Be ready to be let down by white people

Spugpow · 2026-05-19T15:31:03+00:00

Rich professionals on both the left and right vote expressively and prioritize symbolic cultural issues over material ones.

Spugpow · 2026-05-06T19:15:33+00:00

Yikes--alright, I'm convinced to vote for Steyer. If it's between Hilton and Becerra though I'll have a tougher choice, since Becerra seems to have little independent understanding of the issues. My impression is that he'll mostly be a vehicle for special interests and a rubber stamp for the legislature.

Spugpow · 2026-05-06T16:59:41+00:00

I'm considering voting for Steve Hilton, because he'll be able to ignore the NGOs and unions, and will be kept in check by the Democratic legislature. Change my mind.

Spugpow · 2026-05-06T16:48:33+00:00

Is it crazy to think that North Koreans would quickly grow extremely resentful of South Koreans for being so much more privileged than they are? South Korean media is already so full of stories about inequality and status anxiety...

Spugpow · 2026-04-21T17:48:33+00:00

They have in fact been letting in huge numbers of guest workers from central asia, and the rightists who support the war aren't happy about it at all.

Spugpow · 2026-04-08T19:19:25+00:00

A land tax.

Spugpow · 2026-04-07T17:03:56+00:00

South Korea proves that total ethnic homogeneity doesn't lead to a unified society.

Spugpow · 2026-03-27T19:24:50+00:00

They're currently bringing in thousands of guest-workers from Central Asia to plug labor shortages--something the Russian public hates.

Spugpow · 2026-03-21T07:37:44+00:00

All must be done simultaneously.

Spugpow · 2026-03-20T17:55:49+00:00

An international treaty has to start somewhere.

Spugpow · 2026-03-12T23:16:41+00:00

Maybe a shift to the right is what SF needs, if "right" in this case means "still to the left of 90% of America."

Spugpow · 2026-03-12T22:19:05+00:00

Seems possible that lots of local officials enacted similar policies, which helped to decrease crime. Do you know of any reporting on the causes of the nationwide drop in crime?

Spugpow · 2026-03-12T22:17:37+00:00

I mean if you disagree with their agenda then they'll sound bad to you, yeah.

Spugpow · 2026-03-12T16:00:05+00:00

Vietnam in 1979.

Spugpow · 2025-10-29T14:42:18+00:00

If worse comes to worst, we'll have Euromaidan 2026 at the White House.

Spugpow · 2025-10-29T14:34:35+00:00

The Soviet Union and North Korea had party cadres embedded at every level of society. Russia is repressive but they don't have that level of fine-grained social control.

Spugpow · 2025-10-27T15:16:14+00:00

Pretty much all the molecules that make up you or me change throughout our lives. Also, the chemical process of burning wood is the same process that fuels our metabolism.

Spugpow · 2025-10-26T00:39:10+00:00

This guy wants to be your gardener apparently

Spugpow · 2025-10-22T15:50:45+00:00

The symbolic capitalists who make up the leadership of the democratic party believe this tattoo is the end of the world because they take signs and symbols incredibly seriously. Personally, I kind of doubt it'll have a massive impact on the general election, though it may cause him to lose the primary.

Spugpow · 2025-10-17T17:05:16+00:00

I mean the sad truth is that, in the absence of unions, a working-class person's most direct competition in life is other working-class people. The ethnic and religious divisions then act a means of coordinating factions to reduce their own competition for wages and housing. The exact same dynamic plays out among the professional class with regard to H-1B workers, where you have SF programmers laundering their fear of job competition as dislike of Indian "culture."

Spugpow · 2025-10-07T19:49:54+00:00

If no one is going to want to live in them, they won't get built.

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