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People are dunking on this but…
If you live in even a modest home in an upper middle class neighborhood with high property taxes in a high tax state and make reasonable contributions to a 401k most of your money is gone.
JUST IN: More than a third of Americans earning at least $250,000 annually say they are living paycheck to paycheck, per Bloomberg.
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2019: ‘Racist!’
2020: ‘Racist! Grandma killer!’
2021: ‘Racist! Grandma killer! Transphobe!’
2022: ‘Truce plz’
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This one was so good. Have to poast again.
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All of a sudden I’m seeing Matt Taibbi’s tweets.
Wasn’t seeing them at all for a long time.
Anyone else notice this?
We in the press were sent off on a wild goose chase for a year because the Clinton campaign hid its funding of the Steele dossier. Far more serious offense, and admitted, but I don’t see any of you calling for jail time.
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…a ‘member of the Party’ and thus deserving of special privileges and immunity from the predictable consequences of their politics.
If that doesn’t end up happening and they’re fed into the grinder like everyone else it’s a huge shock and they’re outraged and bereft.
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As an undergrad I took a ‘race, class, and gender’ history seminar led by a white Ivy-PhD postdoc who would give me a dirty look on the rare occasion I’d venture a milquetoast centrist opinion.
I went to her office hours at the end of the semester to pick something…
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‘Urinal cakes are cakes!
Urinal cakes are cakes!
Urinal cakes are cakes!
Urinal cakes are cakes!
Urinal cakes are cakes!
Urinal cakes are cakes!
Urinal cakes are cakes!
Urinal cakes are cakes!
It says it in the name! 👆🏻’
@feelsdesperate
The answer is contained in the question, if trans women weren't women they wouldn't be trans women. it's like asking whether blue cars are cars, or whether tabby cats are cats. Don't waste my time with tautologies.
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I dunno maybe I’m old but funeral selfies seem weird.
AOC is preening at Jordan Neely's funeral??? What a fucking joke. 🎬🍿😵💫
The Party of Arrested Development doing what it does!
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…up and asked her what she was doing next year. She remarked bitterly that she didn’t know and that, ‘they only want to hire people who are black,’ for the tenure track jobs.
As best I can tell this sort of person imagines themselves to be…
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I love that mentally ill leftists decided that it was a good idea to dress up in keffiyehs, do intifada kabuki, and run around screaming at affluent Jews in NY and LA.
Having terrorized their donors, I am very excited to watch all sorts…
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It’s great that, in honor of a guy who would harass and inconvenience normal people on their way to work, protesters are inconveniencing normal people on their way to work.
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The hats were weird.
In retrospect it was an early sign that people weren’t well.
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It’s crazy when billionaires on here are like ‘You’re never going to believe what I found out!’ and it’s something you knew 5 years ago.
I am sitting next to a top scientist who is a professor at
@UCSF
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@NathanJRobinson
Meaningless rhetorical dodge - you’re the one engaging in a tautology to avoid the question.
A urinal cake is a type of cake but you wouldn’t eat it (or I dunno maybe you would if the ideological incentives were significant enough).
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The DEI takeover is an interesting form of radicalism in that the transformational vision was explicitly to be effectuated by something akin to a late Soviet repressive bureaucracy.
No gulag, but step out of line + maybe you lose your job, your apartment, + you’re unpersoned.
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The current sci fi female action heroes are forced, inauthentic, forgettable, and lack charisma.
It’s very odd because growing up it seemed like Hollywood had this solved (e.g. Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hamilton).
Of course they blame the ‘fanbase’ for their artistic failures.
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has said women in Star Wars, such as The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland, struggle due to a male dominated fanbase.
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Ibram Kendi is The First Black Intellectual.
This combination of mediocrity and malignant narcissism is what defines our era.
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For many of us Ibram Kendi was a very consequential intellectual figure.
His ascent was one of maybe 6 or 8 key events that were dispositive in proving the stupidity and derangement of our intellectual and culture elite.
