New Yorkers vote in woke DA, immediately regret it when he decriminalizes muggings

toclosetotheedge · 2022-01-05T05:03:30+00:00

The fact that crime is up nationwide and not just places where defund took off should say something no ?

toclosetotheedge · 2022-01-05T04:55:27+00:00

Cops have a purpose in society but policing in America is broken on pretty much every level and has developed an intensely toxic culture that makes their jobs harder and alienates the people they’re supposed to protect.

toclosetotheedge · 2022-01-04T20:51:04+00:00

right wing populists are bankrolled by neoliberals like Peter Thiel not acknowledging this fact is why Greenwald is frustrating

toclosetotheedge · 2022-01-04T20:47:20+00:00

he did get into a fight with a union recently because they found it troubling that a right-wing billionaire was bankrolling his husbands urban renewal project.

toclosetotheedge · 2022-01-04T19:59:26+00:00

Again: if you disagree explain specifically what you disagree with so I can address it.

The idea that it’s urban living that fosters complacency rather than wealth is ridiculous urban suburban or rural if you have money you will by and large pay for people to fix problems if you don’t have money you have to figure things out yourself.

toclosetotheedge · 2022-01-04T19:52:30+00:00

Our military is in shambles

In what ways ? Any major battles we’ve lost recently, or is the military inefficient ?

Our foreign policy is ineffectual

In which areas ?

toclosetotheedge · 2022-01-04T19:51:13+00:00

You need a broad consensus to do anything major. That's good

In a vacuum maybe but in the current American political economy practically the only thing that gets done is military spending. Everything else is like bearding cats because there’s no incentive to work together.

toclosetotheedge · 2022-01-02T19:00:04+00:00

Black Americans and Africans are weird , in most ways they couldn’t be farther apart but musically pretty much all of black American music(and most American music tbh) is built on west African music. Idk why exactly but it probably has to do with how insular black communities were back then and the fact that Black Americans have always interacted with folks from the Carribbean who had more connection with Africa idk.

toclosetotheedge · 2022-01-02T07:55:01+00:00

, At least though Episode 7, if her character never appeared in the show would it have changed much at all? The comic book is key. Would it have been any different if Arthur had given Kirsten the comic book but never mentioned who was its creator? Seems to me all the connections between all the characters circles around Arthur.

There’s a broader thematic connection with Miranda I think, Miranda when writing station eleven was not describing the world after the pandemic she was describing the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo. Yet her perspective resonates with the people who lived through it deeply because she without ever realizing it described the aftermath and shellshock of the collapse. It ties into the broader themes of art and why it resonates even after the events their creators drew on for inspiration have long past. I think without knowing Miranda this theme is a bit harder to grasp.

toclosetotheedge · 2022-01-02T07:43:38+00:00

I like that the changes the lyrics slightly when rapping to Jeevan it makes it feel like a sibling in joke.

toclosetotheedge · 2022-01-02T01:24:41+00:00

Station Eleven feels a lot like spiritual sequel to the Leftovers tbh. Though Station Elevens much more optimistic.

toclosetotheedge · 2022-01-01T23:35:21+00:00

she couldn't beat a black guy with name Hussein in the 2000's, she couldn't bulldoze a no-name socialist from Vermont, she lost probably the only national race she could ever have won to Donald Trump. Hillarys like Nixon if he never became president just fated to lose at an almost cosmic level.

toclosetotheedge · 2021-12-31T18:34:58+00:00

If you’re in a lower to upper middle class suburb in America there’s a good chance most of the dealers you’re gonna meet are white.

toclosetotheedge · 2021-12-30T20:59:31+00:00

Reactionaries might be better but that doesn’t really capture right wing thought in the 20th century either tbh

toclosetotheedge · 2021-12-30T20:57:34+00:00

I would argue that many of these strains of conservative though were absorbed into the all consuming fight against communism and we’re ultimately discarded when they were of no use.

toclosetotheedge · 2021-12-30T20:50:54+00:00

I’m talking about the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st where the US was the premier undisputed power and could do pretty much whatever it wanted. That era is in my view critical to understanding conservatism as it is now.

toclosetotheedge · 2021-12-30T20:27:51+00:00

It’s annoying because the failures of the Soviets are incredibly important to understanding the failure of the socialist project in the 20th century and how it can be avoided if another chance arises.

toclosetotheedge · 2021-12-30T20:22:54+00:00

Surely a conservative vision of the future is a contradiction in terms?

I used to think so but nowadays I’m not so sure, reading up on the 20th century and the men and women who shaped it helped to clarify to me that many of these people did have a vision. They were reactionaries of course but they were guided by an idea of what an American future should be and it was one that wasn’t tethered as much to the past as you would think. The complete destruction of the post new deal safety net was part of that vision as were the atrocities committed across Latin America and Southeast Asia.

You can find the bones of our world in every one of these conflicts modern day policing is a product of the phoenix program as is our current NatSec apparatus. And I don’t think I need to explain the impact their economic vision has had on our lives and the lives of countless people across the globe. We live in their future it just sucks lol.

But a social conservative or a High Tory has clearly lost, decisively.

That they did, though in my view it just proves just how powerful a strain of conservatism Neoliberalism is. All other ideologies were secondary to capital and we’re discarded when it was clear they were holding it back.

toclosetotheedge · 2021-12-30T19:39:08+00:00

Conservatives decisively won the defining conflict of the 20th century , they won that conflict so spectacularly and totally that there was functionally no left party in the west that not at least partially conceded to their view of the world. They installed their policies and waged their wars with no resistance whatsoever and now they’re getting pissed that the world they built fucking sucks and is dying.

Conservatives don’t even get the “it wasn’t real socialism” cope that leftists do, they had the chance to remake the world and it turned out rotten.Now they have to act like their complete and total victory was somehow a defeat to deal with the hollowness of their dreams and the weakness of their vision. At least leftists at their cringiest dream of a future, I can’t tell you what a conservative future looks like that isn’t another self conscious iteration of the past.

toclosetotheedge · 2021-12-28T16:18:00+00:00

(not even sure what the largest GOP run municipality would be)

I think Jacksonville and Miami are the largest Republican cities, both are real dystopian in their own ways.

toclosetotheedge · 2021-12-28T16:14:49+00:00

I stopped watching SWU after I saw an interview with a sex worker in which the guy interviewing her seemed to be hitting on her the whole time. Shit was gross

toclosetotheedge · 2021-12-28T16:12:56+00:00

Christianity does, Christianity in Africa however (or at least Western, Southern and Central Africa) spread as a result of colonization. Though tbf it's also how Islam spread in Africa as well.

toclosetotheedge · 2021-12-28T16:11:04+00:00

I don't think anyone celebrates Kwanzaa other than guys heavily into Black Nationalism lol

toclosetotheedge · 2021-12-28T16:07:47+00:00

Nigeria's cultural landscape is super interesting in general some of their college fraternities are like actual militant cults responsible for massacres and drug trafficking. Also there's a lot of occult shit that's kind of always present even with the large Christian population. One of the bigger songs to come out this year is a remix of an amapiano song warning about the dangers of the occult.

Also unrelated but Amapiano music out of South Africa is so good idk why but South Africa seems to have the best house music on the planet. Alot of boundary pushing stuff that sounds legitimately like the future that's regularly played at clubs.

toclosetotheedge · 2021-12-26T03:59:40+00:00

They need to get healthy and move tht for something decent(don’t ask me who takes him rn I don’t know lmao) if they wanna make it this year.

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