Recent content by Angst

this is my guess. went into the thread to post about it, but here we are. a judge attempted to order relief from a disaster fund (didn't see if it was mentioned in the thread, only skimmed the last few pages), and as it's a wholly win for the republican voter base to take it, if trump blocks it...

@GenMarshall good faith explanation here, i believe, so i think the visceral response of lex's jpg came down to phrasing. it's strange phrasing to say that one is "almost at a point of accepting of fictional stories of trans people". the phrasing is weird because of the built-in premises; so...

sure (just snipping here for a few inserts) art never is. your sentence does demonstrate an intention, in that you feel, and it should. but artistic objects are just as such, they don't care about what you feel, nor what you think they should be. they're just objects. the art itself is a mode...

for modern art, the method is basically just to be curious about the world instead of asking it to change to be something that pleases you. compare with food. sugar lights up your brain. it's nice. but there's other flavors than sweet. be curious about the world. many works are intentionally...

this is a weird statement irt the core point, that the slave trade was huge, and had a huge economic impact. slave trade made for a huge growth. i tried to google for choxorn's question (as in, actual relative economic proportions of slave trade vs ... regular trade) and instantly stumbled upon...

was about to say, ireland says hi

don't forget the wonders of nutmeg and pepper! gets around the technicality of being called slave labour and just being a private army police state! ignore what happened to the workers. oh. and the silver.

this is an impression one gets if one is in certain grifter mills online. stellar blade is actually an interesting case irt this because the article that made the rounds as western devs being out of touch acknowledged the concerns being called out in the very next sentence (that didn't go...

IT'S ALL MY FAULT

all of this is really charming. it's nuts that it's been that long. i think my first post was when i was an idiot 14 year old. i said that celts culturally developed into germanics, i believe. good times.

the thread started with discussing the benevolence of british imperialism, so china being brought up has to be treated warily, and that was the general appeal of my post, then further sectioned into components. the fact that you went in so mad is tiring. i'm not trying to trick you, i'm trying...

unsure whether this is for me, and what the point is, but if this is the point, & it's for me: that's not what i'm doing, at all. i'm literally just giving a structural overview of the left's discussion of china (why it often ignores it in certain contexts of discussion, & the note that the...

so just to chime in here, and not to ignore the rest of the post (white guilt exists, etc etc). it's a behavior that seems weird, but there are three practical reasons for this often overlooked. first off, there's the question of impact and relative strength. mongolia, turkey, and (the region...

what does tax policy have to do with historical preservation

10+ but kinda cheating because europe austria canada croatia czech republic denmark england france germany greece iceland italy morocco norway spain sweden switzerland poland and a short pass through netherlands, belgium and luxembourg but that was just truck stop chillin where we got out of...