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it's a brilliant song. really conservative. really chaste.

kid charlemagne has finally come through on his promises

another way of looking at it is anti-globalization. the spirit of the 90s finally winning out. the tariffs part of it is certainly that. pulling back from economic integration. putting up barriers to economic efficiency in pursuit of some other ideological goal

I'm not sure I want to participate in this thread it is just fueling his perversion

watched prometheus it was gash

still a mystery for me, what exactly is special about jamaica. it doesn't add up.

not too far off brand to be fair, in that it's an incoherent scream of anguish

at earth (in dimes square), which seems to be a hive of brooklyn culture mafia

yeah. and brown was there throughout new labour obviously as was committed to poverty reduction everywhere. you had a lot of people with those beliefs in new labour cabinets and backbenchers. i don't know what happened to the PLP. the world has bred different people

one of the things that's going on on the internet is an attempt to form a new morality. and it's really worked. you can see it in the sadism that we've talked about. and the woke extremities too

the rwandan genocide being pivotal in forming some aspect of these beliefs obviously, that held through the 90s until even the mid-00s

i don't think you can totally discount the extent to which people believed that america had a moral mission in the world. some of it is fake obviously. but someone like w bush and someone like obama really believed in all of that i think. blair and cameron believed it too. some of it was a...

half-remembered from a couple of books i read in 2018: essentially the US and the rest of the world didn't stop it forcefully enough in the 80s and 90s, partly because the US was were running their war against the Soviet Union via the government of Pakistan. Pakistan was committed to doing it...

the one that keeps coming up for me is counter-terrorism. the al qaeda, isis, pakistani taliban continuum hasn't gone away. maybe something else is in the works. but pulling back from trying to maintain some kind of stability in somalia, pakistan, iraq, the new syria could open a window for a...

I think it's always been a mixture on the aid side. I read two books over the weekend, one a history of USAID since the 60s and the other a history of DfID, alternating books so that I was reading about the same time periods in each agency at the same time. When you read about the internal...

the best one is Linda McMahon, who I used to inhabit and use to hit people with chairs and throw through tables on WWF No Mercy on the N64, is now in charge of Education. I love that

to summarize - they are pulling back from about half the world and focusing on their hemisphere and the pacific. and at the same time they are remaking the american domestic state and the democratic process

it's not quite deleting the US off the map. but the direction of travel is clear and everything will reshuffle now. you can't underestimate as well how much trust the last month or so has obliterated. who would ever count on US military support again even under a democrat in the future? after...

we're going to see what happens to the world without that stabilizing / destabilizing force. on the aid side the human suffering will be immense. but beyond that, we'll find out what happens in a place like somalia without the US being involved. same with the new syria. and what will happen to...