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  1. I was struck by this passage: Which one is it, do we have plenty of potential housing that just needs to be unlocked via zoning or do we have an artificial shortage of housing because monopoly builders aren’t building enough? Maybe it’s locale dependent but these paragraphs aren’t teasing that out and instead presenting two directly conflicting arguments.
  2. Hanania is an interesting one. I sense he really enjoyed the feeling of tittering at transgressive quips in the salon with all the other “intellectuals” of the alt right but he got turned off when it all broke contain and became Joe Chud grunting racisms. His ethos seems to be more aesthetics than anything. I tend to agree that these people need to do significantly more before anyone respectable helps them launder their image.
  3. “She changed all those cult passwords but also was never identified with the cult,” that is some solid Ana tap dancing.
  4. Well, it’s not even the real verse but a loose and fairly questionable paraphrase: “In their hearts humans plan their course but the Lord establishes their steps.” For better or for worse what exists here (as everywhere) is a set of folk beliefs and not a real attempt to grapple with pre-modern wisdom poetry. Which, it needs to be said, was not written in the first case as the Literal Word of God. The whole Literal Word of God take on the 66 books of the Protestant canon is itself a bit of folk religion that sprung from a certain place and time.
  5. Honestly if we go this route then what needs to be acknowledged is the British role in all this, which is not sufficiently appreciated by either Americans or Russians. The Soviets fought a desperate war of choice after trying to collude with the Germans. The British fought by themselves and with obstinacy across oceans and the non-continental theater for several years despite having every opportunity to sit it out. The Royal Navy and the British in North Africa are why Germany wasn’t a true empire that could have choked the USSR out in 1941. There is no lend-lease to save the Soviets without the Royal Navy. And for that matter they were at least as critical to Normandy and the strategic bombing campaign. For that matter they did basically all of the Enigma cracking and anything in U-571 was also done by the British. Anyone looking for who stepped up needs to start with Churchill.
  6. Excellent post, and thank you for the link. It’s maddening for anyone passingly familiar with the Hungarian experience to see it repeated here, especially as the playbook has been explicitly copied from Orban. Orban has neither protected democracy or deliver on the stated goals of his anti-liberal program (increased birth rates, rising equality, increased security). He has delivered cronyism, corruption, and culture war distractions and it turns out this is what Americans really crave too.
  7. By all strategic measures the United States was the victor of the war. It emerged with the fewest losses, the most credibility, and it built a world order and economy that benefited itself and attracted the wealthiest and most valuable allies to its side. The “losers” on the battlefield aligned themselves with the United States, accepted its primacy and even internalized the values and principles it espoused as their own. The Soviet Army defeated the German army on the battlefield. It gained sullen and deeply antagonistic territory ruled by brittle puppet regimes. The choices it made in the wake of its battlefield victory discredited its ideology and hegemony and directly led to its eventual destruction as the USSR and the collapse of its influence and prestige. To bring it back to Trump’s America, for some reason a big chunk of our country has adopted alien Russian pathologies and neuroses as their own and has decided to surrender complete American victory for no reason other than petulance and a poisoned information environment.
  8. LMFAO at Ana trying to play a misogyny card while defending the Trump admin. Your trolling is really slipping when you’re drunk man.
  9. Well, they also started the war and didn’t actually liberate any of the places they fought so I’d say the honor of doing heavy-lifting was well-earned. Everyone’s favorite counter factual is “what if Hitler doesn’t do Barbarossa?” Mine is “what if the USSR doesn’t help Germany carve up Poland or even makes it clear that attacking Poland is unacceptable along with the Western Allies.” They’d have had a whole-ass country between them and the Germans and Germany’s options in the West would have been far less-certain without Molotov-Ribbentrop. But honestly Hitler not invading the Soviet Union is far more realistic than Russia or any of its permutations not behaving like a predator and trying to make friends with the worst people in the world. I get why no one considers mine.
  10. TripleSecDef Tuesdays are pretty clearly a happy hour night for this guy.
  11. I don’t actually believe the Pakistanis shot down Indian airplanes and suspect this is for domestic consumption. Also expect things ratchet down over the next couple of days.
  12. A solid approach but the effort reveals something other than contempt. I’d have gone with:
  13. Color me shocked that the survivors told the police they were actually not committing felonies after one of them got shot in the commission of one! Claiming you’re playing “ding dong ditch” at 2AM in someone’s backyard strains credibility well past the breaking point. Spotsylvania County is in between DC and Richmond and is not pure redneck country. Regardless, prowling around someone’s backyard door in the dead of night is a very quick ticket to the wrong end of a firearm anywhere in VA. This is not remotely the same as a vehicle burglary.
  14. ChatGPT, is this what a recession looks like?
  15. The NSC process is broken, even before Loomer went buckwild in there they had ransacked the professional staff. Cabinet heads are left making decisions based on what they think they heard. Will get worse before it gets better, Rubin may try to instill some discipline but the simple fact is that the machine can’t run if you strip off too many parts.
  16. Former pro rasslin’ promoter writes angry, barely coherent to Harvard. About one-third of this is just references to Bill Ackman grievances.
  17. This is a totally shitty and bad idea that won’t make Israel safer but will continue an endless war for Netanyahu to politically abuse.
  18. The amazing thing about Anastasis’ high-hatted grumping about social media is that precisely none of his litany of gripes gets any traction absent social media. On no planet are we running studies to combat an imaginary link between autism and vaccines absent social media’s unique ability to connect the mentally ill and desperate with conmen and grifters. Trans panic? Entirely dependent on social media flame wars. Then of course there’s his running battle to advance Russia’s interests in any sphere, another activity that requires social media-enabled information manipulation. There was zero American appetite for Russian bullshit about anything until the kooks suddenly found it directly injected into their feed. It’s undeniable that a world without social media produces the kind of centrist, establishment friendly politics and discourse that the too-smart crew hates. Social media is not his enemy.
  19. Yep, it’s all just meme politics for the rubes and easily distracted media talking heads who can’t wait to poke holes in ole Donny’s latest silly thing. The man and his team are fantastic about this. The economy and his assault on basic legal rights need to be the only things getting oxygen.
  20. Always good to see wing nuts take a fat L. But even the GOP internals are now showing that the party is now the low-information, low-propensity movement. I don’t think you can read into how the burbs will vote in a national election from this.
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