listen up motherfuckers, it's time for every hot take I've kept to myself over my eight entire years on this psychotic, poisonous mushroom cloud of a website, and you can all either relax and enjoy it or you can eat my shorts!

if any of these takes make you think to yourself, "this is an outrage! something must be done! this person must be cancelled (but cancel culture is fake tho)!" then what i have to say to you is:

ha! you can't fire me, i quit!

first and probably most obvious:

social media is fundamentally poisonous, and can never be home to genuine discourse. go to YouTube and watch Matt Christman's cushvlogs to understand how and why

i recommend starting here:

most american leftists are left liberals, and if you think this one isn't about you, it probably is

Louis C.K. did not commit the sins that most of us have been led to believe--look it up--and he deserves to be forgiven and restored. plus his public apology was one of the only good ones I've ever read

Matt Christman is legitimately an apostle of the gospel of love and light, appointed by all that is, was, and will be as a teacher of faith and truth, a prophet who speaks in tongues so that we might understand and receive the knowledge of the unfolding dialectic of god

all of you need to be nicer to Anna Khachiyan, Dasha Nekrasova, Liz Franczak, Amber Frost, Angela Nagle and Liz Bruenig. you're mean to the men too but your particular cruelty to the women is truly appalling.

I unironically like and respect Marianne Williamson

bi- and pan-sexuals can call themselves gays and lesbians. our LGBT foreparents did not shed their blood and tears so that we could gatekeep each other into endless division

most of the time people refuse to read or engage with a given philosopher, artist, etc out of what they claim is some kind of moral objection (e.g. "I won't read Heidegger bc of his Nazi ties") it’s actually because they’re insecure in their own beliefs

while I'm nowhere near a covid-truther, I do find almost everything about it to be fishy as fuck, and I'm especially suspicious of the lockdowns, mask mandates, tracking programs, etc. I don't think anyone on the left is doing enough serious critique of their own on this

on covid in particular, but honestly in general, the left is lazily defaulting to the liberal line at almost every turn, letting the right wing and the libertarians be people's only resources when they have legitimate questions and concerns, and it's a mistake

#metoo did more harm than good, and i'm not convinced it wasn't a psy-op from the very beginning

i'm also not convinced Hitler died in the bunker

I feel really sorry for Jordan Peterson, and while I can't say I like the man or agree with almost anything he says, I think the main thing he's done for young men--offer them simple, helpful, fatherly advice that helps them have confidence and self-respect--is generally good

I don't like AOC and I never have. I don't make a personality of it and I don't particularly care, but I am kinda sick of feeling like it's taboo to admit that--like almost every other politician--she gives me bad vibes

Red Scare is good

Chapo Trap House is good

Bush, unironically, did 9/11

Ben Shapiro is annoying and not very insightful, but "facts don't care about your feelings" is usually true and honestly kinda nails one of the left's biggest weaknesses

journalists should not be censoring the N word when they are quoting Black people, and no one should be pressuring them to

Epstein didn't kill himself

the left failed miserably when it discarded Slavoj Zizek. he is a precious and nearly-extinct kind of thinker, and he was thrown away over a handful of risky jokes and shallow misunderstandings. he deserved better, and we need him so much more than most people have realized yet

if you can't even stomach Joe Rogan you're simply not prepared to organize with the working class

the left has gotten to the point of being culturally, systematically cruel to men, and if it doesn't take a hard turn on this soon it will be--and I am 100 percent serious--deeply complicit in the rise of something very dark

more on this: https://goodworks.substack.com/p/men-are-trash-is-trash?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy

the left is *dangerously* weak on free speech. it's a mistake, for example, to campaign to get right wing accounts kicked off Twitter, to campaign to get people fired from their jobs, and even i'd dare to say it's a mistake not to defend QAnon groups being kicked off of Facebook

cancel culture is real and i promise you that it's only made the CIA's job easier than ever

speaking of which, you monsters didn't deserve ContraPoints

it's obviously not nice to say insensitive words or use outdated/ignorant terminology, but you people really, really need to fucking cool it with the PC police bullshit. you're behaving like authoritarian toddlers. sorry! grow the fuck up

almost everything about the concept of "cultural appropriation" is incorrect and childishly shallow

smug, condescending atheism is at least as big a problem on the left as it is on the right

the existing american left is almost entirely middle class, in origin if not in current relationship to production, and WOW does it show

Black Panther was a terrible movie

dehumanizing any group of people based on their identity is evil and fundamentally opposed to nominally "left" politics. justifying it because you consider them "privileged" doesn't make it okay, and doesn't make it "leftist."

i try to avoid starting sentences with "as a _____..." but i've got to get this off my chest:

as a woman who has experienced *severe* and systematic abuse, with resultant complex PTSD, most people using the language of trauma and abuse have NO IDEA what it means

the way people talk about pedophiles scares the living shit out of me. it's common practice to use "pedophile" and "child abuser" interchangeably. no distinction between pedo-, hebe-, and ephepo-philias. it's incredibly difficult for these people to even get counseling