yglesias is going to write a short essay "why it's necessary for democrats to let republicans build the camps" and maia is going to respond with a 10k word essay where every second word is hyperlinked showing that areas with antifascist partisan activity during WWII correlates with economic growth

Also less incentive to run again since he’s not, like, facing treason charges

I think this is plausible if your read of *2016* Trump is that he had no plan for actually winning and was just trying to grift together a media business. Trump running again in 2020 in this scenario doesn’t benefit from presiding over a strong pre-covid economy and probably has to fight a primary

why would anyone think "what oligarchy is" would be explained by the same things that explain "what oligarchs do" or "why oligarchs are popular" in the first place?

In reverse, this happened to a friend of mine in China. He was at a restaurant and witnessed a murder, the police arrived, arrested him, chained him to a radiator and screamed the n-word at him, then realized he was *not* African but British and were extremely apologetic.

Honestly I’m getting more tyranids vibes from the colours

oh yeah sorry I actually talk shit about it and laugh at it with all my friends (no seriously it's great; I even got an undergrad music student to cite it in an essay he wrote for one of his classes)

idk about life-changing fwiw I think about white psychodrama a lot and bring it up in conversation a fair bit

...there's human pet guy

that said if we all decide to just say L'anglophonie instead I'm down