Because the Republican Party is an appendage of the Kremlin
10.03.2026 14:20
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Because the Republican Party is an appendage of the Kremlin
The headline that highlights the absurd form of American fascism we now live with:
Czechia's Ondřej Satoria, who is a full-time electrician, leaves his final career game to a standing ovation after throwing 4.2 shutout innings against Japan!
Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny
whenever asian markets are in turmoil this is all I can think of
@JDfromscrubslol Had a dream there was an emoji like 💯 except it was only 60. Some post said "popeyes fries be tasting so good (60)" and I laughed so hard I woke myself up
Thinking about the 60 emoji again
I know they're not comparable really, but you can get a Lucid Air Sapphire with double the horsepower for approximately the same amount of money
Who buys this. What is the demo. Why would anyone with $170k to burn not just choose a Ferrari or special edition 911
You could take that money, buy some vacant land out in the sticks, buy about twenty odd NA Miatas, create and open a track, and you'd STILL have tens of thousands left over
$170k for a Mustang.
A MUSTANG.
A. FORD. MUSTANG.
The Dark Horse is the quintessential sports car of 2026: heavier than a military flotilla, with the turning radius of the International Space Station, the steering feel of a week-old dead body, but it's RWD with a manual and a V8 so we're not allowed to complain
It's rent seeking all the way down, I fear
A years-long procession of trials and hangings is going to be necessary not only for justice, but to remind the people why all these painful reforms are necessary.
The existence of color is predicated both on a physical definition (length of the lightwave) and an observational definition (the relative position of the observer); the existence of art follows a similar pattern
Like color, artistic meaning isn't inherent to it's metaphysical nature. Color, after all, is just the absorption and kickback of lightwaves on objects that we're able to observe with our eyes
If Emily Dickinson's poetry wasn't found by her sister on her desk, you could make the argument that she possessed sole authority over their meaning, as they're essentially just diary entries. Once it was compiled and published, though, that authority disappears
You can never separate the art from the artist; but the artist aquieseces agency over the *meaning* of the art the moment it is rendered for public consumption
What you don't think the latifundia owners are on the up-and-up or something
Won't someone think of the rent seekers that can only exist when they're perpetually subsidized by tax monies taken from places that actually produce GDP
This is correct insofar that both fascists and anarchists are anti-Hobbesians
They believe in the antecedent of Hobbes’ Leviathan - that the state of nature is a ruthlessness of all against all - but don’t believe in the remedy of the state as such, even if the remedies inexorably lead to some kind of state formation
Fascists see the state not as conveying security upon a populous but as dispensing violence on them, there is no sense of obligation to the social contract; it’s a contract between the individual and the personalism of the Leader, with the former acting as slave to the latter
Anarchists see the state similarly, in that it’s merely an apparatus for dispensing violence, not protecting it; they see the only valid contracts to be immediately relational
Both fail to understand that all of the arrangements they believe to be deconstructions of the state are just reformulations of it.
You can never not have a state as a unit of political economy, precisely because it’s an inexorable result of humans living socially
We can walk and chew gum at the same time, people!
