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West Coast Straussianism in action
December 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
West Coast Straussianism in action
The idea of someone in the Milwaukee suburbs getting mad at, say, a trans kid in Colorado would be unthinkable 75 years ago, unlikely but comprehensible twenty years ago, and commonplace today.
December 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The idea of someone in the Milwaukee suburbs getting mad at, say, a trans kid in Colorado would be unthinkable 75 years ago, unlikely but comprehensible twenty years ago, and commonplace today.
Agree. It’s more the specifics of getting information. Decentralized information was more localized. Like Talk Radio, Satellite Cable, etc allowed some form of shared resentment building.
December 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Agree. It’s more the specifics of getting information. Decentralized information was more localized. Like Talk Radio, Satellite Cable, etc allowed some form of shared resentment building.
Me dependent care FSA can fund it all at once, and also lets me pre-file all the claims for a year.
Having a social safety net as good as your HR Portal’s software is not great.
Having a social safety net as good as your HR Portal’s software is not great.
December 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Me dependent care FSA can fund it all at once, and also lets me pre-file all the claims for a year.
Having a social safety net as good as your HR Portal’s software is not great.
Having a social safety net as good as your HR Portal’s software is not great.
E.G. confederate flags in Wisconsin and less polka and fish fries. Some latent prejudices in the old system but it wasn’t the defining feature.
December 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
E.G. confederate flags in Wisconsin and less polka and fish fries. Some latent prejudices in the old system but it wasn’t the defining feature.
I think also part of what the internet did was allow disparate rural areas to form cross-cultural bonds with other rural areas.
It’s forming a rural culture that’s just their shared resentment to cosmopolitanism rather than like something that was just a little less exposed.
It’s forming a rural culture that’s just their shared resentment to cosmopolitanism rather than like something that was just a little less exposed.
December 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I think also part of what the internet did was allow disparate rural areas to form cross-cultural bonds with other rural areas.
It’s forming a rural culture that’s just their shared resentment to cosmopolitanism rather than like something that was just a little less exposed.
It’s forming a rural culture that’s just their shared resentment to cosmopolitanism rather than like something that was just a little less exposed.
Politics of the average Vic3 playthrough
December 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Politics of the average Vic3 playthrough
Where can I read more about it?
Can only find references that it comes from an unsourced claim in a book by dHart, 1971.
Can only find references that it comes from an unsourced claim in a book by dHart, 1971.
December 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Where can I read more about it?
Can only find references that it comes from an unsourced claim in a book by dHart, 1971.
Can only find references that it comes from an unsourced claim in a book by dHart, 1971.
see also: Capital in the Two First Century.
Too much capital going nowhere is just a major problem in the world.
Too much capital going nowhere is just a major problem in the world.
November 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
see also: Capital in the Two First Century.
Too much capital going nowhere is just a major problem in the world.
Too much capital going nowhere is just a major problem in the world.
Running a nativist campaign against a guy named Soren Stevenson in Minneapolis is so funny. He’s named like he’s a seventh generation Alexandran.
October 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Running a nativist campaign against a guy named Soren Stevenson in Minneapolis is so funny. He’s named like he’s a seventh generation Alexandran.
Check out our pedestrianized downtown while you’re here!
October 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Check out our pedestrianized downtown while you’re here!
I mean I actually agree with this but would also color it that at least part of what the military is pissed about is that Algeria is transitioned from military rule to civilian rule!
Like I think it’s mostly about the revolution but the imperial project sure isn’t helping!
Like I think it’s mostly about the revolution but the imperial project sure isn’t helping!
September 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I mean I actually agree with this but would also color it that at least part of what the military is pissed about is that Algeria is transitioned from military rule to civilian rule!
Like I think it’s mostly about the revolution but the imperial project sure isn’t helping!
Like I think it’s mostly about the revolution but the imperial project sure isn’t helping!
Agree with all this but also part of the reason the French army isn’t domesticated is because of the Napoleonic and Algerian imperial projects even tho those are very different forms of imperial projects.
Feeling like I’m starting to run up against the forms of short form messages. Good convo!
Feeling like I’m starting to run up against the forms of short form messages. Good convo!
September 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Agree with all this but also part of the reason the French army isn’t domesticated is because of the Napoleonic and Algerian imperial projects even tho those are very different forms of imperial projects.
