Emma Camp
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Associate editor @reason // @uva grad, Lisa Simpson impersonator. ✉️ Tips: [email protected]
Washington, DC
Joined January 2016
Yearly reminder that I was born on Constitution Day, so I had literally no choice but to Be Like This.
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I know this is bait but I objectively look *adorable* in this pic.
The real trauma comes from having to stare at this face in the mirror every day.
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The way my jaw DROPPED.
Georgetown Law has told a pregnant student whose baby is due during exams that she must take the test a few days postpartum, with baby in tow. No early or remote exam since “it would be inequitable to all the other non-birthing students in her class.”.
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I do not understand how this is remarkable. Have we just fully entered the phase where any kind of IRL attempt to flirt with someone is taboo?.
went to a wedding & watched this guy ask the bride if the maid of honor was single.
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You literally just described the world . before capitalism.
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This NYT piece is an endless stream of bangers. I swear, one of the more destructive recent cultural trends has been the combined push to frame all distress or discomfort as mental illness, and then to encourage people to form their identity around being “mentally ill.”
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“There’s something really remarkable that I have noticed about most of these Chinese people. Even older people, people in their 40s, 50s, 60s. They look so much less traumatized than most Americans”. Girl, I am BEGGING you to google the Cultural Revolution for the love of GOD.
🇺🇸🇨🇳 Americans are quickly realizing that the US is not a first world country after spending just a little time watching the lifestyles of the Chinese on RedNote
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Truly nothing could have prepared me for the second sentence.
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Capitalism is so cruel and punishing that thousands of middle-class families can easily afford to go on vacations so sumptuous they would make Marie Antoinette jealous.
Late stage capitalism is so absurdly comical at times. This new cruise ship has: . - 23 restaurants .- 22 bars / clubs .- 7 full sized pools + 9 hot tubs.- Full waterpark .- Rock climbing wall .- Ice skating rink .- Surf simulator .- Golf course .- Basketball court.- Rooms for
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9 states and DC place no gestational limit on abortion. A quick Google search turns up clinics here in DC that provide abortions up to 36 and 32 weeks. @TheAtlantic interviewed a doctor who performs 32+ week abortions, and about half his patients have healthy babies.
For the record: You cannot have an abortion in the 9th month. You cannot have an abortion after birth. If we didn’t keep banning books, maybe we wouldn’t have to clear that up. #Debate2024.
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Yeah, the global poor are so exploited that they’ve gone from 94 percent of the population to 9.6 percent since capitalism burst on the scene.
Capitalism is so cruel and punishing that now thousands of middle class families can benefit from the exploitation of thousands upon thousands of laborers while simultaneously doing immense damage to the climate.
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Someone please look at this graph and tell me what was so great about the past.
Can anyone pinpoint the exact moment when the world started to go to shit?.
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The idea that you can win a high school debate round by arguing that your opponent is personally evil—ignoring the actual policy resolution—is just so bleak.
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Someone explain how this is not a super obvious violation of Title IX??. Situations like this show why biological sex remains a prescient axis of discrimination. Fighting for gender equality requires acknowledging how women are discriminated against for having *female bodies*.
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I pinkie promise that those Chinese 60-year-olds are in fact more traumatized than the average American!. Do most Americans just *not* know that China is like, *famously* an authoritarian hellscape? How do you reach adulthood and miss out on that information??.
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I think so many young people have been convinced that they are fundamentally mentally ill in some way—that they will always be clinically depressed or anxious. Not only is this just untrue, it’s also just a profoundly self-sabotaging worldview.
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There’s a segment of the left that’s just become so deeply anti-intellectual and so utterly devoid of curiosity. If reporters can’t ask subjects tough questions, what are they even doing?.
CBS journalist @TonyDokoupil asked Ta-Nehisi Coates tough questions. Then the backlash began. Listen to the audio obtained by The FP of the contentious editorial meeting that followed.
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Unlike stupider nations, there isn’t a weird ethnic litmus test for being an American. Anyone can be American, it’s one of the best things about us! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸.
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Woah. “There was a 292% increase in students classified with disabilities at the top eight liberal arts colleges over the past 12 years”. Pretty strong evidence that a “disabled” label is becoming a fasion accessory for rich kids.
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Half of student loan borrowers owe less than $20K. If you have $20K in student loans, your monthly payment will likely be <$250. Activists with <7th percentile loan balances have skewed the debate & made it seem like the average borrower is drowning when they're just not.
There are 44 million of us. I'm among the lucky minority who can afford to pay. What's everyone else going to do?
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Don’t men commit like 80 percent of the violent crime?. The whole "men are more calm/rational than women" bit only works if you count gossiping but not murder lol.
