Profile avatar
catharsix.bsky.social
57 posts 22 followers 37 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter

But Japan did that largely because the US engineered that constitution. Immediate post WWII Japan was not like somehow super progressive on its own.

Amen Josh

They probably just think they can forcibly export it to some “shithole country”

This. 1,000% this.

Well, RE-normalizing racism and misogyny

Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.

Trumps comment simply drives home his alienness. Standing against his degeneracy is standing with America. We don’t have masters. We don’t bow to tyrants. Americas civic tradition is complex, democratic, libertarian, raucous, conflicted. It abhors tyrants.

www.facebook.com/share/r/14op... @eve6.bsky.social

A great website tracking all the companies that have bent the knee to Trump and eliminated their DEI programs, and all the companies that have stood strong. www.dei.watch

Jorts with usual humor imbued wisdom

I’ve always loathed the fetishization of “leadership” in the US. I saw it as bullshit as early as elementary school.

So my favorite line from the three Pirates of the Caribbean movies (they only made three, fight me), is when Jack Sparrow says to Will Turner: "The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do." I've internalized that lesson. It's a good way to think about law.

Wow. One of the sickest burns in the history of burns by the menswear guy. This is like a thermonuclear level burn