Carl [he/him]

historically accurate Ariel where she’s just a dolphin

Imagining a world where Nancy Pelosi was using her insider trading money to fund Maoist rebels in the Appalacians.

It’s always projection. Even if they’re not literally doing the thing that they accuse their opponent of doing yet, the fact that they’re making the accusation reveals their intention.

Ah shit, this means they’re gonna do everything they made up about Xinjiang (if they’re not doing it already at the alligator place)

Should be noted that Europe had commons for hundreds and hundreds of years before they all got enclosured and they managed them just fine with local-level spontaneous democracy.

Also the “tragedy of the commons” as we know it today was invented by a malthusian in the 1960s and everybody who invokes it as an argument against socialism ignores the part of the essay where the author advocates for central planning

Been doing rideshare late at night the last week, holy damn I didn’t realize how bad the public bathroom situation was in my town, and I’ve got a car to hunt for one.

We should genuinely have a public bathroom minimum. You want to run a store in town? You gotta make your bathroom open to the public. Don’t care if the people using it are customers or not.

I see 3 main reasons she lost and none of them have really anything to do with Walz.

I remember that the week they picked Walz was the one week where we all thought that the Dems could actually run a competent campaign. People were calling Republicans “wierd”, Kamala no-showed a Netanyahu Senate visit, Walz was and still is genuinely popular - there was a lot of hope that she would break with Biden to the point where even cynical people thought she would do it out of pure electoral calculus due to Biden’s unpopularity.

Then apparently Harris herself shut down the “weird” messaging, and she had that blood and soil DNC speech, and we all got brought back to reality.

AOC is going to keep capitulating to Democratic Party politics, and she’s gonna keep getting shafted by it because the party structure is completely resistant to even the most minor or performative changes. Even Davig Hogg is getting challenged for daring to say “maybe the Democrats should do things instead of just taking up space.”

why does civility have an absolutely massive trunk?