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If we tell people that they will be traumatized by everyday upsetting events, they will be. If we romanticize and lionize the traumatized*, people will read every social slight in the worst way possible.
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The cool thing is that young people who go to college generally do not start out their life indebted by 100k or more.
How did American society come to accept that young people who go to college start our their life indebted by 100k or more? How did this become an acceptable idea?.
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Having choices is awesome, actually.
Imagine if there were only 1 brand of peanut butter, 1 brand of pasta sauce, etc. Rather than spend your time in the grocery wondering "Which brand shall I buy?", you'd have the mindspace to wonder: "What person shall I become?".
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It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that combining Aspergers and autism was a huge mistake. The autism spectrum is just too big. There aren’t meaningfully shared interests between the highest and lowest functioning ends. From @JillEscher:
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People called me nuts for sitting my husband down after a year of dating and basically telling him that we were either getting soft-engaged (i.e. would get engaged after we graduated college) or breaking up. And yet!.
If you don’t have a ring on your finger within a maximum of two years, you’re ngmi. It’s time to move on sis, to bigger and better things.
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Has the world started to go to shit? Nope, and here's why:.
Can anyone pinpoint the exact moment when the world started to go to shit?.
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Drat! Capitalism strikes again!
Target is lowing prices on 5,000 different items. But not out of the kindness of their hearts — the corporate giant is only taking this step after a year of declining sales. They raised prices too high, and are lowering them to lure shoppers back.
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*sigh*. Only 20% of Americans even have student loan debt. And more than half them owe less than 20K. The idea that the average American household has almost 60k in student loan debt is almost certainly BS.
The average American household owes $10,000 in credit card debt, $58,957 in student loan debt, $241,840 in mortgage debt, and $22,612 in auto loans, per YahooFinance.
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Nothing, and I mean, *nothing* makes me more patriotic than seeing authoritarian bullshit like this.
Think before you post.
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What is this if not literal thoughtcrime?. The fact that you can be prosecuted for having the wrong *thoughts in your head* in England will never stop being absurd. This is what happens without ironclad free speech protections.
Today, a man was criminally convicted for standing still, silently praying, in England. I've now had chance to read the decision in full. A short thread below. And before you get to the end, you can support Adam here:
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We’ve set up so many girls for unnecessary mental suffering—as @glukianoff calls, it we've been encouraging them to do “reverse CBT” on themselves for years. If you are undone by mild setbacks, how can you even begin to cope if something actually terrible happens to you?
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Also lol I'm sure Stalin broke up a LOT of families on his way to killing tens of millions of people.
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I just want to take a quick moment to thank everyone who’s taken the time to read my piece over the past few days. I’m so grateful for all the kind comments, but also for the constructive and thoughtful criticism.
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I've actually had lab-grown meat before, and it's pretty good! . Politicians like Fetterman and DeSantis are worried about competition for meat industry giants, not protecting Americans.
Pains me deeply to agree with Crash-and-Burn Ron, but I co-sign this. As a member of @SenateAgDems and as some dude who would never serve that slop to my kids, I stand with our American ranchers and farmers. 🇺🇸
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There's a certain point at which this attitude toward covid just becomes agoraphobia, right?
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This is just bullying (with a veneer of moral superiority) that any adult in the room should have come down hard on. Instead, the judge applauds it. This is what happens when you destroy liberal norms. Do we really want to live in a world where all instituions are like this?
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The Biden Administration released new #TitleIX rules today, and they’re BAD. The new regs will allow students to be found guilty of assaulting a classmate by just 51 percent of the evidence, with a single administrator acting as judge, jury, and executioner. a short 🧵 .
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Colleges: Huh, we have a huge mental health crisis. Also Colleges: BTW we've banned fun.
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I might be the first person in the history of the internet to end up with higher self-esteem after being called ugly in a viral tweet. Some dude tried to insult my face and now I have 100s of ppl telling me I’m a pre-Raphelite Jane Austen fairy princess and 1000 new followers!.
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This basic problem is one of the reasons I had to detach myself from autism identity politics (excuse the shameless self-promo).
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Teenage girls are about to experience levels of body dysmorphia scientists previously deemed impossible.
Google just released Imagen 3!. Their latest text-to-image generator. Here's a couple of side-by-side with Midjourney & Flux
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*footnote: You can support people with PTSD or survivors of traumatic events without romanticizing being traumatized, or implying that the traumatized are better or more worthy than the un-traumatized. That lack of distinction is one of the ways we've gone wrong here.
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*sigh* .There is no illiberalism problem at UVA. Yep. Nothing to see here.
