Ted McCormick

critical thinking takes another L

the free press is completely unhinged. this is about the NYT initially omitting from its story about starvation in Gaza that one of the profiled children has a pre-existing medical condition. what is the "damage" what was done by that omission, exactly?

I think there’s a lot to this.

It also just strains credulity that people lapping up Peterson’s or Tate’s worldviews are going to have the least bit of interest in a Left/Liberal take on getting laid Leftly/Liberally, because the identity they consume is avowedly anti-Left as much as anything else.

This is because I unsubscribed, isn’t it

This is bullshit

Few historiographical faiths are as unimaginative (and hence as appealing) as technological determinism. New box therefore everything

This may not save them either, by itself, but it is a condition of their being saved

The only way for universities’ fate and reputation not to be forever tied to the worst decisions of fleeting executives is for governance to be truly collective

fair enough

It is remarkable and disgusting how virtually every political official and party politician big enough to command a media platform talks about “migrants” both as a “problem” and as an object of coercive, destructive and often murderous intervention

In terms of attitudes and policies towards immigrants, the mainstream party-political spectrum ranges from hard-right to Nazi

Germany’s new willingness to lead Europe’s anti-immigration front removes one key obstacle preventing European countries from enacting policy proposals that were until recently deemed beyond the pale. Those include plans to deport migrants to third countries and to process asylum claims outside the EU, copying the U.K.’s failed Rwanda scheme, which Merz previously praised as “something we could emulate.”

Absolutely revolting that this is becoming normalized as a policy
www.politico.eu/article/germ...

pre-Elon Twitter was a hellsite, or so I’d heard. But yes, you’re right

No Elon and fewer Nazis and radical centrists is not nothing, of course, I don’t mean to dismiss that. But speaking for myself the effect of sustained engagement on the medium is more or less the same

Not shocking in a community of Twitter self-exiles, perhaps

I don’t really think this is that different from Twitter, and less and less so over time

Deny everything

It is among other things the triumph of a debased notion of “skepticism”

Ok that time may have just arrived

the erosion of the boundary between online and real life interaction says bad things about the state of real life. it also says bad things about online behaviour but we knew those

no, random person I don’t know or follow, I will not explain my post specifically to you

wow. whole lotta people in the comments proving my thesis right

The Left Isn’t the Right. Here’s Why That’s Bad News for the Left

By A. Centrist

Some years ago one of these young men followed me online. He RT'd all the "this is what they took from us" crap on Twitter. He picked up the anti-trans panic enthusiastically. "They're coming for our kids," he tweeted.

He had no kids. No memories of "what they took from us." He had ginned-up rage.

if the latter, that seems like a dangerous creature to feed

apart from anything else it's not clear to me whether young men are any less catered to (parented, taught) than they used to be, or whether the advice-to-young-men industry has just grown monstrously online, and disproportionately in the direction of appealing to a sense of grievance and entitlement

of course, refusing to talk about something *the way the right does* is in turn easy to frame as refusing to talk about a subject at all

I believe these things anyway, but even if we're just being pragmatic, stealing the right's clothes, including their framing of social issues, is often a losing strategy (unless you want to promise the same things the right does, which is just... moving to the right)

I also think that by adulthood you have some responsibility for your politics as well as your behaviour, whether The Online Left is flattering you or not

I guess I don't think a *left* manosphere is a solution to anything; treating half the world as something you should want or need a how-to to master seems like the bigger issue