Some people look down on WWE, I see it as a window on American culture. Even the lazy refrain: you know it’s not real right? Well read the allegations against McMahon with special attention to how he ran his enterprise, and say that again. It’s as obtuse as saying “you know movies aren’t real, right”? Wrasslin’ is like what would happen if an improv troupe went global. Just think of the talent that’s come out of it: legendary athletes, blockbuster actors, …POTUS.

Instead of getting up early for Meet the Press, I stay up late for Monday night Raw.

That nearly half of Americans found themselves attracted to the likes of Trump should have prompted a moment of deep reflection among U.S. liberals a decade ago. It has not. Even in the course of this tragic presidential election, the Clintons and Obamas refuse to ask themselves what policies, techniques and political forces spawned such discontent and such will to destruction.

This is good example of the left’s myopic thinking. The great near-enemy war between the left and liberals erases agency from Conservatives. They’re not responsible for the rise of fascism, just because they were the ones who support it. No, it’s the liberals of the past who didn’t manage the rabble properly who are to blame.

“low-information” voter is anti democratic rhetoric. It’s an argument that some votes should count more than others. Or that some voters are better than others. First time I heard the phrase was on Rush Limbaugh like 20 years ago. I’ve been disturbed how often “progressives” adopt this bullshit mentality.

Eugenics is the single stupidest idea in human history. To advocate for it now is to deny biology and history.

It relies on the same misunderstanding of evolution that underpins ‘great replacement theory’.

This is what Tucker has to do these days just to get people like us to talk about him again. He used to have the prime time FOX slot. Now he hosts a show on Twitter (formally X). That’s like going from sold out stadium shows to headlining a half empty ballroom on a cruise ship.

What other weird beliefs does Tucker have? Where does he think microwaves go when you open the door?

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I dispute that Trump is charismatic. Listening to him talk is like watching a drunk man cross an icy street.

I think this goes back to the Hitler myth that he could sway and mesmerize Germans. Of course, this idea became popular in the post war years when support for the Nazis became embarrassing. The truth is that fascism is simply popular. If Trump has proved anything it’s that his supporters are jumping into the abyss with their eyes wide open.

Somebody should tell JD Vance that watermelon jokes are older than political correctness, by about a hundred years.

(they date back to reconstruction when watermelon was one of the first cash crops the former enslaved people were farming)

It’s wrong for some random citizen to torch someone’s democratic agency. That’s what the Electoral College is for.

The person who’s job it is to get Harris elected is optimistic? Would you be surprised if Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles are bullish on Trump’s chances?

Prices are falling in Florida, and inventory is stacking up.

AI is like the office worker who’s the nephew of the CEO. They’re never going to go away, but can be useful for tedious work, so long as someone checks behind them.

Ocean trash comes from plastic manufacturers. Responsible wealthy countries ship their dutiful recyclables to garbage pits in poor countries.

Most poor people don’t even have the education or resources to polymerize crude into poly-vinyl, it’s harder than you’d think.

What makes you think it’s good for the wealthy? This article is from the WSJ, not the Jacobin.

Spoiler: tariffs are bad for everyone. Regular people won’t feel the pain immediately, but if your the kind of capitalist that imports goods, especially from factories you’ve moved to Asia, the pain starts on day one.

Look at the bright side, implementing Trump’s tariffs would cause two unprecedented events:

1. it’d be a steak through the heart of the neoliberal economic hegemony
2. economists as a group might finally make a prediction that came true.

Just more evidence that the behavior and ideology of religious people doesn’t come out of a book. Protestant Christianity must be the best example of this. What other ideology could account for both liberation theology and prosperity gospel? I’d go further to say that the number of denominations is equal to the number of Protestants.

This is why it’s so foolish for the non-believer to have opinions about how a “true” Christian ought to behave or ought to believe. In order to make that claim you imply:

1. The authors of the Bible had a message
2. That message was accurately recorded
3. That message has been accurately preserved.
4. That message is clear and understandable.

At that point you might as well start confessing your sins because while you might lack belief, you’ve kept the faith.

During the early '00 flight sim fans were enjoying a Russian game called IL2. The other offerings from Microsoft and Janes just couldn’t compete with the level of detail in the flight models. Turns out, the people working on the game were all trained in aerospace engineering. The guys who went to school to work for the famous Russian aviation firms were making video games instead because it paid better.

Who decided that the best use of the Obama’s is to scold black people? Are they going to ask black men to pull up their pants next?

Black Americans are the most reliable Democratic voting block, women and men. And everybody knows it’s more hostage situation than love affair. We get this shit every election cycle, and it’s just as mad as Republicans panicking because evangelical support slipped from 68% to 66%.

Systems are not the sum of the individual actors who participate in them. Systems can influence and even control individuals back. Therefore, individual flaws in character or intellect are necessary, but not adequate to explain why systems are flawed.

Consider the future imagined in the movie “Idiocracy 2005”. Society is collapsing because people are dumb. This is the explanation for all problems in that society. Capitalism, Resource extraction, environmental degradation, political corruption, and a rather authoritarian government are all blameless. The implication is that capitalism an authoritarianism are good if we could just be smart about it.

This is a big difference between left and right thinking. Republicans argue problems can be solved by reforming individuals; the police are good, there are just a few bad apples. Or that the right individual, at the helm of a system, can clean up all the issues with strength and resolve. This is the central pitch for supporting Trump.

John Adams had tracks printed that warned the colonists about the evil British plot to enslave white men.

Violence, fraud, and intimidation around voting was such a threat in early America, some think that it may be responsible for killing Edgar Allen Poe.

Pulitzer and Hersh used their newspapers to push the country into war with Spain, over another conspiracy theory.

This is not new, it’s not even remarkable for it’s stupidity.

To those who say MAGA I ask: when were we great? To those who defend Democracy I ask: when were we a Democracy? (don’t worry, I’m going to vote for the cop over the fascist, I’m just saying).

This is a Neoliberal anthem: rights are for citizens; employees need to sit down and STFU.

Why do we reject tyranny.gov, but embrace tyranny.com?

IQ does show differences between the races. However, this isn’t evidence that white supremacy is correct. It’s evidence that IQ testing measures culture when it’s supposed to be measuring biology.

Race is constructed. Genetic, evolutionary, anthropological, and archeological evidence all point to shared ancestry and kinship. All the people’s of the world aren’t separated by near enough distance or time to explain a significant biological difference. And that’s ignoring the wide interbreeding that was always a thing. Remember Rome was cosmopolitan empire. Many of those Roman soldiers who marched down the first paved roads of London were swinging black cocks.

So what can we make of a so called “objective” measure of a “biologically determined” trait that hews to culture above biology? This isn’t just a bias that needs to be tweaked, the whole concept of biologically determined intelligence is a reification fallacy and IQ as an instrument is hopelessly broken and should be abandoned.