This is what happens when you get rid of all the public washrooms.

If your choices are between 100% Hitler and 99% Hitler then the logical conclusion is that the choice-making machine is broken.

If I were a fake state ostensibly created because of the Holocaust, I would probably think twice before I started executing prisoners to make room for more prisoners.

I appreciate that only the truly deranged are still talking about human shields. Everyone else has stopped talking about it because it's obvious that civilians don't actually work as shields against Israeli bombings!

Oh shit, I didn’t see that the tweet was from over a year ago. Absolutely nailed it.

One of the most helpful things for understanding this, at least in my experience, is studying how fundamentally undemocratic liberal democracies are in any practical sense. Public policy doesn’t match public sentiment. Huge numbers of people are disenfranchised, effectively and literally. Political parties hold immense authority over who has a practical chance of holding any given elected office. Plenty of positions are appointed without democratic process. That’s to say nothing about the fact that private interests, which are not democratic, are in control of most of the economy.

Others can speak to the relative democratic nature of the Bad Countries, but I think that it’s helpful to do a closer analysis of whether the ostensibly legitimate democracies even really qualify as democratic in the first place when they don’t produce democratic results, in either legitimacy or practical outcomes.

POSIWID is one of the most important concepts when discussing the state of the world on basically any topic. You will still run into people who insist on believing things that aren’t true at all, but it’s a good starting point with someone who acknowledges the reality of a situation but can’t get over the idea that “there must be something wrong with the system, it’s not supposed to do that.”

No, it’s not supposed to do that, but it is, and it will continue to do so unless we do something about it.

“Mrs. Pelosi, is the secret protest funding in the room with us right now?”

How am I supposed to take this person seriously as a transphobe when they don’t even have a twitter blue subscription?

Nah, Trump likes Xi. He’ll be all over the place about China, but on an individual level he can spot a winner, and he likes winners. He might even still call Xi a dictator, but he’d be like “and that’s good, because he’s a very smart man. Very smart. China is lucky to have him. Some of us aren’t so lucky, if you know what I mean.”

This would be a good opening paragraph in a dystopian YA novel.

Elon Musk got me to stop using Twitter.