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Now is literally the best time to be alive in all of human history. I am constantly in awe of my sheer dumb luck to have been born an American in 1999. Grocery stores! Vaccines! Civil liberties! . Ours is a time of incredible abundance.
For virtually all of human history, almost everyone alive (95%+) was subsistence farmer-level poor. When I was born, that had fallen to about half the world’s population. Today, we’re down to ~10%. This “everything sucks now” worldview comes from a place of incredible privilege.
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What an utterly baseless smear. @TheFIREorg has worked to stop drag bans and anti-CRT laws. They’ve defended people like Nikole Hannah-Jones and run afoul of Chris Rufo. They also defend right-wing speech. It’s almost like they’re a free-speech organization that means it!
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Gee good thing the average person doesn't have student debt.
Not sure who needs to hear this, but the average person’s budget will be stressed by an additional $250/mo expense!.
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Dude I voted for Biden.
@LPNH @reason @RollingStone Trump broke @reason. Badly. So much that some of the editors admitted they voted for Biden. However, @emmma_camp_ is a solid writer for them.
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Look I dislike Mike Pence as much as the next lib college student, but the idea that *a former Vice President of the United States* will "threaten the lives" of UVA students is a use of hyperbole that simply kills the useful meaning of words.
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I think a lot of people are discounting the very high possibility that this is simply a crazy person without a coherent political identity. Remember how the guy who tried to assassinate Regan did it because he thought Jodie Foster was hot?.
@emmma_camp_ I have to suspect that endlessly drumming him as a existential threat would push someone to do this.
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Haha wtf. The notion that “the value of free speech has been elevated to a near-sacred level on university campuses” is absurd beyond measure.
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A baby born at 32 weeks has about a 95 percent chance of surviving BTW. The “post-birth abortion” framing is confusing, but the issue at hand is whether, in the rare instance that a baby survives an abortion attempt, the doctor should then have to provide medical care.
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I am once again asking how it helps minority students to completely abdicate responsibility for providing them with a decent education.
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I’m sorry but this is awesome. It’s hard to describe just how stupid rich normal Americans are. This is a nice vacation for a middle-class American family, and it would make Mansa Musa feel poor.
The "Icon Of The Seas" sets sail in January 2024. 5610 passengers, 2350 crew members, 5 times larger and heavier than the Titanic, 19 floors with more than 40 bars, restaurants and bowling alleys. What a monstrosity!
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I will never understand why any man would choose a 9-5 when this exists.
I will never understand why any woman would choose a 9-5 when this exists.
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Uhh . How is this legal? . Aside from the plain obscenity of “blacks only” classes, it’s very weird to see racial segregation lauded by progressives.
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Love this @nytimes article. Poor students are better off when elite unis require the SAT because (unlike grades and essays), it closely predicts student achievement. It’s mediocre rich kids, not smart disadvantaged ones who stand to gain from the recent anti-SAT trend.
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I seriously want to know what people who would give the government authority to ruthlessly suppress speech think would happen if someone they don't like gets elected. Idk man if Trump is an immediate threat to democracy, that seems like a good reason to not erode free speech??.
Always been a bad sign when dudes like this put "free speech" in air quotes so credit I guess for saying the quiet part out loud.
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Defend this if you want, but be honest about it. The abortion debate is fraught and has cooked a lot of people's brains. I just wish people were clearer about what exactly they are and are not okay with. "There are no late-term abortions" is just as much a lie as "13-year-olds.
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If Baker didn't name the student, I can virtually guarantee that people would be claiming this anecdote is made up.
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I can’t think of a protest less effective at persuading people. Why has this become such a pervasive trend in activism? Surely organizers realise that all this does is negatively polarize people against their cause.
Both directions of the Golden Gate Bridge have been shut down due to a Pro-Palestinian protest. Demonstrators have blocked the southbound direction of Highway 101. This is the second protest causing major back-ups on Bay Area roadways, the demonstration has blocked northbound
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Call me crazy, but I actually AM more concerned about the cold-blooded murderer in this scenario.
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BREAKING: President Donald Trump appoints Dr. Leo Spaceman to serve as surgeon general
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Someone please explain to me the difference between “exclusive fwb” and “boyfriend” because it does not compute. I’ve had multiple friends try to insist that there is a difference between being “exclusive” and being in a relationship and I simply don’t get it!.
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Kinda nuts that an obvious book-banning attempt is getting such rosy coverage because the challengers are on the left. In fairness, the story isn’t *completely* one-sided but never in a million billion years would a wapo piece about right-wing book suppression end like this. 🧵
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Hahaha this attitude will definitely not backfire terribly.
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Do Republicans still believe in free markets? . I asked RNC attendees and found out the answer was . not really.
