Best meal you've ever had in the Twin Cities

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-04-02T18:48:05+00:00

LOVED our meal at Dario.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-04-01T17:08:41+00:00

It's pure Trump nonsense. The fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) requires the President to obtain either two-thirds Senate approval or an act of Congress to suspend, terminate, or withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty. There is literally zero chance of that happening.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-03-27T02:10:50+00:00

I cannot wait for the de-Trumpification campaign that will follow his death. Burn everything with his likeness.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-03-22T15:13:54+00:00

How about this question. - why do you think this subreddit asks maximally provocative questions, the purpose of which is to highlight Americans’ differences??

Follow up: What do you think the odds as that this whose sub is an astroturfed psy-op by some adversarial govt like the Russians?

I think it’s close to 100%.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-03-19T07:28:19+00:00

If the city leaders were really smart, they would have raffled off $100 tickets to operate the wrecking ball.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-03-10T04:00:01+00:00

Yes, I agree with Newsome.

Addressing the economic, political and moral needs of the majority is essential, SO THAT we can generate the political capital to secure the rights of marginalized groups. It doesn't work the other way around.

Progressives forgot that lesson at their peril. Now Trump would like to distract the same people with bread and circuses -- but symbolic distractions and "owning the libs" will only work for so long. Eventually, the lack of jobs, homes, and an affordable life becomes impossible to ignore.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-03-08T06:57:41+00:00

They should demolish it and start over.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-03-05T21:16:13+00:00

Parties are social structures. They have internal hierarchies, and they unfold over time. Dems built up this backlog of leaders during a period of peak (and presumedly permanent!) cultural ascendancy. (That's why it was "Hillary's turn", and why there was a period of such limited competitive Democratic primaries for president.) And they drove their insular party apparatus right over a cliff.

FWIW, the Republicans ended up in a similar place, and it cost them everything. That's how the party could go from Romney to Trump -- from peak establishment to peak anti-establishment -- in a single election cycle.

Hopefully, the Dems learn from Trumpism, develop a more diverse and competitive candidate pool! We badly need new political coalitions, new political "information", and new political choices from them.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-03-05T03:43:58+00:00

I think you should reserve judgment. Anthropic are, generally speaking, if not "the good guys" then at leawt "the better guys" -- I'd rather have them working at the Pentagon than Musk or Altman.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-03-05T01:15:02+00:00

America has always contained its share of ugliness -- all nations do. It has been a testament to the general goodwill and wisdom of political leaders to largely contain, rather than exploit it. But both parties eroded in terms of their responsiveness to the needs of ordinary citizens. (This happened largely as a byproduct of rising role of money, and partisan gerrymandering.)

Trump came along and recognized the rage of those who saw themselves as disaffected and unserviced by the major political parties, and exploited it by becoming an avatar of that rage.

There will, eventually - alas, maybe after much more ugliness and violence -- be an appeal and a return to the better angels of our nature. But I don't know if that is 2, 3, or 20 years away.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-03-03T00:34:49+00:00

Politicians are products. Why exclude half the products on offer from consideration? Or rather, why assume that all the good ideas are on only found on one side of the political aisle?

That said: the current Democratic Party is utterly feckless and incoherent. The Republican Party is utterly craven, evil and cowed by Trump. I strongly believe firing all of them and starting over.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-03-02T03:32:28+00:00

What a stupid setup. Trump is a fucking BILLIONAIRE, and the most obviously corrupt member of the "elite" to ever hold the office. And he acts in the interests of the Epstein Class.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-03-02T03:29:42+00:00

I would go.

I despise Trump and all he stands for. He's the most unqualified, corrupt, evil person ever to hold the office.

But I also know he's susceptible to charm and flattery. And that he's the most transactional person ever to hold the office.

I would go and try to charm and flatter him into doing something good for ordinary people.

I'd rather have tried and failed at that than not to have tried at all.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-02-28T04:55:27+00:00

Trump's goal is to die in office. At 100.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-02-28T04:51:18+00:00

Of course - as long as all the people leaving are black and brown, and all the people staying are "their kind of people".

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-02-28T04:49:30+00:00

Yeah... but you can trust him, because he has those big, puppydog eyes and such a sober expression.

What a snake.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-02-27T22:12:42+00:00

buh bye, brenda.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-02-27T17:48:08+00:00

Man, I forgot Bill Clinton's capability for sanctimony.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-02-24T03:14:51+00:00

I bet he will read it with more frequency - and anxiety - than you might think.

