What you’re talking about is both political and leftist. It’s just not a viewpoint that’s currently well-represented in American electoral politics. Which is a very different issue.

He’s erasing the monuments of the old Republic, remaking them in his image.

The cunts of the world deserve better.

My favorite response to the “I earned this” attitude:
“You’re self made, huh? Say that to the face of the person that bore you.”

The Mensch strikes again!

If this were a thing, the moral imperative would involve freeing the enslaved consciousness. People who want AI to be conscious want it to be their slave. And that upsets me more than the fact that this is absolute nonsense.

Look, women no longer do shit for free is actually at the root of a lot of social disruption. The question is whether you think the solution is women going back to being unpaid and unprotected by their own labor.

Thank you. Shonda Rimes. May we learn from our history so we don’t keep repeating it.

No pierogis for you!

Yeah. The framing is wrong. Social and economic issues are not separable.

Not processing grief and stress fucks people up, for sure.

Once AI replaces thinking, capitalist hegemony ceases to be simply cultural; it becomes a built-in feature of cognition. It’s terrifying.

“End capitalism, ensure my ability to survive, and then we can talk about free art. Right now, it’s just stealing food and medicine from the people who make art.”

The NYPD needs to be phased out and replaced.

I feel this in my soul. I remember crying as a child the day I realized I wouldn’t have time to read every book in the library. Eventually I consoled myself with the thought that I’d never run out of books to read.

As someone who often uses a cane, thank you to you and all the NYC parents who raised their kids right!

Spoiler: It won’t be China.

I’m a Christmas music stan, but most secularized Christmas music blows. And that’s most of what plays in public. I’m not religious, but you can’t tell me O Holy Night and Jingle Bell Rock are the same kind of music. The former is an antislavery anthem, the latter is just holiday slop.

Posts like this in government often have an ongoing tension between democracy and expertise. The core problem here, though, isn’t a personal lack of expertise; it’s an ideology that governs based on vibes (and eugenics).