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The gays created a disaster by not dismantling their activist machinery after Obergefell.
After they won they should have shut it all down but instead they handed it over to perverts and lunatics.
That they’re now paying a political price is just and fair.
Fewer than 50% of Republicans think gay people should be allowed to marry.
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I was a normie Obama lib until 3 things happened that broke my brain:
1) Russia collusion hysteria,
2) elite public health/ gov't response to COVID, and
3) ideological takeover of my academic specialty
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@Sulliview
lol WaPo is imploding and functionally a Bezos charity at this point and all you can do is bang your AWFL gong?
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…of fake lib orgs and NGOs have their funding pulled and implode over the next few years as libs wail and cry and curse the injustice of it all.
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So here we are, the Democratic Party using the administrative state to try to imprison a whistle blower for calling attention to pharmacological mutilation of children.
Anyone who says the Dems are ‘the sane party’ is at best a detestable useful idiot.
EXCLUSIVE: Dr.
@EithanHaim
exposed the child sex-change program at Texas Children's Hospital. Now the Biden Administration has indicted him on four felony charges. This is an outrageous political persecution—and must be resisted.
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The primary role of elite legacy news orgs serve is not to break news but rather to signal elite consensus and decision making, who is in, who is out, who is being ejected, etc.
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Hat trick:
‘It’s not happening’
‘Why do you even care?
‘Even if it is, it’s a good 👏 thing! 👏’
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Asians in NYC are the among the poorest and least socioeconomically and politically advantaged.
Their academic success and achievement has been an ideological embarrassment and a source of identitarian embarrassment, so they must be punished and opportunities taken away.
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Happy belated 3rd birthday to one of my favorite tweets ever!
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If I had to do it all over again I would have started having kids earlier and I would have had more kids.
In general, people who regret having kids have failed in life in some consequential way.
Make of that what you will.
@jdesmondharris
Every parent I’ve spoken to, without exception, has told me they love their kids but that I should not have kids and that they would not have kids if they had to do it again. Make of that what you will.
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I could never really understand why people got so excited about Ta Nehisi Coates.
Reading him I couldn’t escape the sense that he was an angry overweight comic book nerd.
They tried to meme into a generational James-Baldwin type but TNC was too pedantic and unrevealing.
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@keshavs_journal
lol a quarter of students failing 3 or more shelf exams is wild AND he had a lot of admins and faculty saying bad stuff is happening.
You did nothing to refute this.
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Amazing.
You could burn down entire city blocks in the name of Saint George Floyd and face no consequences but if you leave a marking on sacrosanct communal LGBT 🌈 flair it’s a felony.
3 teens are facing felony charges after they made marks on a Pride mural. They were charged with “malicious mischief” - a Class B felony in WA.
“Free speech" when people burn the American flag but a criminal offense if someone makes marks on a Pride flag.
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This guy’s an absolute hero.
It’s 1 in 1000 (if you’re lucky) who understand what’s going on and have the courage to do something about it.
EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower at Texas Children's exposed the hospital's secret child sex-change program. The Biden Administration threatened to prosecute him. Now, Dr. Eitan Haim has decided to reveal his identity, so he can speak the truth about transgender medicine.
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The Trump conviction obviously discredits our legal system and political establishment way more than Trump.
Only midwit apparatchiks will understand the results of this ridiculous prosecution as some sort of vindication.
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It was all worth it, all the insanity, all the derangement and mayhem and harm done to the country, to be able to deny Hillary the presidency, to snatch away the Supreme Court, and to shatter the dreams of libs for a generation.
We should be in the final 6 months of her presidency right now with a 6-3 liberal Supreme Court and 300 federal court appointments. I’ll never get over it.
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Lol in Canada black criminals can write a fake personal essay about experiencing racism to get out of jail.
So white communities have their criminals locked up, black communities less so.
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Sometimes I worry I’m thinking in cliches.
It can’t all be that stupid, right?