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So many people act like the average American school peddles the Lost Cause and I have seen no evidence that actually supports this. Open to being proved wrong here, but I literally went to public school in rural Alabama & they taught us that the Civil War was about slavery.
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I want someone to explain to me, in detail, how exactly they believe murdering healthcare CEOs is going to make US insurance companies behave better.
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New College of Florida—under Chris Rufo’s tutelage—is attempting to undo a left-wing campus culture by enacting what is essentially affirmative action for men. In one year, first-year male enrollment jumped 23 percentage points. Incoming students' GPAs and test scores went down.
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I am once again asking elected officals to know how the First Amendment works.
Tim Walz: “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech and especially around our democracy”
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If you thought my piece didn’t make it clear that the procedures I’m talking about (third-trimester specifically) are incredibly rare, I don’t know what to tell you. My whole point is that the rarity of a thing does not mean it's not worth our moral concern.
the CDC reports less than 1 percent of abortions occur after 21 weeks but @emmma_camp_ for some reason felt that easily identifiable statistic was not worth including in this disappointingly misleading piece .
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The more I see stuff like this the more I believe Trumpist conservatives think it's emasculating to like spending time with your wife.
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Apparently this is two years old but kudos to @cjciaramella for reviving it in the reason slack because holy moly!.
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Nothing but pity for this girl though. Having this happen to me is, like, my deepest darkest fear and I have designed my life accordingly and take every opportunity to extoll its virtues.
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Usually, when people complain about capitalism they’re pointing out something . bad? All this shows is just how rich normal Americans are lol.
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@HonestlyUnusual I mean if they're invited to your wedding they are definitionally not random men.
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@katrosenfield @BovyMaltz Ditto to the honorific "Mrs!" I am an energetic 24-year-old with most of my eggs, plausible deniability when it comes to purity, a flush ponytail, a pep in my step that had yet to run out! Being called Mrs anything is viscerally horrifying.
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The ability to extend one’s adolescence as long as possible is a powerful status symbol. Harvard students get to skip class to wallow in their big feelings while a 22-year-old not in college still has to show up to work on time.
What are we doing here, guys? .College is supposed to get students ready for the real world. Model how we get back to work.
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The community element of religion cannot be underestimated. One of the best decisions I ever made when I moved to DC was to start going to church. And I maybe 30% believe in God on a good day!.
In the last 25 years:. 1. The U.S. had the fastest decline in church attendance in history. 2. Socializing time fell for all groups—but declined the most for those whose religiosity fell the most. I wrote about what America loses when it loses religion.
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I don't think famous people should have to publicly condemn their conservative relatives.
Chappell Roan: I'm just an uwu smol bean who loves her conservative family 😊. The conservative family: uncle who is a transphobic Republican state legislator
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Well this seems like a terrible idea.
the dc city council is working on a bill "making it illegal for landlords to restrict pets by breed, size, and weight"
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The best argument for capitalism can be contained almost entirely within this graph.
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The complete lack of message discipline from pro-Palestine activists is absolutely absurd. There is literally nothing to be gained from calling for *10,000* October 7ths. All it does is make you look like a barbarian and distract from your legitimate grievances!.
Heard outside Columbia University last night: "Never forget the 7th of October. That will happen not 1 more time, not 5 more times, not 10, not 100, not 1,000, but 10,000 times! The 7th of October is going to be every day for you"
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Is this really a right-wing take? I think most people would say that you shouldn’t marry someone if you want incompatible things out of life.
One of the interesting things about the RW discourse on relationships is the essential indifference to the idea of love. So if Bethany's son is in love with a woman who doesn't want the same number of kids as he does, he should dump her. Someone else will come along.
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I keep seeing a lot of people adopt this attitude that (1) if anyone disagrees with you, it’s because they’re a bad person and (2) you’re under no obligation to be polite to “bad people,” in fact, you should be as nasty as possible. (1/4).
I read something recently about how there’s a strain of discussion norms emerging on the left that can only be described as imitating the school bully from an 80s movie. Basically they talk like Biff Tanner from Back To The Future.
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I’m so weirded out by the way senseless therapy-speak ends up pathologizing desire. Wanting to love and be loved is a sign of an ordered, not disordered mind.
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Some terrifying @JonHaidt graphs for you! . Being a teenage girl has always sucked, but oh man it seems to be getting worse. I do wonder if some of this isn’t just screen time, but how the content *inside* the phones valorizes psychic pain, especially for girls.
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I'm just going to leave this here.
Head of the Chicago Teacher’s Union after proposing they be awarded a $50 Billion contract (more than all of Illinois brings in a year in all taxes)
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I love this video. Nothing makes me more patriotic than stuff like this. American grocery stores are a miracle of modern abundance that we totally take for granted.
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