We might need a new version of the Morgenthau apology form

The crimes of this guilty land

did the critique capital end up reinforcing it instead?

I just started that last week after sitting on it since release day. Good vibes, makes me actually interested in trying out the Allen Wake games.

For context for non-Americans: Lech & Griscom are extremely radically left… by USA standards. That’s basically the state of leftism in this country.

Stop doxxing me

It’s important that these cops see legal punishment on a personal level.

My normie lib friends and family are absolutely foaming at the mouth for mass arrests if “their team” wins back power. I think a lot of it is actually coming from the same place as liberal freakouts about disorder and crime in their communities - the open criminality and impunity in which agents of the government are acting is triggering a lot of the same neurons. IMO explains a lot about why Trump’s popularity absolutely collapsed among suburbanites, and faster than in his less obviously criminal and disordered first term.

Mr. Finkelstein, I am shocked, shocked at the tastelessness of your joke

Trump should draw little devil horns on Obama with a sharpie.

No religious exemptions, and very strict medical exemptions for children going into any school receiving state funding. It’s atypically strict by US standards, and so has some of the highest vaccination rates. Not sure why it ended up that way, must be a historical fluke from a time when vaccines were not a controversial political issue.

Yeah, they have a mechanical arm that holds a pen and duplicate the motions of a signature. And then has a feeding mechanism so that you can sign a whole gaggle of documents automatically.

They used to be a contraption that with linkages that held a bunch of pens. More of a “multi-pen”. It’s funny that signing papers got to be labor intensive enough of a problem that they had to invent productivity devices in the 1800s. I could imagine that if Trump had to manually sign every Jan 6 pardon, he probably would have just let them rot in prison instead.

What makes it extra funny is that nobody gives a single fuck about autopens except Trump. I’m sure he walks past this every day thinking “hehehe, got 'em”

Omelas is only a word. The reality is much, much worse.

Here’s another visualization of basically the same data, but as a stacked bar chart instead of using the triangular shape. In both charts: Left is the population, Right is the wealth, and the segments show which slices of the population own which slices of the wealth.

This triangle setup is deceptive, the slices seem to be proportional to height, not area. That 1.6% slice on the top of the left triangle is definitely not 1.6% of the total area of the triangle.

Obligatory Truanon Link

I think what struck me the most was that Brace’s parents still haven’t really come to terms with what they did to them. It’s insidious how they infect the entire familial dynamic.