This is a prolific poster! Showing posts since May 5, 2023.
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.
is there any reason at all that the Democratic party should not immediately demand Hegseth's resignation?
"We don't want your swasticars
Take a one way trip to Mars" goes so hard as a rally chant
crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
imagine being a four star general fired after Pete Hegseth questioned your job competence and opening up literally any national newspaper
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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'"
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
i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time
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
hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress
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
helpful coverage from @elpais.com
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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
can't normalize without normies. make your peace with this now
RIP Jimmy Carter and thank you for the hardest picture in White House history (h/t @kopalo.bsky.social)
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
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?
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
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
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
whether you like AOC or not, that's a fucking bar
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continue to think that society should probably penalize lying - preferably in some significant and public way