We have had so much progress on rights for women, BIPOC, LGBTQ people, and on environmental awareness and action (even with the backlash). I lived through those decades, and I watched the changes.

Thinking here of Marshall Sahlin's classic Stone Age Economics, a landmark of anthropology arguing that actually hunter gatherers were often affluent, including in leisure time.

What part of the world is this based on? The UK? Because it seems to be reflecting industrialization, urbanization, and the enclosure acts in that sudden rise in underpaid hours..... Of course in, say, 1750, indigenous North Americans were living very differently.

Hope I see your list. Mine came out yesterday.

I haven't. I have been thinking of you all since DOGE's rampage.

Go away. You're why we lose.

I just want to say thank you to all the federal workers on this thread; we see you, we know it was brutal; we deeply respect your work and your commitment to the principles we thought they were holding out for.

Thanks from a California voter.

I expected Robin Hood to have a bit more esprit de corps. If you want to give up, maybe don't do it on my posts.

Defeatism is really annoying and generally assumes we know what can and will happen. And there are other versions of history.

What a correct assessment of she who is both Dr. Frankenstein and the creature.

Well, no we aren't. I'm seeing a lot of courage and shouting out there.

I know that there's a 'war on the administrative state' version, and a manosphere/primate dominance display going on, among other factors....

But also maybe it says something about how an upbeat hopeful guy who loves NYC can defeat a shitty serial sexual abuser who disparages the place he wants to govern? Reducing it to generics is stupid (but yeah, Chait).