How do you "believe in" capitalism? I'm getting the weirdest flashbacks of seeing creationism vs. evolution debates in college and how the creationist line was always framed as "belief in evolution," and the people who "believed in" it were called "evolutionists", like it was a religion.

ugh i was trying to remember what the deal with the blimp was and found this 2008 wonkette post with a great title from jim newell where whatever it's linking to has somehow dropped out and also the last sentence made me real sad www.wonkette.com/p/its-offici...

The solution is that we have to stop looking for a technical silver bullet and start rebuilding human institutions that are robust enough to resist. It requires work to verify, courage to report, and skepticism to consume.

in a way, bernie was the next logical step after ron paul. in this essay I will (a bag is placed over my head)

i mean they do have "crazy old man who seems to very literally believe what he is saying and not give a single fuck if he is supposed to be saying it" in common bsky.app/profile/capn...

"The Roman Empire contracting and retrenching in what's now Turkey is Literally The End Of Western Civilization For A Thousand Years" doesn't quite have the same ring to it, does it?

At least the Greeks lost a written language (Linear B)

Also we don’t have to worry about the Sea Peoples, which is a bonus

Makes you think though! (Mostly makes you think about how we’re not in the Bronze Age anymore.)