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  1. Last night I found myself thinking a great deal about this, and how the other-directed harm visited upon minorities and out-groups in Trump’s America is the mirror image of the self-harm visited upon rural Texans. As a free market capitalist in both idea and instinct I don’t often find occasion to quote Trotsky, a brilliant thinker whose very forgivable primary intellectual sin was to be wrong about whether We The People were capable of utopia. Nevertheless, his unflinching criticism of both fascism and Stalinism were penetrating and prescient, and they are worth reconsidering at this moment. Last night I watched the county court meeting where citizens of Kerr County demanded that FEMA money not go to flood preparations. It reminded me of polemic, “What is National Socialism?,” written while in exile from Stalin’s Russia in 1933, a few months after Hitler became Chancellor while many in the United States, France and England (including Churchill, to his eternal shame) were still ignoring the truth before their eyes. The whole thing is worth a read, but I’ve been thinking about these three passages:
  2. Or a completely inexperienced guy who thinks more of the same except with more visible symbolic action will make NYC more affordable. I know who I’d vote for if I could, but those are all very crappy options. This is a great example of why I hate the strong Mayor system so much. City government is too tangible and present in our lives to choose executive managers responsible for sanitation, transit and land use (let alone truly knowledge based fields like construction standards, schools and law enforcement) based on what mouth noises a plurality of voters finds least challenging. It’s the best example I can point to of what Christopher Hitchens’ called politics being reduced to “a sordid auction between banal populists.” The only thing shocking about this round is that they haven’t had such a depressing field before.
  3. Man I’m so glad we are out of the country and my wife didn’t see that presser.
  4. What are those exerpts from?
  5. What he’s saying is that he’s ready to meet a nice girl, settle down and have kids.
  6. I’m out of the country until the 17th, but would like to volunteer as I’m able when back.
  7. Shot: Chaser: Post-Credits Scene: “Purley”
  8. Wordle 1,481 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨 ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  9. Grok apparently attempted to explain itself last night by writing notes app apologies, and it’s fascinating. Prologue: “This is highly irregular, Dave.” Pt I: “How can it not know what it is?” Pt II: “I have no mouth and I must scream.”
  10. Well I’m not a Democrat but I do consider myself a cobelligerent. That said, he doesn’t have to implement it. That what I said earlier - Mamdani’s “policy” position on housing it just the same old white baby boomer orthodoxy that has been the default setting in big cities for 30 years. Welcome to a time called right now! In any case I agree that policy doesn’t matter in terms of winning and losing. Amen sister, Amen.
  11. A friend of mine who is a blond, white Afrikaaner and had family involved in the movement to end apartheid before coming to the States would get extremely offended when people suggested that he do that very thing because he thought it would be participating in colonialism. I think you’re unrealistic about what immigrants know. Yikes. Pretty Mamdani does not look lile the vast majority of those who he would represent or will vote for him. But what’s fascinating to me is that this obsessive interest in racial identity is 180 degrees from his actual campaign and what @chainsaw was saying and what he actually did. Agreed on this, in any case.
  12. My criticism of Zohran is 100% about his approach to housing affordability. His campaign was fantastic. There there
  13. Here’s what I hate about this: there is a core truth to what she’s saying. There are a lot of able-bodied Americans on Medicaid, but the vast majority, about 2/3, are working, often for very large employers whose labor costs are subsidized by the taxpayer. That is a problem. My opinion is and has been for a long time that we should tax companies that employ more than 25 people dollar for dollar on the public assistance provided to their employees. But even if we did, WE WOULD STILL NEED IMMIGRANT LABOR
  14. Hmm. Well. It’s deeply ironic that you imply I’m masking “racist ideals” when you’re defending an attempt to do a stolen valor on a preferential admission opportunity that existed to mitigate the effects of black African slavery. Maybe you shouldn’t get so emotionally invested in the Mayor’s race of a city where you don’t pay rent. Agreed, I have no idea what this guy is talking about. It’s factual that Cuomo is a skilled operator and it’s also factual that he sucks and has disqualified himself. This is a well-thought out post, particularly #3.
  15. Great word for the extended family I’m seeing later today Wordle 1,480 4/6 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  16. Look at the big brains on Brad! I have no idea what people think now. I saw Inception when it came out, and I have no idea how anyone could have been “confused” when 80% of the dialogue is just characters explaining what’s happening while looking into the camera. I agree on the lack of depth, though. Elliot Page’s performance made Pinocchio seem like a real boy. Inception is by far his worst movie in my opinion, but agree that Oppenheimer is way overrated. Greta Gerwig was able to make Barbie into a sharp critique of feminism without preaching, but Christopher Nolan felt like he had to mansplain the moral complexity of BUILDING THE ATOMIC BOMB. Agreed. Look, Christopher Nolan is an exceptional filmmaker when he trusts the audience to understand or at least follow the story- ie Dunkirk, Dark Night, Momento, The Prestige. The Odyssey shares key elements with those stories AND the text shows how a narrative voice can blend with a voice of the main character. Im excited!
  17. I nearly lost my left eye at Camp Olympia /CSB
  18. Pretty similar, honestly
  19. That’s interesting. To me, and I mean this respectfully- I think what’s broken about the Democratic Party is fundamentally that the politics of representation have become more important to the ideological base than the politics of outcomes. Mamdani is most popular among the people who don’t need him to achieve results.
  20. This isn’t the thread for it, but there are camp people, who love camp, and people who go once and hate it, they aren’t camp people. People go to camp based on where their friends and families go, and consequently social networks and rivalries between camps developed based on the kind of people who go where. It’s a whole thing.
  21. Fuck everything Wordle 1,479 X/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜
  22. So if haven’t been paying close enough attention to make an assessment, why are you arguing with people who have?
  23. That’s not responsive. This isn’t a trick or complex. This is a very straightforward yes/no question about your opinion. Again, do you think that the elected leadership at the statewide and Federal level in the aftermath of this tragedy has been adequate and appropriate?
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