Max Landis sucked my dick once

American politics are not politics. American politics is wrestling.

this is what he was wearing. he kept telling me: “I asked for it”

American politics, for lack of a better term , is not politics — but we need a better term, desperately, because not having one is driving you all insane. The modern understanding of democracy is, in the first place, designed to accomplish as little as possible and grind politics to a standstill. Based on the idea that all governments have historically failed at something important and that we grew to distrust the very notion of leadership, we designed a government to do as little effective political work as possible, so as to minimise the amount of failure. But as all utilitarianism, since we can’t quantify the fundamental essence we are measuring, it is a greater failure in total than any amount prevented — I can say that, because I am a deontologist.

I’m just saying that to give you a break — it’s a rough deal in the first place. But as with all things american, they take things to extremes. The amount of actual political action in Europe is approaching zero, in america, it’s far in the negatives. Design a system of governance around fear of tyrants, and you will get a country that lives in perpetual fear, ruled by lawyers.

There is no such thing as realpolitik, on a federal level. I can’t speak to the states internally, but I…