Damn already???

As someone whose been watching this man closely for nearly a decade, “a lot of people are saying” is classic trumpspeak for “this is what I think, but I need to make up imaginary people to support this before I can tenably do so”.

I would also contend that a series of amendments is the only path forward if we wish to preserve American democracy in the long term.

This is certainly a test run for military/ICE deployment in major cities, but what evidence is there that it prefigured paramilitary deployment? This is not to say that the latter is not possible, as it very much is, but it is not clear how this is a direct implication.

Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503: I. Allegro maestoso (Cadenza: Gulda) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Friedrich Gulda, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado · Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 25 & 27 · Song · 1976

Mozart’s 25th Piano Concerto is giving me chills… Sertraline is a hell of a drug!

The product is citizenship and the price is whiteness, whatever that may consist of. This word salad is merely a euphemism to avoid the so-called “woke mob” and cure his supporters of the slightest voice in their head telling them that maybe they are a white supremacist.

I think we just send everyone at @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social home now.

Honestly, it baffles me that these high profile democratic leaders even need the assistance of pundits to read the moment. Perhaps I was naive to believe she (or any similar figure for that matter) had any sense of where all of this is going… or maybe she does and that’s why she’s posturing as such.

THIS. I get that the comical mistakes of the earlier models and the industry’s indelible ties with the emergent techno-fascist merit a critical eye here, but most Bluesky academics been entirely incapable of nuance on this issue—many won’t even acknowledge the potential for socioeconomic disruption…

Read the room buddy… these are INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS who are understandably not going to risk their safety for this country. If they choose to do so, that’s certainly commendable, but there is no need to shame those who are most vulnerable right now.

The irony…

Imagine being a grown man in the 21st century and being confident that an evil demon exists and influences American politics 🤡

Send Guillermo my regards!

History will not be kind to Karoline Leavitt

Nuremberg 2.0 will not be kind to KKKaroline Leavitt.

I fear that we’re in for another round of commenters saying that you’re overreacting/fear mongering, and then we’ll return to this post in two-ish months when this exact scenario plays out…

These people are the American Taliban, full stop.

As an ardent atheist, this seams like an absurd thing post with confidence? Help me understand where you’re coming from…

I feel like much of the punditry class is almost like an LLM—just completely insulated from empirical/normative reality. “Ideas” like this are coherent within the context of the think piece sphere, but that means jack when the sphere is a sophistic pseudo-discourse that endlessly regurgitates slop.

I feel like much of the punditry class is almost like an LLM—just completely insulated from empirical/normative reality. “Ideas” like this are coherent within the context of the think piece sphere, but that means jack when the sphere is a sophistic pseudo-discourse that endlessly regurgitates slop.

That’s why things are moving so fast. They know their window of having any semblance of legitimacy is actively closing. They are going all in because it’s either complete institutional usurpation or insurmountable public resistance.

Or the first to AGI competition ends up being a zero-sum game when the institutional hegemony of the modern nation-state collapses upon the attainment of general intelligence. Not necessarily a likely outcome, but far from dismissible.

He knows David Graeber was a leftist-anarchist, right?

I think you’ve entirely missed his point. Chris very well understands the calculated forces at play—his reference to mental illness is merely to put things in perspective, that such a claim would be dismissed as clinical insanity by anyone just six weeks ago.

So the idea is force Canada’s hand with retaliatory tariffs, shock Americans with a major recession, flood the right-wing media apparatus with disinformation in in order to convince the base that Canada is responsible, then ultimately use the ensuing anger as justification for annexation?

Define crazily worse…

The arc of history is too damn long.

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." - Hannah Arendt

Nate Silver shares a screenshot of someone saying As an Elon Musk biographer, I would peg his IQ as between 100 and 110. There's zero evidence in his biography of anything higher And I want to repeat that now lest you think it a typo There's zero evidence, from his life history, of musk having anything higher than 110 IQ Nate Silver responds: He's an exceptionally smart and accomplished guy. The much better take is that high IQs serve as a force multiplier for both positive and negative traits. Like how can you be a remotely competent historian without recognizing that major events in human history are shaped by high IQ, high-agency people who are bad and/or flawed and/or dangerous.

Mom, come pick me up, they're coming up with the silliest possible version of the Great Man Theory of History