“Bipartisan support” “evade controversies”: Understanding 2025 through a 2015 framing

Every time this guy posts a photo with someone it lands the opposite of how he intends. Is it a meta riff on his dad’s reflexivity theory or does he just not care?

The mob is scapegoating a group that can retaliate. Violence is not stable: it escalates or goes down. Up is entropy. Down needs effort. Make your bet. Quote from Cynthia L. Haven book.

Las hipotecas anti-sueño americano de 50 años que propone el presidente Trump son deudas para toda la vida, pagando el doble en intereses que las de 30 y esto por reducir solo 15% la mensualidad. Esto beneficia al banco no a la gente. “Subimos el income? No. Bajamos los

Scapegoating is satanic. You know this, JD Vance Vice President JD Vance . You’ve read René Girard: “Satan or the devil, […], is the “accuser,” the power of accusation and the power of the process resulting in blaming and eliminating a substitute for the real cause of the community's troubles.”

Removing Maduro from power is not just the moral thing to do, but also the right aesthetic decision

Hyperreality works when the participant lives inside the construct. When it gets this crude, this obvious, it’s not hyperreal anymore. It’s just fake. And fake makes most people feel played. Also, for the performative Girardians out there: conscious scapegoating is satanic

“Americanness isn’t a scalar quality that varies based on your ancestry. It’s binary: Either you’re an American or you’re not.” Vivek Ramaswamy

"The Eskimo is a servomechanism of his kayak, the cowboy of his horse, the businessman of his clock, the cyberneticist— and soon the world—of his computer. In short, to the spoils belongs the victor." Marshall McLuhan (1969)