How scary is it that this company has infiltrated our government?
12.03.2026 20:31
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How scary is it that this company has infiltrated our government?
Trump made a huge blunder and doesn’t know how to get out of it. The public wants to end the war but are stymied by Republican fealty to Trump. All voters can do is make clear they will not vote for pro-war candidates and maybe Republicans will get the message.
Good. Their politicians should blame Trump not pledge their allegiance to him.
It’s government ‘s job to align incentives with societal goals. If the goal is to reduce fossil fuel production tax it and investors can decide if they want to pay the tax.
Absolutely crucial to have zero tolerance for official corruption, especially in collectivist societies like China.
Netanyahu and Trump can be equals in the dock at The Hague.
There’s already a court for this—The Hague. Problem is that we don’t send Americans there. Obama should have sent George W. Bush there and the next president must send Trump.
Finkelstein wants to make us more upset and angry when I’m already 10/10. I aspire to be like SEC chair Gary Gensler because his matter-of-fact attitude was healthy: Those who break the rules must be brought into compliance and until then they must be shunned. www.currentaffairs.org/news/first-t...
Sometimes the critics and the history professors can’t let go of their priors and appreciate a film on its own terms. I’m all about the centrality of class struggle but Sinners is not a movie about class struggle! I loved it. Film of the decade. www.currentaffairs.org/news/sinners...
Dems need candidates up and down the ballot who appeal to both low-propensity voters and high-propensity voters. And they need a big agenda that does the same while staying true to core values. The instinct to go boring and small will be strong as Trump implodes. jacobin.com/2026/03/trum...
Apart from Iran the biggest losers of the war are undoubtedly the US-aligned “middle powers” who for one day had people convinced they weren’t completely feckless, followed by the US itself. The biggest winners are Israel followed by Russia, China, India and their allies.
Picking as the new Supreme Leader a guy who was wounded in the illegal US-Israeli assassination attack that killed his father, mother, wife and son certainly sends a message that the Iranian leadership isn’t worried about overreacting. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...
*Gulf nations hosting US bases that are supporting the illegal war
I said “most of Europe”. Your neighbor Sweden is one of our proxies. www.thelocal.se/20260303/if-...
Does someone who goes to a loan shark instead of a bank have a credit quality problem?
Who are our “regional proxies”? The Gulf dictatorships, most of Europe, Australia, Canada, the right-wing governments of Latin America. None of them are better off because of this war but they all stand with us, the aggressors, and condemn Iran for fighting back with everything it’s got.
Not much reason to believe the new boss will be any better than the old boss. The “war on drugs” has been a failure but we don’t care because we like to play cops and robbers in foreign countries.
Assuming no dividends the government doesn’t get any money until it sells. When can it sell?
First world problems.
A stopped clock is right twice a day.
Qatar was under attack by Israel and the giant US airbase you host allowed them through, and you let it go with a promise not to do it again, which they later stripped out of the Gaza “peace plan”, and you let that go too.
All true and yet there’s no pleasure in being right because there’s no way out. m.youtube.com/watch?v=lt34...
But see Israel didn’t want Iran to have a strong middle class and democratic reforms. It says openly it wants Iran to be in disarray. That’s because Israel wants to be boss of the middle east.
There’s a lot of people who subscribe to the theory that you should do whatever you can get away with, unfortunately.
4-day work weeks with no reduction in pay is only fair for all workers whose workloads are supposedly being reduced by AI.
EU: Ukraine—>In
Hungary—>Out
In general Democrats *should* try to pass good stuff, even if Trump tries to take credit. Schumer is of the opposite opinion, and he’s wrong. The gas tax holiday won’t do much and is a political minefield because most of the revenue goes to rural states, so I think this is mostly a political gotcha.
The analogy between AI and motor vehicles doesn’t stack. A better analogy would be nuclear weapons. No one in power listens to the widespread concerns as long as there is even a single plausible argument to keep building more.
There’s been an attempt to blame our horrific war on Iran on “neocons” (the term is almost as opaque as its “neolib” cousin) but I keep pushing it back on the fools in the White House and the dominant right wing in Israel which more Americans should get to know better. jacobin.com/2026/03/mili...
What about “Wint-O-Green”? Sounds shady.