"change who gets into the uber exculsive club designed to benefit socially connected people" is not a means to meritocracy, if more students are succeeding acedmically we need to create more opporitunities for them (fund public research unis), if they aren't we need to help them (fund k-12)

really enjoying the phrase "BlueSky captain's chair"

china got its ICBMs because in one or another Red Scare we deported a guy who was literally working on them here

whenever i'm trying to get people to read lu xun, my pitch is that it's as if orwell wrote fiction as good as his nonfiction

the reason people born in the 80s are so Good At Computer is because every 1990s computer needed complicated upkeep all the fucking time

it's kinda crazy how many companies decided to promote their AI offerings by giving away a free version that doesn't work

the process of actually trying to find someone on a dating app is miserable enough that it's easier to stick with it if you mostly turn the process into an endless game of Shoot the Freak

all the endorsements lining up behind *cuomo* was such an insane unforced error. like i am a committed decade-long DSA Hater but... if i was okay with a crimey sex pest mayor who owes donald trump favors, i would have just voted for adams again

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

if nothing else, in 2021 the gop had the chance to throw him to the wolves for good post-loss and decided not to take it

it's also kind of a you_know_the_ones.txt situation. like, there are plenty of econ professors who think growth is more important than reducing inequality! it's just that that's not enough to qualify as conservative

If you ever stuck up for "ideological diversity ' or good faith debate or whatever and thought guys like Thiessen were part of that congratulations you are a huge sucker and Thiessen and the other conservatives are laughing at you now that they won.

the smart version of anti-tone-policing discourse was that your posts in Trans Politics Shitposters Group Chat do not need to win over swing voters. but uh there certainly are places where you *do*

lu xun diary entries talking shit about random jazz singles

i'm so excited