What a couple of days it has been… Ukraine has destroyed a substantial portion of Russia’s air force and today they successfully attacked the Kerch Strait Bridge. We are clearly in the last steps of this war, and it will be over by the end of the year with Ukraine regaining all of its territory. …
Yearly Archives: 2025
Fix Doctor Who Season 41
The finale of Doctor Who Season 41 (Series 15) was… odd. Wish World worked. That was a very solid episode. We had Mel, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, with the Rani and Conrad as the villains. It’s an excellent episode. It ends with the Doctor falling in a very climatic and emotional way. I’m not a fan of …
How to consistently win elections
The answer is to maintain the keys to power. Most politicians end up getting cocky after being in office for years and make mistakes. But the one exception to this rule is in Singapore. PAP has remained in power in Singapore since independence. From a fairly lazy point of view one might assume this is …
Left-wing Anglo politics is bonkers
There are two main issues with supposedly left-wing movements in the Anglosphere. It is understandable and good to want to fight for social justice. It is good to stand against transphobia, racism, sexism, and other evils. But wen it comes to economic and climate issues the left-wing doesn’t make any sense. Let’s start with climate, …
Centrism as the answer
Response to this video: Simon lists a few examples to show the rise of radicals, and I’m going to throw in one more for good measure, in the argument that there is a global populist wave and this is going to be succeeded by a return to normalcy. Also, is there a reasonable politician or …
At-will employment is broken
At-will employment, which requires employees to go to the office, relocate away from home, and usually to states with limited workers rights is inherently broken. Employers are able to layoff employees at any time for any reason, with a very imbalanced relationship. Best part is that if the company is big enough and the economy …
The Path to a Progressive President
The Democratic Party has been split between two major caucuses for the last 55 years, the Progressives, and the New Democrats. New Democrats were founded in the 1970s with the belief that the failure of Democrats to win in 1972 was because they were too liberal under Johnson, so they moved the party in a …
Presidents who have not run for reelection
Almost every President in history has run for a second term. This is common knowledge, but there are a few presidents who have not been their party’s nomination in the general election following their term. 3 President have chosen not to run before the nomination James Polk – pledged to not run for reelection in …
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Insane visa policy edge cases
Monagesque in France If you are a citizen of Monaco, you have freedom of movement in Metropolitan France, but not the rest of the Schengen Area or EU, where you can travel for 90 days in a 180 day period without a visa. There is basically no way to check that a Monagesque citizen has …
So who was Hindenburg
Let me tell you about a man who was moderate in his political views, cared about democracy, proposed breaking up old medieval estates so the former peasants could own their land for the first time in history, and believed strongly in compromise. Read the section on Hindenburg’s second presidency from Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_von_Hindenburg#Second_presidency Hindenburg was not …