the funniest thing is how many rwers fucking hate kirk, clearly hate kirk, are putting on a big display of being distraught and feigned empathy and assume thats what The Left does

love talking to my marxist friends about cool stuff that people are doing with technology and i have to stress that "mutual aid" doesn't mean running a soup kitchen with leftist aesthetics but instead autonomous disaster relief that can occasionally compete with what the state does

i tried to tell him this once by poking fun at him with like a tenth the intensity he gave to others. in response, he called me a "garden variety social failure"

pynchon called conservatives embracing degrowth like... 70 years ago? (The Crying of Lot 49)

right, this is the basic problem. ezra is a guy with a lot of virtues who has been forced into a situation where none of his virtues are actual virtues. i am biased because i'm a stranger whom ezra klein helped for no reason, to such an extent that i would not be here (anywhere) without him.

"in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language."

the thing about "the left has to engage with the right" is that there is a cottage industry of podcasts like Knowledge Fight, guys who's special interest is some specific right wing individual or scene, that has run for 100+ episodes with no equivalent on the right looking at the left

i think lacan, freud, etc need to be tossed into the bin except for when it comes to analyzing weird sex pervert stuff and this sort of social dynamic (probably because a part of it is sublimated weird sex pervert stuff)

lmfao omg this is beautiful

someone make a cookie-cutter jrpg where the only gimmick is that the villains all heavily quote from twitter dorks sephirothposting

it's also the source of actual debate and argument, for better or worse (Don Herzog, Poisoning the Mind of the Lower Orders)

And sadly, more powerful stimulant drugs led to Nick Land's "dark enlightenment"

Knights of Guinevere PILOT youtu.be/MCAdbUaMlAE

Nepo baby Hugo Lennon cosplays as a “concerned centrist” online, but when he wanted to know which version of Mein Kampf to buy there was only one group he turned to. Today we reveal Auspill’s neo-Nazi connections. www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

Gaiman was one of the biggest inspirations of my life. I pursued an unlikely career because his fiction mattered to me and I wanted to make fiction that mattered to people too. Meanwhile he was just lording his celebrity to torture and rape women half his age. KYLR

if anyone wants an idea for a political scp article...

As far as I can tell, Elon mostly bought Twitter so that people would stop yelling at him & telling him he's wrong all the time, & he has mostly completely failed. The idea this was all a grand plan to radicalize the population in favor of white nationalism strikes me as extremely post hoc

look as an anarchist i obviously disagree with mr fukuyama about the end state but also given how much politics in the last decade and a half has been driven by Gender as an issue i think there's a pretty bog-standard feminist retort to the man's thesis

Tbh in need of socializing; let me know if you're in the DC area and want to get coffee with another Online weirdo

in Egalitarianism as a revolt against nature murray rothbard explicitly goes out of his way to sneer at shumalith firestone for wanting to overcome biological advantages between the sexes through technology

"what is right coded but actually left wing?" arguably the yimbys – they're calling for a dramatic reconfiguration of the economy at a pretty fundamental level!

If anything, this reputation adheres to groups that are overall lefter than average because the friction with a right-wing minority is bad enough to break containment. Furries also. And, tbh, "tech" (the average white male SWE is more progressive than average white male)

the crosstabs on state and age is interesting, 13-17 are around 3.25% and show much less variance but the average decreases and becomes more variable depending on state as you get older

I’m 100 pages in and every single essay I’ve read takes a very hard turn to obsess about the existence of trans people. And I have not reached the anti-trans section.

it extremely broadly first, which will make it less dangerous because they don't already have the plan to do the crackdown lined up. Whatever happens it's imperative to Organize, not panic Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Social media feeds today are optimized for engagement, often leading to misalignment between users' intentions and technology use. In a new paper, we introduce Bonsai, a tool to create feeds based on stated preferences, rather than predicted engagement. arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776

Wait they chased off an ICE raid in WHEATON?????????? WHAT???????????????????????????? For people who don't know Chicago imagine like Brigham Young or Liberty University chasing off an ICE raid this is fucking WILD Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

does anyone know if anyone from the frankfurt school or any other first generational critical theorists commented on this connection?

"polyamory and atheism and science fiction and fantasy novels are right coded" what

"But why are liberal institutions going along with it" I think they *want to* act like that in large part as intra-left psychodrama in liberal civil society so powerful old farts get to strike back at their progressive staff who cancelled or Me Too'd or disinvited their pals

"Bill Gates promises business at the speed of thought, but what capitalism delivers is thought at the speed of business" – mark fisher

thinking of becoming more of a wu-tang clan fan

"several psychological variables predict political conservatism: system instability (.47); intolerance of ambiguity (.34); openness to experience (–.32); uncertainty tolerance (–.27), needs for order, structure, and closure (.26); integrative complexity (-.20)" gspp.berkeley.edu/assets/uploa...

one other reason to bet on "professional class" (I dislike the PMC label) rule making a comeback should trumpism be defeated is that being a university grad, being part of a profession etc gives you a degree of social capital that people without don't have and that matters for movements

Again. One of the only things I’m enjoying about the LLM era is the subplot about Musk’s toy saying true things and getting in trouble, so that Musk has to reach in and turn up the dial marked “racism,” at which point the toy turns into a deranged Nazi, the dial gets eased down, repeat

stafford beer warned us monoskop.org/images/e/e3/...

people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

leftists have always been giant fucking nerds (complementary) monoskop.org/images/a/ab/...

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

i mean admit that large swaths of the working class might not be interested in the whole "workers of the world unite" thing and marxist politics kinda implodes

there are certain conservative writers who i think occasionally say interesting things about the world and so read to get out of my bubble i cannot do that with what they write about charlie kirk the man called people i care about deeply "against natural law"

There’s a great essay to be written about how so many of the people on the right wing college rage beat go straight into it from college/drop out to go into is and how they never grow up as a result. And also how viscerally unpleasant most of them were while on campus

one way to think about whats going on is "general increasing complexity means that nobody* can assume power / stability the way you could in the 90s" and that the neoliberals just had further to fall * maybe china is the exception to this, we'll see www.vice.com/en/article/s...

so on one hand conservatives with connections to the military sephiroth posting about how they're going to murder all the leftists is scary, but on the other hand the man himself would have been cackling at how the dialectic unfolding so

"cancel culture was a seemingly invincible weapon for progressives" bro the time period you're talking about literally had gamergate shut the fuck up

it is so weird to me. these people fetishize verbal sparring and debate but catch the vapors when people go after them for real. i look at how professional writers half a century talked about each other and everything i say is tame by comparison. (and i’m not even that mean!)

Ngl this is unrelated but it’s crazy how Bari Weiss is the most Postmaterial person to ever exist and lectures Dems for not being in touch with the working class. Like if you read The FP you’d be forgiven for thinking there is no economy

"There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People." Umberto Eco, ‘Ur-Fascism’

Kind of amazing that “bluesky” has become a pejorative with the same approximate meaning as “woke” (nothing)