Their business models revolve around scolding liberals and they don’t know any right-wingers in real life. If you grew up with the so-called “real Americans” of midwestern diners, you are mad at them because you know they have agency and that their complaints about liberal America are total BS.
I reject the premise that the pre-Covid model of social engagement was desirable. It could have been a time of reflection, but the buzz of people’s withdrawal symptoms turned it into a battle won by the people who couldn’t stand it. Who now scold us for not fully reassuming their favorite position.
I can deal with AI bullshit. What I can’t stand is not being able to tell if humans are being serious or not, and watching them giggle with their clued-in mates, as if holding something behind their back and saying “which hand?” were a form of knowledge that makes them smarter than you. So useless.
SD går upp och klagar på det politiska klimatet som är fullt av hat och kränkningar främst på risknivå. My brother in Dr christ
Way more going on here. A lot of the “vibes” are insincere cover for other motives. At the same time, many people feel existential insecurity b/c upheaval has made their future unpredictable. Any explanation of these disparate streams as a single narrative is invalid because the premise is wrong.
The vibecession is simple if you measure insecurity instead of wealth and price indicators. Trump and Covid dismantled the world order just as AI started stealing jobs (translator here). My current income will never enlighten a pundit as to why I now care about prices I never thought about before.
How can you miss what changed since 2020? Covid converged with AI and Trump to obliterate the predictability of the future. Proximity to security got worse irrespective of indicators. What appeared to be a breakdown under Biden was actually a calming compared to how bad it would have been otherwise.
It's not at all like rooting for your plane to crash. It's like rooting for the failure of a psychotic moron who's murdering people and blowing up the infrastructure of civilized co-existence.
You want the "US" to succeed at that?
Analogies like this make people stupider than they already are.
Trump doesn’t get the difference between the discrete domain of intl. rels and the business sphere, where other actors will cut their losses rather than endure conflict. In IR, the actors' interests are persistent and not purely monetary, so threats without inducements are useless or self-defeating.
No, it’s the understanding that in spite of being an idiot, Trump has caused more dominoes to fall in our society than any smart, strategic person before him and won't stop. Snyder gets that Trump can and will exploit opportunities that he creates by being a shameless moron. Wake up.
He runs an organization that refuses to give equal rights and autonomy to half the world population, that makes it impossible for a woman to ever hold the position he holds. Let him fix that.
Trump leverages the psychology of normal people. He’s been acting insane and super-stupid forever, so a normal person who has ignored it until now has a hard time /with themselves/ suddenly coming out and being alarmed now. Makes them look stupid or hypocritical. So it escalates for 10 years now …
Why does he want to put them “in trauma?” What they all have in common is a secular power system that supplants his own, “God”-granted, patriarchal one. These guys feel entitled to a society ruled by themselves, and every civil servant and scientist is a residual piece of secular resistance to that.
Secular value systems are alternate (and competitively superior) power systems that undermine the power of men like him, who feel entitled to rule over women and other men by divine right. They could co-exist with science as long as white men ruled anyway, but now it’s a zero-sum game for them.
The incessant nature of the conversation on this site and others like it precludes reflection. Everyone is always just responding to each other instead of thinking original thoughts. American discourse is self-contained and circular to the point of stupidity, even among the smarter participants.
It's not a strategy to just try to coerce people to do what you want in every situation. He has the wherewithal to inflict pain and thus often gets his objective, but if people hold out on principle or b/c he has left them no alternative, he folds every time as he has no plan beyond escalation.
It's not one or the other. Trump could never have had the effect he has without half the country already living in an utterly fake, manufactured siege mentality, but he is also the only thing that could have made much of this shit happen. He is the precipitator of what already had to be in the air.
It’s true that they don’t understand CORRECTLY but it’s not true that they can’t imagine things. They have ingrained false beliefs – parameters – that skew their analysis of everything. This is not the same as having no concept of things. They have incorrect concepts, not a lack of conception.
No, this is not their mindset and thinking this way about them is the same mistake they make about others. They don’t lack a theory of mind – their problem is that they have FALSE BELIEFS about how other people think. It’s not lack of comprehension – it’s incorrect comprehension. Totally different.
Das Gemälde zeigt Goethe in Italien, er sitzt auf einem Stein, trägt weiße Kleidung, schaut in die Ferne und hat einen großen Hut auf
„Es gibt keine patriotische Kunst und keine patriotische Wissenschaft.
Beide gehören, wie alles Gute, der ganzen Welt an (...)."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
28. August 1749 - 22. März 1832

Because it's an in-everyone's-face act of ownership of the USA – they feel entitled to do whatever they want.
That's exactly how the Roberts court functions – every not-horrible ruling is a weak alibi for the completely anti-constitutional, anti-juridical white-rule power grab that is about to happen.
It’s not even mainly about persuading anyone, but simply putting ideas and arguments out there that give people a WAY of thinking about things and things to SAY about them. Republicans prove every day that the most asinine shit in the universe “wins” by default if it is effectively uncontested.
Your case would be a tad stronger if she and Hillary had not been beaten by the dumbest-loser-white-piece-of-shit dude in history. Ooh, I guess we just didn’t run the right Black lady against a brainless scumbag rapist, that woulda made all the difference! Fuckin' ridiculous.
Got condescended to by a famous person whose work I admire yesterday because I “missed the sarcasm” in their post about an important matter. That felt good (sarcasm). Sarcasm is an inside joke (inherently "othering") – not helpful when you're trying to say something important to the general public.
It’s not "forgetting." It’s the core madness of US society: Centering everything around an issue/figure that you hate more than anything you like. Anti-vaxxers epitomise it, but many others have joined them. Your whole persona revolves around defeating the one thing you’ve turned into an obsession.
No, just more than one person and not interested in personal notoriety (or being persecuted for the anti-fascist page we run on FB under this name), but still wanting to engage in the public discourse with our ideas because we care about society and ideas.
Ugh, why would you be sarcastic? I interpreted your remark that way despite knowing your work well because I had been reading many European voices who ought to know better saying things just like that. I don’t want to have my sarcasm radar on with people who CLARIFY. Your voice is too important.
"Nice words"? They were Nazi words about a shared ethnic supremacy. That's what "Western civilization" means in the lingo of the transatl. tribe he's in. Are Euros warming to that framing or did the point fly over their heads as they hallucinated that Rubio was flattering them and reaffirming ties?
Can’t believe I’m reading of relief in Europe over Rubio’s Munich speech. Are people completely stupid? He gave a Nazi speech about “Western civilization” and Europeans hear that as affirming ties? Yeah, to your local Nazi parties. Fucking hell, sometimes Europeans are as goddamn dumb as Americans.