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No I think the situation calls for a merciless stone cold bastard, but the problem is that Newsom just doesn’t have the ideological fervour. He has too many friends in their camp, there needs to be someone willing to actually finish the job
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It really cannot be overstated how social networking, as a tool, has been toxic for people power, even as it put power-elites in chatrooms with each other where they could radicalise each other with unmatched speed and efficiency.
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Lighting myself on fire just to feel anything
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This specific demographic bears more direct responsibility for the collapse of North American cities than any other on earth
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Stencil is wrong, the modern reactionary moment *is* driven by material conditions. Specifically, a period of wealth and prosperity unprecedented in length and degree.
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i think another impulse here is no centrists holding hands saying better things aren't possible, its centrists holding hands saying *worse* things aren't possible, people who think clean water comes from the tap
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also of course this is also gender, because a key part of this is "you cannot keep raping Stanford grads" driving tech elites completely insane and ditto for media elites and Me Too
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"you have social responsibility with your power and cannot just take and take and take for no regard of those around you" has driven so many people absolutely insane
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Wait there’s still that little research on microplastics?
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Okay yes he is waving a gun around but he’ll put it down soon and in the meantime it’s best not to provoke him and then we can go back to not giving a shit.
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The problem is that the remaining democracies have deeply internalized the idea that America is The Boss and they are simply the generously compensated upper management.
Our leaders are there for the salary and benefits, not to make decisions. That’s his job, even if he is acting a little off.
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Me, walking around in a t shirt in Oakland in November: ‘huh, this whole ‘winter’ thing is horseshit’
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I’ve had that suspicion since the beginning. I don’t think it was a coincidence they started taking off around the same time the trans rights movement did.
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I’m not convinced this would have succeeded. Their constitution wouldn’t have deliberately hobbled industrialization if the planters were confident they could make the jump to becoming industrial magnates
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“magical realist Zohran Mamdani” would be like if everyone on his team was human except for his ghost campaign manager and you could see a bodega cat levitating in one of his ads
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I think this is not an entirely unreasonable stance to take but I think it’s roughly as excusable as affiliating with Israel supporters.
You’re free to draw your lines where you like, but I feel like total moral consistency on this issue would leave one a lot more isolated than one ought to be.
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I see more signs of appeasement in their border security and military policies, but not here
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I think this is a strange interpretation of both the election and his oil and gas politics. The environment was not a major theme of the election and building more east-west pipeline access has more to do with domestic pressure and the collapse of the environmentalist movement than Trump.
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They basically walked into the same mistake Saddam made
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What??
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Nope it’s still ukulele covers
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The internet has made the latter demographic much dumber and more desperate for attention
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I believe it is a serious oversight to exclude First Nations from the process, one that will cause great harm to both sides, but as far as I’m concerned everyone else can take their grievances to their MPs
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Deliberation is important but this is supposed to happen primarily in parliament. That it mostly happens outside of it is a failing of the system, not a virtue to be upheld.
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What about a massive air campaign