thank god was looking for it.

My grand unifying theory of politics rn is that we haven't invented an ideology for the material conditions of the 21st century yet, so it's just been cargo cults for everybody.

The conservative desire to ‘be the counterculture’ is so funny to me: guess how many divisions the writers at n plus one or the baffler command. None! The people who write for cool art mags & curate trendy galleries are far close to me than the median voter, & it does *nothing*, we lose all the time

Every pro Trump self styled ‘effective acceleration techno-optimist’ should be laughed out of every room they try and speak in for the rest of their lives

Everyone talks about the boomerfication of Facebook but I feel like the same thing happening to reddit has been less noted.

There's a drastic difference between pesduo-populist violence which is a long American tradition.

And the soviet unions international communism which was an actual global superpower, with an ideological challenge to the status quo.

Mary Beard's: SPQR book goes over this topic pretty thoroughly. It varied across Roman history but most of the educated elite thought the stories didn't literally happen but had elements of the truth in them.

Seeking fully jury trials feels like a way to get a lot of aquirtals generated...white collar defense is amazing at creating reasonable doubt.