On the other hand, they’re grifting Zaslav, who is possibly the worst person in show business, so…maybe let them cook.

I mean, yeah, that’s the problem that a lot of political commentary has right now, but Mamdani is explicitly a member of the DSA.

Eh, probably true. But you know him: he’ll say that the nerdy kid in his class was somehow the cruelest ten year old who ever walked the earth, specifically to him only.

Today me, tomorrow you. Take care of yourself, friend.

High five, dude. Hope is an act of defiance. Take care of yourself today.

The angrier he gets the more unrelated imagined slights and enemies he pulls into his rants. One of these days he’s going to be raving against Kamala Harris and toss in a reference to the very mean boys who bullied him during elementary school.

nothing will or can change.

Despair asserts omniscience, and eventually fulfills itself. Don’t fall victim to it; that’s what the fascist playbook requires.

Partially yes, but there’s an even more mundane reason; with nuclear weapons, if the other side has 5, you need 6: five to destroy their five, and one to destroy their capital. But when they discover that, they’ll decide that they need seven: 6 to destroy your 6, and one to destroy your capital. Add in some uncertainty to that feedback loop, and an arms race immediately becomes an exponential curve moderated only by the amount of time production takes and the amount of resources each nation is willing to commit at any given time.

There’s a very real way in which the proliferation of arms is, itself, an uncontrolled nuclear reaction.