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Driving through my old hometown in rural Maine I love to see all of the rusted-out trucks and rotting chicken coops. It makes me feel so grateful there’s no unsightly solar infrastructure there

Any implicit reliance on a critical mass of people to expend intellectual effort of their own volition without clear, persuasive external force is clearly more dangerous than I, even at my most cynical, would have been willing to accept even a year ago

Trump is the natural result of a modern culture in which adulthood, or any exhortation to seriously weigh issues, is viewed as offensively elitist, and any attempt to challenge someone is viewed as an attack on and judgement of them. Adults who fight over kids' cartoons created Trump.

Extraordinarily grim stuff and hard to imagine it’s sustainable but do we have an alternative

Well for the US to be under *fascism* we’d need to see an autocratic regime arrogating and using power specifically to restore an imagined ideal of national and racial purity, so it can’t be the case that— [touches earpiece] I See

Part of the insanity of laundering the thinking of these people via places like the New York Times is that you’re giving them free legibility that they could never achieve on their own

It’s only acceptable to teach political lessons to Democrats. Republican voters are just noble savages

In my experience the culture of legal workaholism absolutely trickles down to staff in such a way as to culturally preclude organized labor

The tariffs are about the strength of the American banana industry