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15 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
It really is beyond amazing that we now have a giant logistics snafu, on top of an ENERGY CRISIS, meaning that some poor americans might not be able to afford food OR heating. At that point, the entirety of the "radical" leftward political spectrum decides to...
...suddenly discover that actually, none of these things matter. No heating? No problem, that's never led to anything ever. No food? What, you think a *lack of food* has implications for the stability of a political system? What are you, some nerd who thinks history is even real?
I don't like to beat around the bush so here is the reason for it: these people want you to listen to their podcasts or buy their magazine or whatever. "Lord, give me chastity and temperance but not now!" in "revolutionary" drag.
If all you have is a podcast or a twitter account, the moment things start getting real is the moment people with political power out there in the real world will take over, at which point you will be forgotten. It really is that simple.
This is coincidentally why I don't like being dragged into these ridiculous fights over internet "turf". If you don't have - or are trying to attain - a real constituency consisting of people with names and addresses, you're just playing with monopoly money.

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This is honestly just an indication of ruling class neurosis and fear in America. Though some other western countries are in the same general ballpark as this, there's a quality to this covid alarlism in the US that remind me of the show trials during the stalinist period.
This isn't some "hurr durr communism bad" point. Stalinist Russia *needed* these show trials against people like Radek and Bukharin, even if they sabotaged the USSR's reputation among communists abroad. It would have been smarter to just kill these people and dump them in a lake.
If you were an enemy of the nazis and they considered you a threat, they just shot you. If you were an enemy of the nazis and well-known enough for your death to be a problem, they handed you a gun and told you to shoot yourself with it, or else your family would suffer.
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17 Oct
Alright so this has been a fairly common point made in the last thread I made about these vaccine mandates and the whole latent conflict between the states and the federal government. This complaint actually hides a very interesting dynamic, so let's dive into it.
At this point, some of these vaccines have just been quietly retired from general use, and others (like moderna) are being severely restricted across much of Europe, owing to fears of severe side effects.
European governments are slowly backing away from these vaccinations in specific situations and with specific groups, but will probably end up abandoning the idea of mass vaccination entirely. It was an idea that always had serious, serious problems, and reality is catching up.
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17 Oct
I tend to be pretty sanguine about these things because I'm a party man for a populist party, stuff like this is not going to make the job less necessary (its also a form of cope), but combine harvesters breaking down and not being replaced is a real [laughter stops] moment.
The threat from this supply crisis qas never a lack of "treats", but rather second- and third order effects of a cascading system collapse in a tightly coupled system. Or, in plain english: necessary economic functions breaking down due to breakdowns further up the chain.
Now stuff like this is not likely to lead to outright famine. Some individuals and families might end up close to starvation (though in some sense that goes on today as well), but this could cause permanent damage to the food growing capacity.
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16 Oct
God dominions is so great. If Von Moltke the Elder was alive today, he'd unironically have his general staff play this game. No other game comes close to embodying the principles of warfare against a human opponent. And it's all set in a high magic fantasy setting too. Image
Most other games give you either the tactical or the strategic layer. In this, you're fully in control of the operational layer. To win against a human opponent, you must not only out-think them, but also manage the coordination of massive forces across multiple fronts. Image
Unlike in EU4, you're the one telling your troops how to fight, what tactics to use, what spells to rely on. From using japanese goblins attacking under the cover of darkness, to blasting the entire battlefield with meteors, there's a billion tricks to play. Image
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The famous japanese admiral Tōgō Heihachirō was convinced he was the reincarnation of Horatio Nelson; if that is indeed the case, I can only reply that Markus Allard must be the reincarnation of Huey Long for our day and age. I'm really only half joking when I say that, too.
We became leftists out of some romantic notion of fighting for ordinary people against entrenched elites and economic parasites. We left the left in order to actually fight that fight for real.
In some ways, there's a lot of overlap between us and parts of the american right, I'm thinking in particular of @emeriticus who by dint of personal background and sound political instincts have been very active in pushing the right toward a more populist direction.
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15 Oct
Realtalk: everyone who was a "revolutionary" in 2016 or whatever, when there were no strikes, no supply crisis, no big legitimacy crisis, are now telling you the regime is going to last forever and that saying otherwise is heresy of the vilest and basest kind. Why? Well...
...it really doesn't take a genius to figure out. The radical left in the west has spent the last couple of decades play-acting at being the heirs of whatever political upheaval would come along, the leaders of the people, waiting patiently in their catacombs.
Now the moment may well and truly be here, and they are desperately trying to abjure it away, ridiculing poor people who won't be able to heat their homes this winter for being spoiled, and claiming that political strike action doesn't matter.
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