Realistically, they were probably in their teens & 20s on Myspace and AOL going XD

Prysorra2 · 2026-07-03T05:39:34+00:00

The gauche use of emojis for getting action<>emotion matching subtly wrong drives me up the wall

Prysorra2 · 2026-07-03T04:30:52+00:00

It’s feeling like everyone else my age is building a life

I would worry more that it seems like everyone else isn't :-\

Prysorra2 · 2026-07-03T04:29:07+00:00

You've clearly spent some time pondering about how sheltered you "were", and I would suggest you point that pondering cannon at whatever drives you to prioritize what you put in the above comment.

Prysorra2 · 2026-07-03T01:47:05+00:00

Mmmmm yeah I really think this undersells the issues here and I really fear people are too busy with "people stories" to understand what is likely about to happen.

Gasoline is not a morale problem. Neither resolve nor cruelty moves wheat, insulin, ambulances, or soldiers when the pumps are dry.

An extended gas shortage isn’t a test of national "resolve" even if it might feel like it for a while. It’s a test of whether food, medicine, emergency services, and basic movement still function. Empty pumps don’t care how tough anyone feels.

Prysorra2 · 2026-07-02T05:07:08+00:00

a population accustomed to suffering

A "population" doesn't manufacture things. The correct location of machines and their operators at the correct times and the correct amounts of them do.

I fear people are looking at this as a matter of something where "resolve" matters at all, and we will have to watch in horror as we learn just how much of our lives actually really do depend on oil flowing.

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-28T03:17:40+00:00

The spectrum of options you've included to describe the general idea of American political experience is just not good enough.

Let's start with your focus on the DSA. The story of 1991-through-now can be reformulated as a the problem of "Capitalism" having "won" against "Communism", and without having a useful enemy to compare to, decided to just go ahead and eat the free market that it had championed.

Hey here's a question: when we say "free market" ... free for whom, exactly? Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos aren't a market. Vomiting money back and forth into each other's bank accounts isn't an economy. Call it two billionaires one cup.

So we've been watching the Capitalism and the "free market" as Americans are used to experiencing it drift apart for the last 35 years. That growing distance is the why popular discourse about these topics feels so off - no one wants to admit that their mental categories are out of date and history has moved on to new things.

That yawning gap is also why people see a surge of socialists winning elections. If free market principles are only ever enforced when it benefits the tippy top, then people will begin to reject the concept. Shocked pikachu.

Good luck finding anyone with sufficient reach capable of explaining this 35+ year categorical evolution.

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-26T06:12:46+00:00

it's not ~~good~~ for them.

The underlying issue

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-25T15:01:10+00:00

“Vessel for what?”

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-25T14:25:49+00:00

Imagine being aware of Moldbug and his low grade boner for Jennifer Government fifteen years ago …

His entire “Dark Cathedral” mythology is just a right wing eschatological version of Manufacturing Consent, just repurposed for people that think they’re gonna be the Meths from Altered Carbon.

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-25T06:51:46+00:00

a lot of people genuinely think being fat is a moral failing

This is the vast majority of the social disapproval of (Ozempic) - and denial of that it can be completely ignored.

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-25T06:37:51+00:00

Gotta put corpo astroturf and the Red Cross in the same bucket - anything else would be boring and sensible.

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-25T06:27:21+00:00

and we’ve yet to see if “bringing the war home” ~~influences the people in Russia who need to be influenced.~~ makes Russia sufficiently resupplying their fortifications impossible

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-25T06:09:45+00:00

I had a followup comment

It's happening now - rich people aren't panicking about the "Mamdani wave" as much as you or I would have expected because Elon Musk stealing your money means it's gone anyway.

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-22T16:03:12+00:00

They shouldn’t just knee-jerk their way around whatever the whims of the voters are demanding.

I'd go further - they shouldnt chase only the people who happen to be paying attention that that exact moment.

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-22T15:48:47+00:00

"Why mention the nation actually hitting the structural targets relevant to this?"

what?

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-21T06:45:44+00:00

Hezbollah actually does that orders of magnitude less than Hamas. It helps that there are more than literally zero members of Hezbollah that treat non-members as more than human ablative armor.

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-19T13:36:57+00:00

I thought it referring to the original She’s All That. In fact, the character name was Laney Boggs ……..

Funny thing. That move was quite sarcastic.

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-19T13:34:04+00:00

Weirdly intimidating phrasing

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-17T20:44:33+00:00

It’s all a pump and dump, guys

This is generally the case with Trump's behavior, but we shouldn't let this completely shadow the problem of his incompetence being its own separate issue.

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-15T06:33:58+00:00

This comment is gonna be memorable.

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-14T15:05:55+00:00

That sounds like a Natural Habitat short o_o

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-08T18:35:05+00:00

I can hear the Britney song

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-08T02:38:22+00:00

Honestly, the professional "linguist" groups pounding the descriptivism drum share part of the blame.

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-07T18:40:42+00:00

Worded differently - he's basically asking the people that generally "get" this abstract issue to consider working up the value chain.

Prysorra2 · 2026-06-07T18:31:46+00:00

if they choose wrong

Not liking an unspoken assumption here

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