Killing for ContentThe Trump administration cares more about clicks and content than human life.www.liberalcurrents.compost malone ergo propter maloneso does any body know what the objective is of this new bombing campaign
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
Профиль Vivelyexecutive editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
this was a great conversation frankly about the kind of convoluted history of sheriffs as an institution, and how they pioneered and/or are drafting off of trump's tribunate model of governance democracy not as checks and balances but "i alone can fix it"
Liberal CurrentsToday @jesspish.bsky.social, author of The Highest Law in the Land, talks to @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com about how fringe ideas once confined to militia movements and strange cranks have infected public office, the historical development of sheriffs, and more.
[victoria 3 voice] step 1, step 2, step 3, you know literally just every step all the time CRUSH THE LANDOWNERS
Nathan Goldwag"The people who work on farms often don't own them" is something that would have been completely intuitive to 99% of people for 99% of human history but is completely unintelligible to the people who make US public policy.
in writing this i had occasion to revisit smucker's HEGEMONY HOW-TO, always worthwhile. i was struck by what i had forgotten. smucker discusses how nominally outward-facing actions are used to secure in-group standing, but he presents this as how it feels from the inside: as a matter of identity.
Prairieland: A Tactical and Strategic AnalysisGreat evils require effective remedies.www.liberalcurrents.comokay so like he definitely had a stroke right
Aaron Rupar"You had the courage ... the courage to undertake Epic Fury. It takes guts" -- Pete Hegseth is doing tricks on that thing
what i think is quite striking is that these "deconstructions" themselves implicitly accept the natural problematic as a framework: "if it were natural, then it would be essential and inevitable and good." but that itself is giving away far too much: the natural world, too, is subject to change
Chapter 3.1: Against the Imagined Natural | Samantha Hancox-Li[Note: the opening here repeats some text from a previous section, The Story of Humanity. This is because I have changed my mind about the owww.patreon.comae1. X is reified, essential, inevitable 2. But X is actually the product of a discursive movement 3. The discursive movement that came up with X is Bad 4. Now that we know this, we can make X go away