more health expenditures. I guess total household expenditures as a percentage of net income can help make the case of people Will keeps fighting over this, or just certain generally stressful fixed costs taking up a larger and larger portion of people’s income.

Just realized that equal opportunity progressivism was always about bringing attention to this obvious reality and doing something about it structurally.

Never considered that. Seems obvious when you think about it. We need some kind of “needs parity” measure of some kind, price inflation adjusted by this expansion of baseline requirements to achieve a welfare equivalent standard of living.

Also, watching this I did personally come around to the idea that post economic wealth looking for hobby outlets is probably less destabilizing in the Bahamas than messing with a whole country with a complex economy and society to run

Not saying any of it is deliberately planned of course, just that the 10B tax bill I believe broke him and there is this aspiration for “exit” that is frustrated in SV

Belaji’s voice vs exit speech some years before the clearest articulation of this probably. Not sure where it leads, but if you can’t exit a system rendering it inoperable is one way, can’t have citizenship based worldwide taxation if there is no state capacity left to enforce it

Overall social media use is declining.

Between 2020 and 2024, more Americans — especially the youngest (18–24) and oldest (65+) — report using no social media at all.

A small group of heavy users remains, but the middle is thinning out.

♟️ Between 1989 and 2021, more than 75% of democratic and hybrid regimes initiated at least one prosecution against a former leader. Latin America stands out significantly in this trend.

at the moment, so not sure about them.

I can assure you the vast majority, pretty much all reasonable people minus extremists, haters, and reactionaries cheering for Trump, has towards Americans the same kind of solidarity you feel towards other people on the receiving end of authoritarianism. Canadians and maybe Danes are too livid

It’s a shitty and purposefully demeaning way of saying activist or zealous, I guess. At least, that’s how I replace it in my head whenever I see it

They failed bad but the papacy did go on to become increasingly powerful and influential, the Gulf sponsors in this analogy seem to be pulling off something like that possibly

can side with overtly or covertly. As things stand I can see both sides in the US having some, but structurally just like a 160 years ago the liberal side comes on top seems to me.

Tautological maybe, but seems to me that, reactionary or progressive, state backed or insurgent, democratic or anti democratic, the thing that matters is who has an edge organizational/technological, demographic, moral that can be deployed at the right time or for a long time and that the majority

A good heuristic of the brokenness and brutality delta I see currently is Lucy Connolly being a mascot of the right vs Kyle Rittenhouse being a mascot of the right, we exist in two different civilizational universes, the free speech stuff is in large part concern trolling

As always everything bad that happens in Europe multiply the nightmare factor by few orders of magnitude and you get a decent idea of the actual reality

Much deeper surveillance, draconian methods for what they consider dangerous speech bsky.app/profile/rian...

a technology vs a theology

Literally, from city center to city center.