Politics professors keep winning.

it was a mistake to let the word leftist break containment. it was already meaningless but people are so desperate to be a part of the people with the cool ™️ social politics while not actually changing their politics.

half the country is immersed in a libidinal politics powered by visceral metaphors of bodily corruption, defilement, and disease. The other half wakes up every single day, reads the news with the same shock and incomprehension, and renews its commitment to bloodlessness as the highest virtue.

It is all perception www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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I think it's ok for people with other experiences to get into politics! (There are far too many lawyers in congress, for example.) But leading the executive branch (or standing ready to do so on a moment's notice) shouldn't be your first job in government, or even nearly so.

Arrival is like a perfect film aside its somewhat silly global politics

I don't have a grand and I wouldn't take the bet if I did because honestly it could go either way. I have actually met Tory councillors here who genuinely are fucked off by the lurch towards reactionary politics though who would say this and mean it during my time as a Green/independent councillor.

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