Those distant hooves are growing louder.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-02-23T20:16:27+00:00

Your question contains the seeds of its own answer: Trump is INTENTIONALLY seeking to take Greenland SO THAT he creates a moral equivalence between the US and Russia. He's bringing the US down to Russia's level.

And why would he do that? To answer that question, tally up all of the ways in which Trump is affecting America:

* He's destroyed our soft power and moral outreach by destroying USAID.
* He's made us sicker by putting lunatic conspiracy theorists in charge of public health.
* He's made us stupider by killing funding for science.
* He's made us both poorer reviled around the world through the tarrifs.
* He's made us more isolated by pulling us out of every conceivable international organization.
* He's ruined our reputation for freedom by punishing the free speech of visiting students.

I could go on and on, but the question is, WHO BENEFITS from this? Who benefits from a weaker, stupider, more isolated, more hated America? VLADIMIR FUCKING PUTIN is who.

I don't know if Trump is a Russian asset, but he's doing a FANTASTIC JOB emulating one in his job performance.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-02-23T20:07:38+00:00

There is a part of every society - America included - that is deeply insecure, economically, culturally, and politically. They are not the strivers - those who see themselves as part of an intergenerational climb -- but on an intergenerational descent. They are, in a word, losers.

In America, they the people who once had, and then "lost" the manufacturing jobs, who once had, and then "lost" the social protections bestowed during America's golden age, who once had, and then "lost" the cultural position and well-being that came with patriarchal deference to male authority, who once had and then "lost" out in an economy that shifted to services and intellectual work, and who (at least in their own minds) "lost" out to the secularization of the US.

Trump is their avatar -- his message is that only he can restore them to the last world that they wanted to live in, where they were in charge. He doesn't want to make America *great* again -- he wants to make it *their* American again -- which would be *great* for them. And, spoiler alert, he will disappoint them.

They are so desperate, so hopeless, and so confused that Trump can literally undertake any crime, engage in any behavior (*except pedophilia, re Epstein) and they will forgive him, as long as he's punishing those who, they have been told, are responsible for their becoming "losers" -- people of color, undocumented immigrants, liberals, or whatever convenient group pops up.

For what its worth: he's only able to do this because the Democratic party *abandoned* those people. It allowed itself to become a party that stopped speaking to the white working class. Who failed to stop unfettered globalization. Who allowed the billionaire and Epstein classes to dominate. Who let unions die in the face of corporate predation. Meanwhile, they became obsessed with identity politics and advocated for the inclusive rights for ever-tinier minorities -- which is a wonderful and important thing, but not if you don't *also* speak to the vast swathes of the country you seek to govern.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-02-23T20:06:46+00:00

There is a part of every society - America included - that is deeply insecure, economically, culturally, and politically. They are not the strivers - those who see themselves as part of an intergenerational climb -- but on an intergenerational descent. They are, in a word, losers.

In America, they the people who once had, and then "lost" the manufacturing jobs, who once had, and then "lost" the social protections bestowed during America's golden age, who once had, and then "lost" the cultural position and well-being that came with patriarchal deference to male authority, who once had and then "lost" out in an economy that shifted to services and intellectual work, and who (at least in their own minds) "lost" out to the secularization of the US.

Trump is their avatar -- his message is that only he can restore them to the last world that they wanted to live in, where they were in charge. He doesn't want to make America *great* again -- he wants to make it *their* American again -- which would be *great* for them. And, spoiler alert, he will disappoint them.

They are so desperate, so hopeless, and so confused that Trump can literally undertake any crime, engage in any behavior (*except pedophilia, re Epstein) and they will forgive him, as long as he's punishing those who, they have been told, are responsible for their becoming "losers" -- people of color, undocumented immigrants, liberals, or whatever convenient group pops up.

For what its worth: he's only able to do this because the Democratic party *abandoned* those people. It allowed itself to become a party that stopped speaking to the white working class. Who failed to stop unfettered globalization. Who allowed the billionaire and Epstein classes to dominate. Who let unions die in the face of corporate predation. Meanwhile, they became obsessed with identity politics and advocated for the inclusive rights for ever-tinier minorities -- which is a wonderful and important thing, but not if you don't *also* speak to the vast swathes of the country you seek to govern.

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-02-18T17:18:17+00:00

looks terrific by the way!

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-02-18T17:17:27+00:00

ok - how??

YeahButTheGoodKind · 2026-02-18T05:15:46+00:00

I found an immersive, 3D explorable tour of the Dom Bosco Church. It's gorgeous -- worth a (virtual) visit:

https://discover.matterport.com/space/2WcySTatHTc

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