remember JD Vance?
i think events over the last week or so really put a nail in the coffin of the thesis of this one.
Cover of Milton Friedman's "Capitalism and Freedom"
there will be other events like Luigi, and they will use them to crank up the surveillance and Palantir the fuck out of us. stuff our phones overhear and snitch will constitute threats of domestic terrorism, considering the status of our country at this point.
Calling and data rates may apply.
hey guys what if they’re not drones at all but actually BALLOONS?
reality has a well-known liberal bias, but human psychology has a well-known conservative bias.
@ItsThatDeafGuy we prefer “rustic”.
@ItsThatDeafGuy it’s paradise, right!
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Text: When the current situation is broken and one party is determined to break it further, the answer is not to be the party of “We Want Things to Be Broken Somewhat Less.” The answer is to be the party that wants to fucking fix it. Radicalism is only sensible, because lesser measures are not going to fix the underlying state of affairs.
“Our Healthcare System, a Reign of Terror” by #FreddieDeBoer https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/our-healthcare-system-a-reign-of
if they are in the business of telling you what you like to hear, they are in the business of lying to you.
one way to understand the recent election is as a contest between reformists and accelerationists.
that ticking sound we hear is the chain dragging our roller coaster car, upward, upward. Tick tick tick.
A great rendition by @paninid of George Washington Plunkett on "honest graft" https://dept.math.lsa.umich.edu/~bennet/graft.html
people complain that the English language is overly complicated and fussy.
we have some great news!
we're finally eliminating the confusing distinction between grift and graft.
@JoeChip it is we who have much more to lose, our livelihoods and our lives. they have so much cushion to protect them before all of that.
a strange irony these times are revealing is there's no group weaker, more conformist, ultimately more pathetic, than the "rich and powerful".
they suborn the institutions then prove themselves right about the low quality of the institutions.
i don’t want to be a writer. it’s just there are things i want to say.
all of my castles are dust.