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  1. 6 minutes ago, elfenix said:

    i don't have anything real to contribute so i'm going to discuss french philosophy. 

    apt for george clooney.

    You can just admit you haven't read any of his works. He, like most post structuralist philosophers, offered little to believe in yet still offered more than all but maybe ten economists to ever live. The point is the lack of a clear definition of recession signifies how useless it is to read, formulate, or debate economic theory altogether. Not sure why I still bother to spend time in this dull abyss.

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  2. 8 minutes ago, elfenix said:

    there's no hard technical definition of a recession per the bureau that decides this.  and, apparently, hasn't been one for decades, or ever. 

    Jean Baudrillard is smirking somewhere rn.

  3. 19 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    Who the hell is Pritzker?  At least I've heard of Abrams, but her ovaries and melanin levels won't let her be electable.

    To be electable, she must win the GA Governor election. She's now raising more than Kemp, but the polls have been consistently in Kemp's favor throughout the race. 

  4. 15 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    Ironic that Greece of all places would be anti-gay considering they invented buttfucking. 

    Every country with a significant amount of Eastern Orthodox adherents is a shithole. Surely that’s just a coincidence.

  5. 9 hours ago, troph said:

    revised: 6 year plan (coincides with youngest high school graduation): Texas to Colorado/California mountains (wolverines!!!) within the next 2 years (could still live in Texas but it needs to be easy to pack up and go, hire movers and go to our place in the mountains) and then work on the plan to bounce to Vancouver Canada or Europe depending on how close we want to stay to my kids. Can't deal with fascism in the US and cartels in Mexico. total time from today, 6 years to be gone.

    But I am now of the mind that it's looney tunes time.

    that's all folks profile GIF

    I only know a handful of Canadians, but they all say they'll never move back there. All but one of them are pretty liberal too. From what they've told me, the housing situation up there (specifically Toronto and Vancouver) is a house of cards held up by wealthy Asian immigrants and the children of oligarchs. I'm not sure if it's easy to gain residence in Costa Rica, but that'd easily be my first choice if I were looking to move and wanted to stay at least relatively close to the US.

  6. 7 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:


    One thing I do know is that Martin Jarmond just put Chip on notice. Get busy recruiting like a real program, or we will terminate you stat, since money won't be an issue. And now being with the big boys, it would be an attractive job that'll pay well.

    I've always loved that Chip is just himself for better or for worse. He's true to his personality, and it's made him one of the most innovative and schematically-curious coaches we've ever seen. Idk much about UCLA's recruiting, but I hope he does well going forward.

  7. 3 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Sweatergawd, with no PAC, no fund, and armed with nothing but a dry erase marker and a whiteboard at a debate--Katie Porter would annihilate everyone. But we're too stupid to do it.

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    She'll win the CA senate race in two years to succeed Feinstein.

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  8. 4 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    Probably an unpopular take, but I think Biden has been a failure so far.  He is certainly not the man for the job of cleaning up Trumps mess.  

    He's weak, ineffectual and doesn't seem to have a vision for America...at least not one I've heard articulated.  

    The worst part is that I'll have to vote for him again if he runs in 2024.  FML

    I think a majority of those on here agree with you. Unfortunately there are currently no easy answers for who should run in his place atm. If the economy is in bad shape in summer/fall '24, then we're getting President DeSantis regardless of who the Dem candidate is.

  9. 7 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

    Oh believe me, I wish everything remained the same, and that includes Texas and OU staying in the Big 12, But our media rights will likely quadruple, or more, and the athletic department is reeling from massive pandemic losses.  This solves all of it, and re-energizes a fan base that had begun to feel the school wasn’t committed to football.  This shows that they are.  CFB was going to undergo seismic shifts one way or the other, so it was sink or swim.

    I look forward to the Bruins coming to Piscataway in the future. Hopefully Chip is still there by the time that happens.

  10. Rufo and Hillsdale are succeeding in accomplishing their goal of fomenting the anxieties of middle class Americans into the rise of charter schools. In their eyes, the founders were just kind men who totally felt awful about owning black slaves and were definitely going to free them someday. It's totally a coincidence that they seem to have omitted all of the wicked acts committed against Frederick Douglass in their presentation, yet they espouse his Fourth of July speech. I wonder why?

