It’s going to be weird to see how ISIS incorporates China into their history-obsessed weirdness of Crusaders and Safavids.
Author Archives: Ben Tolkin
AFD Micron #46
Why give your money to a bloated, inefficient government when you could let a bloated multinational corporation extract your money as efficiently as possible?
AFD Micron #45
Other students in the Spring Valley High School video are terrified and still. Other adults are in the room and do nothing. Public abuses of power make people frightened of authority and more subservient, even after we all agree they are abuses. The officer’s been fired; good, but you can hardly still act surprised if people of color feel threatened by state authority.
AFD Micron #44
Important political insights: With Biden not running, Lincoln Chafee’s got the “looks like a friendly Senator Palpatine” factor in the bag! #feelthechafe
AFD Micron #43
Most of the ways in which people hate the Millennials for being “entitled” fall so squarely under one of America’s original entitlements, the “pursuit of happiness.” Like, you can’t get more conservative, old-school, noncontroversial than that. It’s pretty well established that people should consider themselves entitled to pursue happiness, and if you’re going to get mad when Millennials ask for better jobs, a more tolerant society, and a more welcome future… what is it we want that you didn’t want?
AFD Micron #42
By far the top quality I look for in a potential president is competence, followed, surprisingly distantly, by how much I agree with them. Followed yet more distantly by whether or not I trust them, and eventually by how much I like them. Which is a roundabout way of saying I’m still in Hillary’s soulless, depressing camp.
AFD Micron #41
In a weird way, it’s inspiring that 90% of presidential candidates have worse basic debating skills than high-schoolers. Like, it shows they aren’t just mindless shills picked for rhetorical abilities, since their rhetorical abilities essentially don’t exist.
