The belief that art requires a life of struggle is also bad

nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

Piece by me this week - looking at the surging number of killings by police in the United States: www.economist.com/united-state...

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I think it's important to zero in on the word 'partner' here. So many men view their significant others as someone to exploit instead of someone to support and that difference matters.

It's not that feminism does not desire male partnership... they desire it so much that they are unwilling to settle for the seeds when they have come for the harvest !

As @ryanlcooper.com points out, it's a particularly bizarre time for self-styled moderates & centrists to be arguing for Dems to support oil & gas -- cheap electricity is cheaper than ever & winning everywhere! The argument for getting off fossil fuels has never been stronger.

That anyone tries to make anything in the face of whatever fresh hells are thrown at us daily is a testament to the unconquerable spirit of human creativity. Smile and keep on writing you beautiful, wonderful bastards.

pretty bleak perspective on music and the sham and grift economy from James Blake on IG (posted by Pigeons and Planes on FB)

Relatable.

Yeah. Also, probably because acknowledging they won Woke War I means owning the consequences and they do not wish to take responsibility for the outcome.

The lives, happiness, and dignity of real human beings matters more than whatever philosophical point you are trying to make is basically the entire basis of my ideology now.

seeing people share their taylor lorenz stories after her latest blowup, so i’ll just add that last year once we finally blocked one another she started texting people i know suggesting i might be funded by peter thiel to try to discredit me

This is good stuff. You won't read this in The Guardian! It's also a warning to Democrats and their Soc opposition. Misread the public at your peril!

Would you look at that.

Their hostility after we bombed their children at school is puzzling

If conservatives are so sure being a tradwife is what makes women happiest, then why are they hiding the middle aged tradwife? Why not show young women what their life would look like 20 yrs from now?

My boyfriend and I have six children between us. Some of us made lives in the closet first and the children are the thing about that we don’t regret one bit.

My daughter has a peanut allergy, so imagine reaching for 50 dollar tins of formula, then while sobbing profusely, forcing yourself to instead reach for the special made stuff that she requires which cost half again as much.

Man, nothing has made me appreciate how fucked up everything is more than buying a home again after a decade away from such things. Everything, from retirement prospects to personal equity, is tied up in homeownership. It is literally the thing your life has to revolve around. That's fucked up.

"President Donald Trump launched an unnecessary war against Iran and destroyed the economy, but he's mostly focused on deploying the National Guard to protect the renovation of the reflecting pool he completely botched" is a sentence that would have gotten you involuntarily committed 20 years ago.

IT HAS BEEN SO NICE TO GET EPISODIC CONTENT AGAIN! Man I had missed this. Gives me something to look forward to, easy to read during breaks / between parenting things. Love it, 10/10.

well, it's more complicated: more than living standards, a lot of what drives the working class turn towards the populist right is a sense of status decline (this especially common in de-industrialized areas, so the US Midwest, East Germany) which in turns pushes them towards moral traditionalism

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SUCK IT

And also a million think-tanks and non-profits like the Manhattan Institute, AEI, Heritage, Brownstone, FAIR/CIS, Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine, Genspect, etc and they all have PR connections to land op-eds in every major news paper every month for all eternity

Your now-monthly reminder that "normal" people in both the Early Modern Period and Middle Ages married at roughly the same age as we do, and that to the best of our knowledge *no* Western European society has *ever had* an average age at first marriage below 20 years old:

“be beige not rainbow” is one of the most needlessly and self-destructively vicious sentiments I’ve ever read

There is no middle ground between decency and bigotry. When you try to walk that line, you will never make anyone happy. The far-right are extremely vocal in the UK but still a small minority. A principled and loud stand against them is better than moving your party platform right to meet them.

Alright. Keys acquired. Now I just have to try and get everything that isn't nailed down moved over there during our busiest two week stretch until Christmas. No pressure.

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Actually, we *should* be able to expect the president of the United States to be able to restrain himself from personally threatening to kill the negotiators from another country. It's not that unreasonable at all, you pathetic toady.

If I may be allowed to pitch my (familiar) not-quite-omni-cause: I think modern consumerism and “customer is always right” ideology, which have arisen in the post-war world, are genuine sources of pro-authoritarian sentiment.

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool

OH MY GOD AAHHHHHHHHHAHAHHAHAAHHHHHHHAAAAAHHHHH!!!! I'm in something like the top 10% of players now, rapidly approaching the top 5% and if I can crest 8k I will make it on the leaderboards EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

BuT wHaT hApPeNs WhEn ThE sUn Is NoT sHiNiNg…. STFU

Refusing to give up your capacity for love and joy in the face of all of this IS resistance. And damn useful resistance, at that.

Do I give a shit if seeing people express joy and hope makes you uncomfortable? No I do not, because everybody’s right to experience joy and hope is in fact what this whole goddamn endeavor is all about.

Did you know you can buy a house, sign all the paperwork, give everyone involved all of your money, and still not get keys for up to four days? And there is literally nothing you can do about it? I know that. Ask me how I know that. I lost the only weekend I will have to move for the next month.

Some days, I understand that I should be grateful for the unquestionable gift of living but it's really hard given how much life is doing it's best to piss in my pocket today.

This is actually less absurd than it sounds One of the downstream consequences of Elon buying twitter is that all of the non-politics content creators who feel like they need to use twitter for reach and engagement absorb this Radio Rwanda-esque chud shit because it's shoved into their feeds

"in 2026, online radical right populism is spread by gamer-turned-political-streamers" do you ever think the 21st century was a mistake?

Donald Trump doesn't own the White House. He didn't own the East Wing. The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is not his, either. They are ours and his acts of destruction are attacks on all of us.

Pedo Theory is a theory like Gravity is a theory.

I bought 64gb of Corsair ddr5 RAM 2 years ago for about $275 It's now almost $1400. While being force fed the very shit that caused that increase. Fuck them all.

Dear newspaper editorial boards: At what point do you call for him to be removed from office? Are we not there?

great language pulled right from the origins of totalitarianism

This is both heartwarming and terrifying.