Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026www.infiniteconversation.cominfiniteconversation.comThe Infinite ConversationAn AI generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek. 2210
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026True; its impossible to picture londo acting differently precisely because its impossible to imagine him countenencing something like that scene in severed dreams where the narns just get mowed down in defense of something greater 011
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I mean, on like three distinct occasions he agrees with you so hard that he knocks the whole government over on his own authority (Torhan, Cartagia, Virini kinda). But were any of his changes for the better? The most interesting question for me was always what he could possibly have done differently 110
Reposted by Partaker in DiscourseNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The root of why so many discourses about voting On Here are so toxic is that the people who actually decide most elections have basically zero involvement in them, and on some level we all understand that. 2168582
Reposted by Partaker in DiscourseBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves 7486591359
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I imagine so. I imagine they dealt with them by encouraging business investment to generate tax revenue. 110
Reposted by Partaker in DiscourseKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026The lede of this story says Trump might be willing to walk away from Iran without a nuclear deal if it reopens Hormuz, which to me sounds like trading an Iranian nuclear weapon for recognizing Iranian sovereignty over the strait. 35680136
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Stats like this reinforce my belief that "too much money in politics" is an outdated concern. Maybe money can buy you technicians who know how to control a narrative, if there are any such people, but in its raw form it seems useless past a certain relatively low threshold 000
Reposted by Partaker in DiscourseMatt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 03/08/2026yeah, the issue with viewing elections as a linear algebra problem where you solve for the optimal policy platform is that you tend to generate candidates that cant credibly signal that they believe any of this 1045567
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 19/07/2026"How the hell we gonna run Reform when we's the incumbent?" 010
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The "Parliamentarian" is an American government official who posesses 10 senatorial votes, but may only cast them once per budgetary period. 000
Reposted by Partaker in Discoursethe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 09/07/2026the fact that this absolute shambles of a campaign operation drove the incumbent governor out of the race and won the primary with 73 percent should be a category 5 Red Alert for the establishment tbh 1363074
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Increasingly clear that, however much you may approve of the kind of politics Platner represents, he is not and now can never be a viable vessel for them. 010
Reposted by Partaker in DiscourseNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026You're going to watch the entire legal establishment flip on its head, too, now that their lords and masters have informed them that it's a Reasonable Topic of Disagreement™. The idea that this was completely settled law for a hundred years is going to be totally verboten to mention. 201668365
Reposted by Partaker in DiscourseWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I remember watching in total despair and bafflement as Pelosi futzed around with the idiotic proposal to remove Trump with the 25th Amendment. Even raising this cockamamie idea as a possibility made a mockery of the Constitution, which only envisioned one possible remedy for a crime of this gravity. 522713
Reposted by Partaker in DiscourseNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The elite psychosis about wind turbines and solar power feels very new, I do not think there was anybody in 1910 screaming that oil-driven turbines were a Satanic plot to undermine the True Christian Doctrine of steam boilers. 5558
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I'll admit I may be misinterpreting, but Thomas' dissent actually gives me vertigo - I struggle to see how what he is saying differs from "The founders appear to establish a system without a hereditary monarch, but surely they couldn't have meant that, there would have been no historical precedent" 081
Reposted by Partaker in DiscourseEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Companies ”voluntarily” giving the US shares to avoid making the president mad is among the worst forms of capitalism I can imagine 440473
Reposted by Partaker in DiscourseAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump 26985351969
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Supreme court votes 5-4 not to raise inflation to 30%. yay 000
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I've always wondered why we dont see more highly organized metaparties that only field candidates in primaries. Any faction that stood one up would gain a serious advantage! 010
Reposted by Partaker in DiscoursePatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I don’t worry about a few ultra-conservative or ultra-progressive people getting elected to Congress. I worry about Congress becoming increasingly irrelevant as an institution, replaced by executive orders and talk shows. 38015
