Francis Fukuyama is a fucking genius and a prophet.

Singapore is a high trust society and doesnt have a homogenous culture. Different races and ethnic groups packed into a small space yet you can walk around at 3am drunk with cash hanging out of your pocket and a $100k watch on your wrist and no one will do anything

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Right wing discourse is also kinda this but about the opposite people.

He directed a mob to hang his vice president.

the President of the United States attempted a coup last time he was in office and then he cruised back to nomination without a sweat and immediately pardoned all his conspirators "the Republican party wants to destroy the Republic" is only barely an exaggeration

Why does it take $1.85 billion (with a b) to do a study? 1. Who is getting this contract and who are being employed to do this study? 2. I want an itemized list of how that $1.85 billion (with a b) is being expended. You know what the opportunity costs are for another $1.85

“Make republicans vote yes on a $400M ballroom before a midterm” are they trying to lose all the close races?

Muita gente não sabe, mas a Força Aérea dos EUA usava ursos pretos reais para testar cápsulas de ejeção em aviões supersônicos nos anos 60. Como era impossível garantir a segurança dos pilotos no B-58 Hustler sem dados biológicos, eles ejetavam os ursos em velocidades absurdas.

Do not use bespoke weapons to make a point or test them for some godforsaken reason. To call it a “test” is misleading. That would require the ability to gather data, or truth, on all sorts of things from flight dynamics, warhead accuracy, etc. Using it to make a point

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis Office Are you insane, this was the worst day for American animals ever

I feel like not enough attention has been paid to this absolutely shocking statement by Hegseth. He's openly saying that it's bad that Ukraine did far better than Trump expected because Biden gave them weapons. The "Trump helped Ukraine more" crowd needs to STFU.

It seems glib but it is actually really important to recognize that "tax the rich" and "the rich need to leave" are extremely contradictory statements with important implications

Unpopular opinion: SCOTUS whiffed hard when they had the opportunity to blow up gerrymandering and didn't. Gerrymandering is one of the worst practices in American politics— D/R safe districts turn the primaries into the generals, rewarding extremism over centrism.

This Texas Senate primary is exhibit A for "why don't Republicans elect thoughtful conservatives like Ben Sasse any more." Ken Paxton's entire appeal is that he's wildly corrupt, nasty, cruel, and hyper-partisan - which to GOP primary voters means "tough" and "owns the libs."

now can I really blow your mind?

The Republican Party *just* packed the Supreme Court of Utah after it enforced the state's gerrymandering ban. Never let Republicans lecture you about extremism.

There's very little daylight between Sullivan/Rhodes and Vance/Colby conceptualizations of foreign policy. Ultimately boiling down to managing American decline.

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