Well well well look who was a decade too early to be relevant, again.

So a fun, kinda cool thing I have learned is that my old One Piece article I wrote in 2011, since was it was published in a Chinese academic journal, actually has citations in the international scene but nobody in US fandom studies has ever looked at it, lol.

Watching the news? Let me tell you something interesting.

There are only two types of news, Gatchaman Crowds and Prison School. Iran War? That's Prison School. Oil futures? That's Gatchaman Crowds.

Crime seems to be Prison School but it's actually Gatchaman Crowds.

Don't you know how to talk about anything besides Prison School and Gatchaman Crowds?

Nope!

Insert Calvin and Hobbes dad explains two types of things meme edited to prove my point.

Oops, all Tsubasa.

Yeah the problem is politicians would rather fight than solve problems. That's an excellent diagnosis, median voter.

we don't have "politicians who'd rather fight than fix problems", we have a system with enormous static friction and you fuckers refuse to give anyone a sustained majority

polling about rising costs. voters mostly blame politicians for fighting rather than working on the issue.

underrated reason our politics are fucked is that voters are morons who think political disagreement is per se illegitimate

I'm theorizing it's part expectations but also estrogen softens skin so that's probably part of the story too.

I will occasionally wear one of my old men's underwear and it's like wearing a burlap potato sack.

A brief history of presidential oil price jawbones through the Hormuz crisis.

Feel free to add your favourites below.

There are actual rules to follow if you want to win a war, and they make sense and this regime especially is so bad at them.

I never paid attention to military theory and defense issues for most of my life but man when you are familiar with Thucydides and Clausewitz and Mahan, the knowing things makes it even worse.

If America's military is entirely fake I am very curious what the Pentagon has been spending money on for the past 25 years.

Iran's military more capable than Trump administration is publicly acknowledging, sources say About half of Iran's stockpile of ballistic missiles and its associated launch systems were still intact as of the start of the ceasefire in early April, officials said.

Two thirds of the IRI's air force is still intact???

as far as I can tell the oil markets basically spend all of their time plugging their ears and going "la la la everything is going to be fine" and periodically the earplugs fall out and everyone panics until they can put them back in their ears

this is true and bad but part of the problem is that *the market* also seems to be treating this as "distant crisis mostly of interest to nerds that will work itself out" which is a deeply confusing signal that is not entirely the fault of the press in this case

A ran into a student from last year, now in her high school uniform and she was so surprised to see me I was like a celebrity. My dad was a teacher at a local college and I remember the same thing. It's weird because as a teacher, society loathes you, but the students are fans for life, apparently.

Listen, they are building concentration camps and threatening genocide against a country of 90 million people. There is not a single remotely legal tactic that is impermissible when it comes to stopping them.

You can’t do that to rural voters! What are they, black people? bsky.app/profile/coll...

It's a really important point to make that the modus operandi of the current GOP is built on the idea that the democrats will follow rules that don't apply to them and they can do whatever they want and the democrats can't. When that shifts, they're completely clueless and start thrashing.

it is precisely the chemical modification of the human body that *terrifies* them (i.e. trans people!), but they themselves cannot escape the need for that power

so they tie themselves in knots (and/or get addicted to grey market speed)

the chemical modification of the human body to be more "what it was always supposed to be" in terms of the Ideal Masculine is a great example of the illiberal's dilemma in action

for white supremacists the paradox they are *constantly* wrestling with is "if we're so superior why are we losing"

for male supremacists it's the same: "if men are so naturally superior where did all the patriarchy go"

one way out is this desperate reinscription of the natural

one of the ideas that i am trying to develop is that modern reaction is distinctly different from premodern "conservatism," precisely because it is the Old System constantly confronted by its own failures, which should be impossible

a contradiction it *must* resolve but never can

Owww, I just wake up sore. The thing is, standing on a moving train is actually a lot of exercise. I need to get back to sleep but ow, my core.

Wikipedia is a good time killer at work, because all of the younger generations are brainrotted on video if you're spending your time reading text everyone logically assumes you are working.

Karakuri Circus references the characters but one day I was on Wikipedia investigating the history of clowns and I discovered Clown is literally a named character and the Deep Clown Lore is hundreds of years of Commedia dell'Arte that nobody knows anymore. It's crazy stuff.

Man not only was the Commedia dell'Arte joke made but it's making all the Commedia fans come out of the woodwork. That's great.

“Why do you support disenfranchising them” because they voted to destroy our livelihoods and those of our friends, that’s why. I don’t need another reason.