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I'm still on tumblr in the year 2026 and they are devising grammatical forms over there that God couldn't conceive in heaven 100
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Good thread; explains the whole of the sentiment. My rent is rising faster than my salary. Therefore, I know I will eventually need to downsize; tomorrow ill be worse than today. This certainty colors all of my thinking; I can be saving 1/3rd of my very substantial income, and still feel doomed. 000
Reposted by Partaker in Discourseaustin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 22/05/2026the only person i know who is (correctly, imo) screaming that the joystick has snapped off in our hand and no one even *can* fly the plane anymore is will stancil 2927
Reposted by Partaker in DiscourseWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/05/2026The good news is it means Trump doesn’t get exempted. He will suffer from the general malaise as much as, or even worse than, Biden did. The bad news is that it means the problem is probably still waiting for us on the other side of Trump. It’ll happen to us again. And it’s very hard to solve. 81327
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 14/05/2026"They have practically no capabilities left - only enough to win the war, no more." 010
Reposted by Partaker in DiscourseReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 05/05/2026and this circles back to "it's easier to imagine the end of American democracy than it is to imagine the end of the 6th party system" 412613
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 07/05/2026I've said before - with modern data science, redistricting committees exercise straightforward power of appointment over their respective legislatures. 021
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 05/05/2026The odessey is a fantastic story, but not a majestic one, which is what people want it to be given its age and foundational role in our culture. It's like how some people want Mozart to have been this incarnation of the soul of music and then they read up on him and he was a fucking catboy 0150
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 05/05/2026"It says here on your resume that you worked as a United States Attorney for the Department of Justice." "Look, I was fresh out of college, I had to make ends meet..." 010
Reposted by Partaker in DiscourseWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/05/2026The literal military, with the ability to throw people in jail for making statements that cast the organization in a bad light, is incapable of the level of message discipline you are saying is needed. 736624
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Desperately waiting for ethnic discourse to get going so I can claim that the philly cheesesteak is Italian food 150
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Pretty soon we'll have the original congress back - one house elected by the people, one appointed by the state legislatures. 100
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I dont know, at some point this feels like if an American tried to claim that Hamburgers are actually German food 1110
Reposted by Partaker in DiscourseRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture. 17494481744
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Not good if we've breached the threshold where even the sane are willing to die to oppose these people. They are a much larger demographic. 000
Reposted by Partaker in DiscourseAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 23/04/2026This is wild: the authors find evidence for giant, macro-predatory octopuses in Late Cretaceous oceans that might max out at *62 feet long,* comfortably large enough to attack, kill and eat mosasaursscience.orgEarliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceansTop predators drive changes in ecosystem structure. For the last ~370 million years, large-sized vertebrates have dominated the apex of the marine food chain, while invertebrates have served as smalle... 122095666
Reposted by Partaker in DiscourseWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I think the problem for US media is that if you admit Hormuz is an almost irresolvable conundrum you also are implicitly arrayed against the president and his power-of-positive-thinking approach that it’ll magically open, placing you in the forbidden realm of Taking A Side 19874103
Reposted by Partaker in DiscourseWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Me: “Every single day I carry around a device telling me that packs of wolves are ravaging American cities” News: “Polls show Americans increasingly concerned about packs of wolves ravaging their cities” Commentators: “Clearly the metrics aren’t capturing the full extent of the wolf problem” 2734435
Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 12/04/2026The other day, I saw a homeless man in a park screaming at an old lady who had refused to give him money, "Well I got news for you - we got a new president, his name is Donald Trump, and he doesn't give an F about people like you! He cares about people like me!" That's really all there is. 010
Reposted by Partaker in DiscourseWes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms 222103432250
Reposted by Partaker in DiscourseWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19/03/2026people don't realize how concentrated GOP fundraising is. more than half of all money that they got in 2024 was from donations over $1mn. it's like 200-300 rich cranks that keep the party operating. underrated explanation in why they've gone so insane. 333379670
