The other 2 should’ve never entered.

Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed? They did win

Smugly smirking at the firing line as I'm marched to my execution.

"Guess Elon Musk doesn't really give a shit about free spe-" BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG

Am I mistaken? Or did she vote for every SCOTUS judge that overturned RvW?

Because we stopped doing shit like this

Did we? Or was this always a rare and remarkable incident, both in that it happened at all and it was captured and preserved for us to talk about today.

Certainly, you can talk about the no less than three different Trump assassination attempts. Or the Luigi Mangione shooting. Or the fatal stabbing of Bob Lee, CPO of Cashapp. Or the assault of Bryan Kobel, CEO of TC BioPharm, after a dispute with his Uber driver. Or the vigilante attack on Paul Pelosi. Or the Doohickey assassination of Shinzo Abe. Or the Charlie Kirk assassination. Or just run the numbers annually for violence targeting C-level officials

This study analyzes 424 open source reported incidents targeting senior private-sector executives between 2003 and late 2025, highlighting a sustained and accelerating rise in both physical and cyber threats. Physical attacks dominate (85%), and one-third of all incidents resulted in injury or death. Incident frequency has surged since 2023, with 2025 already doubling 2024 totals by October, marking the highest level on record. Targeting increasingly occurs at workplaces and residences, with protest-driven activity driving growth at public events.

But I'm not seeing any evidence to suggest we "stopped" doing any of this. On the contrary, it looks like we've got a rising tide of stochastic violence, both from within the state itself and against state and private leadership.

You might think 9-5 is more illuminating, but you can really club the shit out of the bourgeois with Marx.

Without exaggeration, doing it back then risked much the same.

These were brave acts then. They'd be brave acts now.

I wonder how long until we start seeing hysterics about Linux being taken over by the Chinese.

She's polling within margin of error against a guy with near-zero name recognition, after Dems were forced to choose between the country's least popular governor and a Nazi rapist.

Honestly have no idea what you're complaining about. Troy Jackson has better odds of winning than either Platner or Mills ever did.

Just FYI, the people being physically abused and emotionally tormented by these masked thugs with shock gloves and a deep sense of sadism... we just need you to know that they didn't break any of the current rules. So, in this particular case, we don't approve of the middle aged incel dragging that screaming teenage girl through the hospital in a surgical gown.

Like, 95% of LinkedIn is slop.

I have to assume someone noticed and is trying to swat out the fire with a wet handkerchief.

More recently, the AIPAC strategy on Israel is to splinter where it sends money and attack candidates on grounds fully independent of Israel.

Maine was a great example of this in action (for better or worse). Platner was taken down (belatedly) based on his history of infidelity and misogynist violence. Francesca Hong lost to David Crowley largely because of the endless harping on her excessively-Woke views on Thanksgiving. El-Sayed is facing a deluge of TERFism going into the general, paid for by a constellation of Zionist-backed media. Mamdani getting an endless hate-parade from the NYPost on anything tangentially related to cops.

I suspect the AIPAC playbook is going to look very similar to the New Labour playbook in the UK. You'll get smeared from every angle except support for Palestine.

Wait for the world to get overrun by furries, but it's just middle age bald dudes suddenly having shoulder length hair, six pack abs, and a deep sense of regret about how comfortable it is to carry around a two foot long penis.

Anyone regularly using LinkedIn is already a lost cause.

This is what currently is happening in US and Europe.

If that's what is happening in the US and Europe, what just happened in Columbia?

I’m talking about existential truths, truths that threaten our sense of meaning and belonging and purpose. Truths like we are all going to die or that we live in a fundamentally unjust world.

None of that is immediately intuitive. It takes a long time for an individual to have a full sense of the world and a coherent view of Justice as a concept. And there's no firm consensus on any of it, anyway. Sitting around and pondering the clockwork mechanisms of the world and how to improve upon them is a luxury at the best of times.

But the reality is most people value group loyalty, belonging, and existential comfort over everything else.

These things are real, tangible, and approachable by the vast majority of people. Even past that, I think there's a certain nihilism in dismissing the fate of an entire species, because you look around in disgust at a lot of young people who desire something as crass and fleeting as Love. Much less older people who still cling to or covet it. "Ah, well, fuck all of you! Lazing around naked in bed with a full belly and another warm body and a bit of free time?! Don't you realize death still exists? Don't you realize that someone, somewhere is being treated unjustily?! You'll doom us all!" Its just a bleak attitude to carry as you go through your life.

Do you have an example?

Any college student who aspires to be a daycare teacher rather than an office manager or a civil engineer rather than a petroleum engineer, just for starters. Anyone who studies Pure Math, without an eye towards joining the Quant pool at a hedge fund. Or a physical therapist instead of a supplements salesperson. Or a mechanic rather than a used car salesman. Or a plumber rather than a real estate agent. Anyone who chooses to be a parent and to give it their full time and attention.

That's just career level. You can find a thousand examples of individuals who sacrifice their own personal comfort or future prosperity for some higher goal or passion or personal sense of duty. We're not all just getting dragged around life by our genitals when we're young and our aching backs when we get older.

As a European, can you explain why you also keep voting in the diarrhea candidates?

I don’t think the “both sides are the same” argument is anything but propaganda

That's because you're not the one getting $50M in eye-gouging political ads between Jon Fetterman and Memet Oz, only to see them agree on practically every issue once the election is over.

The biggest gulfs in opinion tend to be internal party schisms. Mamdani, Eric Adams, and Andrew Cuomo duking it out in an ugly NYC Mayoral primary while the Republicans just heckel from the cheap seats. Or Eric Cantor losing his job as Majority Whip to an even more virulent Anti-tax Christian white nationalist.

It's not that Both Sides Are The Same, it's that each side is a fractal kaleidoscope of particular nuanced views. But the consensus that emerges across the national scene tends to be constrained by what corporate sponsors are willing to fund.

Lobbyists write the legislation. Legislators rationalize why they vote for or against it with their campaign jingoisms.

The new PM started on Oct 2025

The Liberal Democrats have been in charge since 2012.

My preference for the great filter is just based on my pessimism on how not only power works, but how the human mind works.

Humans, in small enough numbers (ie, Dunbar's Number), play reasonably well together for extended periods of time. Environmental limitations and other social resource limits can cause conflicts. But humans have presented a fairly advanced skillset for mitigating violence between larger communities, equitably sharing resources across areas as large as continents, and both budgeting limited resources over time as well as expanding the accessible volume with advances in technology.

The human mind takes a lot of undeserved shit. But I'm in a room with dozens of other people right now. None of them are trying to crack my head open with a rock and feast on the delicious goo inside.

Greedy systems–systems that seek power at the expense of everything else–will be advantaged over systems that seek equilibrium.

I don't know how you look at a modern day metropolis and see a system that has failed to achieve some high level of equilibrium.

I'd put Abigail Thorn on the list. She's a professional actress, though. So it's a high bar.

But she's also a podcaster / YouTuber with a lengthy catalog. So you can really track the progress.