I think every talking head who’s spent the last week (and honestly longer) saying Iran isn’t a “normal country” and “uneducated” while manufacturing consent for this evil shit should never know a moment’s peace
NEW: U.S. Department of Transportation cancels $63.9M grant to Amtrak for Texas high-speed rail. This project was to offer a high-speed rail system between Dallas and Houston.
https://t.co/qWydr5ncrW
This is unreal.
Someone just reimagined Tarkovsky using AI-driven camera motion.
What if the camera moved — but still felt like it belonged?
Let me show you what that looks like:
Not like I was ever a believer in the sanctity of norms but it's so ghastly that the official White House account now posts like it's being run by a teenager with a Black Sun avi. Completely indistinguishable from a neo-Nazi's feed.
The First Amendment had a good run. It was a radical notion and couldn’t be expected to survive forever. Of course it would be taken down by flag-waving fake patriots.
1. Please explain which Americans need the
@USPS in the era of email, Amazon delivery, UPS, Fedex, DHL, etc.
2. Please explain why it needs to be five or six days a week instead of once a week
3. any time you want to say "fuck you," come see me in person, you little bitch
It's interesting the way that atomization and the collapse of community and family seem to also correlate to a collapse in imagination and empathy. Which makes some intuitive sense -- would be a very cool Phd for a psych or sociology student actually.
Gaza, meanwhile, has community enforced by a siege. Families of 4 are considered small. Do the math. If there are 8 brothers and sisters and they all have 4 kids or more, you have 32 first cousins, lots of aunts and uncles and your parents. That's your immediate family. Take it out to second cousins and you're easily into the hundreds and because of the siege you all live in the same area. The inability to imagine this is a striking retardation of thought/empathy in so many western minds that there must be something about our atomized culture that breeds it.
In 27 years at State, never seen a situation where a Secretary of State - a caring compassionate man - is heckled in his own building by a heckler yelling “Why aren’t you in The Hague.”A new low in civility and discourse.