LivinPretend🍉🇵🇸

Si soutenir JLM suffisait à battre l'extrême droite, on le ferait et ça serait réglé. Le problème, c'est que c'est faux. 100% des sondages montrent que la présence de Mélenchon au 2nd tour assure la victoire des fachos. C'est quand même un sujet. Vous ne pouvez pas balayer ça.

Les mots ont un sens! Vos modèles Maduro, Xi et Castro sont des dictateurs. Pas Saakachvili, qui a pris le pouvoir par une révolution démocratique et l’a quitté en perdant des élections libres. Mais la démocratie ne vous intéresse pas. Contrairement à Erner qui vous obsède.

Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office releases a photo of him in the hospital.

I get why so many liberals are fundamentally disdainful of democracy these days—it’s because liberalism is exhausted. It’s out of answers. Liberalism won, it delivered the world it promised, and people still aren’t content. They’re not satisfied. So the people must be wrong. We are unfathomably richer than our ancestors. Output per capita in America today is on the order of 900 times greater than before the invention of agriculture, about ~225 times higher than in 1 CE, and about the same (225 times) higher than Europe in 1000 CE. If measurable productivity were really the greatest object of human society, then we shouldn’t just be a little bit happier than people in the distant (or even recent!) past—we should be *ecstatic*. We should *already* be living in a utopian age of overwhelming contentment. We should be *currently* experiencing a kind of paradise. The Kingdom of Heaven, as liberalism conceives of it, has already been made real on Earth. We are living in their Eden, and 20% of people are depressed. We’ve stopped reproducing ourselves. We’re overwhelmingly dissatisfied with our governments, anxious about our economies, and pessimistic about the future. If you talk to rational liberals, you can usually get them to acknowledge the ways in which humans are wired not to appreciate absolute levels of wealth—the hedonic treadmill is a well-documented phenomenon. The evolutionary reasons why humans are wired to attend more closely to *relative* prosperity instead of absolute prosperity are obvious. They’ll usually admit this. And the conclusion, insanely, always comes back to something like “isn’t it unfortunate that people can’t appreciate how well-off they are? We’ve delivered well-being, people just don’t recognize it.” This is an obvious, ludicrous contradiction! Who determines the well-being of the people if not the people themselves?! I want to be clear; I’m not making an appeal to RETVRN. I don’t believe things were better in the poor old days. But that’s rather my point; delivering human contentment is not as simple as turning the dial up or down on the Output Machine. Meaning, security, and satisfaction are actually hard problems that demand specific and well-evidenced answers. Liberal elites’ disdain for everything that can’t be so simply measured and optimized is not evidence of their entitlement to rule over irrational masses, but instead proof of *their* irrational commitments to their ideological ends in denial of the reality of what drives human happiness. They purport to be rational, but this blinkered drive to Produce More is anything but.

MITCH MCCONNELL just made his triumphant return to the floor of the U.S. SENATE

The Taiwanese Embassy in Paraguay reposted senator Celeste Amarilla's statements on Instagram.

One of my favorite Deng anecdotes.

JUST IN: Democratic Socialists of America’s planned national platform reportedly calls for abolishing the U.S. Senate.