Street chaos and rhetoric about America being illegitimate don’t weaken MAGA—they validate it. Voters don’t parse ideology; they react to instability. If protests look revolutionary, law-and-order wins. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/202…
Where journalists admit that they are radical activist advocates and not remotely interested in reporting.
Don’t blame rapacious owners of media organizations for the loss of public trust. Blame biased, incompetent reporting.
I listened to an episode of Triggernometry today. Britain is ~0.8% of global emissions. Net Zero mostly deindustrializes the UK while outsourcing steel, energy, and pollution to China. Emissions don’t disappear—they move. The atmosphere doesn’t care about accounting.
Super fascinating re ‘nobody wants EVs in the UK, only petrol & diesel’
How Net Zero Destroyed Britain pca.st/episode/e…
When you bring one of your unused x220s to the cafe to work and you don’t know the login password so you’ll need to pack up and go home and possibly reinstall Linux Mint; UPDATE: bringing it to my local computer repair shop to see if we can break in! Huzzah! Worth some money to get her did.
Fascinating and amazing. Listen!
Love, Race & the ‘Mixed Marriage Project’ pca.st/episode/d… Almost a decade after her father’s death, legal scholar Dorothy Roberts had to confront the 25 boxes of his research collecting dust in her office.
You can end poverty OR prevent climate change. You can only choose one.
Global development activates global desire. Once modern life becomes visible, it becomes the reference point. A world that modernizes becomes a world that wants AC in every room, cars in every driveway, flights for holidays, larger homes, constant power, phones, televisions, refrigerators, mobility, comfort, choice.
This isn’t excess. It’s the baseline of modern life being adopted everywhere at once.
That activation of desire is the unintended consequence nobody wants to confront.
People don’t escape poverty to remain austere. They escape it to live fully inside the modern world they’ve been shown. Development doesn’t pause at survival or dignity. It accelerates into expectation.
And once expectation exists at planetary scale, it does not slow down because of warnings, guilt, or behavioral scolding.
This is why climate collapse is structurally inevitable once development succeeds globally. The problem is not that people don’t care.
The problem is that caring is irrelevant once billions of people want the same comforts, mobility, and consumption patterns. Global desire floors the accelerator whether anyone likes it or not.
Climate change is not the result of individual failure or moral weakness.
It is the downstream effect of a world that successfully taught itself what “normal” looks like and then tried to pretend that normal could be optional. The system isn’t broken. It’s doing exactly what it was built to do.
Global development activates global desire. Once modern life becomes visible, billions want AC, cars, flights, homes, power, screens. That desire floors the accelerator. Climate collapse follows not from ignorance or evil, but from success scaling expectations worldwide.
I just accepted the apology and didn’t watch youtu.be/0NsfNOJCS…
Amazing. She’s brilliant! Hilarious.
I have no friends youtube.com/watch
My official stance on Bad Bunny is that he is always extremely funny on Saturday Night Live, his musical stylings are entertaining, and reggaeton is a very cool thing that I wish I knew more about.
Sure it did. It’s just never been at the fore of any legitimate conversation. It was previously dismissed as only conspiracy theory. But now, it’s obviously conspiracy reality. What used to be fringe is now in the mainstream.
Puerto Rico has U.S. passports, but Washington still treats it like a colony: no vote for president, no voting Congress reps, and Congress can override local choices. PROMESA’s fiscal board + capped/uneven federal funding (Medicaid, no SSI) keeps citizens second-class.
Never forget that whitey is the oppressor and never forget that it’s not a class war but it’s a race war and that the white man is keeping you down and not class pressures. ✊ youtube.com/watch
Classic Colbert was chef’s kiss! youtube.com/watch
“Deportation center = concentration camp” is lazy. When people hear “concentration camp,” they picture kill/work/starvation camps. If you just mean “govt detention,” hold my beer: the U.S. already cages ~2M in prisons/jails. Immigration detention is transit holding, not Dachau, so say that.
On American Concentration Camps
Such hyperbolic bullshit. When people hear “concentration camp,” they don’t picture “a processing center.” They picture kill camps, work camps, starvation camps. They picture people getting beaten, shot, tortured, disappearing. That’s the mental movie you’re cueing up, and it’s irresponsible.
And if your definition is just “the government holds people behind fences,” then hold my beer: America already runs the biggest detention system on the planet. We’ve got nearly 2 million people locked up, and we lead the world on incarceration even compared to the places everyone loves to call evil. 
But here’s the point: prisons and jails are punishment after conviction. Immigration detention is transit detention: holding/staging facilities for people who are not legally entitled to live and work here while they’re processed and, if they don’t qualify, removed. That can still be harsh, degrading, abusive, and it absolutely needs oversight.
Just stop pretending it’s automatically Dachau because you want the headline to hit harder. Words matter. If you mean detention pending deportation, say that. If you mean forced labor or extermination, say that. Don’t use one loaded term that smuggles in the worst historical meaning and then act surprised when people hear exactly that.
How normal normies actually think, a primer.
Adam Carolla on the Lack of Common Sense Today youtube.com/watch
Deportation in the U.S. resembles a long game of hide-and-seek. Years of uneven enforcement made many assume “olly olly oxen free” had been called. It hadn’t. When the seeker starts counting again, surprise isn’t insight—it’s misread risk.
