Nicholas Handler

I'm sorry, but JD Vance needs to make this request personally or it's an instant no.

But will we even say thank you?

They're basically doing purple pill centrism

Everyone responsible for leaving the blanket on that plane has now been fired.

thanks!

no, this looks great. Thanks!

I've read a lot of the greatest hits on bureaucracy (Hirschman, McnollGast, Niskanen, etc.) but curious what the best scholarship is applying a theory of bureaucracy specifically to the permanent managerial class.

Random poli sci/ public administration question: Does anyone have any favorite books or articles that are explicitly about the middle-management layer of public bureaucracies?

The appointment and removal power: Middle East edition.

Maybe they can tell their sales associates not to be extremely high while working.

Have they considered actually becoming a fun place to shop for those things?

I would've guessed something about polarization or heterogeneity, but looking at the list that doesn't seem to be it!

A lot of state laws around guardianship seem really problematic and ripe for abuse. But it turns out this really wasn't the best cause celebre for reforming them.

Honestly, as someone who supported Bernie's first campaign I don't love that so many people in that orbit have been ZOG-posting themselves into schizophrenia.

He's been QTing Tucker Carlson and Matt Walsh on the other site so...

Always go with puns

Myers and its Tafterlife

"I don't know what the Totenkopf is, I don't know what 88 means, I wasn't really familiar with Stew Peters, nope not too familiar with Nate Cornacchia either. Why can't we just focus on the issues?"

'Trump is making the libs mad, and therefore must be doing a good job' continues to be our most brain damaged political heuristic.

One thing Trump loves is getting talked into stuff.

I don’t think they expect people to trust it. I think they just expect people to lose the ability to distinguish between fact and fiction, so that democratic self-government becomes harder and oligarchy becomes easier.

There are superficial differences but the barriers between them are very porous

We’ve definitely reached the point where left- and right-wing cranks have simply merged into a new pan-crankist movement in which conspiracy theories and antisemitism play a central role.

When a country reached 250 years old, it gets to spend a few years without a constitution just to see what it’s like. It’s kind of a constitutional Rumspringa.

Has anyone checked in on Tyler Austin Harper?

“Oh you’re into different kinds of guns? That’s cool. But wait til you hear how an espresso maker works.”

Le Creuset needs to start redpilling chuds on the value of ceramic cookware.

Totally, but they seem to be emulating a kind of highly centralized, national authoritarian structure that we’ve never really had. Jim Crow was highly authoritarian, but also built around state and local governments. They seem to be mimicking China or 1930s Europe instead.

Part of it has to be the U.S.’s lack of actual experience with this kind of authoritarianism. Like, they aren’t drawing on basic strategies most successful authoritarians use. Instead they seem to mostly be cosplaying as the bad guys in V For Vendetta.