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"the head of the [Regan Administration's] EPA in 1984, the one who was trying to make it easier for polluters, was Anne M. Gorsuch, Justice Neil Gorsuch’s mom." #ElieMystal https://www.thenation.com/article/society/we-are-witnessing-the-biggest-judicial-power-grab-since-1803/
// this i did not know
@lordbowlich @22 Oh, yes we could. We'd have to live much more densely and efficiently. If we lived like Singaporeans, we could simultaneously be rich and thrice as numerous. We haven't demonstrated an inability to do so, we simply haven't done so, because we did not collectively choose to make a light ecological footprint a priority. I'm not advocating, qua Yglesias, going for that billion. It'd be bad while we're still going for a F150 in every five car garage. But we are more than capable.
@lordbowlich @22 There are a lot of sins. Sins against the environment are among them. Those sins don't annihilate the virtues, and any constructive way forward has to be discriminating, cultivating the virtues while diminishing the vices. Essentializing any human community as merely vicious, as villains, because of course they do like all human communities have very real vices, is the opposite of constructive analysis. The course of action it suggests is oppression or genocide recast as virtue.
Could Netanyahu just go live in Saudi Arabia like Idi Amin?
for states, assimilation — a capacity to assimilate, to integrate — is a superpower.
e pluribus unum is our strength, or was, and should be again.
growth is a bad metaphor for economic change, so degrowth is as well.
Experts say it is best to listen to what experts say.
It will be regrettable but necessary.
@admitsWrongIfProven sure. there’s been lots of acquiescence to immigration restrictionism, and Republicans are very supportive of Israel and its current, abominable government.
@admitsWrongIfProven The connection to the Austrian dude is just that a democratic election can lead to democracy’s end. The connection between Biden and events in Gaza is that Biden’s embrace of Israel’s choices have left the non-Trump part of the American polity divided and bereft of moral confidence. 1/
@admitsWrongIfProven We need to make a full throated case that we are virtuous relative to the other guy’s evident vices, but we collectively don’t perceive ourselves as virtuous. Half of us look in the mirror and see ourselves drenched in Palestinian blood, the other half mocks us and is furious that we can’t let increasingly unsupportable distinctions exonerate Israel and us by extension. 2/
@admitsWrongIfProven How are we supposed to fight fascism’s rise when we nonfascists can barely tolerate ourselves and one another?
That’s the conundrum Israel and Biden’s policy towards Israel has created in US politics. We have ten months still, much can change, but at the moment it feels quite fatal. /fin
@admitsWrongIfProven i don’t think he’s claiming German democracy was “never restored” even until today. he’s pointing out democracy ended until the military defeat of the Nazis. Gerrymandering is a longstanding practice + problem in the US, but not to the level where control of government at every level has not been competitive, despite a divided or even opposed public. now that’s increasingly the case at state & local levels, and the fear is that it could soon be at the Federal level.
“Israel’s genocide, US assistance, and consequences thereof” by #ThomasPalley https://thomaspalley.com/?p=2386
it’s not a survey article. it’s a panopsis.
comedy is dead so it would just be angry magazine.
with great power comes great responsibility, but unfortunately not the other way around.
@otfrom besides, who doesn't like a puzzle a few years from now?
the dogs of war
pull tirelessly
you so want to relax your grip.
watch them fly, frolic, fight
why not?
you know why not.
do everything and all you can
to never let them slip.
Every cool thing you implement imposes a quiet burden of documentation debt.
"it’s very hard for people — certainly for economists — to give up the idea that there exists something called 'real GDP' or 'real income' that behaves like a physical quantity." @jwmason https://jwmason.org/slackwire/thirteen-questions-about-money/
