A person who lives according to a truth you've told may have been compelled by the truth, not you.

But to force a person to live according to your lie means you are the one who compelled them.

The more obvious the lie, the more obvious your domination.

So fascists prefer obvious lies.

The reason Trump, Vance and the rest of the MAGA crowd are so dangerous is not because they have the strategic skill to become architects of a new global order but rather because they are so corrupt and inept that they have the potential to become agents of global chaos.

Generative AI can more or less equal, say, television or film visuals that already look like AI, it can equal mediocre ad copy that sounded like AI before AI was a thing; the cultural space already existed for AI and political economy was primed for it, not the other way around

And economic concepts of what constitutes “self-interest” are badly incomplete at best

Racism is not strictly rational, but if you understand the first thing about how identity informs worldview which then informs cognition and reasoning, you immediately grasp the logic at work here

thinking more about this: it is highly ironic that at the same time that it serves as a test case for the "unitary executive," this administration is all but being led by two subordinate officials with no immediate political accountability.

Strong floor, no ceiling. Also known as rock bottom.

you cannot un-see something like "deportation abundance" and for me at least it is going to hang over every new slogan this crowd comes up with like a ghost