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PC is for progressive-conservative
20m ago
And, of course, religion is the perfect way to shield an inferior story (and writers), since you can just launder your failure with claims of the audience’s irreverence.
anon_
22m ago
I think the libertarian right is coming around to the fact that government is a necessary evil, and to that end it needs the powers to effect those necessary functions competently.
anon_
25m ago
That aside, I am a big fan of national ID cards. The US should have one, and so should every other country. I don't understand why the right is so opposed to it. It's the easiest way to control illegal immigration.
Moreover, in many other democracies that the US left idolizes, every contact with the government ends up being a check for immigration status, similar to how in the US all police will run you for warrants.
striker
35m ago
Finished The Human Stain (Roth) recently. I thought it was extraordinary. Brilliantly executed social commentary of late 1990s America.
Now reading:
- Cleanness (Garth Greenwell), which has some sordid master-slave gay sex. Sticking with it for some of the writing. For now.
- Irreversible Damage (Abigail Shrier), investigation of possible trans social contagion among teenage girls
- Lots of poems.
Who are the novelists telling state-of-the-world stories right now? I loved Tom Wolfe’s novels for their expansive representation of what he saw as the core story of an era (Bonfire of the Vanities 80s, A Man In Full 90s, I Am Charlotte Simmons 2000s). I have not read all of Philip Roth but got similar vibe from The Human Stain (written in 2000, set in the US of the Clinton/Monica Lewinsky of 1998).
Big, bold, often brilliant novels that take a snapshot of a moment in time and allow readers and the broader culture to make sense of things, and maybe see their own insanity reflected.
Our moment (narrowly: since Covid 2020; more broadly: since Trump/Brexit 2016; broader still: since Lehman Bros/global financial crisis 2008) is in great need of a literature.
Is anyone writing it?
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
41m ago
An ancap argument is essentially the same argument.
striker
50m ago
Yes, this is the reality as I see it. Economics not adding up anymore for most / all legacy news media organisations, so they have to do one of two things, or both: cut news costs, or sensationalise the news to generate attention and win another round of the advertising money game.
pigeonburger
51m ago
Scott Presler would have been better, no?
pigeonburger
58m ago
I don't understand why the right is so opposed to it. It's the easiest way to control illegal immigration.
I think most don't truly oppose it, but it risks alienating some member of their coalition, the sovereign citizen, anti-government types who think not having a national ID is impeding the federal government.
I am not very up on Roth stuff, but wpuld things change if receipt storage were completely trivial? The way my, and I assume nearly all, HSA works is that I submit receipts to the conpany that manages the HSA, and then those credits for withdrawal and ready for me whenever I want to use them. There is no receipt tracking because I just submit immediately.
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