It seems like the instructor in question doesn’t want to talk publicly about this (she isn’t even named, let alone asked for comment, here) but if the left wing media worked like the right wing media she’d have a sinecure as a news commentator ready to go, and it would be a better world if she did.

I don’t think the anti-woke takes market would survive if liberals collectively declined to hate-read/hate-watch. if CBS is going to warp news coverage to favor Trump, it needs to hurt CBS’s business. that depends on all of us maintaining discipline and not watching it.

hottest new game in town: Mr. Beast Video, Or Plotline From a Magic Realist Novel?

there's no such thing as a "heritage american" and brain-damaged constitutional law professors and members of the vox cinematic universe treating it with respect is bad, and they should be berated borders are fake, and america is what it is in the best sense due to periodically recognizing that

what I’d like to see is more people developing a hair-trigger extremely angry reaction to anything that even vaguely resembles “real Americans” rhetoric or even slightly implies that the opinions of college-educated urbanites should be discounted because we’re college-educated urbanites

Ask any gay person what "theater kid," when used as an insult, means. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

incredibly crowded field, some truly elite options, but I think this remains this era's most insulting thing we were asked to believe was real

Impersonal bureaucratic systems are liberation from the tyranny of the village and the tribe. Long live modernity

teaching people to draw should really be a part of every school curriculum I know people say that about everything and it doesn’t count for much if you’re not willing to say what you’d *stop* teaching to make room for it, but there’s literally nothing I wish more that I’d been taught as a kid

Bills should be named not by their sponsors but by a nonpartisan office with a legal mandate to assign names that meet criteria of 1) accurate description of the actions of the bill, 2) impartiality, and 3) memorability. I don’t think this would fix politics but it would make it less annoying

incidentally, i think this is a better candidate for what it means to be “politically queer” than most of what gets put forward under that label

Thanks to all the marks on both sides of the aisle who enabled this by falling for a gobsmackingly stupid manufactured moral panic.

saying that liberals have no aesthetic vision strikes me as analogous to saying atheists have no moral framework. I actually have a very clear philosophy about how the state should regulate aesthetics: it shouldn’t. Social space should look like a riot of clashing aesthetics, because that’s freedom.

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

It’s good they’re not releasing it! I don’t know how you could look at the past 30 years and conclude what Democrats need is *more* public infighting, which is all this would achieve. Any “findings” it purports to have are probably already irrelevant.

Dubai is pretty much the exact opposite of “libertarian” lol. It has a monarch. Harsh moral codes are imposed. It’s extremely centrally planned. It only survives due to subsidy from oil wealth. The whole city is a vanity project that has nothing to do with free enterprise.

i am not going to start a fight about this, but i think most people only have it in them to master *one* type of convoluted job application process, and if you want people to consider a different career path, you should try not making applying for a job in it a nightmare

kept this pithy, but I can’t resist adding: this in itself is real and a reason to oppose authoritarianism, but also I don’t think it’s actually possible to care about human dignity and be an authoritarian! there is no coherent understanding of dignity that doesn’t include autonomy!

It's not anywhere near as competently run as it could and should be, but thinking it's the flat-out worst governed state or even close to it is a textbook luxury belief.

this is also a story about the media’s blind spot about Facebook. do you know how much bigger Facebook groups than this have had implosions that I only know about via oral tradition? I would be shocked if the NYT had ever printed the phrase “Cool Freaks Wikipedia Club”

this is homing in on important questions! of course, my feeling is: -yes, YIMBYism is (partly) about sex -yes, casual sex is good -yes, the pursuit of casual sex is a human right -policymakers need to think seriously about how to help people achieve sexual pleasure both in and out of marriage

i do not know how so many of you have the stomach to discourse all day every day about career status anxiety and who has the right to feel left behind in their professional-class career

the main things keeping me from doing video content of some kind: -I’d need to figure out what works lighting and background wise, and that involves going through the pit of self-loathing, as well as spending money(?) -I don’t have enough of a schtick yet to be able to create a large enough volume

I *hate* Forrest Gump. Not only is it...wait for it... totally reactionary ...it's a mess in its timelines The moral of Forrest Gump is "be a moron and obey and never question and you'll prosper, and if you don't, you'll get AIDS and die."

