1) Shows his mind is still very firmly in the 70s-80s-90s Manhattan arc
2) Is not bad wedging in the “blue” cities where there’s definite tension in the limousine liberal/minority/young upstart D coalitions, over housing, over culture, over policing.
In Portland there’s a brewing conflict over “more traffic cops to realize our Vision Zero pedestrian safety plan” (coalition being bicyclist hipsters and outer-city dwellers with few options) and “no, we want to minimize police contact” (leftists and the woke)
3) illustrates that police unions are an alternate chain of command that the federal government can articulate with when blue-appointed formal leadership demurs
Anonymous asked: have you listened to conor oberst much? he has similar "resurrecting america" vibes to you, see Gossamer Thin, NYC-Gone Gone and Gossamer Thin from his main group, Forest Lawn and Dylan Thomas from Better Oblivion Community Center, and Golden Parachutes from Desaparaceidos
Before WWII, the “Classic Six” apartment layout of Manhattan’s Upper West and Upper East Sides might consist of 20% low-income residents, with the maid’s room opening directly onto the workplace.
‘cause for a while I’ve been expecting a cultural turn on correlation of forces grounds but it was severe enough I couldn’t possibly imagine how anyone could get to narrativizing it from where we are, and I just found an answer-shaped idea, it’s chillingly well precedented, the coalition that would be against it just spent the last decade defining themselves against each other, the premise and the motte are perfectly in line with modern goodthink, and the bailey is the most corrosive weapons-grade infohazard I’ve ever seen
And since then first I heard all sorts of guesses, but it mostly seemed an excuse for people to pour their apocalypticisms out on me, no two were the same. But I meant “infohazard” seriously, not just like dangerous forbidden knowledge but like encountering it changes your worldview in a way you can’t shake
love when a Facebook ad makes me feel extremely Seen and then the Why Am I Seeing This Ad? page gives me some vague bullshit, like yeah, suuuuure you thought I’d like a Pavlovian biofeedback shock bracelet based on my interest in Meditation, bitch
