For 400 years liberals have been shouting “but what if our institutions worked to create a more equal society” and here we are. With 1 billion people in slums and 10 people having as much wealth as 4 billion people. Your what ifs have run out of time.
September 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
For 400 years liberals have been shouting “but what if our institutions worked to create a more equal society” and here we are. With 1 billion people in slums and 10 people having as much wealth as 4 billion people. Your what ifs have run out of time.
the total lack of interest from business and media elites in defending the liberal norms that underpin civil society and like, modern capitalism for that matter has been truly shocking
we are in really unsettling place that we're facing a deeply unpopular regime that is making everything appreciably worse but the people with the power to stand up to them and takes steps to maintain basic political stability are capitulating without a fight
September 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Capital doesn't need democracy and will not risk capital to save democracy
Instead of spending 5% of your budget on guns and bombs to scare off the competition, don't you wish you had spent the time you had as king of the hill paying it forward and showing those who are now in ascendance what an inclusive world could look like? Just imagine! I'm talking to you NATO!
June 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Instead of spending 5% of your budget on guns and bombs to scare off the competition, don't you wish you had spent the time you had as king of the hill paying it forward and showing those who are now in ascendance what an inclusive world could look like? Just imagine! I'm talking to you NATO!
Watching Billy Dee Williams play Scott Joplin & thinking how much greater this greate composer's influence would've been had he had the "right" skin colour.
June 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Watching Billy Dee Williams play Scott Joplin & thinking how much greater this greate composer's influence would've been had he had the "right" skin colour.
@chantalalive.bsky.social I am sorry to bother you on a Friday night and I hope I'm not being too forthright, but I feel I must ask: Will you be giving us something new to read? I fell in love with your writing in #NoneButTheRighteous and this question has been on my mind ever since.
June 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
@chantalalive.bsky.social I am sorry to bother you on a Friday night and I hope I'm not being too forthright, but I feel I must ask: Will you be giving us something new to read? I fell in love with your writing in #NoneButTheRighteous and this question has been on my mind ever since.
Incredible map of private/public ICE prisons by size and location. The cluster of enormous private immigration prisons in Louisiana is really something.
People say the brains of children are rotting but I was playing Fortnite with two of my younger kids and when I yelled "whoop whoop" they both answered "that's the sound of the police" with zero hesitation so I think we're all doing just fine, thank you.
May 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
People say the brains of children are rotting but I was playing Fortnite with two of my younger kids and when I yelled "whoop whoop" they both answered "that's the sound of the police" with zero hesitation so I think we're all doing just fine, thank you.
Afrikaner "refugees" are sneaking in to homes and drinking aquarium water and swallowing everything in there, even the treasure chest that bubbles come out of.
May 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Afrikaner "refugees" are sneaking in to homes and drinking aquarium water and swallowing everything in there, even the treasure chest that bubbles come out of.
Man who had a student kidnapped and trafficked because she wrote something he didn't like yuks it up with man who had a journalist dismembered with a hacksaw because he wrote things the man didn't like.
May 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Man who had a student kidnapped and trafficked because she wrote something he didn't like yuks it up with man who had a journalist dismembered with a hacksaw because he wrote things the man didn't like.
In many Western countries a majority of people believes immigrants are to blame for the worsening economic conditions. This isn't the case. Follow the money: SMEs are struggling but multinationals owned by the 0.1% richest are thriving. Concentration of money & power, aka Oligarchy, is the issue.
May 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
In many Western countries a majority of people believes immigrants are to blame for the worsening economic conditions. This isn't the case. Follow the money: SMEs are struggling but multinationals owned by the 0.1% richest are thriving. Concentration of money & power, aka Oligarchy, is the issue.
We the people don't want robber barons, institutionalised racism & discrimination against foreigners & minorities. We want peace, equal rights, social and economic justice for all.
May 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
We the people don't want robber barons, institutionalised racism & discrimination against foreigners & minorities. We want peace, equal rights, social and economic justice for all.
What bothers me most about the Trump govt is that it is openly contemptuous of ordinary Americans. They have a social Darwinistic view & feel that only the strong have a right to survive. This, to me, is the antithesis of what democratic governance is about & it should not be tolerated.
May 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
What bothers me most about the Trump govt is that it is openly contemptuous of ordinary Americans. They have a social Darwinistic view & feel that only the strong have a right to survive. This, to me, is the antithesis of what democratic governance is about & it should not be tolerated.