@hegelpill@circecreates@zeta_globin When you take a new ~unclaimed niche (the air, especially at night), youโre going to experience an insane adaptive radiation. Weโre not that many millions of years into little tree-hoppers inventing flight so thereโs lots of ways to be good at it
@freemasnslayr@Lizquidity I think killing Palestinian children is bad and people should think about why they're dying.
How many of these have to happen before you admit that this, too, is bad, and maybe think about why they're dying?
@superinducting@cheer_wine Analogously, only someone like Mamdani could get away with such (needed!) deregulation/pro-business policy. How could anyone credibly accuse a self-described socialist of being a slimy Reaganite capitalist? (which is what they'd be saying about any other mayor doing the same)
@superinducting@cheer_wine In the early '70s, if people even got a whiff of China-sympathy from Democrats they'd go berserk because they already thought all of them were communists.
People say "only Nixon could go to China" because he was the archetype of an anticommunist warrior