the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.

It is flatly insane that the American economy rests upon the shared delusion that people are reading and agreeing to obvious contracts of adhesion!!!!

If there's any kind of CAD file of the shape, that should work. 👍

Find an STL and I'll see what I can do

I do find wasps and ants very soothing.

I'm one of those "nostalgia makes you think shit is better than it was" but the 90s music scene was popping the fuck off. Every genre! Killer shit in rock and hip hop and dance and r&b and boy band shit and so so much good stuff around every corner.

Part of my answer to "how'd we get here?" is an elite, institutional culture deeply opposed to calling bullshit. To do so is uncouth, uncivil, biased. Stated rationales must be taken at face value. There's no such thing as bad faith. Questioning motives is wrong. It's just debate, have some respect.

/3 My uncharitable view is that if someone is really loudly mad at me for liking Wagner’s art or at you for liking Hogan’s art, they are more likely highly invested in being performatively mad at people than they are highly invested in being against bigotry.

No fucking way!

“anything that might possibly benefit a black person is anti-white discrimination” rests on the unspoken belief in black inferiority