i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf

Sorry you can't afford to own a home, we had to beat China in the race to develop a better plagiarism app

i think people who complain about the language police are, by and large, just cowards. say whatever you want! no one is going to stop you. but people may judge you or even, if you say the wrong thing in front of the wrong person, pop you in the mouth. but that’s life!

all the newspapers keep putting out articles like "americans actually like when insulin costs $400 a bottle" for some reason as if people will read that and go "oh okay i guess i love insurance CEOs now"