Tag: maga
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The death of community and MAGA
Note: this is effectively a preabmble for a forthcoming series on the Eighty Year Crisis. A while ago ago, professional internet troll Matt Yglesias touched off a bit of a public debate on that one emotion that only grows in power starting in our mid-20s or so, nostalgia. It’s what has everyone from politicians to…
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Various and et cetera, March ’24 edition
programming note: this is part of a series of three unrelated mini-posts, the topmost of which is always guaranteed not to be about politics. promise! My patient the other day was a 27 year old female “Carla” here for routine STI testing. She stated she had one partner, had no symptoms at the time, and…
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Dear conservatives: you don’t have to submit.
Going to have a change of pace for a moment: this post is directed only at MAGA voters. No insults here, promise. I wrote before about the animal, and often sexual, dominance Trump exerts over a lot of you guys. Not just over the nobodies (again, not an insult, coming from a fellow nobody), but…
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Submission and the conservative mind
Over at National Review last month, their in-house Reasonable Conservative, Jim Geraghty, has a piece laying out why he believes a second Trump term would not devolve into a dictatorship, despite a lot of people both left and right saying so: the former fearfully, the latter gleefully. I believe he is wrong, for reasons related…
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But they have a point about the left’s elites.
A glance around this blog reveals my opinion of the right’s elites in a hurry. Deceptive, soulless, craven, humorless, vicious, backstabbing, boiling with hate and rage, openly hostile to traditional morals, reveling in open wickedness and ungodliness, unprincipled beyond the Only Two Rules, utterly submissive to their tangerine tyrant, flagrantly anti-democratic and anti-American. All of…
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Why?
The Atlantic decided to push an issue dedicated to what a second Trump administration would look like. They gathered some two dozen of their best mucky-mucks to deliver hellfire sermons on the enormous damage Trump will wreck on law, on journalism, on NATO, on the foundations of America. You can find it here (paywall removed),…
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Various and et cetera, Nov. ’23 edition
programming note: this is part of a series of three unrelated mini-posts, the topmost of which is always guaranteed not to be about politics. promise! The most popular AI take is how it’s an extinction-level event. Nobody ever explains how, exactly, AI becomes an extinction-level event, unless there’s an unspoken assumption that someone will be…
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What meanness does to the soul.
Someone was charitable enough to be handing out Bluesky invites to even nobodies like me, and what I saw is what I expected: Threads’ VIP section. For those unfamiliar, Bluesky is yet another Twitter clone, and its gimmick is being invite-only. And like all Twitter clones, it serves only one side of our culture war,…
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Various and et cetera, Sept. ’23 edition
programming note: this is part of a series of three unrelated mini-posts, the topmost of which is always guaranteed not to be about politics. promise! The woman-bites-dog story is a bit of a specialty of the New York Post. Take any nasty behavior typically associated with men — rape, infidelity, sexual harassment, etc — find…
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Today’s One-Dimensional Political Axis
Earlier, I thought I saw in the app Threads an opportunity for Elon Musk’s nemesis Mark Zuckerberg to steal half the userbase of Twitter (or, sigh, “X”). As a far more stable platform than other Twitter clones, backed by the might of social media’s premier corporation, maybe he could’ve done what Mastodon couldn’t, and become…
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