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  11. 1 hour ago, Macklemore said:

    Name me the targeted group in Singapore. How about in Poland. Fidesz goes after Soros, I will even give you the Soros backed NGOs. Anyone else?

    You’re aware that LKY brutally cracked down on Leftists and union sympathizers, right? Singapore, FiS, and Fidesz have engaged in anti-LGBT rhetoric for years because they want those who belong to that group to feel ostracized and submit to the traditional family values within each of their respective cultures. The main point of illiberal states is to force an artificial national identity by demonizing groups that don’t perfectly fit within whichever variant of natural law they adhere to. 

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  12. 3 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

    Authoritarian doesn’t equal fascist. Vermeule is at the top of my list when it comes to intellectuals. 

    Right, but authoritarian rule is just as bad as fascist rule (especially for its targeted groups). Again, your list means nothing to anyone on here because it’s developed by your brain.

  13. 4 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

    National conservatism/Common good government/Integralism

    If you’re quibbling with me about what is or isn’t CRT according then you need to apply the same standard to yourself with regard to the ideas I’m describing.

    Each of those three forms of government can only be implemented by an authoritarian, so your complaints about quibbling are stupid. Of course you are also stupid so this makes sense. I still can’t believe you’ve let a dork like Vermeule influence your thoughts lol

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  14. 3 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    One of Grassley's biggest weaknesses is the worst kept secret in Iowa is that the only reason he's running is so he can retire shortly after the start of the next term, and the Republican Governor of Iowa can handpick his successor.  It just so happens that his grandson, Pat, is the Speaker of the Iowa House.

    Franken hasn't started in on the nepotism angle, but it's one I think can still be effective in a state that was oddly and proudly independent and "purple" prior to Trump.

    Tbh I missed Iowa because I just assumed Grassley had a safe path to victory there. Speaking of the Governor, do you think she’s DeSantis’ number one pick for VP in two years?

  15. 23 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    lol at suburban women caring more about gas prices than IVF being criminalized, or going to jail for child endangerment/murder in case of a miscarriage. 
     

    Or I guess I could have said “tell me you don’t have any women in your life without telling me you don’t have any women in your life”

    I’m generally a pessimist when it comes to the DNC’s ability to hammer rhetoric, but I’m happy to be proven wrong. The onus is now on the party to communicate that rhetoric to each candidate’s campaign.

    I’m also gay, so yes the only anger I’ve heard from women in my life has come from friends. We also have to face the reality that most of this anger people like us hear day to day is coming from women (and men secondarily) who are solidly middle class and up. I’ve said the Dems will do fine in Senate races, but the House races are currently mysterious at best.

  16. 26 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    I'm gonna need you to show your work here. 

    https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/a-sobering-view-of-high-fuel-prices-green-energy-and-bidens-plans-to-help-europe
     

    Imperfect article, but essentially the transition to renewable energy is rocky and Russia’s invasion has complicated things. Again, it’s not all on Biden’s admin, but the swing voters just care about prices and he doesn’t inspire confidence in the lay public.

  17. 10 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

    Post-liberal. Read Compact Magazine. 
    https://compactmag.com. You’ll find articles by the leading intellectuals of the new right - Prof. Vermuele, Sohrab Ahmari, Michael Deneen and Gladden Pappin. Sens. Hawley, Rubio and Cotton espouse some of the ideas - not nearly enough for my taste. Hungary is probably the best example of it being put in practice.

    Everyone you listed sucks, but specifically you’ve been duped by Vermeule and Ahmari. Those two guys are just social strivers who espouse Integralism because it makes them edgy in their little DC bubble. 
     

    The only true intellectual of the new Right is BAP, and he disregards religious thought in general because his main influences were Nietzsche, Strauss, and the pre-Socratics. Of course he still desires authoritarian rule, so he begrudgingly has allied with the aforementioned frauds as well as their peers like Moldbug.

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