The Minivilization

The woke college students were right but we can't acknowledge this because then we'll have to consider whether they're right about other things too. That I'm a big stupid moron for instance

they redefined antisemitism to include anyone morally disgusted by the wholesale demonic slaughter we are all witnessing and i’m not sure how we are supposed to use that word to describe real anti-jewish hatred ever again. they’ve cursed us for generations

censorship also materially aids predators by maintaining a taboo that assists in covering up the actual violence that is indexed by terms like incest and rape, which is worth mentioning as a reason that many patriarchal conservatives are so enthusiastic about it. it is a defense strategy in advance.

“the party being led by jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly examine your childs genitals” is a true statement

It sounds insane to say “the GOP is built on the desire to molest children” but it is manifestly built on the idea that women are the property of men and children are the property of adults

even at the time, Mark Twain was roasting this kind of airless romanticization of aristocracy in the South as "the sillinesses and emptinesses, sham grandeurs, sham gauds, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society"

Trump’s electoral superpower is that voting for him is seen as a generic “I’m mad” button and everyone just kinda fills in what they’re mad about and what he’s going to do about it themselves, ending up with their own personal fanfic version of the president.

I think a lot of people thought they were voting against pronouns or expensive burgers or the existence of women or something and forgot that voting for Trump meant they were, in fact, voting for Donald Trump to be president of the United States of America.

"Recalling it again in 1992, he maintained this was 'the kind of thing we didn’t distinguish from a Halloween prank.' The incident occurred in 1937, at which point Hitler had been in power for four years." 😱

“One evening, the four eldest [Buckley] children drove to a neighboring Jewish resort and left a burning cross on the lawn. Years later, Bill would recall “weeping tears of frustration” at missing out on this “great lark.””

So the attempted Matt Gaetz appointment as Attorney General begins to make sense

Everyone mad about "censorship" was actually just a substantive supporter of what they felt was being "censored" (read: criticized).

Now they are substantive opponents of what is being censored (no scare quotes), and so they do not care

still can't believe this was real

it's scary how powerful ai is getting every day. i just talked with a genie who was able to somehow guess what i was thinking of by asking a series of yes or no questions

Our intrepid reporters found this incriminating footage of Zohran Mamdani

A hallmark of conspiracy movements is casting “secret” or “leaked” documents as incriminatory even when they disprove the conspiracy.

In this case a kid ticked ‘black’ on a form and it appears to have given him no advantage whatsoever. They’re calling it a scandal regardless.

FBI AGENT: Do you like Marx?
YOUNG MAMDANI: I haven’t met him.
FBI AGENT: No, no, he’s dead.
YOUNG MAMDANI:

legendary dril tweet that goes "This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn my uncle's barbeque grill and turn the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit

you know, they really did do this

But he did not "select 'Black/African American'." He selected "Black *or* African American" AND "Asian" AND wrote in "Ugandan." He literally told them all he could about his true "ethnicity/race," which is literally what they asked for on the form.

John Podhoretz tweet: "Trump bombed Iran. He can say Shylock 100 times a day forever as far as I’m concerned." https://x.com/jpodhoretz/status/1941185424174821558

Two decades of comics and he just tweeted it out

Truly imagine if Mamdani had used the word “Shylock.”

It would have quite literally destroyed his career and every org and leader calling him out would be making this into a month long news cycle.

Trump? Hardly a peep.

When you accept antisemitism from the president, you aren’t fighting it.

During wwii they didn’t have a device in their hands they could refresh every three seconds to see if wwii was going better or worse.

this was our dead dog’s least favorite day of the year. not just because of the fireworks but also because he hated America.

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In Black communities there's this understanding that to get anywhere you have to be twice as good and research bears this out.

But also as a Black AmericanI'm just tired of my identity being weaponized.

Why are we being dragged into this shit?

That story only makes sense in the context of Mamdani trying to "cheat" the system by "pretending" he's Black and that only makes sense of you believe that Black people get stuff just for being Black, to which i say, I wish.

This is the thing—there can be no Black people in the story and the whole thing at base is anti-blackness and it is exhausting and tired and unoriginal

I don’t think you can separate eugenicists leaking Mamdani’s college records to the NYT from the right’s larger campaign to find evidence that Mamdani misrepresented himself in order to justify stripping his citizenship.

“Ok we are getting a lot of angry questions about this story, so let me slowly rephrase all the reasons why people are mad at us for 15 posts as though that explains things”