@novussubsole I remember learning about frozen conflicts like Armenia/Azerbaijan and India/Pakistan years ago, and if one of them can fire, why not another one? Fuck it, throw Korea into the mix.
These people have gone from 100 million to 50 million overnight. They'll be down to just two dudes screaming at each other, figuring out which one is more ubermensch in no time.
@coldhealing The fuck are they doing going to bed at the same time couples with kids are? Watching an episode and asleep by 10 is literally our plan after putting the kid to sleep.
Love watching Republicans freaking out over the WI Supreme Court being blue-leaning like they haven't had a massive red advantage in the legislature for the longest time. State's gonna be fine, folks.
BREAKING: The Wisconsin governor can lock in a school funding increase for 400 years using his veto power, the state Supreme Court ruled. https://t.co/6ABn2Kh7mw
The Realignment will be complete when the people that used to be described as liberal and progressive finally embrace their inate elitism and lean in to disenfranchised the plebes.
I’m reading a lot of snarky elitism out today where people are in effect writing “oh well this is what Americans voted for. sucks to suck” “reap what you sow” or “let them suffer and they’ll learn” etc. and I do not think this is correctly grounded in voter psychology.
People did not vote *for* taxes on goods to rise 20%. They voted *against* inflation and other cost-of-living issues (housing) and *for* abstract narratives to “fix” these problems.
We know that most people do not watch/read news or know about policy promises of candidates, let alone know the real-world outcomes of various gov outputs. From various survey work in the 90s we know only half of people can name the vice president, for example. That should give us a lot of doubts about the ability of voters to rationalize about info and policy output.
So what info are they bringing to the table when voting? Poli sci says 80-90% of voters are either defaulting to voting with their group, reacting to the state of things (inflation), or have no policy or political awareness at all (that alone is 1/5th of voters).
Basically nothing of what we know about the American voter suggests they are digesting specific policy info, especially forward-looking forecasts of outputs and outcomes, and basing voting decisions on that. For better or worse, most people are reacting to conditions of voting with their group.
Now, sure, people are going to get the same outcome whether they voted “for” it or not, but generally speaking aside from devoted partisan intellectuals, they didn’t and that’s worth noting. I think this warrants some empathy and introspection on behalf of the analyst class.
Also a lot of the takes are just mean-spirited, which I guess is to be expected but still sad to see.
Honestly, I am very pleased that 1) he acknowledges the fundamental truth that political power arises from violence and 2) that he is actually asking a legitimate question that should be asked and answered.
The ultimate source of political power is, and always will be, violence. If the present administration should continue on its course, there is no choice but war. I say this out of sorrow — when must we kill them?