Your degree doesn't give you general special insight. Maybe a bit more competent on the literature.

beef is great because it gives an all asian cast what would usually just be white people roles, but remains intensely asian

A quietist faction of Minions that withdraws from politics entirely, to focus on acts of evil in private life

194. Portrait of a Dervish, 16th century, Bukhara. The Persian inscription reads: "Why then am I obliged to Heaven that it has given me a soul? For it has created within me a source of sorrows from which that soul suffers."

One of the worst sins in public discussions of history is the idea of "inevitability". In a sense alternate history is actually a theoretically welcome panacea to it though rarely does it actually approach its potential

Yes, that's a plausible one. Canonically before this movie they were frozen in a cave iirc so Ford couldn't have been it but idk with this now.

I don't think its a big leap that villainry in the late 20th century is attracted more to formalism.

Viktor Frankenstein is plausibly not real in the DM world and Napoleon was a genuinely innovative social agent for a lot of things in a way other continental conquerors weren't!

I think its plausible that the Minions would like, work for the German Empire in Africa. Less sure about the 20th century tyrants in most cases.

He's unhinged but is his villainry particularly ambitious or experimental?

as the existence of the villain's convention in the first minions film illustrates its an entire ecosystem

in our world yes but the despicable me world seems to have a wide variety of bizarro villains that don't exist in ours so plausibly I think post-ww2 they mostly work for the kind of people they do in the films

people misunderstand the conception of villainry the minions have, they are ok with working for brutal tyrants, but most of all they're looking for *innovation* and *ambition* in villainry. After a while genocidal and brutal tyrant is dull.

In my new film THE MINION CANNOT HEAR THE FALCONER, we'll explore the way in which the emergence of 20th century ideologies fractured the once-cohesively evil Minion society into competing fascist and communist blocs that soon come to blows over which form of totalitarianism will shape their future.

Reasons for treason by Chinese generals during World War II include being passed over for promotions and knowing good officers who had already defected to the Japanese, from Xinyu Fan, Gary Richardson, Zhihao Xu, and Sicheng Zhao www.nber.org/papers/w35069

guy who believes that mobutu, ally of the longest period of socialist ascendency in french history, was punished by the fascist amerikkka for hestitating on privatization by being invaded by the inherently reactionary banyamulenge kulaks and the tutso-nazi states of rwanda and burundi

Incredible and honestly a bit disappointing but economists have never been good at reading philosophy.

The “Rawlsian” position of favouring the least advantaged may sound quite radical. However, it is not far removed from the statements of politicians who argue for income tax cuts on the basis that these would stimulate economic activity and hence increase revenue that could be used to raise the incomes of the poorest among us. As this argument illustrates, there is nothing intrinsically egalitarian about the Rawlsian objective. Maximising the well-being of the least advantaged may lead to a quite unequal distribution. More radical in this sense than Rawls was Plato, who expressed the view that no one should be more than four times richer than the poorest member of the society.8 On this egalitarian view, inequality matters on account of the distance between rich and poor, and there may be a case for action even where there is no gain to the poorest.

woke Plato

If you ignore everything Rawls said yes it does sound like that I suppose

It's the Prices, Stupid Consumer sentiment is at an all-time low because prices are at an all-time high. Consumer sentiment isn't broken, popular government data is just incomplete

The index of consumer sentiment isn't broken; models that try to predict it just don't have the right input variables. I fix that and find that, yes, high nominal price levels explain why the vibes are so off. It's the prices, stupid
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-14...

No I agree its very concerning. Its just a comment on the fact that the Mosleys are shockingly well-integrated into elite networks

I mean what's pertinent is Karp reciting an Oswald Mosley speech to the guy to say 'you're hired' and him accepting, not simply the fact of the two being related

people who run company that runs regressions on like a lot of data and converts them into pie charts for government grunts: we must overthrow the tyranny of apps and overcome the liberal rechstaat

Beef is crazy good (the show not the other stuff)

I feel like the abolition of parking requirements is a really instructive example of why developers often aren't all that useful for identifying pro-growth reform. 🧵

When the students find out the beings of being is not a being:

Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told.

These fools are about to be absolutely fuckass mad, just infuriated and offended beyond all belie, when they find out that truth does not consist in a proposition corresponding to facts but rather is a disquotational device used for blind ascriptions.

well there's a reason Marx and Beatles are so big. That synthesizing innovation plays a part

Marx was kind of like the Beatles of 19th century socialism, in that he didn't do much innovation of his own, but brought together various different things going on in the intellectual wilds

My great grand dad was Indian Army and got sent to the Iraqi theatre in WW2. An obscure one but important role.