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alt history, legislative politics, american studies, and reconstruction | lots of typos | he/him | views my own, normal disclaimers | Double Victory (DVTL) is my book / worldbuilding project
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Galaxy brain idea: the secret service's protection mission and assets should be taken over by the federal protective service

circular parliamentary floor plans... weird (Uzbekistan, Jordan, Sierra Leone, Slovenia)

The Department of Fighting Terrorism actually mostly handles immigration and customs. the security components are rent-a-cop feebees, a tiny intel shop that just fucks around, and a normal cybersecurity agency

The critique of the Naderite preference for adversarial legalism and redundant proceduralism over state capacity is one of the best and most important ideas in the “abundance” mixed bag

even donald fucking rumsfeld thought this

security take: Secret Service and FBI should be bisected into financial crime agency/presidential security agency and federal detective agency/domestic intelligence agency respectively

Fairly bored, probs gonna go on the elliptical but AMA about double victory?

The median American voter:

me and the boys on our way to fund as much murder as possible from the good side

being bi is really dope

honestly the core design of Daggerheart seems pretty legit?

god the zero health choices in daggerheart are kinda great?

a fun thing that the New York mayor's protective detail did recently was ferry an Italian guy to a penthouse and stand outside while they whipped him with electrical cords, forced him to smoke crack, and tortured his genitals to try to get his crypto wallet open

This is why Trump's pardon sale is making my blood run cold. Even the handful of white-collar crimes that have been addressed with *jury trials* are being reverted to elite impunity.

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...