Trying to explain what's happening to our country without talking about the Network State is like trying explain 9/11 without mentioning Al Qaeda.

De Kai has a great term: Negative Information (neginformation). It describes misinformation that results from leaving out key parts of the story.

One of my take-aways from studying all things ‘collective make-believe’ over the last half-decade is that it really truly does not matter if someone is a grifter or a true believer, and the idea that people can lie (to themselves or others) in “good faith” is a pernicious one in a civil society.

The postal service reform act also kicked postal retiree's off their earned federal prescription benefit plan and forced them onto medicare and part d. In addition to full cost of our health care we now have to pay full cost of medicare. copays went from $0 to $2000

Notably, Florida voters decided in a 2010 ballot initiative to change the state constitution, forbidding partisan gerrymandering. Despite DeSantis claiming that his intentions are to “remedy” a flawed map, any new maps would likely be challenged on that basis.

The establishment Democratic Party narrative that young progressive criticism of Israel is the result of brainwashing is the most patronizing shit since Republicans accused Black Democrats of being on “the plantation.” Just fucking stop it.

he believes that if they die they were meant to die and that those that live are the fittest