(Un)Dead Carl 🎃

“There's an old saying in Clausewitz—I know it's in Jomini, probably in Clausewitz—that strategy is the use of battles for... for... battles get you the thing you want.”

The answer is just that the average American asks: “if he did it, why isn’t he in prison?” Or they roll it into a general cynicism about how Hillary Clinton murders people and the elites harvest adrenochrome and call it a wash.

Jaw-dropping achievements in stupidity, my goodness. "I wonder why China, an authoritarian state, does not put up museums decrying the legacy of their authoritarian regime. It must be because he was good." What a fool. Incredible.

Dude is a professor at Cambridge and he’s the dumbest person alive

mom can you pick me up? Hakeem Jeffries is Sephiroth posting on main and i'm scared

People in the replies acting like the current Cuban regime isn't authoritarian are irritating. The recent Cuban asylum seekers that Trump is deporting aren't wealthy plantation owners. Be serious.

gonna go vote early

stacey cay and contrapoints interviewed fukuyama www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP-t...

Shameful. Congress should pass a revised version of the Russia sanctions bill with no Presidential waiver authority.

it low-key is pretty pathetic how servile many celebrities, artists etc. very willing to take Brave Stances in the westare when it comes to anything that pisses off Beijing.

Extremely funny to go "I can't believe the Poles didn't insitute reforms that would have upset Moscow" with a header image of What Happens When You Upset Moscow

It certainly says something™️ when the DSA’s “red line” prohibits association with pro-two state solution groups and does not prohibit supporting Russian imperialism.

i like that the big divide on this post is whether people read it, correctly, as "*run explicitly* on banning online gambling" or whether they ignored the modifying verb and adverb and read it as "i don't think anyone should ban online gambling"

Nolan Gray lays it out in basic terms here: marketurbanism.com/2018/02/05/d...

You can’t understate the fact that the New Deal/Great Society economic model produced stagflation. This real failure was used to attack social welfare as a whole by its ideological enemies. In terms of political economy, it should be clear why voters generally prioritize growth over equality.

It's not crazy. Data centers can be built anywhere. If one jurisdiction is run by Luddites, developers go to the next one. Location is commoditized this way, enabling economic growth. Rail has to go in specific places, which can extract surplus or even destroy it due to anti-development ideology.

Guys, we can win, we can also lose. The future is unwritten. More than that, it is changeable by us. You can go out there and chase the future you want. The cure to anxiety is not “everything will work out okay” but “I can make it work out better.”

This may be controversial but I think that people who work in public sector urban planning should understand how the real estate development business actually works. bankerandtradesman.com/planning-chi...

a fascinating thread for constitutional design sickos about how a parliamentary democracy degenerated into personalism, semipresidentialism, and "mood parties"

Boston’s chief planner is a true believer in the San Francisco model, in which you make it impossible to profitably build apartments by-right so developers are forced into a politicized discretionary negotiation with the city, which relaxes the rules in exchange for below-market units.

It’s more that “Labourization” is the wrong thing to look at entirely, especially in the context of red states. These candidates are to some extent or other running against the party (or at least the party consensus) and it’s not plausible that their positioning will shift the party’s position.

intelligence is knowing that if i ever looked up anything about Magyar, Lula, or any of the other election winners i would probably not be great fans of their politics wisdom is knowing it doesn't matter because defeating the global chud coalition is all that matters for the foreseeable future

mfw it worked

It’s bolsonover

Franz Joseph posting

American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to tailored suits and classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.

marine corps boards crossing out their instructions "expel trans marines" and writing in "we keep this trans marine" is, frankly, a great example of what it means that a society is more than just its government

this is why i'm cautious about the emerging resitlib consensus for 'strong parties': top down control is great if your faction is at the top

Biden’s position on it is also relevant. A major party figure staked out a pro-trans rights position early and then won the presidency—that leaves a legacy.

Even if Democratic grandees thought ditching trans rights was helpful, they can’t cajole the Senators from deep blue states to do so, and primaries keep candidates fairly representative of their constituents and vulnerable to pressure by even small parts of the coalition.

To your point, I think this is advantage of US parties being a coalition rather than a party in the parliamentary sense. There’s no discipline to impose, so attempting maneuvers like abandoning part of the coalition are protracted battles, which are unappealing.

from me: some reflections on the russo-japanese war, hyperpolitics before social media, and why functional mechanisms of power and accountability are essential for well-informed, well-led democratic publics

I think the difference is more fundamental: there is no ideologically liberal impulse left in UK politics. Americans—for better and worse—want the government to stay away, from both bathrooms and their Medicaid.

“Democrats will strenuously oppose efforts to restore things to the Obama-era status quo ante,” I say, presumably after suffering significant head trauma

The thing about ME2 is that while it doesn’t move the main story forwards, it’s excellent execution of the “putting together a team” conceit. What it actually moves forward are player companion stories, which are both satisfying in their own right and paid off in ME3

the liberal white whomen who have ruined America, like Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, Liz Cheney, Franz von Papen, Paul von Hindenburg, and Leni Riefenstahl

Me: "It cannot be stated often enough or vociferously enough: the Trump Administration is helping Russia to conquer Ukraine. The United States of America has taken the side of an aggressor against its innocent victim. We are helping our actual enemies" www.aei.org/foreign-and-...

This isn't a causal claim. Of course unemployed people spend a lot of their time watching tv and playing video games. Like, that's a very common activity on weekends too.