for whom the doom scrolls

Ender's Game is not a work that you quote to endorse fascism it's a work you quote to endorse people figuring out their homosexuality while teenagers. It's basically a proto Stranger Things.

watching allegedly heterosexual Sports Guys get absolutely poleaxed by high-purity crystal yaoi is a gift that keeps on giving. truly one of the bright sparks of joy.

"it's about oil, just like GWB and Iraq" no, and that wasn't About Oil either, as evidenced by the fact that America isn't presently getting rich off of Iraqi oilfields

it's much stupider and fouler and more awful and fucked-up than that; Putin attacking Ukraine wasn't /about/ mineral rights either

this is me saying this: the bare minimum acceptable response from Dems in 2026 will involve rounding up and punishing every single human in the chain of command who performed these actions to the fullest extent to which it is possible and it frustrates me that we DON'T have effective means of demand

There is absolutely no legal justification, no moral justification, and no constituency for any war with Venezuela.

This is the monstrous crime of a rogue administration and it must be prosecuted and punished.

If you want to read something that correctly recognizes the unavoidable contingency of all human affairs, and reliably centers the way feelings and ideas travel from person to person and affect the way things happen, usually you need to read history.

Mike's threatening us with a good time here.

trump is demolishing our national symbols and selling the country for scrap to his corrupt donors

why in the fuck are people acting like Platner already won the nomination and we're arguing that people should vote for Susan fucking Collins? like, stating that as a plain fact? over and over again? are they lying on purpose, or just being as dumb as a box of rocks?

i appreciate that the white house is honestly kind of small and in-the-middle-of-a-city by standards of presidential residences

A tweet by Theo Nash, which reads, "The problem is that (almost) no one, at least in the humanities, is able to produce ‘new knowledge’ at anything like the rate expected. So scholars grasp at faddish trends and voguish theories to publish books that seem exciting in the moment but have no enduring value."

Maybe this is simply a difference in the expected 'rate' of knew knowledge, but this take puzzles me, because there's quite a bit of new data and studies needing to be done that I can see pretty easily in Roman history.

Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.

Listen idk if it's going to break through at all, but if I were the media and the literal POPE was lecturing me for being a lying piece of shit, I may look in the mirror for a moment.

Understanding the libidinal/emotional appeal of racism and why it makes more sense than the rational economic case of anti-racism for generational GOP voters is what we need more than trying another round of deliverism b/c materialism does not explain this electorate.

I’ve been terrible at promoting but I’ll be at SLICE next weekend! And I’m currently at a show in Ann Arbor lol

There is a problem with people confusing procedural (bipartisanship etc.), policy, and aesthetic moderation. Buttigieg is an aesthetic moderate but a pretty consistent partisan, while someone like Sanders is a policy and aesthetic radical (within US politics) but a procedural moderate

being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"

Amazing that this person can write the phrase "more tribal" and then go on to decry colonizers like. Do you _hear_ yourself.

there's a tendency in parts of the left to believe that 'community' is the answer to everything but communities are often horrendous!

I can certainly believe that the author's intent was healing and redemption, but I don't think that's what's in the text as written. Regardless, if this procs as "heartbreakingly beautiful" for you, I suggest reading better literature.

I'm glad Susan Collins' legacy is being preserved.

There's absolutely a doula who does astrology or something.

Well you see they don't have terms for fear and crime because nothing bad happens there ever, so we're already living in a completely batshit version of reality (or one with heavily policed linguistic structures I guess)

Honestly listening to that much crunchy granola therapy speak might be the worst thing this fictional murderer was subjected to.

I can't get over how publicly attended executions are just casually dropped at the end here.

(The whole thing is horrifying but my god).

I should be in a monastery or debating theology homoerotically or something and instead i'm swearing at thinking rocks and have anxiety, of course this is the way my own mind turns towards RETVRN

first off: my own class background means that, like a bunch of the reporters I was dunking on earlier, I've been raised to see having education and a family background of homeownership and professional employment as "privilege" & to assume others were "less fortunate"

Which is to say that even as our means are the same and even our education, I didn't grow up in a family with the same CULTURAL markers of an educated elite class as many of my peers and it can be very weird.

I think class consciousness is, as it exists today, largely vibe-based, and for whatever its worth I've often found myself wrong-footed or just missing the requisite class language when among middle class "elites" in a way that's been. Very disorienting?

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper"

anyways, great news! (1/X)