"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
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one of the really useful takeaways from fukuyama's political order books is a clear conceptual understanding of what corruption *is* in its fundamental nature. and the answer... is patronage networks organized on personal connections! corruption is *inherent* in these discretionary systems!
There is an international, well-connected network of fascists promoting far-right candidates in elections (and coups) across the world. The guy who owns the site Yglesias posted this on is one of their leaders.
Be careful of people advocating for their opponents to disarm!
I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.
It seems like a whole bunch of people bet everything on the ratfucking attempts. While it's a bad sign for Brazil either way, it'd be satisfying as hell to watch it blow up in the faces of these specific freaks.
this is total gobbledygook? the process to decide who should be certified as the winner is the election, and there is no federal law that says the courts get to decide who that is.
Blanche on CBS says his suit against Alaska is "asking the court to step in where the Alaska Supreme Court didn't, which is to look at federal law and if necessary to allow a process for Alaska to decide who should be certified as the winner."
(So, the voters won't get to decide. Got it.)
I once got in a pretty big fight with someone on r/PhD about this. This guy just kept throwing out edge cases and I'm like: there are no edge cases. When you're no longer an undergrad at the place where the undergrads are, they don't exist. Full stop.
Every school says "here's the Title IX training" that boils down to "do not fuck your students, do not try to fuck your students, do not tell your students you WANT to fuck your students, we cannot stress enough how No Bueno this is" and apparently tenure is like a TBI because it just does not stick
If you're refusing to drill that into your head from day one, you're the problem even if in this exact moment it's not like an age issue or a direct power imbalance. If you can't clear that lowest of low bars now, you're not looking good to clear it later.
NATHAN FIELDER: So now that you’ve seen it, can you tell me what was funny about that bit?
ELIZABETH HOLMES: *smiling like the Smile Demon from the Smile horror movie series* The guy took a really long time to describe what his family’s act was
Using tenant protections to do fraud is bad for the very obvious reason of undermining public support for those protections. But it's also bad because it lets freaks like this lie freely about what they do:
“Hopefully, they’ll end up in some nice jail,” one landlord previously said about the couple. “Free housing. That’s what they are looking for, right?” on.nbcboston.com/QJfky9e
Obvious electoral rake-stepping aside, at what point is anyone going to acknowledge that young men are not “locked out” of the economy by some nefarious entity (women), they are literally feeding all of their disposable income into the gaping maw of sportsbetting apps. It’s actually quite simple.
Frustrated younger, male voters feeling locked out of the economy and diminishing opportunities are rapidly abandoning the Republican coalition, or straight up opting out of political action altogether
Sorry there is simply no way everyone from New England likes New Hampshire after their own state. Maine, sure. Vermont, definitely. NH? No fucking way.
Every US State’s Favorite State Besides Their Own (With Arrows)
Credit: Matt Shirley
It's surprising how few states reciprocally like each other.
Full list: brilliantmaps.com/fav-us-st...
Hopefully Jonathan will be patient with me re-upping this guide at regular intervals through Election Day. With 9 questions on the ballot - some potentially confusing to voters - this is really helpful.
Hey! You! Do you live in Washington, Texas, California, New Jersey, or Wisconsin? Your rep may be a fucking shitstain scumbag DCCC chair or vice chair! You should go yell at em!
In a major escalation in Dems embracing anti-trans positions, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the official campaign arm of House Democrats, released its first anti-trans ad supporting Nancy Lacore in SC-01.
Transphobia is spreading among dems.
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The strongest threats to my belief in democracy continue to be these NYT focus groups supporting the notion that sentience might not be present in all adult Americans.
Main takeaway from the NYT Iowa focus group is that none of these voters really know what’s going on and they barely know anything about the candidates running in either statewide election lmao
Earlier richest-man-on-earth H. L. Hunt had this same stupid idea, and responded in similar ways! Also had a crazy number of kids!
Not sure Elon crawls on the floor like a baby to extend his lifespan, though.
One of the most salient aspects of today's politics is how everyone imagines a conspiratorial "them" controlling things behind the scenes. Elon Musk is literally powerful enough to affect the course of the Ukraine war, but he's still imagining faceless puppet masters who need to be unmasked.
In thinking about an AOC presidential run in 2028, for example, both Goldwater and Reagan are such important touchstones for thinking about how that might relate to the project of seizing control of the Democratic Party. And yet we never talk about that connection.
Someone less tired than me really needs to sit down and spell out that the post-Goldwater conservative conquest of the GOP (and the Tea Party/CHUD devouring of the conservative mvmt) are solid proof that a left conquest of the Dems is eminently achievable.*
Typical thing for a historian of the right to say, but the left in the U.S. desperately needs to spend less time studying itself and far more time studying the right.