But then you read a piece like this about the implosion of Vice - the incompetent, overpaid management, the officious, HR church ladies,…
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Say what you want about DAW, he’s extraordinarily well rehearsed and socialized.
It’s the worst week of his life and he instinctively and instantaneously turned on a dime to do self criticism.
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Explanation of systemic racism is great if you’re in charge because every time something goes wrong you can be like, ‘darn there goes that systemic racism again, not our fault, twice as hard on the praxis, folx,’ wipe your hands of it, and go back to poasting.
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What black people want isn’t safe streets, good schools, accessible healthcare, and efficient transportation but rather for you to put on a strange, therapeutically-informed ideological performance with poor aesthetics.
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When did you realize that Canada had become the stupidest country in the Anglosphere?
Discovery of unmarked graves chosen as The Canadian Press news story of 2021
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These people are cancerous ideologues.
They’re not hiding the ball whatsoever.
They want quantitative criteria for medical school admissions like the MCAT abandoned for ideological criteria.
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@NathanJRobinson
Nathan do you believe Trans 🏳️⚧️ Women Are Women?
Think carefully before you answer.
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It has been very hard for many smart and well intentioned liberals to come to terms with *progressivism* becoming the state ideology over the last decade and the Democrats becoming the party of institutions and government.
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‘I, a Leftist, attest that gender identity isn’t a Leftist word game.’
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Yeah that’s right you can molest hundreds of children and no one’s interested but if you complain at a school board meeting or aren’t happy with adolescent gender mutilation you go on an FBI list and they’ll come knock on your door.
@realchrisrufo
@feelsdesperate
Is this the same FBI that didn’t investigate Dr. Larry Nassar while he sexually abused young gymnasts for years?
I wonder why they love child abusers so much…
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Are mentally ill journalists just going to be continuously freaking about the weather from mid June to September?
Is that the new normal?
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@JamesSurowiecki
Yeah because it was the slippery slope to the trans stuff and valorizing all sorts of other weird behavior.
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Anna Khachiyan is one of our best social critics.
She understands empathetic derangement way better than those who suffer from it.
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🚨 🚨 Pronoun alert ‼️ 🚨 🚨
Zoom meeting pronouns are down approximately 2/3 year-over-year.
Elites are sensing diminishing rewards for valorizing esoteric gender nonsense and are slowly backing away.
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Families of 16 children killed by vehicular homicide are ‘small-minded people if they can’t forgive an accident where the fellow’s apologized profusely from the start.’
Folx, he said he was sorry.
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Wow nice work, you guys spent years crying wolf and calling everyone who disagreed with you about anything a Nazi or a fascist and now everyone’s inured to that rhetoric, this totally isn’t a predictable consequence, no way anyone could see it coming.
I find Nick Fuentes utterly terrifying. He really is like a budding American Hitler, and people might well underestimate the threat he poses just as they did with Hitler.
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They are librarians, grade school teachers, assistant professors, Brooklyn-based journalists, MPHs… a jumble of ineffectual, interstitial, lower end, over credentialed white collar workers.
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You’re guilty of original sin.
You can attain some level of redemption through allyship.
However if you are a cis white ally you will still be the lowest caste.
That’s where transing comes in.
Allyship first, and then climb the hierarchy through self-mortification.
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Biden was elected based on the promise that he would lead a return to normalcy.
What we ended up with is a decrepit, senescent, and historically unpopular president who has to rely on DNC-led banana republic show trials to prop himself up and discredit his opponent.
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Stupid, resentful, and sociopathic people in academia have a huge advantage because they don’t do much work, have lots of free time, and dramatically outnumber people who are talented.
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Empathy is not a good quality and it’s not good for society at scale.
Empathy is a trick that allows emotionally dysregulated sociopaths feel human for brief moments.
Obligations are good. Responsibility is good: spousal, parental, community, professional responsibility, etc.
