I’ve gotten to the point where I assume everything Biden does is an elaborate joke that we’re too stupid to understand. He’s a walking bit, the dementia is just an act.

He cheated by having more supporters than the opposition, you’re not allowed to do that if you’re leftwing

Peter Daou took a Faustian bargain where his takes get better and better but reality gets worse and worse

Good quote about Vegas:

[This] might be the closest thing to a mystical experience I’ve ever had.

Like all good mystical experiences, it happened in Vegas. I was standing on top of one of their many tall buildings, looking down at the city below, all lit up in the dark. If you’ve never been to Vegas, it is really impressive. Skyscrapers and lights in every variety strange and beautiful all clustered together. And I had two thoughts, crystal clear:

It is glorious that we can create something like this.

It is shameful that we did.

Like, by what standard is building gigantic forty-story-high indoor replicas of Venice, Paris, Rome, Egypt, and Camelot side-by-side, filled with albino tigers, in the middle of the most inhospitable desert in North America, a remotely sane use of our civilization’s limited resources?

And it occurred to me that maybe there is no philosophy on Earth that would endorse the existence of Las Vegas. Even Objectivism, which is usually my go-to philosophy for justifying the excesses of capitalism, at least grounds it in the belief that capitalism improves people’s lives. Henry Ford was virtuous because he allowed lots of otherwise car-less people to obtain cars and so made them better off. What does Vegas do? Promise a bunch of shmucks free money and not give it to them.

Source - Meditations on Moloch

Violence is bad, really bad, and the only reason a violent revolution can be justified is because of all the socially accepted violence already being meted out against the most vulnerable.

He’s the guy from that one clip where he’s like “You know what, I’m gonna say it. America deserved 9/11.” Based purely on that, he is a very cool person.

Here’s a fun lil factiod for folks: Some of the people illegally detained in Guantanamo Bay, without charges or trials, were Uighur separatists.

That’s an outrageous abuse of power by Venezuela. To be a truly free country they’d need to move the mercenaries into illegal torture centres, refuse to charge them, and never let them out.

Capitalism is nice in theory, but every time it’s been tried it leads to imperialism. Sorry sweaty, read a history book 🤔

“So Mr FBI what can you tell us about the portland organisers?”
“Well Mr CIA the main rift between the different factions appears to be based on whether they want to cancel the zootopia bunny”