connorstedman.bsky.social
Land, ag, climate, systems thinking, history. A Holocene, if you can keep it.
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I haven’t been tracking systematically but I do think it’s getting worse.
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It’s such a perfect encapsulation of how the right drives American media cycles that slightly-too-long school closures are still considered a huge liability for democrats while murdering hundreds of thousands of people with anti-vaxx propaganda is never mentioned as a downside of Republican rule.
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The very threat of going to jail for doing extrajudicial acts when you are in power is what prevents people from committing extrajudicial acts. But that threat has to be credible.
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My greatest critique of modern commentary is they don't understand how far humanity can fall from here. They don't know.
I understand proclamations that it can't get worse. But it can.
How even the greatest battles are won by people who don't have enough food.
Against people who don't have any.
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Holy moly.
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jesus
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We have *got* to aim to influence the de facto, on the ground reality, not just to win in the courts and on policy (we need to keep winning those too but they're far from enough on their own!) www.liberalcurrents.com/a-practical-...
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Ah, really? Feel like expanding to Seattle + Vegas and shifting Minnesota into the EC has been looking like the likely thing, maybe I’m missing something though
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They do, and it’s because they cannot tolerate their place in the (already highly materially unequal, *in their favor*!) social order the country has generated over time.
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Yuuuup, Ender’s is (though imo pretty well written and interesting!) ideologically awful for a lot of reasons, but in at least some of them it’s looking more and more prescient-bad.
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Oh god me too, all in ultra remote Eurasian mountain ranges
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Most prescient thing about Ministry for the Future was foreseeing how independent state actors are likely to increasingly take desperate, autonomous measures to try to keep their people alive.
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It is absolutely what they’re trying to set up. Same thought process as trying to use tariffs and sanctions to bully other world governments into ideologically friendly (and Trump family & friends business friendly) policies.
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"Nothing like this has been attempted or even imagined in the history of the American presidency. Throw away the history books; discard feeble comparisons to scandals of the past. There is no analogy with any previous action by any past president."
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Yup, the USSR was absolutely rife with this kind of thing, from Stalin all the way through the end.
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If I could change one thing about US culture, it would be this unshakeable and absolutely backward belief that life must be earned, and generating profit is how you earn it.
Life is a human right. Profit must be earned, and those who want to earn it must respect human rights in order to do so.
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Zahn, as usual, nailed this, with Thrawn employing C’baoth as a mass scale ops performance and coordination enhancing drug for his whole fleet.