The more history you read, and the more you read the daily news, it seems the main project of politicians in America is to suppress democracy at any chance they can.
And I don’t think leisure is possible on a broad scale until we have legitimate democracy at every level
Of course Trump would approve of Blair, a man who has shown a knack for misunderstanding every single nuance of the Middle East and whose own career was shipwrecked by his ignorance of the region
Tony Blair Emerges as Potential Figure in Postwar Gaza nytimes.com/2025/09/29/wor…
Netanyahu bullshitting an empty room. There are two types of delegates 1) Those who know he is bullshitting but have some professional interest in staying in the room (slaves); 2) Those who know he is bullshitting but have left the room.
Happy birthday to Glenn Gould, born on this day in 1932!
A Canadian piano prodigy whose love for music, ignited at age three in Toronto, revolutionized classical performance.
His breathtaking, idiosyncratic takes on Bach, especially the Goldberg Variations (1955), blended…
In school they stress analysis and rebuke memorization. This is because the only way to memorize something *in school* is verbatim, since school is all about details, and obviously the regurgitation of details is dumb.
But real life is not about details. It’s about abstractions;…
For all of you bozos who still think this is a right vs left problem, the right is in power.
We are still doing whatever Israel wants, we are still protecting pedophiles, and you’re still being lied to.
It’s two heads of the same snake.
175 years ago, the United States faced a moral and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln understood it with uncompromising clarity. At a time when laws were passed tyrannically punishing citizens for doing what they felt was morally right, and brutally suppressed rights in others...
Yeah, I should don sackcloth for my daring to point out that Israel regularly employs assassination to further their political goals. Duh! They tried it just yesterday in Qatar, you moron!
With every crime you ask who benefits. I guess according to you there is one potential…
Yeah, I should don sackcloth for my daring to point out that Israel regularly employs assassination to further their political goals. Duh! They tried it just yesterday in Qatar, you moron!
With every crime you ask who benefits. I guess according to you there is one potential…
Horrific news out of Utah. I hope Kirk and anyone else affected are okay. Political violence, and gun violence, is never acceptable, excusable, or justifiable. deseret.com/utah/2025/09/1…
A little girl once danced with joy over a meal of pasta from the community kitchen... today, under siege and hunger, all that remains is lentil soup or a bit of rice.
Networks don’t work well with smart people in them.
Collective intelligence requires simple pieces with simple interactions.
The hubs or big contributors are not more intelligent, they’re just simple pieces given undue credit, since most people cannot comprehend/accept…
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