The one thing that’s become particularly clear to me over the last five years is that elite opinion forming processes are not meaningfully more connected to reality than that of the reactionary facebook trolls they look down on, and any convergence is largely incidental.

I thought this was a good survey of the phenomenon (though I disagreed with the conclusions)

Tbh I don’t think the Irish security situation is so sanguine in a world where both the Americans and British have relegated themselves to the status of reactionary revisionist powers.

The Western nation-states are more or less defined by the extraordinary power they had to religiously and linguistically homogenize themselves.

Hugenots and English Catholics would be unremarkable minorities in any part of the Habsburg domains or points East.

The prevailing attitude I’ve encountered in the real world is ‘ChatGPT is a fun toy, but it’s a shame you can’t really tell what’s real anymore’

Yeah that was the main reason I never picked it up. 6 seasons of ‘wailing on Elizabeth Moss with broom handles’ didn’t really appeal to me.

This is correct (derogatory)

The tankie position on Canada is that Trump didn’t say all that stuff about us but also it was funny and based and might in fact be good.

The font and style have been pretty common with AI for the last year but otherwise yeah there’s nothing else to go on