The amazing thing is that these critics appear not to understand that the New Deal was never supposed to be an on-ramp to Socialism: it was supposed to keep America safe for Capitalism, and it was a crashing success at that.

The sign is because somebody had to clean up a bunch of indoor duck shit and does not wish to repeat the experience. That's my guess.

My memory of the end of the Cold War is that Bush seemed like a deer stopped in headlights by the collapse of the world order he'd always assumed would be permanent.

I thought what killed GoT was Martin never getting the ending out, forcing people with way less talent and imagination than him to make shit up until they had a conclusion

He did in fact destroy *some* unions (PATCO says "hi") and his failure to destroy *unionism* was not due to his love for it.

It's like price supports in the market of ideas

The rejoinder is, taxes go to pay for national defense, and the people who own all the stuff that's being defended are not *close* to paying their fair share of that, based on ownership ratio.

You need to get off of bsky and read some real books about history and political science if you want explanations of that. You're wasting your time, or maybe you're just trolling for engagement.

It is, however, the right move if the goal is for Republican governance to so totally shit the bed that many people who always thought they were Republicans to change their minds for the rest of their lives, marginalizing MAGA.

Postpone, ergo propter pone.

I think you either did not see Obama in 2008 or have forgotten what it was like. AOC is not close to that.

That's a big "if" though, isn't it

Look at the bright side. If Iran maintains a stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz indefinitely, causing a 20% decline in oil consumption going forward, that will accelerate the deployment of renewable alternatives.

A gaiwan, open to show a charge of partially-steeped tea, a teacup filled with the red-orange soup of dry-stored aged raw puer, and an oversized 20-sided die sit upon a blue tea towel. In the background are a cockle shell, a pub glass with the tea drain rinse, and a piece of white paper with uncut red gemstones scattered next to a brass vernier caliper.

This 2006 Mengku Rongshi Da Xue Shan is reminding me why I like puer cha #teasky

Also most people have way too many apps installed but that's a rant for another day

On a long car ride with spouse last weekend, listening to a book on Audible and having it be constantly interrupted with alerts, I grabbed her phone and disabled all the alerts that were not for messaging and alarms. Every app installs with alerts on, even though most alerts are not interesting.

To be clear, I think it's fair to assume the can opener of Russia (or the US and Israel) being too risk averse to attack a nuclear-armed state. But in a world where that assumption proves to be unjustified, I think people underestimate how difficult this decision really is.

Because they know a cartoon version of history where the whole Articles of Confederation period just didn't happen

...running an attack on heaven by sinmaxxing so hard Christ converts into a black hole from sheer acquired mass-energy and oneshots God by trapping him in something not even His light can escape from

A gaiwan, a tea cup, and a cha he with a charge of semi-aged raw puer tea leaf, resting upon a tea towel

This 2012 Mengku Rongshi Qiao Mu Wang is not even old enough to drive, let alone to drink. But I'm drinking it anyway.
#teasky

The real question is whether he's got the juice to break through the Crazification Factor and go sub-27%

I'm so old I remember when there were going to be community-based mental health resources to provide people who would otherwise be urinating in train cars with some other place to be, where they would be treated humanely
Then Ronald Reagan get elected President

I think the technical term in UK English is "bounder." Andrew has been a bounder in public for a long time, plausibly Chuck was sick of it a long time ago.

I started reading that and when you got to the list of stuff that Gladwell doesn't mention, I thought "why would I keep reading a review of something so inarguably shitty?" and noped out.

But there has to be an ASRAAM launcher within range, for that.

Same as it ever was

That is, they are bullshitters in the technical, philosopher's sense.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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The King's Hessians are abusing the locals and ravishing their daughters.