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I love that Ibram Kendi, the underachieving upper middle class midwit whose scholarship is at best mediocre, is a hero + gets all the academic laurels, while Roland Fryer Jr, who had a chaotic, difficult upbringing and does generative work, is very bad and needed to be punished.
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Not dunking but wasn’t this the obvious terminus for imploding industries (also publishing, journalism, Hollywood, etc.) that made racialist ideological diktats part of their core institutional mission?
How were things otherwise ‘supposed to go’?
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Huge victory against this junk mail scamming org that for too long has been picking the pockets of elderly, confused, and vulnerable lib boomers. 👏 👏 👏
today, SPLC — my employer —laid off over 60 of our union members, essentially shuttering multiple departments.
speaking in a personal capacity, i endorse each and every single word of this statement from our union. an organization with this much money has no excuse.
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This is funny but also pretty sad.
These guys are like, ‘It’s totally fine to poop in an atm vestibule or shoot up on a park bench HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOU? WHY DO YOU EVEN CARE??’
They’ve been extremely effective in making urban life more unpleasant and chaotic.
Meanwhile,…
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Doubling down on the volleyball claims after they’ve been disproven isn’t an L.
It’s a power move that says the ideological Truth is what matters and even if you have facts and reality on your side we’re still in charge and hold the power.
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Ibram Kendi is widely misunderstood.
He is the superlative mediocre millennial narcissist.
The child of professional parents, if he was smarter/ worked harder he wouldn't have ended up at Florida A&M University for magazine studies.
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‘The hostages are fine, why does Israel even care’ discourse lmao
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Also, you could be a nurse practitioner married to a schoolteacher and make $250k as a couple. It’s not a wild upper class income in 2024.
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Ten years ago when I was a real lib and Rush Limbaugh would say something like, ‘they want to let criminals run free AND get rid of the police AND take your guns away,’ I would be like, ‘har har who believes this?’
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One of the most important consequences of the George Floyd moral panic was that DEI became a legitimizing institutional mission.
In lieu of your org doing the thing it was tasked to do, it could just scale memetic nonsense instead.
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The Ivies were a bastion of WASP status, power, and privilege, and Jews and other white ethnics were very excited when these institutions were tuned over to them in the 60s and they still worship them to this day.
Between the new waves of immigrant striver goblins who also…
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Let’s say you have a $750k house with a $600k mortgage. About $4k per month? Then $1500 per month in property taxes? That’s $70k. About $85k in income taxes if you live in NY. So, now you’re at $95k. Max out 1 401k you’re down to $72k. That’s about $6k per month.
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Brutal ratio here for Nathan.
The Left should just disgorge the trans stuff.
Supporting it makes even the ‘smartest’ Leftists look incredibly stupid and they’re doing the opposite of winning hearts or minds.
@Bbunchofnumbers
@feelsdesperate
A train car IS a car. It's not an automobile. Likewise, trans women are women. They are not cis women. But the word woman covers both trans women and cis women, just as the word car is used to describe both railroad cars and automobiles, but both are vehicles.
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…anyone - THEY were going to decide who got to do what and under what circumstances and they were going to professionally administer it and get lots of fake jobs.
This was a bad idea of course and the libs knew they were playing with fire and if the wind turned there could…
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The radical transformation is to occur via bureaucracy and mid tier management: credentialing, educational standards, favoring moral clarity over objectivity in journalism as an editorial standard, etc. etc. Any place that there is paper, forms, processes.
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They desperately want to be heard, to be consequential, to have a presence. They want you to *read the room* and think twice before you speak. They want to escape boredom and be a part of something and escape the tasks they are assigned.
A wonderful example from Year Zero:
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Probability someone with a masters degree wants to do something to make your life worse is about 90%
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After 2016 the Dems could have gone European center left but instead they folded in the neocons and nat sec and became the party of corporate America, show trials, ideological surveillance, proxy wars abroad, illiberalism, and elite institutional derangement.
