“Civilians are a threat to the military” is definitely a take of some sort, no question there.

In terms of late Archaic Greece, my understanding is that Athens seems to have risen from a relative backwater to a kind of civilizational redoubt in LH IIIB/C, due to favorable defensibility (terrain and cyclopean walls) and an ability to decentralize and “agrarianize” to deal with climate change.

Bad Brains, Skunk Anansie, Death (arguably the first punk band).

Newsom is almost comically voraciously-opportunistic; he went alt-right when he thought that’s where the action was, he’s gone anti-Trump now that he sees where the wind’s blowing. Arguing that you’ll walk from the party over a guy who’s going to get 28% in IA and 7% in SC is meaningless posturing.

I think it’s an open question as to whether he arrived in Thiel’s orbit with his soul already desiccated into a malevolent husk, but he certainly has gotten a whole lot fucking weirder, and from the outside a lot more pharmaceutically-driven, in the years since.

The shortest line between these arguments is one that makes no one happy: wages went up and unemployment down; this resulted in wage-push inflation; voters got angry that they saw their material conditions decline as a result of others’ improving; so the crabs pulled each other back into the bucket.

What’s more interesting is that Elvis Presley /is/ listed, despite him not being in any possible way a politically-exposed person since, uh, the Carter administration.

Also glosses over the the fact that, in the early Republic, the genteel English (and Dutch) East Coasters considered the Scots-Irish drunken uncivilized savages who kept moving the frontier westward every time someone set up a church and a school anywhere near their rude cabins.

It’s been grotesquely fascinating to watch SV oligarchs whose fortunes came from neoliberal economics, developed-world rule-of-law and liberal social beliefs go all-in on a cod-mercantilist kulturkampf fascist who uses the government’s police power to personally enrich himself.

I don’t even believe Russell Kirk was, despite his protestations, a Whiggish Burkean; the idea that Charlie Kirk was is downright risible.

Look, to be fair, clavicular was dairygooned by foidless moids looking to jestermaxx him on stream, so a mog-off is totally warranted.

It says something that what’s remarkable about the mayor is how much he loves the actual functioning of municipal government, and how hard he works to publicize what it’s doing, from streets and works to marriage licenses. It’s a balm for political cynicism, that’s for sure.

Some SWFs are better-run than others, but most are at least in part elite-controlled slush funds, and the ability to swing multi-billion-dollar investments with one call and a weekend hunting with falcons with a shaykh or two is seductive compared with dealing with Western institutional investors.

A lot of this, I think, can be traced back to the pivot by sovereign wealth funds — first Asian and then Gulf — into SV investments from 2016 on, which became a chief funding source when ZIRP ended. I think a lot of SV types fell in love with oligarchic systems that concentrate power and capital. /

Has this guy even been on a Teams call? I get more background music than I want in a day.