Benson Flinn

a little recency bias, but these all definitely changed how I played games in their own way

You don't own your baby. A child is not property. They have a right to live that eclipses your right to believe stupid shit

I don't really see too much of a gulf between "revenge on the rurals" and "reduce subsidies on rural areas somewhat" policy. A mild pullback is an extinction-level event for these areas, and people are mostly choosing their preferred branding

see also: the idea that there is a strong contingent of people who are dooming too much and whose apathy is hurting climate solutions. by far the super majority of people are not worried enough about climate change and not doing enough to stop it great thread, this brain poison is everywhere

problem with this is that the level of consequences is different on a neighborhood level site than one ostensibly meant to be the global town square. the negative outcomes are greater and the resulting consequences should be as well. canceling as a thing cant take place on nextdoor like it can here

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if orgs like AIPAC and the ADL work for decades on a rhetorical project to conflate Judaism with Zionism and then the world's only Zionist state commits horrible war crimes the already racsist and the uninformed will either choose anti-zionist and anti-semitic or pro-zionist and not anti-semitic.

i personally think the obvious answer is green tech, abundance and the space economy

People need to understand that although it’s a natural & human response to think selfishly about things like this you can also shut the fuck about that

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the james will always be one of my favorite places

animal well then, animal well now

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Berniecrat outcomes through Warrenite means

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3. Leadership is about doing what is necessary, not just what is popular. Read literally anything our founders wrote about virtue, and the inherent risks to a society based on democratic processes to sustain the rule of law to the extent that unvirtuous people gain power.

If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.

relatedly it's probably worth reminding people online that it is A-OK to simply not like someone - to find their personality and/or opinions grating - and not Do Theory about it

Hey look! The inevitable sense of impending catastrophe! My favorite!

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Bill’s exactly right. 99.9% of climate denial is solution aversion. They don’t want to fix it, but they know that saying “it’s real and serious but I don’t want to fix it” isn’t a great message. So they go with the smoke screen of science denial instead.

Interesting. I was told that both boats that had been struck down were verified to be carrying narcotics and had connections to criminal groups, but we couldn’t see any of the totally real evidence. Surely fishing would be perfectly safe under such conditions?

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

a big reason companies are caving this hard is that they're banking on hunkering down for the next 3.5 years and then coasting by when the dust settles Democrats need to make it very clear that there will be future consequences for defecting in this prisoner's dilemma

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

i do not think ezra klein genuinely grieves for charlie kirk. i think ezra klein thinks it’s professionally advantageous to perform grief.

this is a comforting thing to believe if you have the political inclinations you're likely to have if you're reading this, but is unfortunately not true. alternative medicine is huge in Germany and the UK for example.

yeah today it's a reactionary thing mostly, but for a long fuckin' time until *very* recently there was way too much tolerance for this shit in left and liberal spaces. from "oh it's not harming anyone" to "different ways of knowing". RFK jr fucking came from that milieu.

I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.

they wont care about $8 Oreo or whatever if their rent and child care costs are lowered substantially. I get that it's really frustrating that people don't know as much about the issues as you or I do but calling them stupid is not going to work. even if it's true. we do need to actually kill glonzo

they are wrong in the details but they are correct in that affordability is a problem, and has been for a while. sure, we can't touch grocery margins but we can go after housing, healthcare, child care and transportation which are the actual largest line items in people's budget.

groceries and gas are expenses that people have to deal with multiple times a week and are very easy to track on a week-to-week basis so any increases, even if they're a small proportion of their income, are very noticeable. these concerns are nullified if affordability generally is tackled.

I agree that people don't know exactly what they want and are not well versed in policy, but I also think it's fair to ask what you would do instead of meeting them where they're at currently? it seems flattening to say that low info people only care about groceries. they care about affordability.