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I somewhat suspect that this is the fetishization of "strength" combining with the embrace of raw id and never expressing self-control. The practical purpose of refraining from killing and hurting civilians is self-control, and having that makes you weak. Collateral damage becomes strength.

Weird horseshoe where AOC and The Bulwark people are the most clear eyed in their political rhetoric about what Trump/Elon represent while the moderate Dems are all still busy talking about finding ways to work with Trump.

The junior CIA analyst that concluded the Assad regime was a house of cards in a report nobody read:

It’s Bashar al-over

We are about to get a nationwide lesson on stated vs revealed preferences.

With every new person who joins Trump’s administration I am overcome with a deep understanding of exactly what Ernst Jünger meant when he called Nazi party members uncultured slobs who wouldn’t have succeeded without the party.

Guys, you’re still trying to replace Joe Rogan. I told you we can’t do it. And we can’t do it. Now what we might be able to do is recreate him in the aggregate.

A Grand Theory of mine is that we are suffering from the same sickness that spun Yugoslavia out of control (media market segmentation) Of course the two patients (US and SFRY) are rather different, and so the course of the disease is rather different, but it's the same disease