The level of vitriol against pelosi is in no small part because of republican efforts to demonise her. Yes, she’s a corrupt plutocrat. But why do people hate her specifically, versus every other corrupt plutocrat that makes up the leadership of the democratic party?

She forced out biden and was one of the few dems who actually wanted to fight this election. But she was also a driving force behind the kamala campaigns failed right turn which destroyed her own good work.

She’s a more complicated corrupt plutocrat than people give her credit for, is I guess my point.

Another rich conservative asshole writing about the working class as if he has any idea wtf he’s talking about. He doesn’t, of course, but it’s the NYT so that doesn’t matter.

Swallowing gum.

This is Russia targeting the core alliances of the US.

It’s genuinely hard to recognize when a rule that almost always applies doesn’t apply to the specific situation at hand.

Killing bloodthirsty rich people who are beyond the reach of the law and can’t be stopped any other way is a valid exception to the otherwise valid rule that murder is bad.

Choking someone to death for a full minute after they’ve gone limp isn’t as clear cut a situation as you’re making it sound and not an appropriate response to a mental health crisis.

New CEO Assassination side missions 🤞🙏

All the photos of full-time lumberjacks I’ve seen are from the US and they’re all skinny and wiry. Lumberjacking required an absurd amount of calories/day and no major lumber concern gave their workers enough food to cover that.

Sorry I engineered a system that extracts wealth from the poorest and filters it to the wealthiest in a self-reinforcing cycle to emiserate everyone outside my peer group.

Oops-i-doodle! My bad.

give up or modernize their identity politics

This implies it’s something bad, either entirely or in it’s current form. But i’ve never heard two people use the term in the same way, I’ve never heard anyone define it, and I’ve never seen anyone defend its use.

I really wish we could popularize the term shit-in, but it’s just too beautiful for this world.

Everyone coming up with reasons to blame the left for failing when the right, the rich and Russia teamed up in a country with unlimited anonymous election spending and no left wing parties.

What do think “identity politics” is?

Russia is wasting no time here. They’re already starting to pull apart the US military while the tariffs plan strikes at the core of the US’s most important alliances. And their regime hasn’t even taken power yet.

It was always so satisfying to get it off in one single strip

Sorry but sometimes racism seems like the truth to racists.

Bigotry fuels every anti-woke campaign, since woke is a word that only bigots use when they think something isn’t bigoted enough.

One vaccinated and well nourished 21stC individual won’t bring back the level of disease of boatloads of sick, unhealthy, unwashed 15thC european sailors.

What’s been the most stable written language over time?

The best possible combo of far back and wide reach is probably Akkadian cuneiform. Maybe you could get further back with Sumerian cuneiform and trust that it’ll get translated once Akkadian becomes the lingua franca.

Oracle bone script which becomes Chinese characters probably doesn’t get you as far back and maybe not as wide an area, but definitely much longer in time since it’s basically still in use.

The only problem is those are both languages of imperial systems and giving them greater power is probably a net loss for humanity.

state is, ideally, composed of elected representatives

oligarch-led private armies oppressing people.

They’re the same picture.

Elections are a venue for competiting oligarchs - US elections are largely just a wealth check - with the bonus that afterwards people feel they’ve chosen their oligarchs and are less likely to notice that 90%+ of elected representatives only represent the interest of elites.

I do the same thing at work when I need mentally ill people to do what I say. “You can do what I want version A, or do what I want version B, which one?” always works better than “Do what I want!”

I agree that violence management is a very difficult problem with no easy solution. But I don’t think giving full control of legitimate violence to the rich is the best solution, which is what a state of elected representatives does.