I work as a learning support in my daughter's school because I did not want to chase academic jobs and Louis the yard teacher is who I wanted to be and who I am now and I could not be happier. Honestly, fourth graders are not that different an audience for Deconstruction than the college kids

The people critiquing this can either pick "Democrats are fools for not letting 40 million people eat stove" or "Democrats are feckless monsters for letting Republicans kill ACA" but you can't have both.

I'm not sure we have the ability to form political units larger than a city at this point in American history and culture tbh

Wait is this why in Ugly Betty, Amanda claims that someone named Bad Ronald lives in their walls and eats all of Betty's food?

but like Lin, for better or worse understands well the beating heart of American musicals. The Disney animated musicals were also just actually good, but like, I think musicals are kind of a niche format in weird ways (for children? for old people who go to broadway shows?)

I think there's a weird problem too where like it became mainstream so for a brief period of time people who don't care about musicals had to care about musicals and thinking about that in retrospect really upsets them? Like I'm fine with the claim that hip hop wasn't super impacted by Hamilton...

I feel like there has been discussion of the relative prevalence of Islam in the healthcare profession because like as it has become less glamorous, it appeals to people who just want to serve and help communities. That is certainly something I expect more from practicing Muslims than evangelicals

youtu.be/hv7PsLO-E68?...

You should be impressed with yourself that your operating at this level of lyricism. You should be kinder to yourself

We also have clear evidence of operations in 2015 and such and like that didn't spring up overnight! Rhetorically you can just see the memetic consistency and clarity of a weird thing that just wasn't a common sentiment in the past

I think it is connected to the internet leftist insistence that the Soviet Union was unimpeachably good and just, and I unironically think that is part of a decades long effort from Russian operatives. I'm prepared to be told I'm nuts but I really don't think that I am

People are always looking for a binary and I think you're right that this particular one is ascendent. The pop culture profile of ASD as being way more common than boomers are comfortable with has expanded to "everything is autism" but also this post I think rattles around a lot of brains

Esther ... Number one ....For me...

"oh Esther mean"

Oh no my brother in Christ spice comes with heat... Write that down

This innumeracy is critical for understanding contemporary politics. It's very easy to get conservatives to lose their minds over a million dollars which is a drop in the bucket for even state spending. $130 million sounds like a lot of money but is less than 1% of the biweekly military payroll

Obviously nothing is uniform and people are complicated as individuals and groups but I think this is the actual problem for people who live on algorithmic social media. Literally any degree of social friction is intolerable. It shapes every interaction and leads to staring at strangers saying hello

WHAT. JJverse has a samulet????

The girlfriend plot providing tension in Into Darkness was almost viable but like "I'm dating Uhura" versus "I gazed into eternity and every possible world and saw that I only wanted to be entangled with you." Don't uh don't start picking out China patterns just yet Nyota

I'm reminded that in the film adaptation of /Into the Woods/ Chris Pine was the prince who sang "Agony." There is a lot of Kirk to consider in American popular culture