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I swear I just need to give up on Politics and Discourse. What even is the point I’ve been fixated on ethics, morality, social outcomes since I was a kid.

A lot of mean girl/edgelord behavior is just a form of respectability politics for a particular online audience. Proving that you’re one of the Good Ones who can Take A

Police kill approximately 1,000 civilians a year and about ~35 of them are killed by suspects every year. That is to say, police are presently 28x more dangerous to the

This is what neoliberalism actually is. A CVS-branded boot stamping on a wheezing human face, forever. It's not pink fighter jets, it's not gay anti-homeless architecture.It's when "companies [are] synonymous

God help me but I’m looking at the early vote data and starting to think if there’s a systemic polling error it’s going to be in Biden’s favor. It’s going

You ever feel like you genuinely have an incredible once-in-a-generation brain and you’ve completely wasted it on social media and tv and porn because your ability to synthesize information is

I feel like this statement is an outgrowth of privilege discourse. A white-passing person benefits from white privilege, sure. But structurally? They don’t have the same average generational wealth. The

Still annoyed thinking about this tweet. We all know Exodus isn’t remotely historically accurate, up to being just a total myth without reference to any historical event at all, but

I wish I could tattoo onto every anti-woke leftoid’s forehead the Lee Atwater quote where he admits they use racism to convince white workers to vote against their class interests

The whole Deaths of Despair thesis is mostly crap analysis anyway. It counts deaths by suicide, alcohol, and drugs as all caused by “despair”, which presumably is caused by neoliberalism,

This is your brain on presentism. This is your brain on ahistoricism.Because voters in 2008/2012/2016 didn't have a choice about neoliberalism in recent elections, that means they never had a

What’s amazing about this is that so many white people are essentially willing to accept some percentage of white people—even white children—as the necessary collateral damage to maintain a white