A vile and disgusting statement from a sitting Senator. Freedom of religion is fundamental to the identity of America. What a disgrace.

related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America

with rare exceptions, joylessness is a trait more of the ideologue than the ideology

the fact that people even consider “national service” a viable and thinkable policy proposal is so upsetting. “we should totally force everyone of a certain age to spend a couple years doing whatever I’ve decided is healthy. this is a beneficial policy consistent with a free democracy, to me”

the fact that Meta is actually partnering with Ray-Bans for their AI glasses thing is so bizarre because whenever I see an ad for Ray-Bans my immediate knee-jerk reaction is “ah yes, here’s someone whose Facebook account has been hacked”

it’s not that getting a masters degree was a *bad* choice necessarily, but here are some things I could’ve done but didn’t that would have been much more productive investments *in my career*: -shaved my head the first time I considered it -sought therapy for the first time in 2011 rather than 2016

if the last year has taught us anything it's that the right to drive like a reckless shithead is way more valuable to the average american than speech

half the problem with broadcast tv news is they hire people who are supposed to look like what someone who was 40 in 1950 would have perceived as an authority figure! all news anchors look and dress like uncanny valley wax museum freaks! they hire 0 people who don’t “harken back to an earlier era”!

the real lesson of Time’s Person of the Year is that if you create a meaningless award and issue it annually, you too can create a regular news cycle that reminds people you exist

well, it might destroy freedom of expression and make it impossible for LGBT teenagers to find support resources, but at least it’ll pretend to solve a totally made-up nonissue

I really hate how several horrifically abusive gulf slave-monarchy-theocracies have infiltrated our culture

ok I do have a take about fonts: Times New Roman is for school assignments and *only* school assignments. If you put a document in TNR it will only ever look like a paper you’re writing for a class, and you’ll only ever treat it as such, for better or worse.

Tucson > Atlanta Fresno > Minneapolis Arlington, TX > New Orleans Jacksonville, FL > San Francisco Indianapolis > Boston

Intolerable. There should be no all-male organizations anywhere on earth. To insist that one needs membership in an all-male organization is to admit to never having mastered a fundamental skill of adulthood.

Teach a man who hates socialism and votes for authoritarianism to farm and he can receive socialist handouts for life from the government that bankrupted him in the first place.

“You don’t have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers. www.wired.com/story/dr-oz-...

the company that makes furbys came out with a long one this feels like our generation’s equivalent of how boomers feel about pre-ripped jeans

the least obnoxious way I can think to word how I feel about this stuff is: somehow I managed to get in shape without the US Department of Transportation being involved, whereas these guys really seem to wish someone would use the law to force them to work out, so…

Missouri would be better off if its elections were decided in the state of California

i do not think you should get to be a ceo, of anything, if you say or believe that women should not have positions of power or that women have too much social and political power in today’s society

it turns out being mad about politics while I’m working out does in fact make me push harder, and I hate that for me

honestly what American society really needs right now is some maenads

everyone on here always talks about how we need to impose penalties for bald-faced lying to the public, and I always wonder how we actually implement that. but a good start would be for future interviewers to treat lies like this as a scandal instead of normal political comms.

i found the visuals of Devilman Crybaby too gross to watch past the pilot, but i did like when the protagonist’s friend back from the US takes him on a car ride, and the protagonist is like “do you even have a Japanese driver’s license” and his friend says “you won’t get far in life following laws”

Like people have said, this book sounds vastly superior to Jordan Peterson, but one thing I find frustrating is, at least in this article, Galloway isn’t making a compelling argument for why we need to teach people how to be good men in a way that’s distinct from teaching them how to be good people.

authoritarianism is a consistent ideology whose adherents consistently seek to minimize freedom qua freedom!