I have to kind of keep reminding myself that liberalism has worked, and recently!, is not a consensus opinion on the left. That’s crazy! Obamacare alone was huge.
I get the “but more” view or the “new tactics for more” view but I cannot fathom the “fuck this, burn it down” view
🇷🇺🧐Today, former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov died after falling from a window at the age of 73. Once considered one of Vladimir Putin's closest allies and even a potential successor, Ivanov held several of Russia's most powerful positions, including Defense Minister, Security Council Secretary, and Kremlin Chief of Staff. The Kremlin confirmed his death.
How Quake ruined id Software.
There has been a lot of praise of Quake of late, with its 30th anniversary, and it's deserved. Quake is an amazing feat of art, programming, and design. I worked on it, and everything came together almost perfectly from all of us. We ended up with a free-wheeling, frenetic action game with enough of a visible world to grip the imagination.
All the team did a brilliant job, fulfilling tasks just right. But at a grim cost. We worked long and hard, and I think it broke us spiritually.
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@susanslusser@annkillion@sfchronicle How hard is it say “I support gay rights, I support free speech, these guys can believe what they want, but this organization does not stand for homophobic posturing and never will. No one made them wear the hat!”
Here's the amazing thing about written agreements: they are comprised of words we can all read and then form opinions about! It's really neat! So release the MOU text. Now. Don't keep it secret and then complain that people aren't trusting your version of events.
This is not The Onion. This is not AI. This is not even Idiocracy.
This...is John Cafaro, the guy who got the no-bid contract to re-do the defecting pool's circulation and filtering system.
He's Trump's Florida neighbor, he's a Trump donor, and he's been linked to bribery scandals.
The name of his company? Greenwater Services.
You cannot make this stuff up
Obama's presidential center opens with a land acknowledgment.
This seems small, but it's honestly depressing.
It indicates that moderate liberals can't keep left-wing identity politics insanity out of their own private projects. Even though it's Obama, who has expressed skepticism over wokeness, with unmatched prestige.
What hope do leftists have of cutting out the crazy stuff in an actual governing context when they have to deal with coalitions and activist groups?