This in particular kind of drives me nuts, it was understood that separation of powers doesn't work because party and ideology straddle the silos within the founders lifetimes, the British had arguably figured this out around the time the founders were born, there is lots of APD lit on this.

This isn't the OG Holden Bloodfeast comic though? The third panel isn't as good as the Fuckstein or Bloodiest ones, but it's a lot less awful than this. This is just someone else or the OG artist getting worse. i.imgur.com/37pthIB.jpeg

'What Republicans say they want to do is so bad, there's no way they'll do it' are these people huffing gas? Do they have object permanence?

Not even the strangest one:

Some really interesting 'what is it like to campaign under RCV' perspective from Lander here: hellgatenyc.com/brad-lander-...

I don't think Silicon Valley in general has any meaningful theory of regime survival and which groups you can and can't afford to piss off, visible in stuff like the Yarvin interview and also in stuff like this: www.theguardian.com/news/2022/se...

This isn't important, but I went and dug up the Ickes passage about FDR and Frances Perkins that Yarvin mentioned in his interview with the NY Times, and.... there's no indication that it had policy importance. It's a powerful man under enormous stress unfairly tearing into his female subordinate.

I think this misunderstands the point of jargon even where it is taken to far. There is obnoxious poli sci jargon that I like (intercurrence for one). But equity is like a double male power cord. No level of skill makes it safe to use a term that just means 'the correct version of [other term].'

And not only is that not true, it's not necessary, 'equality of what' in most contexts is a political/distributional problem. Normal politics is totally capable of arriving at the correct unity of equality for this situation and prescribing it. Purple shirt will ask for more boxes, blue shirt won't.

One theory this suggests of the 2024 ground game is that Musk has brain-drained the field staffing of most swing state Republican Parties while giving them jobs that mostly consist of stealing from him.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This from @profmusgrave.bsky.social is very good, but it’s crazy how inured we’ve all become to the notion that Congress, a group of elites with broadly similar backgrounds where <300 need to agree, needs ‘stakes’ to avoid abdicating responsibility for running the most powerful county on earth.