hi ophie :)

Like you gotta have a little compassion and like… idk consciousness of who you’re hearing from on social media and like the community milieu of a given random post.

I’ve been pretty sold on the idea that Dems should put effort into being a social club as much as a political party in large part because it’s increasingly clear this sort of group ritual is something we need as a society and it’s a lot better if it’s one that had values we actually want to promote

we got an infinite number of discrete points. that should make it trivial, right!

The frame of the headline is actually more helpful for Hegseth than the alternative that I suspect is true: that Hegseth, on finding out survivors were rescued instead of murdered in an operation, demanded his resignation.

kind of interesting to kind of see his thought process. sort of: i want to take on the most rigorous program of study available to me, perhaps without fully engaging with the idea that he was entering into a culture as well as an intellectual tradition?

and it turns out that his claim that he was framed by Sean Combs came out at his trial in 2024? as in: the witness admitted to being bribed?

not in Belz itself but at a Belzer yeshiva in Israel. it turns out this is just a coincidence???

nope! he, uh, was Minority Leader in Belizean parliament for their primary conservative party?

yeah, it's Shyne, who ... went to prison after being framed by Sean Combs, it turns out? and then converted to Judaism in prison and got into Belizan politics?

just discovered, going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole, that a Brooklyn-based rapper who was deported and later became the leader of the center-right Belizan opposition studied at a Belzer yeshiva after he converted to Judaism???

yeah. sometimes i want to try and get across sort of a basic understanding of how these things work, but ... like ... there is a lot of complexity.

you don't have to know the math, but you have to know what the math means, and that's sometimes hard to get across.

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