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Idk if you're a nerd, but Brian Klass is a contemporary political scientist who actually challenges this, and yet still affirms a determinist lense. His latest book is on his chaos theory that I think can be helpful navigating our current world.

Here's his big think interview if you're interested!

One way to think of this is that we can't predict the future with what we know of the past because the "rules" are constantly changing. One example is an academic paper that was written that said middle eastern dictatorships were especially stable in comparison to others, but then a year later the Arab Spring occurs. His take is that the author wasn't wrong- based on all the information of the past it made sense that these dictatorships were not going away anytime soon, but what happened was the world changed making those assumptions moot.

So the idea that European democracies are inherently stable isn't necessarily a given, and as our world is drastically changing, our tools to gauge the health of a democracy are becoming less and less relevant.

Man, how low do you think Trump III's approval rating will be?

Jesse Wells has a line that gets me every time:

"Time is not a mirror/ it's some distorted view/ of the way you thought you was/ and what you thought they thought of you"

A) mental health would absolutely improve so I'd have more energy for

B) producing more shows and putting on more events. Personally I don't want to retire because I want to create a career where if I did retire I'd just do what I was doing anyway. I'm kinda doing that now but I have more BS and stress to deal with.

At the end of the day it all comes down to the role of the dice.

It's not a contest. Look at the contouring, elegant. Look at the polish, shining as bright as Versailles. The tong length has the perfection of a Swiss watch.

Then the functionality- the flared handle provides the user with the comfort usually reserved for oil barons in hospice. The longer tongs serve as an homage to the engineers who brought humanity to the moon.

Every other fork is merely a blight on the earth in comparison to this Adonis of cutlerian perfection.

I mean I've been told this is the year to fudge on your taxes since the IRS is fucked so I mean maybe there's some silver lining. Frankly Elon isn't as bad as- hold on someone's knocking on my door, I'll be back in a bit.

Welcome to American politics, when the 2028 election begins in 2024 and the 2028 primary began in 2020.

I'm so tired.

Sadly I think he's going to be a martyr like Alexi Navalny. The 1% is patient, and they know they can distract us and grind us down. We can raise hell for a moment, but they know our weakness is our stomaches.

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My hope is that more "quiet Democrats" get primary'd. Usually they would say "don't primary me, you'll risk losing us to the Republican candidate in the general and we have a moderate agenda that's the lesser evil".

Right now they don't have an agenda at all, no rudder, no direction. This is the time to primary tf out of the old Dems.

What states did you visit?

I'm going too! Making some puppets to hold signs with in support of PBS funding and unions. I recently learned how to work with felt and want to use my new skill for good.

I'm thinking signs could be:

"Have you learned NOTHING from sesame Street?"

"This is not very Mr. Rogers of you Donald"

"That's not how we treat our neighbors" with a cutout of Mr. Rogers

"Even puppets can recognize that clown"

any additional ideas welcome!

I'm currently in an apartment so I don't have one, but when I did I let it all hang out. Let the bush breathe!

Bananamon!

Bananamon

Bananamon 🎶

I teach kids, and a lesson I have with them is on "context".

The game of tag, is it good or bad?

Well, on the playground it is good, really fun actually!

But in music class or at the library? It's really bad.

The game didn't change, the context did. Same goes with parenting imo. In fact I'd go so far as to say that teaching your kids to be considerate of the spaces they are in is a good thing.

I grew up with my mom telling us to keep our hands behind our back when going into an antique store or to be polite at the dinner table, and I was always invited to dinners and nice places by my friends parents because they knew I'd behave.

Also didn't the Supreme Court just rule that you can't charge the president for crimes made in their official capacity? He can just say it was in his official capacity to ignore the orders so tough titties.

Where's Rachel!?