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    he's right and he's right to say it

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    Jun 25, 2025
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    this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

    31,888 8,297
    Sep 14, 2025
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    our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

    25,119 4,478
    Nov 19, 2024
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    is there any reason at all that the Democratic party should not immediately demand Hegseth's resignation?

    18,275 2,479
    Mar 24, 2025
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    "We don't want your swasticars
    Take a one way trip to Mars" goes so hard as a rally chant

    15,781 3,336
    Mar 22, 2025
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    crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

    15,244 2,965
    Jun 25, 2025
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    imagine being a four star general fired after Pete Hegseth questioned your job competence and opening up literally any national newspaper

    14,109 2,239
    Apr 21, 2025
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    attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

    11,752 2,334
    Feb 6, 2025
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    just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

    10,951 1,958
    Feb 5, 2025
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    I understand the allure of wanting to be a "carry guns and wear leather jackets" Black Panther but there's a case to be made that the most dangerous ones were the "feed kids breakfast and teach them about settler colonialism" Black Panthers

    10,014 2,752
    Nov 9, 2024
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    maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

    9,553 1,666
    Mar 8, 2026
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    this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

    8,554 3,330
    Jun 29, 2025
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    RIP Jimmy Carter and thank you for the hardest picture in White House history (h/t @kopalo.bsky.social)

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    Dec 30, 2024
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    everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

    7,892 1,936
    Apr 7, 2026
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    I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

    7,785 1,371
    Jun 30, 2025
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    yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

    7,779 2,317
    Oct 13, 2025
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    I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

    7,707 2,282
    Sep 30, 2025
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    I have a lot to say about the resurgent young men / masculinity discourse but for now will confine myself to:

    I wish I knew how to convince teenage boys/young men is how little of the world actually requires or even invites the hypermisogynist "tough guy" aesthetic

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    May 4, 2025
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    continue to think that society should probably penalize lying - preferably in some significant and public way

    7,623 1,006
    Mar 26, 2025