ben chambers 🏴

i *love* these maps from a pedagogical pov bc they so strikingly illustrate the idea of deep historical continuity, the interrelation of geography and society, the intersection of the natural and social sciences and the value of interdisciplinary scholarship, how even geology can be political, etc

remember, fascists are small men who want to feel big, dorks who want to look cool, simpletons who cant handle complexity

theyre losers who embrace a low effort ideology that lets them win, playing on easy mode to feel like theyve conquered something

trolling, taunting, and gloating are all they got, and they paid for it with their dignity and interiority

they have but one life like the rest of us and this is what they chose to make of it

"The specter of a “war on protein,” ridiculous as it is, is still critical for RFK Jr.’s actual objective with HHS: to convert the federal health bureaucracy into a patronage network for his favored industries."

"Hither the MAHA neuroses about vaccines, or food safety regulations, or pasteurization – generally, the things that make the System work. It turns out, they can make you choke down endless waste products from that very same System and even induce you to pay for the privilege if they can successfully tap into and manipulate your anxieties about the modern world."

"The craze for ivermectin (the horse dewormer and favored MAHA remedy that sloughs off the intestinal lining to eliminate “parasites” that aren’t there) and Trump’s brutal, futile domestic ethnic cleansing campaigns are two expressions of this purging mechanism, demented, paranoid attempts to root out the (always invisible) trespassers sent by the System, destroying functional and healthy tissue in the process."

https://buttondown.com/abbycartus/archive/copropolitics/