pumpchilienthusiast

no pun intended lol

first as tragedy then as farce (or something)

Maybe it's some sort of confirmation bias, but it seems like there's a lot of prominent right wing people of Indian ancestry (Vivek Ramaswamy, Dinesh D'Souza, Nikki Haley). Is it confirmation bias or is this a real thing? If the latter, what is driving it other than US immigration policies excluding leftists?

scratch a liberal, etc

The second episode of Matt's Spanish Civil War series is on the paid feed (and I assume the Black Wolf feed, but I pay the lads).

I know it was recorded before his recent health struggles, but it's great to hear our favorite large adult son again. I dunno how I'm going to get through this election year without his apoplectic rage of circa 2016-2020.

My podcast feed is looking pretty light these days. Looking for recommendations, especially if they have a leftist bent.

(obviously it privileged to think everyone can just pull up stakes and move to Italy, but it's equally naive to think we can magically turn the us into a first world country by voting harder)

really quite vicious

NotJustBikes is getting dragged on Twitter for this post.

What do you think? Is he right? Wrong? Not wrong, but an asshole?

When I see how hard advocates and sympathetic planners have to work in 2023 to get a halfassed facility that would never make it off the drawing board in the Netherlands, it's hard for me to say he's wrong.

That I just had the thought “what if ready player one is actually an incredibly misunderstood masterpiece satire of 21st century nerd culture instead of literally memberberries: the novel/movie”

I may have indulged too much