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Where @ethanz tells us about the cultural power of #DontLookUp:

"But there’s something Don’t Look Up gets right. Many of our #institutions are failing us. The experts don’t know what to do. The feelings of terror and helplessness lead people to behave strangely and unpredictably. McKay doesn’t offer us a solution to an ongoing #apocalypse, but this #film, at its best, offers us a moment of #empathy. Look past the machinations of the politicians and the media stars, and look towards the people in the background trying to make sense of a reality that no longer makes sense, disrupted by #COVID or #climatechange or by a slide into #authoritarianism. If there’s a solution to this polycrisis, this interconnected mess of apocalyptic threats, it’s in the #groups working to live through this scary moment, not through the politicians or celebrities who’ll get to escape to their bunkers or spaceships."

ethanzuckerman.com/2025/04/04/

Ethan Zuckerman · Science on Screen: Don't Look Up - Ethan ZuckermanDon't Look Up anticipates the stupidity of our political moment, but misfires on the power of authenticity. Enjoy the apocalypse.

In #America everyone speaks of the cost of the 'grocery' and the #Tariff ...
But nobody seems to take the MAIN problem into consideration

All
... truly all
#TRUMP actions
have been aimed at weakening and damaging #America
first trump attacked the #Institutions and the #Governament
dismantel it
then trump damaged the #Army eliminating capable officers
Then attacked the #Allies
now tanking the US #Economy

No Trump action has been in 'favor' of the #USA
...
Nobody asks questions ?

From @drjaredwesley.substack.com "Some #Conservative leaders in the West are refusing to do the hard work of building bridges across provinces. Instead, they are undermining national #institutions, elevating regional #grievances, and offering what we might call #performative #disengagement. The tactic may win headlines and satisfy the base, but it weakens the broader Conservative project at a critical moment in our country’s history."

#canpoli #abpoli

open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw

open.substack.comWestern DefeatismA Real Threat to Conservative Fortunes and National Unity

Le haut fonctionnaire, cet « enfant-roi » à qui on interdit tout esprit critique
elucid.media/politique/le-haut
Les hauts fonctionnaires en France constituent une noblesse d’État déconnectée du réel et privée de tout esprit critique
#Politique #Gouvernement #Démocratie #Institutions

Élucid · Le haut fonctionnaire, cet « enfant-roi » à qui on interdit tout esprit critiqueBy Luc Weinstein

Anyway ...
All This '#Signal' 'breach of security' Fuck Up 'Scandal' is ...
Ridicoulos 🤣
#Congress investigations 🤣 MAGA Repubblicans investigate ? 🤣

#Americans still think how they thought before #Trump
It's all different now
as many #State #Institutions are no more
'#national #security' no longer really exists
(#Putin already knows ALL the #US secrets)
#Pentagon , #Departement of #Defence are a joke now
#Trumplandia is a laughable 'circus'

And that's why nobody trusts the #USA anymore

Songlin Wang uses the rich archival records of Chinese Maritime Customs & careful statistical analysis to show improvements in the quality of Chinese trade data during the late 19th century reflecting key institutional reforms & the importance of Hong Kong.
doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12308
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #China #trade #institutions