A crime-free world, delivered via an early stage prototype that currently struggles to pick up an egg

Sounds like NPR

Seems like he maybe did it for offline love. The oldest story, kind of the opposite of nihilism

I don’t understand why people are not clocking that “otherwise typical guy’s love twisted into hate” is actually deeply devastating to the maga narrative,which depends on the idea of “radicalization” being mediated by some insidious external agent or factor

The commitment to the lie of rebranding Kirk as as a reasonable moderate happening at the same time it becomes likely that the motive was a visceral personal reaction to the polarizing rhetoric is a chaotic contradiction that basically guarantees something similar will happen again

I find it highly clarifying. An ideologically predictable enemy is a political asset. But an unremarkable guy provoked by the rhetoric is not a profilable threat. And if the danger is everywhere and nowhere, the only possible response is panicked scapegoating

In my experience Mormons often do tend to communicate in a sort of stilted, formal, sincere way. In other situations I find it endearing

They have an impression of it on a notepad and they’re doing to rub a graphite pencil on it to reveal it

Everything except Zelensky

I would argue that no Melville text, & possibly no 19C text, is more relevant for 2025 than his The Confidence Man: His Masquerade (1857):

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Very weak, unconvincing essay. How embarrassing for you!

I’m a dem and I think my party sucks

Dems are weak capitulators not people stating the obvious about them

They won’t

Where’s the rest of it

It’s off putting for all topics, which is one reason I stopped listening to them at all

[whispers provocatively] the 1850 fugitive slave act is the model: reactionaries have the right to extend their authority across state lines, and their opponents have to actively assist them