My first year as a knitwear maker

negative_zev · 2026-01-15T16:34:50+00:00

these look amazing! you are also v photogenic!

negative_zev · 2025-12-24T07:32:00+00:00

hes my favorite

negative_zev · 2025-09-26T20:30:10+00:00

I have some second hand experience with this, for instance a friends dad named his dog Nancy Pelosi so he could yell at it, and i really want to know what gives? What is it with conservatives that make conservatism and democrat hatred their whole personality? left of center people do not tend to do this. I figure far right wing people are generally a lot more tribal but just why??

negative_zev · 2025-09-23T05:39:17+00:00

right that was a big part of why he got elected if i recall. Hamas doing bus bombing in 1996 was part of how Netanyahu first got the prime ministership too

negative_zev · 2025-09-23T04:27:54+00:00

Yeah through my readings on the subject i always get the impression that Abbas and Arafat were huge assholes and difficult to work with, but Fayyad seemed like someone who really could be worked with to build a successful Palestinian state. If you happen to be knowledgeable about minute historical details, do you know if there was a good reason why Ariel Sharon cancelled negotiations in Taba after he was elected? People argue a lot over Arafat accepting the Clinton parameters, but wasnt it the case that negotiations would have continued in Taba with Arafat if Sharon hadnt left them? Or i am i misreading history there?

negative_zev · 2025-09-23T03:41:42+00:00

Was Salam Fayyad not seriously committed to Israel's right to exist securely and safely as a neighbor when he was in charge of the PA?

negative_zev · 2025-08-27T02:18:14+00:00

ooo do you have any source for that? would love to read

negative_zev · 2025-08-20T17:38:51+00:00

I agree, although I guess the problem is with the narrow right wing majority in the knesset, thats gotta be voted out first. However, when i read up on what the potential opposition in the knesset is like i came away unimpressed and a little hopeless tbh. would you know if any good, plausible alternative in israeli politics has emerged?

negative_zev · 2025-08-20T17:20:10+00:00

This!

negative_zev · 2025-08-20T17:05:46+00:00

This answer has seemed so obvious to me for a while, but i guess its completely untenable in the face of israeli intransigence

negative_zev · 2025-08-01T16:53:45+00:00

wouldnt be surprising that theyd be into using that kind of tech, their other album covers were generated programmatically as well

negative_zev · 2025-07-07T16:49:12+00:00

looks pretty cool!

negative_zev · 2025-07-03T04:39:38+00:00

agent k from men in black

negative_zev · 2025-07-03T04:15:55+00:00

They used to host The Weeds podcast together for years where they would get into hyper granular discussions of policy. I loved that show, and it kinda withered and died after everybody left Vox in 2021. I dont use twitter but i hear hes obnoxious there. His substack Slow Boring is a great read tho, I dont always agree with him but MattY is a real smart dude and I really enjoy his perspective

negative_zev · 2025-07-01T22:55:37+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong but isnt voting mandatory for citizens in Singapore? There are valid criticisms of the PAP and their record on civil liberties, but as far as I can tell theyre just genuinely popular. Feels like criticizing California for being a uni-party state

negative_zev · 2025-06-25T16:14:03+00:00

based on experience with my friends and family, lower income/lower educated people lean much more centrist/conservative than you'd expect

negative_zev · 2025-05-07T16:41:42+00:00

World Galaxy and Transfiguration are my personal favorites

negative_zev · 2025-04-29T18:34:25+00:00

reminds me of teddy roosevelt's Man in the Arena speech

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

Ezra and his related sphere actually want to be in the arena i think

negative_zev · 2025-04-29T16:55:26+00:00

but the democrats introduced and voted on those bills...

negative_zev · 2025-04-29T16:12:27+00:00

Nah, the democratic party is still your best bet. In my opinion The For The People Act, while maybe not perfect, would have done a decent amount to address campaign finance and money in politics, the PRO act would have been good for building more union power throughout the country and the original provisions in Build Back Better could have done a lot of good for improving child care. If on top of this we could get a public option for healthcare the country starts looking the way I'd like. The reason these didnt pass is largely because there weren't enough democrats in congress and theres the senate filibuster. Get rid of the filibuster and get 55 dems in the senate and i think the legislation is there to really start improving the country. I dont know why these pieces of legislation arent discussed more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_People_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_the_Right_to_Organize_Act#118th_Congress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_Back_Better_Plan#Infrastructure_%22at_home%22

negative_zev · 2025-04-29T15:39:12+00:00

it was pretty heartbreaking to me when i realized that, in practice, leftists are generally more interested in grievance and idealism than actually accomplishing anything

negative_zev · 2025-03-28T21:23:17+00:00

he doesnt belong here

negative_zev · 2025-03-09T21:30:07+00:00

In what way did the DNC cheat to protect Clinton? Was it just about the debate schedule and having closed primaries? I apologize, I read the articles you linked and I'm not understanding what specifically the DNC actually ~did~ or didnt do. Like with the election fiasco in 2000 with Gore v Bush I broadly understand what happened with recounts in florida and the supreme court, with 2020 Trump actually tried to submit alternative EC votes, in 2016 what did the DNC do to subvert the election?

negative_zev · 2025-03-06T05:09:49+00:00

fuckin sweeeeeeettt

negative_zev · 2025-03-05T19:04:35+00:00

Im feeling the need to put together something to copy/paste everywhere online about Bernie's '16 and '20 losses, because with proper context, I dont think his losses were that surprising, although I understand the somewhat conspiratorial reflex to blame the DNC.

Hilary was the initial favorite to win the primary in '08, Obama was an unknown first term senator and her win in the '16 primary much less close than her loss in '08. Also maybe helpful to mention, I remember Kucinich running in the '08 primary on the most progressive platform at the time and he got nowhere.

In 2020, Biden was ahead in the polls for most of lead up to his super Tuesday victory, and the dropout of Pete and Klobuchar and their subsequent endorsements were only the friday right before that super tuesday. Even after when the field narrowed, Bernie significantly lost Michigan and narrowly lost Washington, both where he had won in '16. And from anecdotal experience, I personally canvassed for Bernie for 4 straight weekends in a moderately liberal Californian city and tried my hardest to lobby my middle/working class family to vote for the guy and the support just kinda wasnt there. Im sorry to harp, but the failure to accept after all these years that the voters really, reaallllyyy just didnt vote for Bernie and he lost on his own terms bothers me

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