lonestarred.bsky.social
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Even including the million Iraqis whose blood is on Dubya's hands and pulling out of the Kyoto protocol, Trump's environmental policies combined with his foreign aid and health cuts will arguably kill the most people over time.
February 17, 2026 at 3:10 AM
To be fair that has been his whole career.
February 1, 2026 at 1:41 AM
All this. Also his vicious white supremacist rhetoric fits perfectly with the interests of the Manhattan Institute's billionaire donors in demonizing "socialism" (i.e. the rudiments of a social safety net) so they can pay lower taxes and weaken workers' bargaining power. Racism feeding capitalism.
January 31, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Maybe, although is anyone else periodically reminding us of the still-real threat of nuclear destruction (especially now that Noam is in a coma)?
January 28, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Abundance for Some (with property-based suffrage restrictions).
January 28, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Going back to his red-baiting of Lewontin and Rose, to his flirtations with race and gender science from The Blank Slate era onwards, to his defense of billionaires in Enlightenment Now, Pinker's entire career has been one long effort to defend inequality and hierarchy against the left.
January 26, 2026 at 9:07 PM
This is reminiscent of some of Murray Rothbard's hysterically authoritarian outbursts from the 1990s that Slobodian quotes in Crack Up Capitalism. In both cases, the claim is we need to suspend liberty to save civilization from alleged barbarism.
January 26, 2026 at 12:15 AM