Feeling like I’m starting to run up against the forms of short form messages. Good convo!
Feeling like I’m starting to run up against the forms of short form messages. Good convo!
Maybe there’s some state capacity factor here? Like colonialism relying on local elites is less susceptible? Or maybe it’s not colonialism directly but the wealth disparity it creates in the metropole?
September 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Maybe there’s some state capacity factor here? Like colonialism relying on local elites is less susceptible? Or maybe it’s not colonialism directly but the wealth disparity it creates in the metropole?
I think talking in concrete terms is also super useful here because I was also thinking of French exploits in Algeria and the boomerang of the coup attempt in 1961.
September 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I think talking in concrete terms is also super useful here because I was also thinking of French exploits in Algeria and the boomerang of the coup attempt in 1961.
Like not all bad local shit comes from doing heinous shit abroad but I do think doing heinous shit abroad is easy to ignore but has a corrosive effect! I guess the opposite way of saying this would be: do you think it’s much easier to compartmentalize things abroad than I make out here?
September 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Like not all bad local shit comes from doing heinous shit abroad but I do think doing heinous shit abroad is easy to ignore but has a corrosive effect! I guess the opposite way of saying this would be: do you think it’s much easier to compartmentalize things abroad than I make out here?
Could be the causality runs the other way! Like every state I’m thinking of already had some level of dysfunction but what I see is precursors in the colony that bounce back. (Franco has a lot of his initial support from the army in Morocco, German in Namibia was doing ethnic cleansing).
September 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Could be the causality runs the other way! Like every state I’m thinking of already had some level of dysfunction but what I see is precursors in the colony that bounce back. (Franco has a lot of his initial support from the army in Morocco, German in Namibia was doing ethnic cleansing).
Yeah, I don’t think we’re that far apart actually.
Like in the metropole some people are dissidents and some people aren’t. In the colony everyone is effectively a dissent. That’s the thinking that starts to boomerang, IMO. Hard to keep that at the waters edge!
Like in the metropole some people are dissidents and some people aren’t. In the colony everyone is effectively a dissent. That’s the thinking that starts to boomerang, IMO. Hard to keep that at the waters edge!
September 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Yeah, I don’t think we’re that far apart actually.
Like in the metropole some people are dissidents and some people aren’t. In the colony everyone is effectively a dissent. That’s the thinking that starts to boomerang, IMO. Hard to keep that at the waters edge!
Like in the metropole some people are dissidents and some people aren’t. In the colony everyone is effectively a dissent. That’s the thinking that starts to boomerang, IMO. Hard to keep that at the waters edge!
Like an imperial project abroad is by definition about disregarding the locals’ opinions. It’s a hop skip and a jump to apply that to the metropole BECAUSE a state is naturally doing some repression.
Not the only way to have authoritarianism develop, but it’s an easy vector.
Not the only way to have authoritarianism develop, but it’s an easy vector.
September 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Like an imperial project abroad is by definition about disregarding the locals’ opinions. It’s a hop skip and a jump to apply that to the metropole BECAUSE a state is naturally doing some repression.
Not the only way to have authoritarianism develop, but it’s an easy vector.
Not the only way to have authoritarianism develop, but it’s an easy vector.
Yeah, I agree its all matter of degrees. That’s why you don’t want your state getting comfortable doing extensive repression abroad, because the state has regular uses for those tools at home.
September 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Yeah, I agree its all matter of degrees. That’s why you don’t want your state getting comfortable doing extensive repression abroad, because the state has regular uses for those tools at home.
Imperial projects provide a training ground for repression tho. Doesn’t have to be the only training ground but it’s easy and common one.
September 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Imperial projects provide a training ground for repression tho. Doesn’t have to be the only training ground but it’s easy and common one.
Procedural generation exploration is cool! It’s literally what’s interesting about things like Minecraft.
August 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Procedural generation exploration is cool! It’s literally what’s interesting about things like Minecraft.
New Jersey is just part of New York and vice versa. If someone from NY/NJ experiences something like the difference between LA/OC it’d blow their minds.
July 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
New Jersey is just part of New York and vice versa. If someone from NY/NJ experiences something like the difference between LA/OC it’d blow their minds.