There’s just enough communists to lose an election but never enough to win one. Truly, the liberal electoral it’s paradox.

But where is the lie? Eric Adams, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Sliwa were all stabbed in the back by the Leftists, costing the city three perfectly liberal Mayors.

Fascists never threaten capitalism

Glancing at the Argentinian economy

Directly, maybe. But the fallout of fascism has ruined more than one billionaire.

No Gods No Mayors

It’s not “Vote;” it’s “Vote and…”

I’d almost say it’s “… Yadda yadda yadda, and Vote”. Voting is quick, relatively easy, and largely insignificant. We blow it out of proportion, mostly so we can scream at equally impotent people voting for someone different.

But when you have a large engaged community of activists all working toward a desired outcome, that begins to look a lot like a voting base, too.

Discrete! Elegant! Precise!

Our Children Is Learning!

See, I feel like ‘can read a book every month or so’ isn’t all that much.

Can’t read a book if you’re wasting all your time online reading posts.

you don’t understand that simple idea despite reading it

What if simple ideas aren’t the best way to view the world? What if you need to understand complex ideas?

But how do you convey complex ideas to a large audience efficiently? Do you drown them in walls of text? Or do you break down the complex ideas into shorter, discrete components?

Think about it this way. Do you read a book all at once, cover to cover, in one sitting? Or do you tackle it by paragraphs and chapters, bit by bit, over an extended period of time?

This is bad. It’s the opposite of good.

It’s a heuristic for absorbing information that’s predicated on people not having infinite time or attention.

Lots of Wall Of Text posts aren’t actually worth reading.

In an ecosystem full of text-based discussions, a single individual putting up an enormous wall of text that fails to engage the reader is often ignored in favor of a number of smaller posts layout out the argument piecemeal.

Also, iterative comments expressing the same view in a few short words can reinforce the idea as popular in the eyes of a reader. A long winded spiel can come across as defensive, by comparison, and weaken the argument in the end.

The Neoconservative Counterrevolution

Many of the early neoconservatives were members of “the family,” Murray Kempton’s apt designation for that disputatious tribe otherwise known as the New York intellectuals. They had come of age in the 1930s at the City College of New York (CCNY), a common destination for smart working-class Jews who otherwise might have attended Ivy League schools, where quotas prohibited much Jewish enrollment until after World War II.

Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, and their milieu learned the art of polemics during years spent in the CCNY cafeteria’s celebrated Alcove No. 1, where young Trotskyists waged ideological warfare against the Communist students who occupied Alcove No. 2. During their flirtations with Trotskyism in the 1930s, when tussles with other radical students seemed like a matter of life and death, future neoconservatives developed habits of mind that never atrophied.

They held on to their combative spirits, their fondness for sweeping declarations, and their suspicion of leftist dogma. Such an epistemological background endowed neoconservatives with what seemed like an intuitive capacity for critiquing New Left arguments. They were uniquely qualified for the job of translating New Left discourses for a conservative movement fervent in its desire to know its enemy.

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Cited the Simple Sabotage Field Manual and mentioned how it was used against civil rights organizers, anti-war demonstrators, and labor organizers.

Got called a Tankie.

Crazy how the term seems to shut down the higher brain functions for certain people.

Also, the machine costs $500B/year to operate and generates less than $2B in gross revenue. So John Shareholder is going to need a multi-trillion dollar bailout in a year or two.

With food, in particular, the value is in the supply chain not the ability to horde individual commodities. I don’t want 800 bananas, but I do want a banana stand on my corner where I can get fresh bananas daily.

In theory, markets are supposed to organically generate these social amenities and price them at the prevailing wage rate for the community, such that individuals bid into/out of existence goods and services through a pseudo-collective “expressed demand”.

In practice, choke points in the supply chain create opportunities for arbitrage and price fixing. So goods that should be cheap and abundant - like fruit - suddenly become expensive and scarce when a single enormous conglomerate (like the United Fruit Company) holds a vertical monopoly on the commodity.

This artificial scarcity is then used to justify price-rationing of the commodity. And pretty soon you’re selling people $500 Bijin Hime strawberries in a Japanese mega-mall, while working class people can’t afford basics.

Watch out for Moaning Murtle

Unironically did get my son the measles shot three months early, because he was starting daycare.

He still needed to get shots at 1 year and 18 months, but it let me sleep a little easier

“You must mean Base 22”

That sounds like a symptom of depression, not a consequence of free utilities

this is why all rich people are retired.

Well…

Veblen discusses how the pursuit and the possession of wealth affects human behavior, that the contemporary lords of the manor, the businessmen who own the means of production, have employed themselves in the economically unproductive practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure, which are useless activities that contribute neither to the economy nor to the material production of the useful goods and services required for the functioning of society.

Functionally retired.

You see it all the time among Tech plutocracy, with Bezos’s Venice Wedding and Zuck’s endless home construction.

Having good health care means you just consume as much medicine as you can. I get vaccinated every day, I own 500 pairs of glasses, and all my teeth have been root canaled

Knowing HTTP status codes is a prerequisite for transitioning