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A couple observations from inside the lunatic asylum:
First, when something goes sideways (DEI, NPIs, gender gnosis, etc.), PMCs will not openly acknowledge it.
What they will do is slllooowwwlllyyyy and quietly back away. This may be imperceptible, but it is meaningful.
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Once libs go all in on nonsense like this they have no way out no matter how stupid or embarrassing it gets.
This is a good way to discourage them and keep them bogged down.
Every time they’re forced to ‘say the thing’ and repeat some inanity it’s another little humiliation.
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Lol total projection.
Gender performance was just the next frontier for the media, NGO, activist, academic blob apparatus that didn’t want to decommission itself after gay marriage was won.
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Defeated on same-sex marriage, the religious right went searching for an issue that would re-energize supporters and donors.
Now, the pace of the campaign against transgender rights has stunned political leaders across the spectrum.
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Probably the cringiest thing I have read in my entire life was NY Times film critic AO Scott saying Coates’ writing was ‘essential, like water or air.’
It’s rare that someone can delegitimize their entire career with one sentence but Scott was able to do just that.
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Therapeutic culture
1992: let’s minimize your symptomatology so you can lead a normal life
2022: your symptoms are your authentic and special identity, cling to them
1992: sounds situational, let’s find ways to make it better
2022: have you considered euthanasia?
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‘Trans abortion doula’
‘Those choosing not to remain pregnant’
I am truly impressed by the ability of NGOs to continuously generate horror by simply combining words from the English language.
You think you can no longer be shocked but they keep taking it to another level.
Meet Ash Williams, a trans abortion doula redefining reproductive support. After experiencing a lack of care during his own abortion, Ash now provides holistic, compassionate care to those choosing not to remain pregnant.
Read more:
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I think we’d be ok if we just wound most of the humanities down as active academic disciplines.
That knowledge can be imparted without a formal academic apparatus and it’s hard to argue that much meaningful disciplinary knowledge advancement is happening.
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Can we go back to this?
The idea of sending in social workers to de-escalate people who are violent and acutely psychotic is the absolute craziest thing ever.
At scale, thousands of social workers would be murdered or maimed every year.
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10 years ago I thought a lib victory would mean bike lanes, cheap healthcare, and lots of co ops.
No premonition of identity magick, tech surveillance, and ideological calisthenics at work.
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Pray for Will.
He’s all that stands between us and a deluge of fascism.
I aspirated a bug while doorknocking today and I still don’t feel quite 100%
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@wil_da_beast630
True but I think much better to have it in the open.
A lot of it is very distasteful and low IQ and it’s good for people to recognize that.
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I love when elites do the ‘it was a crazy time, we didn’t get everything right, but who could have expected us to?’ mea culpa to absolve themselves of responsibility.
Totally disqualifying. Who wants leadership or experts who screw up in an emergency when stakes are highest??
Crusading media types vastly underestimate the hit to their credibility from exaggerated or false alarms, part of a general tendency to underrate the intelligence of the audience.
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Leftism gives people permission to be their worst selves. That's its biggest danger in a lot of ways. Leftist dictators quite literally unleash leftist mobs. They encourage violence because they believe violence on behalf of ‘the oppressed’ is the proper order of things.
Fascism gives people permission to be their worst selves. That's its biggest danger in a lot of ways. Fascist dictators quite literally unleash fascist mobs. They encourage violence because they believe a violent society in which might makes right is the proper order of things.
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It was a very unsettling experience, the sensation that everyone around you was going through some sort of episode.
You wondered if you were the one who had lost your mind, but no you hadn’t, and, yes, everyone else was in thrall to a therapeutic ideological mania.
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…be a big conflagration so they were very on edge.
And so that’s why they immediately started screaming about Nazis being everywhere and that there needed to be illiberal ideological repression and so on and so forth.
They were telling on themselves with all the hysteria…
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In fact, the radical vision centers on an even more expansive bureaucracy. Even the smallest areas previously left to discretion or negotiated interpersonally will require bureaucratization and surveillance.
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