Patrick Fessenbecker

We'd have a new American arts renaissance in a couple years if we 1) lowered rents and 2) created WPA 2.0

…it worked? Huge numbers of dem party loyalists who didn‘t vote Z in the primary voted for him in the general.

the conclusion I've come to on this stuff is that most people genuinely cannot use their imaginations. when they're told a good thing might happen they can't conceive of that, and when they're told a bad thing is going to happen and then it does, they're absolutely shocked

Anyway what I like about your list of shiny new things is that none of them are economic nudges written up as kitchen table issues. We're in a battle for the soul of America, and the first step to winning in seeing the field clearly.

A real blackpilling moment chatting with an evangelical friend on this. He'd just dealt with a grandparent who needed extended care, and was open when I brought up Harris's home-care plan. Then he quoted GK Chesterton to the effect of, but if we start paying women for care, we would never stop.

Yes, it would be very troubling if he were fired over a Facebook post, which is why it is *very important to note that he was not in fact fired.*

For Heidorn, technically, his two-word post was protected political speech. But in practice, if that speech can endanger students, districts can legally discipline or dismiss teachers without violating constitutional rights. But it's worth noting that he was not dismissed. He took the liberty to resign after pressure from students, their parents, the school, and the entire West Chicago community.

You're spreading misinformation. The man was not fired. Don't put the inflammatory version in the first post and then qualify it in the second.

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Which is to say, the point of arguing with them isn't to persuade *them*. It's to use them as a foil for displaying to potentially persuadable audiences that they're unserious.

This is 100% a factor, literally every gig economy service was unsustainably subsidized by the companies themselves in a 0% interest rate environment and when interest rates were finally raised the consumer backlash to having to ACTUALLY pay fair market price caused a psychological shock

That a lot of the story of 2024 is the American *consumer* class going Kalecki is really important and something we need to deal with; instead of pretending something more convenient happened.

Slow, relentless, accountability is not a bad thing to aim for

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

Idk, gotta be Eric. No other movie has a song about how stupid the protagonist is and *then* has the song turn out to be right.

[At my 16 yo's winter track meet, getting a wristband for entrance]

Me: Just like when we used to go to the clurb
My 13 yo: what's a clurb

[5/6] I don't know whether these changes will be good or bad in the long run. If you're sad, I can't talk you out of it.

But it's still true: if higher ed wants to play a meaningful role in 21c knowledge production, we have to seize the means of production and make them public.

Unpaywalled:

Front cover of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall with a woman in child in front of a horse rider in silhouette getting to a house on top of a hill full of atmospheric foliage in greens and browns - there is a blackbird singing

Pre-firing, my attempt with green and brown foliage against a blue and grey sky with black branches and dots - no animals as that was beyond me!

The finished article - shiny, glimmering

I have made some Brontë-inspired pottery

Dorothea starts with a cash advantage but a minus one patriarchy penalty to all rolls; Fred Vincy starts on a ladder but a chute called “debt” pushes him into a table-wide game of psychiatrist.

This all got litigated in the 2004 elections. So very early on, electeds were taking stands and it was news when people like Murtha criticized the war.

It'd have, somehow, to be a game in which the players themselves think they're all playing different games.

(Bulstrode is playing Monopoly; Casaubon, Trivial Pursuit; Lydgate, Snakes and Ladders; Peter Featherstone, poker. Ladislaw gets fed up, pushes the board off the table, and walks out.)

this is also what happens in Percival Everett’s James, which repeats propaganda that the North didn’t really care about freeing the saves, but like, leftishly.

so maybe this: when the opinion you want to change is cultural/social, sure, politicians follow rather than lead.

But if what you want to change is the use of state power, well then of course they can and really have to.

An example in support of this view: gay marriage

An example against this view: ending the war in Iraq

You’re asking him about chocolates, I’m asking him about flavors of utilitarianism, we are [maybe] the same

“Very structure and weirdly messy” = ad copy for the side of the game box

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen Follow The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40 nxthompson A @nxthompson •22h An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

This is so spot on

Absolutely blowing this class away by asking who wrote The Wealth of Nations?

One player starts the game with the duty to Settle Catan by building little cottages, but the rules somehow always prevent them from acquiring enough resources

Of course! The babies in the cars!

I would buy this game.

I would take this class.