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This one made me cry.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

A perfect summary of that portion of the left that has always seemed motivated by resentment that they weren’t the ones with political authority.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

In my view, this is downstream of our inability to build institutions beyond natsec for government action. All the elements of national power are important for national security, but only the natsec community is empowered to think comprehensively think about the activity of the US as a state.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Lmao does this include military service members?

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Decided to re-read the Iliad, any suggestions on which translation I should go with?

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Most writing is not like this, and is mostly done to communicate some end-result.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

This is undeniably a guy showing his ass, but it’s also important to remember that the job of the White House Office of the Press Secretary is to make hoity dipshits like him feel like special boys and girls, and in that way the Biden administration was actually bad at it.

submitted 39 days ago • 14 comments

This is representative of the strange structure of social interaction on social media; in person, cracking this obvious joke is a small bit of social bonding. Online we replicate that behavior, but detached from the interpersonal context it becomes parasocial and idiotic.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I’m curious how northcom will actually do this; historically it’s preferred to focus on potential state threats and leave migration and crime to civilian agencies.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

I wonder how "merit only" for federal hiring will interact with veteran preference for federal jobs.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

I expect support for Luigi to grow over time not because of any particular political conditions but because a dedicated Luigi fandom already exists that will for the foreseeable future argue he was justified and slowly sway an otherwise indifferent public opinion through repetition.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

I think I'm being driven insane by how dishonest almost all political writing feels across the left-right spectrum right now. Trump's reelection seems to have given folks license to produce pure propaganda without any connection to either a principled argument or an attempt to connect with reality.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

The political order is corrupted and vicious, and everything else will fail because it’s downstream of that fact.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry, @samuelmoyn.bsky.social, there’s no silver lining to Trump’s victory: tcf.org/content/comm...

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

I can only imagine what popular culture will look like under these conditions; even more than now, entire mediums will be "gendered" for men or women, and the general right-wing tilt will manifest in all sorts of strange ways.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone have recommended readings for understanding the politics of Zoomers? Looking for both data as well as more detailed ethnographies of their political beliefs. The only one I found claimed Gen Z was particularly left-wing, which goes against the data I've seen from 2024.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments