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Don’t mind me just tracing the gyres. Talk about politics a lot but mostly want to talk about Stevie Wonder and August Wilson. She stay in the hills, he stay in Atlanta, I pay for them both.
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I haven’t asked in a while so!
1) What was the last work of art, in any genre or form, that changed your life?
2) When was the last time you changed your mind about anything, big or small, and why?
1) What was the last work of art, in any genre or form, that changed your life?
2) When was the last time you changed your mind about anything, big or small, and why?
IFS is just applied Plato but a lot of folks need to apply that damn Plato and bring their appetitive parts into their proper place through the warm embrace of a properly re-embodied reason.
December 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
IFS is just applied Plato but a lot of folks need to apply that damn Plato and bring their appetitive parts into their proper place through the warm embrace of a properly re-embodied reason.
You can’t be surprised by Trump making the tragic murder of a Hollywood icon and his wife by their son who has experienced homelessness and addiction all about Trump, as he is a malignant narcissist. But it is like… really unhinged and scary to see.
December 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
You can’t be surprised by Trump making the tragic murder of a Hollywood icon and his wife by their son who has experienced homelessness and addiction all about Trump, as he is a malignant narcissist. But it is like… really unhinged and scary to see.
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With the rising interest in liberal socialism, I would like to propose a counter-movement called republican socialism, chiefly to confuse low-info reactionary voters into preferring liberty defined as non-domination over liberty defined as non-interference
December 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
With the rising interest in liberal socialism, I would like to propose a counter-movement called republican socialism, chiefly to confuse low-info reactionary voters into preferring liberty defined as non-domination over liberty defined as non-interference
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i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
That’s the beginning middle and end of the whole thing.
Yglesias saying you have to be on X to fight the right is kind of eliding the fact that he is the right. 1
December 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
That’s the beginning middle and end of the whole thing.
Increasingly not about who can make good or bad arguments but who has enough power to apply legitimation measures (eg publication in a “prestigious” magazine) to their psychological needs.
December 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Increasingly not about who can make good or bad arguments but who has enough power to apply legitimation measures (eg publication in a “prestigious” magazine) to their psychological needs.
I’m so glad I don’t have to feel bad about not finishing A Little Life bc I was correct in getting an anti-Black vibe from the author.
December 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m so glad I don’t have to feel bad about not finishing A Little Life bc I was correct in getting an anti-Black vibe from the author.
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This is no lie what too many white people on "the left" believe
Anyway, surely if progressive women and people of color just stay quiet and don’t organize to create change, then fascists like Fuentes will just melt away. Right? <sarcasm>
December 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is no lie what too many white people on "the left" believe
Re-listening to Rachel Zucker’s interview with Terrance Hayes on Commonplace and it is one of the best interviews of anybody about anything I have ever heard in my life. Totally unique, totally inimitable, totally unexpected… art.
December 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Re-listening to Rachel Zucker’s interview with Terrance Hayes on Commonplace and it is one of the best interviews of anybody about anything I have ever heard in my life. Totally unique, totally inimitable, totally unexpected… art.
Oh the gay tv show is a hockey show? I am more interested now. Hockey players have fat asses. Do the men on the show have fat asses?
December 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Oh the gay tv show is a hockey show? I am more interested now. Hockey players have fat asses. Do the men on the show have fat asses?
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James Talarico: Christian nationalists walk around with a mouth full of scripture and a heart full of hate. Don't tell me what you believe. Show me how you treat other people, and I'll tell you what you believe
December 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
James Talarico: Christian nationalists walk around with a mouth full of scripture and a heart full of hate. Don't tell me what you believe. Show me how you treat other people, and I'll tell you what you believe
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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And the guy is a Muslim named Ahmed al-Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
And the guy is a Muslim named Ahmed al-Ahmed.
You know I hadn’t really fully thought through the emotional dynamics of loving people who want to destroy the country you live in and are actually succeeding in said destruction.
the state party, to the extent that it even exists, is so fucking dumb. gfy @katiedarling.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
You know I hadn’t really fully thought through the emotional dynamics of loving people who want to destroy the country you live in and are actually succeeding in said destruction.
Courage still exists, and it works!
December 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Courage still exists, and it works!
We’re going to electrify everything and run our world off of the sun AND we’re going to find out there are safe ways to influence our brain-body through chemicals and so many people have put such goodwill and positive energy into these technologies.
December 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We’re going to electrify everything and run our world off of the sun AND we’re going to find out there are safe ways to influence our brain-body through chemicals and so many people have put such goodwill and positive energy into these technologies.
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Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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The fact of this nterview suggests that believing Kemi Badenoch should not be eligible to be in parliament is seen as a legitimate debatable view by journalists for major outlets
The inference of are you the UK's answer to Fuentes is to suggest pro-Hitler views should not be a bar either!
