I am really struggling to understand the ethical framework in which someone who voluntarily travels halfway around the world to commit race violence for thrills is the aggrieved party. But maybe I need to study the contradictions more diligently
“Organizing” is one of the stupidest phrases in the Amerikan left’s lexicon. Just say what you actually do lmfao, everybody likes to hide behind this phrase bc they know they aren’t doing anything meaningful
When a Muslim doesn’t want to vote Dem because the party just killed like ten thousand children it’s met with blood pouring out of your eyes
When a Jewish guy doesn’t want to vote Dem because the party hasn’t disavowed college protests for the 100th time it’s “I don’t blame him”
OK, here’s your chance to understand why bus network redesigns, like the one whose design process I led in Atlanta, ALWAYS end up with stories like this about people who were harmed. Buckle up. Very important. 1/thread
Take out 1000 car loans and bury the cars underground. Store your Personal Strategic Gas Reserve (PSGR) in a different location to avoid potential accidents. Don't let your neighbors see where you bury the cars.
Probably the funniest graph ever published by the FT: our 3 possible futures are either 1) infinite wealth and abundance, 2) human extinction or 3) 0.2% faster GDP growth 🤣
the modern world is 24/7 snuff porn, and half of the people in it stick their heads in the sand watching football games or ai generated reality TV just to get away from it. there are no winners but the snuff directors and their stars
High school is a horrible experience for most folks, and post-graduation most people repress their memories of it immediately. The return of the repressed often looks like this:
the weird obsession with Hasan Piker clicks into place when you realize that everyone in politics/media is a lifelong nerd, while Hasan looks, to them, like a big strong scary jock who might shove them into the lockers of their youth
Obama’s greatest crime was moving the political center to the extreme right. He singlehandedly recast the war crimes of the Bush admin into “mistakes,” continued/exacerbated many such crimes & paved the way for Trump/Biden to openly do genocide with no democratic checks.
I think we ought to abolish undergraduate education as a cultural institution and replace it with mandatory public service doing ecological restoration work in randomly assigned corps that mandate the mixing of ethnic groups and social classes.
Ok heres the playbook. There is a large segment of subjects who do not hold the desired beliefs of the fascist state on a particular issue. the fascist ideological state apparatus promotes a figurehead who holds the desired beliefs of the fascist state EXCEPT for the one issue.
This tactic has been deployed for the last 30 years (at least) ad nauseum, and has successfully led to an insane nazified populace and a fractured opposition.