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Putting my thinking cap on and counting the number of times a net negative migration was a sign of a healthy country

Postmodern conservatism isn't defined by general skepticism, but strategic epistemic skepticism in selecting who and what to believe based on whatever feels affirming. In effect playing "choose your own truth" round the clock.

We saw that in grand style the other day.

totalitarian societies are the most extreme forms of it, but political language writ large depends on people's ability to hold two contradictory beliefs simultaneously and pretend there is no opposition

when driving on the highway it’s important to at all times have established an enemy

Tumblr is the only social media site I get any engagement on. Not sure what that says about me.

So the fact that he's even thinking about it means there's something out there even more incriminating than pardoning a convicted sex trafficker quid pro quo right?

Pedro Pascal Says Indiana Jones Was One of His Earliest (and Longest) Crushes The ‘Fantastic Four’ star says his crush on the fictional archaeologist has persisted “all the way to now.”

Pedro Pascal confirmed bi

There's a direct line from "no kink at Pride" and "no sex in movies and books unless it Serves The Plot" to payment processors feeling completely empowered to censor art globally

For a lot of these guys, making your employees work long hours, or making all work out in the open, isn't really about productivity. Because the evidence is clear it hurts productivity. It's about ownership: seeing people who work for you working *for you*, and a lot. It's about feeling powerful.

Alabama Governor Signs New ‘Heartbeat Bill’ Lowering State’s Age Of Consent

Alabama Governor Signs New ‘Heartbeat Bill’ Lowering State’s Age Of Consent

Not to mention literal 1950s advertising

one of the corollaries of this is that individual pieces of successful entertainment (e.g. gone with the wind, pictured in the still) forms roughly the majority of most people's entire world views.

Sorry but you people sound like Harry Potter fans who won't say "Voldemort" when you refer to Twitter as "the bad place"

if you think about it oedipus was the first guy to really comprehensively lose the game we now call fuck marry kill

Welcome to the wonderful world of "trafficking."

The grift is in no way limited to Epstein. Anti-trafficking in general is a faith-based morals campaign serving as cover for state surveillance and increased criminalization of sex workers.

Services and justice survivors is the lowest priority.

I got an ebike and it has solved every problem I have

Probably just huffing copium but I don't think Trump has ever been this rattled by a scandal?

My favorite goal posts is when you vote for their candidate but you weren't enthusiastic enough about it.

The Enshittification of American Power First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

1. @abenewman.bsky.social and I have a new piece in @wired.com on the enshittification of American power. It repurposes arguments from our book, Underground Empire amzn.to/3PbIyqX , and Cory Doctorow's idea of enshittification to explain how the Trump administration is trying to remake the world.

I don't think I'm so negatively polarized that I can't admit when a right wing thinker is compelling and smart. Edmund Burke comes to mind. Even Thomas Sowell knows how to make an argument. Musk has never said anything to make me think he's a particularly intelligent person.

Really was one of the dumbest and most harmful things possible for “virtue signaling” to become some kind of epithet. Sending externally visible signals that you are engaging in pro-social behavior is normal, natural, and good, it’s how society works. Other people can’t read your fucking mind.

lol

I wonder if it was MechaHitler.

I think the most apt and revealing thing about today’s Grok meltdown was that it was all precipitated by a fake troll account — “Cindy Steinberg,” the account purportedly posting horrible, stuff about the deaths in Texas, is bogus ragebait.
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It's worth dwelling upon the role that "intellectuals" on the Right play and how it is the complete opposite from the Left. Right intellectuals exist solely to backfill justifications for ideas already embraced. Their work is completely ends oriented.

Galaxy fans protest team's silence in response to ICE raids Galaxy supporter groups expressed their frustration and anger over ICE raids targeting the Southern California Latino community.

Galaxy fans protest team's silence in response to ICE raids

Imagining a Weird Al spoof of Six Pack by Black Flag called "Fruit Snack“

The best thing after a road trip is a shower beer