & scolding doesn't work, you need to engage left-abstainers positively"
ok, can you show me some examples of you doing that?
"oh no, i didn't mean me"
I have a hunch that future people (including some people here) are gonna look at the current acceptance of marijuana as a psychiatric cure-all and harmless intoxicant and think, those people were fucking nuts, like the way we look at heroin cough syrup.
"errrr have liberals tried to uhhh...provide services and do governance?"
That's been the entirety of the American liberal project in the 20th and 21st centuries outside of a brief period in the 90s. I don't think you guys even know what liberalism is.
Monetisation and algorithmic amplification has turned peddling disinformation, hate speech, and harassment into a for-profit industry.
It will only get worse if it's left unchecked.
- Aidan O'Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social
"so a local plumber came out of nowhere to win a working class seat in the north of england?"
yep, flipped a massive, historic lab majority
"man, this dude must be the most bigoted mf alive"
actually . . .
If Labour was like The Democrats they would’ve already reversed Brexit, they would’ve used their mandate to tax the rich after decades of Tory rule, they wouldn’t be bashing immigrants and they would at least have a plan to stop dumping raw sewage into the ocean. Have they done anything “big good”?
The Anglosphere's metropole and periphery switched places a while ago and they're still taking it a mite hard
the us spent the gdp of itally on covid relief, the uk is like "does anyone really *need* a 3rd child?"
Everyone complaining about "austerity" w regard to the US is in this specific insanely stupid bucket.
one thing i'm seeing is that american liberals pretty easily grasp that the logic of 'vote blue no matter who' just doesn't apply to uk labour
but uk progressives *really* struggle to get that the reasons they've turned on labour don't apply to the us dems
an epochal dipshit indeed.
I'm in this boat. Was against Biden in the primary, viewed him as a stick in the mud. The level of miracles he was able to make happen turned me into more of an optimist about how government can work and how the Democrats can govern. Even now that has not changed.
a lot of the worst ideas come from people who think they are capable of manipulating people, but in ways that will be Good for Society.
Generally mid 30s is when the primaries and generals in purple districts are one sided against the incumbent enough that people start to peel off to try and secure reelection.
“I like killing dudes as much as the next guy, but Christ is that a lot of money spent to smoke one kid with a rifle. We've made even minor war prohibitively expensive.” Platner 2013
I don’t think there’s gonna be discovery in the Patel case cause I think it’s gonna get dismissed.
Discovery would be fucking off the wall though
dems created an expanded 'covid' welfare state under trump, republicans strangled it under biden
swing voters credited trump & blamed biden for that respectively
there's a moral here, of a sort
Unhappy to report the phishing one is quickly becoming a real problem now. Why go to the trouble of social engineering when people will just give up their ID, financial info, biometrics, etc. to an AV portal? There's no standards so how can you differentiate a fake one from a real one?
The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!
Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!
I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT
Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices
"There's no money to be made in cures"
There's actually TONS of money to be made in cures, and companies that find them typically make boatloads of money
the thing about authoritarian regimes is that corruption is not an accidental feature. they are *structurally* corrupt. they sell you on this ethnonationalist vision, and in practice rob you blind. this is much of what magyar campaigned on--corruption. accountability.
This is basically how every conversation on every topic goes nowadays. “Yeah, sure, republicans *want* to destroy this thing but they won’t end up doing it so it’ll be fine BUT what about when the Dems did (something untrue I have a vague recollection of through a game of internet telephone)?”
J Street President @JeremyBenAmi sat down with @NYMag to talk about a real shift underway: The era of a blank check support for Israel is over.
Treating Israel like any other close ally, with support AND accountability, is how we protect the relationship. Read more about what Jeremy had to share:
extremely on brand for the sort of terminally online brain worms that Tim Onion has though
