vic3 to hoi4 sounds fascinating!

oh i am curious what tacticool choices boves is making

To understand MAGA natsec thought you must watch Sicario with the sound off

if AIPAC controls both parties why doesn’t big pharma control either party

that face normal people make when you try to explain the influence of this one three minute clip on maga natsec thought--

no you don't

once again the secretary of defense is worth reading

secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/the-triump...

whereas i think far too many contemporary feminists are desperate not to see how awful and how pervasive patriarchy genuinely is--because it's fucking SCARY. if THIS is what we're up against--how can we possibly win?

there are answers. but you need to start with courage, not denial.

one of the things i was most struck by reading andrea dworkin's RIGHT WING WOMEN--aside from how electrifying her prose is--is that she was totally unafraid to stare right at the dark heart of patriarchy without flinching

www.amazon.com/Right-Wing-W...

i don't believe that our past defines our nature. i think if we want to find a better world we need to find it in the future, not an imagined past. and i also think that if we want to transcend our past we need to understand it--as incredibly fucking uncomfortable as it is.

it really isn't helping them that they insist on dressing and acting like invaders!

Populism maintains power when it can convince the people it represents their will. But the result of Trump's actions has been to galvanize a popular will and citizen identity against what the people increasingly (in both intensity and numbers) cast as an invading, anti-American ideology.

isekai'd into a fraught but sexual relationship with my mentor in a small college town

worth reflecting also on tracinski's point about fighting--fighting as an information-gathering exercise--fighting as revealing who fights and who doesn't--and what tactics WORK and what don't

www.liberalcurrents.com/fight-on-eve...