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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • We’ve been in this world of upside where a lone wolf is on a wilding spree through the federal government, clear not operating at anyone’s direction but his own. And yet the President is at least okaying it all after the fact. And thus our system can’t really makes sense of what’s happening. Yes, it’s almost all illegal even or in a sense especially if the President is authorizing it. And

    I feel like I’m having a stroke.





  • I agree with all of this. But “not allies” and “in bed with fascists” are markedly different accusations. I still don’t see it as helpful to paint Democratic representatives as being welcoming of fascism – once you step into the rhetorical window of “they didn’t do enough to halt fascism, so they’re basically fascists too”, you lose the ability to call out actual fascism.


  • The Democrats are a moderate right-wing party

    Indeed, I said that already.

    done more to keep actual left-wingers out of power

    “The two-party system is driven by self-interest and inherently protects capitalism” is substantially more nuanced and accurate than “Democrats want fascism”. The latter is still unhelpful and, in the main, untrue.


  • Calling everyone right of you a fascist dissolves the unity of the left and erases the meaning of “fascist”. Neoliberalism is inherently right-wing and the Democrats have done plenty that deserves criticism, but America has, in the main, become more progressive and egalitarian over the past few decades under Democrat law-making. “Democrats welcome fascism” is an ignorant insinuation and you know it.










  • Yeah, although sweet-and-sour sauce in the US typically has E129 (Red Dye No 40) rather than E127 (Red Dye No 3), which the FDA are banning. There is a whole bunch of anecdotal correlation drawn between E129 and behavior, though, so it wouldn’t be a huge surprise to see it reviewed in the future.


  • I genuinely enjoyed Night Country until it became clear they weren’t going to answer the questions they raised. I liked the cast well enough, really enjoyed the setting, liked the music (despite the general consensus) and thought the character interplay was fairly good - if sometimes melodramatic.

    I went into it confident that the intrigue would be resolved, but it just petered out. It could have been great, but the longer you watch it, the more you feel like they wrote every episode as they went along and painted themselves into a corner.