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When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: themarginalian.org/2019/06/1…
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We are inside the OODA loop. Outrage won’t fix this, and they know it. Congress can investigate Musk or Trump or Rubio or Hegseth all day long, but even getting that setup will take days or weeks. It will require staff frantically requesting documents and comms that won’t be provided. By the time any such hearing produces its very first soundbite, there will be a half dozen new outrages. Will those be investigated? There aren’t enough staffers in the world to run down all the egregious violations.
OODA loop: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act — the attention cycle employed by fighter pilots, described by Col. John Boyd. Fighter pilots have a tight, fast OODA loop that takes just a few seconds. Congress runs at about 5-7 days at absolute minimum.
The way the adversary (Putin, Musk, Trump) advances in this scenario is to act faster than the OODA loop, which isn’t all that hard. But acceleration shows an intent to escape circumstances and consequence.
To beat this kind of adversary you need to shut down their ability to act inside the OODA loop and also anticipate their next moves.
Washington isn’t cut out for this, especially going into the languid nothing-gets-done election and holiday season. So, if we want to interrupt this collapse, we need to select for moves that produce rapid outcomes, even if imperfect. That suggests court actions (TRO’s etc) vs slow Congressional inquiries. Or both in parallel. But don’t fantasize this is going to get fixed quickly without a lot of other simultaneous attacks. They are inside the OODA loop and they know it.
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Funny how any tweet about Mearsheimer’s pro-russian stance always brings out angry replies which never deny his pro-Russianness but pile on more Russian talking points while praising his wisdom. Quite revealing.
"Mearsheimer merits attention because he lends academic respectability to those blaming the west for Russia’s bloody war of conquest. At a moment when the US has swung behind Russia's attempt to snuff out Ukraine, such cover is invaluable." ft.com/content/f2261796-20d1…
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How long has it been since
you played a CD over and over
then when a friend mentioned it tepidly,
you raved and waved a boning knife
and had to go hide in the graveyard
until it all blew over?
- Dean Young, "The Old Enthusiasms"
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Every now and again I go back to this passage from Chesterton and it just gets better each time
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This is correct, which again suggests they don’t care about winning any longer, and intend to simply steamroll over the outcome. It was much better when they thought it would be close.
“You couldn’t dream up a worse week for the White House heading into the midterms.”
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Massie has always been a Russian asset
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"Vin Scully has the most musical voice in baseball.
He doesn't have the clipped, old-time-radio cadence of most broadcasters who date back to the 1950's and beyond.
Although his timbre is thin, everything is smooth and rounded.
The words slide into each other.
He has flow.
The melody rises and falls on the tide of the game.
You can almost hum along to Vin Scully. He's often referred to as baseball's, "Poet Laureate", and those who don't get him, parody him by quoting Emerson or spouting flowery language.
But even though he will occasionally toss off some verse, an old show or call a cheap base hit, "A humble thing, but thine own," the real metaphor for Vin Scully isn't poetry, or even music:
It's painting.
Other radio announcers can tell you what's happening on the field, and you can imagine it.
With Vin Scully, you can see it.
His command of the language and the game is so masterful that he always has just the right words to describe what's going on.
He paints you a picture."
Gary Kaufman.
"You know what I'm thinking?
Somewhere up in heaven, Snider, Robinson, Campanella and Hodges are all laughing their heads off.
"Look who's throwing out the first ball in the World Series?"
Vin Scully.
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Trump is over. Russia has turned on him since he failed to deliver on promises they perceive he made a year ago in Anchorage, and Iran was the nail in the coffin. Antiwar left/right coalition is forming; Massie/Tucker are Russia’s lead dogs against Trump now. This is why Massie attacks Trump and has tried to impeach Hegseth. Rest of conservative sphere is reacting to these tectonic forces.
We tracked 70K hours of conservative podcasts. They’re not talking about Trump anymore. (w @noslouch @sabrod123)
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For no reason in particular. youtu.be/en8HZ6X20Og?is=7EbX…