The inference of are you the UK's answer to Fuentes is to suggest pro-Hitler views should not be a bar either!
December 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The fact of this nterview suggests that believing Kemi Badenoch should not be eligible to be in parliament is seen as a legitimate debatable view by journalists for major outlets
The inference of are you the UK's answer to Fuentes is to suggest pro-Hitler views should not be a bar either!
The inference of are you the UK's answer to Fuentes is to suggest pro-Hitler views should not be a bar either!
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I don’t think establishment Democrats even change their tune until things start escalating even more, and even then I’d assume many will continue taking a “both sides” approach.
Because for many Americans stability is preferable to liberty.
Because for many Americans stability is preferable to liberty.
Establishment Democrats aren’t going to start talking like this until Democratic voters make a forceful plea for such language.
Maybe the primaries change that. Maybe it’s civil disorder that changes things. But either way they’re going to have to get the message.
Maybe the primaries change that. Maybe it’s civil disorder that changes things. But either way they’re going to have to get the message.
December 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I don’t think establishment Democrats even change their tune until things start escalating even more, and even then I’d assume many will continue taking a “both sides” approach.
Because for many Americans stability is preferable to liberty.
Because for many Americans stability is preferable to liberty.
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The problem is Americans haven’t witnessed true authoritarianism before, so we get our sense of what it would be like from mass media.
Too many Americans are expecting cars on fire, houses ablaze, anarchy in the streets 24/7. And when they don’t see that, they don’t see the warning signs.
Too many Americans are expecting cars on fire, houses ablaze, anarchy in the streets 24/7. And when they don’t see that, they don’t see the warning signs.
December 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The problem is Americans haven’t witnessed true authoritarianism before, so we get our sense of what it would be like from mass media.
Too many Americans are expecting cars on fire, houses ablaze, anarchy in the streets 24/7. And when they don’t see that, they don’t see the warning signs.
Too many Americans are expecting cars on fire, houses ablaze, anarchy in the streets 24/7. And when they don’t see that, they don’t see the warning signs.
People really don’t understand what is necessary to fix this.
the only way to put this stuff back underground is to gratuitously hurt the people responsible until those who sympathize with them are too afraid to express their views in public. before, you could handle this with discourse.
December 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
People really don’t understand what is necessary to fix this.
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the only way to put this stuff back underground is to gratuitously hurt the people responsible until those who sympathize with them are too afraid to express their views in public. before, you could handle this with discourse.
December 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
the only way to put this stuff back underground is to gratuitously hurt the people responsible until those who sympathize with them are too afraid to express their views in public. before, you could handle this with discourse.
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i probably would have said this five years ago but actually the world in which desantis staffers are posting ads featuring black sun imagery is much worse in terms of what it gives people permission to do
i have more contempt for people who clearly harbor bigoted views but can’t accept this about themselves and contort themselves trying to pretend their bog-standard gutter hatred is some kind of complex intellectual schema. just say you hate jews. have some spine and self respect. my god.
December 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
i probably would have said this five years ago but actually the world in which desantis staffers are posting ads featuring black sun imagery is much worse in terms of what it gives people permission to do
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THIS PART
“I know I’m abusing you but … my dad never loved me so can you not do anything that makes me feel like I’m not important:… and if you don’t I’ll try and destroy you”
“I know I’m abusing you but … my dad never loved me so can you not do anything that makes me feel like I’m not important:… and if you don’t I’ll try and destroy you”
THIS. They don’t want to beat our enemies. They want to use our enemies to beat on us.
A lot of people don’t want to get rid of Trump or the GOP. Because of triangulation
And we actually gotta fucking sit in that
They always show up to mediate or fundraise or self victimize about why they need attention / grace
to hide they fact they enable
And we actually gotta fucking sit in that
They always show up to mediate or fundraise or self victimize about why they need attention / grace
to hide they fact they enable
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
THIS PART
“I know I’m abusing you but … my dad never loved me so can you not do anything that makes me feel like I’m not important:… and if you don’t I’ll try and destroy you”
“I know I’m abusing you but … my dad never loved me so can you not do anything that makes me feel like I’m not important:… and if you don’t I’ll try and destroy you”
THIS. They don’t want to beat our enemies. They want to use our enemies to beat on us.
A lot of people don’t want to get rid of Trump or the GOP. Because of triangulation
And we actually gotta fucking sit in that
They always show up to mediate or fundraise or self victimize about why they need attention / grace
to hide they fact they enable
And we actually gotta fucking sit in that
They always show up to mediate or fundraise or self victimize about why they need attention / grace
to hide they fact they enable
December 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
THIS. They don’t want to beat our enemies. They want to use our enemies to beat on us.