On the one hand, fuck yeah. On the other hand, a “demand” from the UN is toothless as long as keeps supplying and endorsing the genocide.
On the one hand, fuck yeah. On the other hand, a “demand” from the UN is toothless as long as keeps supplying and endorsing the genocide.
If we’re “flexible” with the definition of D&D games, Owlcat’s two Pathfinder games would be top contenders as well.
Just say no to modal metaphysics
As it turned out, Bush was chosen by the Supreme Court as the vote was so close, particularly in Florida, though Gore won the overall popular vote.
What a clear and persuasive case for the power of voting in America.
There’s the tone-deaf idiocy we expect from the Democrats. Whew.
I’ll be shocked if she picks someone else. She’s been desperately tacking to the right ever since she was coronated the successor–she’s walked back every quasi-“progressive” position she expressed in 2020–and this is exactly the move I’d expect her to take to shore up her support with the neoliberal ghoul voting bloc that is her base.
This is right on target. He’s not saying anything Trump hasn’t said (or implied), but he’s no Trump. This is the same problem ran into. They want someone that projects power and confidence, as well as acts as a surrogate on which they can project their own dark desires about how the world should be.
Trump can be all these things because he has a carefully crafted image of being super wealthy, but also (and more importantly) he’s charismatic, funny, and speaks in what basically amount to parables. He very rarely comes right out and says things like “we’re going to give bonus votes to people with kids.” He might hint at that, or convey the same message through some kind of elliptical digression about some random topic, but he doesn’t state things clearly and plainly most of the time. He jokes, teases, and plays the crowd. His rhetoric is open to interpretation, which both lets them project their own ideas onto him but also insist that he didn’t really mean whatever his opponent took him to mean. With DeSantis or Vance, all that humor and rhetorical fogginess is gone, and the fascist project is laid bare. That’s boring and off-putting–even to many of them who actually agree with the project–because what attracts them isn’t a set of policy goals, but rather a particular image of what could be: a vibe.
There are obviously exceptions to this (people who are the Hilary Clintons of the far right and are in it for the technocratic minutiae of implementing fascism), but they’re much smaller as a group than the collection of people who want to be caught up in the religious ecstasy of MAGA rallies, and will change the channel when that turns into the nitty gritty of policy. Remember that politics is fundamentally boring to most normal people. In Trump, they’re getting something less like politics and more like a sermon, comedy act, and sports rally all rolled into one. So far, they haven’t found anyone else able to bridge that gap.
Weird (derogatory) vs. weird (affectionate)
All those people have transparently been crafting their whole lives around their political office aspirations since like elementary school. Real “12 year old wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase to class” energy. It rings extremely false and off-putting because they’ve been crafting a “persona” for so long that there’s nothing at all beneath the mask.
something dumb they’re going to call third quantization
Yeah, some Senator whose parents were Civil War veterans is going to call her a “trolley howler” or something that everyone will have to look up, but will turn out to be worse than the n-word.
♪ By the squares of the city
In the shadow of the steeple
By the welfare office
I found my people
As they stood there hungry
I stood there whistling
This land was made for you and me ♪
♪ This land is your land
But it once was my land
Before we sold you
Manhattan Island
You pushed our nations
To the reservations
This land was stole by you from me ♪
There’s some really banger stuff in some versions of that song.
I think this narrative reduces Biden’s own complicity in this. Should the people around him be pressuring him harder to step down? Absolutely. But he’s not so far gone that he can’t make his own decisions and be accountable for them. He’s said he would only drop out if “God Almighty” came down and told him to. That’s entitlement and hubris on his part, not abuse.
She wants to run for president some day I’m guessing, which means debasing herself in front of the DNC.
Intersectional workers’ alliance can have a second war as a treat.
I wonder if Corbyn’s Labour run had happened today if things might have gone differently. I think a lot of people have now seen how nonsensically and indiscriminately the “antisemitic” label gets used, and that the tactic is getting much less effective.
He specialises in betraying America’s friends and rewarding its enemies, in humiliating the West and empowering the Global South
Get yourself a partner who looks at you like RFK Jr. looks at rotting meat he found on the ground.