First 2024 Democratic Presidential Debate between Marianne Williamson and Rep. Dean Phillips

You can watch the first 2024 United States democratic  presidential debate (for New Hampshire) here.

Wonder why a certain candidate is missing? This article explains:

Biden will not be on the New Hampshire primary ballot. What does that mean for voters?

And here are the results of the New Hampshire primary.

Thoughts on Revolution

There's something that feels so immensely ironic about living in a nation that owes its very existence to revolution, filled with people who believe in the impossibility of revolution and are committed to an increasingly more fatalistic and defeatist capitulation to authority. More ironic still is these same people losing to revolutionaries (as they did in the Vietnam war) and still believing that revolution is inherently futile. I feel like belief in The Revolution, while seemingly the polar opposite of this ideology, embodies the same sort of fatalism except in an opposing direction, as if the passage of time brings revolution as some sort of inevitability, rather than it being predicated on people's concerted efforts and willingness to act on their principles. I think The Revolution mentality also tends to collapse revolution into necessarily achieving some utopian ideal, rather than acknowledging the much more messy realities of revolution that history informs us of.

I think that part of the defeatist mentality associates revolution with violence, and while this has indeed often been a component of revolution, the amount of violence involved is not a foregone conclusion, nor does someone have to enact violence to be a revolutionary. Additionally, ascribing revolutions as being uniquely violent invisibilizes the intense violence of the current world order, even outside of the context of war.

Walnuts

Got a fresh batch of walnuts recently. I love walnuts, unfortunately they are very prone to going rancid quickly if you just leave them in the pantry. And rancid walnuts are really the worst. Like eating paint thinner. Which is why it's a good idea to refrigerate or even freeze them if you don't plan to eat them all right away.

And I'm talking here about walnuts that have had their shells removed. Walnuts without their shells removed can last longer, but may also be more susceptible to molding.