White, cis, bisexual ace. Jewish atheist. Autistic. He/him.Self-hating capitalist. Former business student. Current "independent contractor" working the new economy hellscape.
Expect lots of social justice stuff, art, Naruto, & me being opinionated.
sometimes I wanna reply “bitch me too” to my mutuals posts but I’ve never talked 2 them so they might not see it as friendly joking so i just dont
reblog if it’s okay to say “bitch me too” to you if you’re mutuals
Shit, you can say that even if you’re just a follower
I do that fine on my own, thank you.
"What authoritarian regimes do is blunder forward, grasping and grabbing power whenever and wherever they can, building secretive inner circles, surrounding themselves with supplicant state media, demonizing dissenting voices, and punishing enemies. They do this not because of some 12-dimensional chess analysis of the political landscape, but because that’s what narcissism and zero-sum thinking does. They are more like animals driven by instinct than chess masters driven by strategy, though of course there’s a range (with Trump being on the far blinded-by-narcissism end).
If we’re looking to understand the course an authoritarian takes through a country and its history — what’s he’s accomplished, what’s likely to happen next — the place to look is not his intent, but the institutions and norms of the country he seeks to dominate. They, not his ultimate goals and desires, are what most determine the ultimate shape and consequences of a regime.
Think of a bull loose in a china shop. How much damage will it do? The relevant variable is not the bull’s intent. A bull’s gonna bull. The relevant variable is how equipped the china shop is to stop the bull. How many tranquilizer darts does it have, or, I don’t know, nets? (I didn’t think this analogy all the way through.)
The point is, how far an authoritarian can blunder forward, violating norms and degrading institutions, is determined by the strength of the norms and institutions he encounters. They determine when, or whether, he is constrained."
We’re really, truly fucked, aren’t we? America’s political institutions are, by design, a godawful combination of difficult to change and completely ineffectual.
there’s a website where you put in two musicians/artists and it makes a playlist that slowly transitions from one musician’s style of music to the other’s
(Also I’m laughing because this is two separate fuck-ups: in the original Chinese game, obviously Mr. Xu never bothered to change Ino’s quote, and then the translator looked at this and said, “Yep, I’m not being paid enough to do anything other than just translate what it says.”)
So glad to see Naruto Online has the equivalent of this classic video game fuck-up:
