Nai Palm. Lead singer of Hiatus Kaiyote.

There is this attitude especially from people on the right that social issues are frivolous and only the economy matters. But economies don't work properly under illiberal regimes. You're always missing out on the potential of your society if you are persecuting some segment of it out of public life

That YOUR billionaire doesn’t spend money isn’t a good reason to be upset with one that does. Be upset with your guy.

When people complain about the Dodgers, I wish they would complain about their own team. The Dodgers aren’t the problem. The problem is that the billionaire that owns your team doesn’t actually care about you or about winning. Your team can probably afford to do what the Dodgers do.

Rebuild? What is a rebuild? How about we allocate a billion dollars on the best players in the game. Competitive balance tax? Sure, whatever. How about we blow through it and still turn a profit because we’re the best team in baseball.

Now I’m wondering why I should be angry w you

Arson Judge to the giants

Will “they” ruin Yusei Kikuchi? Only time will tell.

This is such a good post (and thread)

America as the HQ of imperial capitalism operates on the logic of a cancer cell: growth for the sake of growth. There is no purpose behind it. We don't even expand in order to glorify God or to spread the artistic and academic products of our populace. In fact we grow *in order* to devalue them!