the basic problem with marx as filtered through the american consciousness is that americans are fatally poisoned by jeffersonianism so everything gets read through the lens of whether it makes it easier or harder to be a yeoman smallholder
The war on the professions is hyper-gendered. They are all haunted by a woman in some minimal degree of institutional power--a teacher, a nurse, an HR rep--telling them to knock it off. This is also why democrats are the mean mommy party and republicans are the cool dad party.
The core problem is that literally 50% of the water is diverted to make comically tiny profits of, like, a few hundred million dollars, so trillions of actual economic activity gets held hostage by some clown who bought land in 1872. Put a market price on water and the problem is instantly fixed.
ECONOMY: SHAMBLES
OIL: $300 PER BARREL
COUNTRY: ON FIRE
REPUBLICANS: Hey man can i look in your child's pants? Just for a second man is it cool if i inspect your child's genitals. Just a quick little look man it's totally cool i just need to make sure you're not doing crimes. Just a quick touch man-
Transit priorities in this country are:
1. Jobs program
2. Social services program
3. Freeway congestion relief program
...
821. Transportation program
i genuinely cannot process how debased our ruling class is. these guys will walk around all day in shoes that don't fit rather than tell their boss he's wrong. this whole thing where they pretend a stupid evil guy with brain damage is qualified to run every aspect of everyone's life is unacceptable
I, for one, would love to see people bring Japanese style development to Los Angeles
tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse
“Multifamily housing is for young renters and the poor while single family homes are for established adults with children” is a really pernicious folk theory about how housing markets should work that I think is foundational to so much bad housing policy at all levels of government.
“I am so angry that I am going to help Trump minimize the political consequences of his war!”
slopulism will kill the Democratic Party. no tax on tips, Cory booker’s plan to get rid of taxes on half the country. it’s all slopulist nonsense
the mental fragility of maga he-men is incredible to behold bsky.app/profile/scot...
The Trump DOJ gave Ticketmaster a sweetheart deal that keeps their monopoly intact & does nothing to stop their ridiculously high prices & fees.
The deal was so good, their stock price jumped 6.2% after the news broke.
Once again: Trump's putting corporations over consumers.
sorry to be an old-fashioned scold but there is something deeply pathetic about being an adult and shoplifting just because you kinda feel like the rules don't apply to you
my prediction is this kind of gleeful anti-social, low-trust behavior is going to be stigmatized by Woke 2.0 www.curbed.com/article/whol...
I must once again point out that one group of stupid people thought that the guy who uses “Palestinian” as an epithet to refer to a Jewish person he deems insufficiently loyal to Israel would help Palestinians, while a different group of stupid people don’t think the same guy is an anti-Semite.
This is straight up Confederate “they’re not evolved enough to be part of society” horse shit. No Democrat in Congress should acknowledge his existence except to tell him he’s a turd and pray god shows him the light.
Trump is uniquely stupid, yes, but I’m reminded of John McCain singing “bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran” to a Beach Boys song in 2008.
American conservatism delenda est.
Miyanosaka Station
All our streets could look like this. maps.app.goo.gl/T93iXZFs9WeA...
we bag on the boomers a lot, but they dealt with their mid-life crisis in a good and normal way (buying a red sports car and having an affair with their secretary) whereas Gen X is all "maybe this next genocide will finally make them bring back the square spongebread cafeteria pizza"
BRING THIS TO CALIFORNIA
They’re saying nobody has ever done a national suicide as beautiful as mine. They say to me, eyes full of tears, “Mr President I’ve never seen a country kill itself as bigly.” And I smiled to myself. Think of that. Killing yourself. I’d do it. Maybe I will do it right now, who’d stop me? I wouldn’t.
literally why would you advocate for a policy which 1) is objectively bad 2) helps your opponents and 3) is something they would gladly implement
motivated by the exact same forces that are making American cities less distinct from one another but far less observed and remarked upon because the media propaganda campaign to portray rural areas as bastions of authenticity in order to promote reactionary politics
a lot of discussion about how "cosmopolitan" urban dwellers are, but a really underdiscussed trend is the homogenization of culture across *rural* areas of the USA - replacement of once-distinct regional cultures with generic "redneck" accent and culture, regional religions with evanglicalism etc
The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.
the problem, fundamentally, is that rural voters don't want the economy to be "good" in the typical sense of being efficient or productive, they want it to be "good" in a moral sense where it rewards the people and industries they like
Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.
Extremely Californian thing to be like “yeah I could never afford to move to my neighborhood today” and then just move on as if it’s not a problem
Fondly recalling the 2010s, when one could borrow money for free and instead of densifying our cities and building electric-powered mass transit, we pretended Uber rides would always be cheap and worked hard to prevent "transit-oriented gentrification."
