I will not link to it. I just want to reiterate that thousands of books have been banned by the right. And American Dirt sold millions of copies.

I briefly visualized Chotiner sitting down to interview the USA

As a child of the Reagan years, the fact that the *Republican Party* is expropriating shares in companies and shaking companies down while saying stuff like this is wild

The argument is not that America needs to "purify its soul," whatever that means. It is that reactionaries are structurally likelier to control Washington and thus American foreign policy than not, a problem with significant implications for the world no one in politics is taking seriously.

Fundamentally, the logic of the quoted post is circular: "It is irresponsible for the US to do something good because the US is currently bad."

The notion that the US needs to purify its soul before it starts doing good things gets it completely backwards!

WSJ: “.. Lutnick also told meeting attendees that the administration would discuss ‘suspending’ all other green card categories so the gold card path would represent the only way to immigrate permanently.” 🤡

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No, there isn’t a whole world out there capable of tending to the world’s problems. There’s a 🇨🇳 more authoritarian than even 🇺🇸 of Trump’s fantasies, a 🇪🇺 not remotely able/willing to become a viable hegemon, & no one else, etc. The alternative is a dangerous vacuum, not better hegemonic alternatives.

my most unpopular opinion is that it's a sign of defective moral character if you point blank refuse to answer phone calls from unknown numbers. it's not that hard to hang up on spam/scammers, and you are probably missing important calls!

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Grim that anyone is getting mad at this post thinking it means “America First,” like the only critique of American exceptionalism would have to be an American exceptionalist one

Pretending he's unaware of Henry Kissinger's entire career kind of strains credulity.