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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · Jan 28

Being an American civil servant in 2029 will quite possibly suck shit, and I cannot wait to be one.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Jan 28

i will go to work for the government if this occurs simply because someone has to

Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · Jan 28

The simple answer is that we rebuild the federal bureaucracy from close to scratch, after purging every single person brought in under MAGA hiring rules.

Perfectly possible, happened before. Would still suck along the way, but we'd get back to having an effective govt.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 12m

one of the greatest sins of American financial speculation/culture of hype in technology is that it completely erases (and arguably stunts) how most technological and engineering progress occurs, ie at the margin.

There are punch throughs but these, too, require at least a decade to appreciate.

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 15m

yeah, the technological innovations if the past twenty years in QoL household products are genuinely miraculous. it just happened gradually and there isnt any one specific invention that we can point to

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 3m

As student currently on a Pell Grant, they haven’t killed it yet. That being said, they did kill Grad PLUS so I’m probably gonna have to get my masters overseas.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 41m

ig its cool we get to see what the ceiling is for democrats in Virginia is

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

BREAM: Federal workers in Virginia lost jobs bc of DOGE. Your opponent points out unemployment is up under Youngkin/Sears

EARLE-SEARS: Actually unemployment is down

B: She points to numbers from BLS showing unemployment is up. Do you quibble w/data?

S: I don't know where she's getting stats from

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 23m

Consumer electronics are remarkably better. Everything from household lighting, kitchen electronics (affordable grinders, espresso machines), keyboards, e-ink tablets, usb cords, desktop mics and cameras, etc. All of this shit was worse and much more expensive 20 years ago.

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 25m

what exactly has gotten better for the average person in the past 20 years with all the innovation such as AI, exactly? what's the social use case here

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 2h

So much of modern conservatism is either deliberately misreading children’s media, or just this meme.

1994
RESPECT MINORITIES!!
spidow man...

2024
RESPECT MINORITIES!!
FUUUUUUUCK!!
they FUCKING
RUINED IT with their WOKE trash!!
it wasn't like this when I WAS A KID!!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

it's very funny to me that his delusional misreadings can include both Watchmen, one of the great 20th century novels, and One Piece, a fun comic serial for children. But it's not good that this man is genuinely mad and a major political and financial force in the United States of America.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 3h

Mark Milley did a soft coup after January 6th (laudatory)

Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 13h

I know there’s talk about what Woke 2 will look like culturally, and I think this sorta sentiment is closest to the form it’ll take among younger generations.

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 13h

Also to your point ICE is absolutely gonna be the stock bad guy in the video games of the 2060s.

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, I think in the long run the American strain of troop worship is dead considering that this is all Gen Alpha is gonna know in terms of civ-mil relations.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 14h

I do think ICE agents are gonna be the American stasi in popular culture and I don't think ERO guys realize their kids are probably gonna hate them

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 14h

the agency itselt should be bureaucratically re-arranged in a way that allows us to effectively abolish it in its current form without explicitly doing it in a way that makes us politically vulnerable. call it the “homeland protection enhancement” bill or something

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah I think people here have unrealistic expectations for like jailing all ICE agents and that’s just almost certainly not going to happen even in extremely cool zone scenarios. But they should 100% have to lie for the rest of their lives about their employment history in conversation with everyone

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 14h

this explains a lot of the public dooming about Democrats imo, especially ones who are liberal darlings

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 14h

we're all very powerless right now and for some people having their cynicism proved right gives them the illusion of control

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 17h

Japan was still very busy replicating the Holocaust with the Chinese, and we absolutely would’ve vaporized Berlin if we’d gotten the bomb six months earlier!

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 18h

my dream is retroactive use of the insurrection clause to sedes vacante the presidency but I fear the state the US is in where that becomes an option is one we don't want to experience if we have any choice

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 18h

I’m sure it’d be lovely in comparison to our current domestic situation!

Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 18h

Wonder if I should consider a semester in Korea instead.

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 18h

In many ways they never recovered from the Suez Crisis.

Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · Apr 23

They did Brexit just to feel something, oh god anything, and when that didn’t work they just let their civic depression spiral.

Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 18h

(laudatory) or (derogatory)?

Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 18h

Thankfully, the Republican Party hasn’t been purging their few remaining statesmen for the last dec- oh no

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 18h

“LDP goes into opposition because a few MPs are fed up with their party’s bs” would be a hilarious outcome.

Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 18h

I mean I know that they leaned into a Roman aesthetic, but didn’t this literally happen in Rome? There were many Senators who were just find losing their power to the emperor because they still had the title and wealth that came with the position.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 19h

guys i'm beginning to think they haven't thought this through

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 20h

Cheap energy, cheap housing and cheap public transport is the magic trifecta.

economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 20h

Spain invested heavily in energy production especially solar given their climate. Making energy consistently cheap has fueled growth.

Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 15d

The Spanish boom continues.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 20h

If people think the current antifascist tent is uncomfortably big, I have news about what the last one looked like.

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 20h

You would have to try hard to find a worse leader for the Soviet Union during WWII. IDK how Trotsky would’ve done, but I doubt he purges the Red Army so badly it is pushed to the brink of collapse!