Jamie Wheal

“Dictators always lie about what they’ve done, but are often quite plain about what they want to do.” –Gary Kasparov

sooo...what you're saying Mister President is that Mexicans do Coke better? #therealthing #caneandable

lenin and mao lost a lot in translation. But Karl wasn't wrong about everything... #zooanimals

Yarvin’s DOGE disillusionment is somewhat surreal, almost as if Marx had lived long enough to troll the Bolsheviks for misreading “Das Kapital.” –Elizabeth Dwoskin

“Your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.” –Edward R. Murrow #audiencecapture #thoughtleaders #galaxybrains

“The frightened individual seeks for somebody or something to tie his self to; he cannot bear to be his own individual self.” –Eric Fromm

“All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.” –Bokonon (by way of Vonnegut)

“The crisis of our time can be summed up in a single sentence. From the dawn of consciousness until the middle of our century man had to live with the prospect of his death as an individual; since Hiroshima, mankind as a whole has to live with the prospect of its extinction as a…

At this point, it's not even like the Death Eaters have taken over Hogwarts. They kinda had their shit together and Voldemort was a badass...this feels more like Colonel Klink and Sergeant Shultz running State and Pentagon

"And while the prospect of a civilizational collapse might seem far-fetched and dystopian, a quick survey of narco states in the Americas and feudal warlords in Africa and Asia offers sobering evidence of how durable these forms of social organizing are. Things could get medieval…

"to grow just five per cent of America’s tomatoes indoors would require “every megawatt” of the country’s renewable-electricity supply." –Elizabeth Kolbert

“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”

Either Iran is so weak and gulf states all turn a blind eye to the hit and they’re taken off the board or they prompt a dirty bomb jihad that takes anywhere up to a decade to hit This is a gotta kill the ayatollah if you come at the ayatollah kinda sitch.

"I am always reminded when people talk about the liberal international order of what Voltaire said about the Holy Roman Empire: It was neither holy nor Roman, nor an empire. And the same is true of the liberal international order. It was never very liberal, very international, or…

when we lived in kingdoms we were ruled by kings then we lived in empires and we were ruled by emperors now we live in countries...

“Being a libertarian right now, is like being punched in the face with your own ideas by a drunk teen-ager.” –Veronique de Rugy, a leading libertarian thinker at the Mercatus Center and one of the thirty-four named authors of Project 2025 commenting on #DOGE

"Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be…

"Serious fiction is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were’. –Ursula LeGuin (critiquing the…

this just in: DTLA protestors burn Waymo taxis instead of the real target of their wrath. Chalk one up for Tesla's delayed robotaxi launch. #rageagainstthemachines