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Ring It In
Humanity will ring in a new year in the week ahead.
Here's hoping 2025's every bit the horrific, blood-soaked melee that 2024 turned out to be.
I'm kidding. I mean, 2024 was a bloody free-for-all in many parts of the world. But I certainly don't wish that for 2025. Hope's not a strategy, though, and I'm not optimistic.
Many of 2024's worst atrocities admitted of an all-too-familiar tragicomedic paradox: Our species has an incurable penchant for unironically justifying the most godforsaken beh
H, care to share details of your planned NYE festivities? Perhaps you will have some aftershocks of your own?
Nails it; “ penchant for unironically justifying the most godforsaken behavior by reference to the Divine.”
Yes!
Yes seconded, profound.
Hopefully the MAGA “civil war” over H-1B visas will put paid to the “I only oppose illegal immigaration” justification. The base does not want ANY immigration. Stepehen Miller gets that, DJT does not, so far…
H-Man, interesting piece in the NYT today about populist leaders, like Trump, and their policies being not the best of ingredients for a healthy economy due to the relatively short term time horizon for those policies. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/opinion/trump-business-populism.html