They are incapable of putting themselves into their adversary’s shoes, because what their enemy thinks is to them a crime thought. This incapacity to model their adversaries is a huge weakness and huge vulnerability. We can operate outside their ability to see. It is also a massive information leak, because what they say the enemy intends or is trying to do reveals what they intend or are trying to do.| Jim's blog
The current strategy of the war faction of Thermidor is to fight the war to the last Ukrainian in order to attrit Russia.| Jim's blog
The Maga right is a big tent that welcomes outsiders. The left vigorously polices purity. The left is forever holiness spiraling to ever greater evil, malice, viciousness, and depravity, and has been doing so since the late eighteenth, early nineteenth, century.| Jim's blog
If we continue to move left at the same rate as we were moving left in 2016-2024, then by 2032 the moderate left position will be that everyone should immediately torture to death everyone insufficiently left, the radical left position will be that everyone should torture to death everyone who is not purely and truly left, and no one is purely and truly left, the moderate right position will be that only the moderate right should be tortured to death (compare today’s moderate republican pos...| Jim's blog
As you know, the left is melting down over Trump allowing in white South African refugees because the refugees are “fleeing accountability for historical injustices”.| Jim's blog
Disputes over sovereign authority inherently escalate until decisively resolved.| Jim's blog