Country Bear Jamboree

This is a Yarvinian “ref pulls the black card” moment my tragically idealistic demsoc frenz— take the red pill...

Watching Iowa caucus coverage is reminding me how utterly lame and boring “Politics: The Show” is without the spectacle of Trump, and for all the smart-set takes for why he was elected the reason that most holds up to scrutiny is simply that he’s entertaining

Worth noting that part of the reason they can get away with this is the absurd overproduction of PhDs. When you have 400 desperate applicants for every position, coming up with some ridiculous but easily applied litmus test must be pretty appealing, even to non-ideologues.https://twitter.com/jaspergregory/status/1224497017142960129 …

Having a serious smallbrain moment, realizing Ive never actually made the link between phd overproduction & ideological homogeneity of professoriate.https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1224503961702584320 …

The anxiety that causes this is exactly the same anxiety that causes middle class people to try hard to appear rich, causes midwitted people to try to appear ingenious. The middle tier of a hierarchy is the most precarioushttps://twitter.com/cbbc/status/1223170327188058113 …

Sir Keir has today written to the Cabinet Secretary expressing his outrage at No.10 refusing to brief journalists from specific newspapers. Good for him. Except this is the same Sir Keir who kicked-off his leadership campaign saying he wouldn't speak to the Sun.

The other night I saw a young albino fashion model in black leather have a conversation with someone in Russian on her handsfree set, underneath the rusty neon signboard of an old sushi joint in downtown Tokyo. The most Cyberpunk thing I've ever seen. It really is 2020 after all.

I wonder what percentage of British people realise that their DNA is a glorious melange of their parents'. There is no such thing as "you" really; you're just a soup. 0

"But enough of the princeps – what now remains to be described is the monster." This, from Suetonius' life of Caligula, must surely rank as the greatest line in any biography.

Bernie is going to win b/c God holds a hilariously specific grudge against moderate conservatives who couldn't bring themselves to support Trump.

It is also true that much of the mistrust won't be from outright conspiracies, but from simple incompetence; the increasing inability to do the job plus a zero-trust environment naturally leads to the belief that the fuckups are an intentional screwjobhttps://twitter.com/funga_bunga/status/1224616885364224002 …

An easy example of a no-trust society is one where you're supposed to have any remotely shared political beliefs with people who literally can't even speak the same language as you And they vote toohttps://twitter.com/latweetx/status/1224507363887144961 …

The best part is even if it isn't blatantly rigged, many Bernie supports will think it is, and no one will be able to prove it either way Elites defecting against the people as the people become multicultural/disconnected from each other = the no-trust societyhttps://twitter.com/LokiJulianus/status/1224530527681728512 …

My friend has done Christian prison ministry for over 20 years and she told me about this probably 10 or 15 years ago. Muslims have a very strong presence in the prisons & there is a lot of radicalization going on.

The rise of Sinn Fein is largely down to the appalling state of Ireland's housing market, and a warning to other countries about what voters will be driven to if housing becomes completely unaffordable.https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1224443536910643201 …

Constrained housing supply is politically LETHAL for the right. It means rising incomes go into rents, so people don't feel any benefit from economic growth; causes people to have children & form families later; and drives them to policies like rent controls out of desperation.

*me scrolling my timeline* “Nice, goodboymachine made raman, gotta fav that. Studs going to church, that’s a fav. Cool, Boo is making cookies, that’s a big fav. Nightmare Vision just completed another week of bone broth only diet, right on, that’s gonna have to be a fav from me”