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A: Making higher education free would greatly reduce the significance of getting a college degree.
B: College is artificially kept prohibitively expensive to help maintain our class system.
C: You’re both saying the same thing.
B: College is artificially kept prohibitively expensive to help maintain our class system.
C: You’re both saying the same thing.
December 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A: Making higher education free would greatly reduce the significance of getting a college degree.
B: College is artificially kept prohibitively expensive to help maintain our class system.
C: You’re both saying the same thing.
B: College is artificially kept prohibitively expensive to help maintain our class system.
C: You’re both saying the same thing.
You can’t make this stuff up. Canada throws in the towel on its much hyped “Victims of Communism” memorial after realizing that the majority of names they were going to inscribe on it were of Nazis.
ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
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Government retreats on Victims of Communism memorial names in aftermath of Nazi controversy
Historians raised alarms years ago. Ottawa changed course only after the memorial opened.
ottawacitizen.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
You can’t make this stuff up. Canada throws in the towel on its much hyped “Victims of Communism” memorial after realizing that the majority of names they were going to inscribe on it were of Nazis.
ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
At least they get to feel morally superior about it
December 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
At least they get to feel morally superior about it
Origin Stories
The Lateral Lens is a reader supported blog.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Stories contain frames. Frames contextualize interpretation. A frame shared by enough people is invisible. It’s “just the way things are”, the background against which the figure emerges in contrast. Just because a frame is unnoticed doesn’t mean it’s not there.
open.substack.com/pub/thelater...
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Narrative Warfare
The Lateral Lens is a reader supported blog.
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Stories contain frames. Frames contextualize interpretation. A frame shared by enough people is invisible. It’s “just the way things are”, the background against which the figure emerges in contrast. Just because a frame is unnoticed doesn’t mean it’s not there.
open.substack.com/pub/thelater...
open.substack.com/pub/thelater...
If we really want to “make America great again” then the focus needs to be on labor organizing, extreme regulation of corporations, governmental oversight of big tech, and wealth taxes. We will not return to the heyday of working class jobs without the politics that prioritized workers.
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If we really want to “make America great again” then the focus needs to be on labor organizing, extreme regulation of corporations, governmental oversight of big tech, and wealth taxes. We will not return to the heyday of working class jobs without the politics that prioritized workers.
After what is perhaps its second-longest hiatus of its 13-year history, my blog will be back on Monday. Thank you for your patience as I switched careers.
November 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
After what is perhaps its second-longest hiatus of its 13-year history, my blog will be back on Monday. Thank you for your patience as I switched careers.
A full 50% of all consumer spending is now done by the richest 10% of the population and the swelling AI bubble, if it pops, will be 4x larger than the 2008 crash. This is not sustainable, but hey, as long as the rich get richer.
October 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
A full 50% of all consumer spending is now done by the richest 10% of the population and the swelling AI bubble, if it pops, will be 4x larger than the 2008 crash. This is not sustainable, but hey, as long as the rich get richer.
Convincing you that liberals are leftists is perhaps the greatest trick capitalists ever pulled.
October 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Convincing you that liberals are leftists is perhaps the greatest trick capitalists ever pulled.
In George Romero’s LAND OF THE DEAD, the zombies become class conscious, which I guess makes the living dead smarter than most Americans.
September 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
In George Romero’s LAND OF THE DEAD, the zombies become class conscious, which I guess makes the living dead smarter than most Americans.
Over a third of U.S. GDP growth is spent on data centers. This has now outpaced consumer spending. The AI hype machine is holding up our failing economy, and the bubble could easily burst.
finance.yahoo.com/news/spendin...
finance.yahoo.com/news/spendin...
Spending on AI data centers is so massive that it’s taken a bigger chunk of GDP growth than shopping—and it could crash the American economy
As Rusty Foster, author of the widely read media blog Today in Tabs, puts it: “Our economy might just be three AI data centers in a trench coat.”
finance.yahoo.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Over a third of U.S. GDP growth is spent on data centers. This has now outpaced consumer spending. The AI hype machine is holding up our failing economy, and the bubble could easily burst.
finance.yahoo.com/news/spendin...
finance.yahoo.com/news/spendin...
This wins the fucking internet
September 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This wins the fucking internet
When people would ask if you had any plans for the fall, people used to assume you were talking about autumn. Not anymore.
September 24, 2025 at 2:16 AM
When people would ask if you had any plans for the fall, people used to assume you were talking about autumn. Not anymore.
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My great-grandparents were murdered in Buchenwald. I know what I’m seeing, too.
I read 1984.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.
I know what I’m seeing.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.
I know what I’m seeing.
September 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
My great-grandparents were murdered in Buchenwald. I know what I’m seeing, too.
Reposted by Charles Lambdin
Reposted by Charles Lambdin
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
Neoliberalism is collapsing, and the West no longer has a living, breathing leftist/labor movement to counter the rising tide of reactionary fascism that is filling the void.
September 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Neoliberalism is collapsing, and the West no longer has a living, breathing leftist/labor movement to counter the rising tide of reactionary fascism that is filling the void.
People really need to start connecting the dots. The whiffs of fascism we keep getting are no accident.
The tech fascism is getting so bad that even Teddy Schleifer of the New York Times is forced to write about it!
NYT: Elon Musk Consulted Curtis Yarvin on Third Party.
Schleifer, who purports to cover tech billionaires, has largely avoided these topics until now.
🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...
NYT: Elon Musk Consulted Curtis Yarvin on Third Party.
Schleifer, who purports to cover tech billionaires, has largely avoided these topics until now.
🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...
Elon Musk Consulted Curtis Yarvin, Right-Wing Thinker, on Third Party
www.nytimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
People really need to start connecting the dots. The whiffs of fascism we keep getting are no accident.
This is gold
Before Stalin died, he called Khrushchev into his office and gave him two letters. "When things go bad, open the first letter. It will help you. When things go really bad, open the second letter."
Stalin dies and Khrushchev rules the country. But like always, things start to get bad.
1/3
Stalin dies and Khrushchev rules the country. But like always, things start to get bad.
1/3
July 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is gold
Reposted by Charles Lambdin
Reposted by Charles Lambdin
bro they got my 74-year-old lifelong registered democrat mom out here talking about "establishment democrats won't say the rich are robbing you blind because they ARE the rich." something is shifting
June 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
bro they got my 74-year-old lifelong registered democrat mom out here talking about "establishment democrats won't say the rich are robbing you blind because they ARE the rich." something is shifting