Michel

Lightness be my God.

[Michel @drap_violet]

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[Michel @drap_violet]

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[Dirty Texas Hedge @HedgeDirty]

No one wants to have their mind changed, in the passive voice. They want to change their own mind, active voice. The art of persuasion is convincing them that's whats going on

[T. Greer @Scholars_Stage]

The last presidential election in which corruption was a deciding issue was 1952.

That was a long time ago. People don't remember that. They don't see the relevance. Republicans, in particular, don't seem to believe that corruption might kill our candidate.

It will. That's my prediction--quote me on it in a few years if I am wrong.

Republicans don't take corruption seriously because they (correctly) believe that the electorate doesn't care that much about liberal political "norms." Trump's reelection is strong evidence that the norm stuff doesn't matter to everyday Americans.

But that is not why everyday Americans hate corruption. They hate corruption because it is partial. It is the rich and powerful flagrantly misusing the American state to make themselves more rich and more powerful at the expense of every one else.

Do you remember the Trump ad, from the last round, the one that ended with the line "Kamala is for they/them. Trump is for you?" That's the essence of it. "Republicans are for criminals and cronies. We are for you." That will be the message. The Dems will make sure it is the message, because their party is being taken over by democratic socialists who also don't care that much for liberal norms, but who very much hate the wealthy. It will resonate with anyone who has lost their job in the coming AI wave. It will resonate with the millennial voting block. It is a winning message.

I think there was sliver of hope that the president would cut the white color criminal pardons out and freeze out his family for the last three years of his presidency. I don't have any illusions about this anymore. The Democrats are going to run on this, they will win on this, and hundreds of people will be jailed because of it. Only a very large exogenous shock to our politics--a war, say--will have the power to derail this course. We will rest in the grave we have dug.

[Michel @drap_violet]

@arctotherium42 This is also what communists did in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

[Michel @drap_violet]

@Peter_Nimitz Isn't failure the norm in these endeavours?

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

"Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico" (TR Fehrenbach, 1973/1995) thread of threads. Mesoamerican civilization was horrifying and very backwards by Old World standards, but unique.
https://t.co/WpxdoLJsXO

[embrace LKY thought, install AC @obzhdam]

Environmentalism is an attempt to launder a moral project of deliberate immiseration into a simple consequence of physics.

[Michel @drap_violet]

@MesoAnglic Generally cooler areas are richer

[Michel @drap_violet]

@Peter_Nimitz True but also, people, even young people, are refusing to see the changes. Especially the educated class.

[Michel @drap_violet]

@cvmonakow I think Rwanda is just much more proactive in its foreign policy, willing to consider moves others aren't

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

More excerpts on Colonial Mexico from TR Fehrenbach's "Fire and Blood" (1973). Fehrenbach saw the discovery of silver in Mexico, mostly in the arid north, as a disaster, as it led to Spain administering Mexico as a loot box rather than developing the productive economy.

[Michel @drap_violet]

"The saucer was apparently used during extraterrestrial "tea parties". The following three paragraphs are redacted."

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

UFO files reveal claim of a secret flying saucer capable of reaching 1,500mph built by the N-zis.

[Michel @drap_violet]

France: Educational reform aimed at "suppressing privilege" (in the Sixties) resulted in destroying the middle class' upwards mobility and gatekeeping good schools through housing prices which is something middle class-parents will pay huge premiums for.

[Michel @drap_violet]

"Cependant, la démocratisation du recrutement des hauts fonctionnaires, qui avait été amorcée entre les deux guerres, et accélérée par la création de l’ENA dans une première phase, s’est ralentie, puis a régressé dans une seconde.
Tandis que la place des employés,

[Michel @drap_violet]

on renforce d’autant l’influence du milieu familial."
Jean-François Kessler, l'Enarchie n'existe pas

[Michel @drap_violet]

"Cependant, la démocratisation du recrutement des hauts fonctionnaires, qui avait été amorcée entre les deux guerres, et accélérée par la création de l’ENA dans une première phase, s’est ralentie, puis a régressé dans une seconde.
Tandis que la place des employés,

[Michel @drap_violet]

traditionnelle était inégalitaire, on l’a détruite, et l’école est devenue inégalitaire : si on allège ou tronque le contenu de l’enseignement, au prétexte que la culture est inadaptée aux enfants issus des couches populaires, si on multiplie les activités dites créatrices,

[Michel @drap_violet]

@_A_Prayer @leo_caesaris Et sans projet de société, pas de grand homme.

[Michel @drap_violet]

@_A_Prayer @leo_caesaris Bien sûr. C'est aux intellectuels de développer un projet de société, pas aux partis politiques. Mais il ne l'ont pas fait pour l'instant.