not quite about "suckers" as such but aris komporozos athanasiou's book 'speculative communities' more or less suggests that the attraction of 'sucker lists'/wallstreetbets/crypto rings is building communities. by his reading the loneliness crisis and the suckerfication crisis are roughly the same

whoa, would love to see some examples if you come across them again

Yep 9am tomorrow!

comes a time in every brooklyn man's life when he stops being a few degrees removed from whatever cool downtown rock star and starts being a few degrees removed from whatever polyamorous memoirist with a big nyt feature

just how perverted do we think this social science laboratory is exactly haha 🙈 😅

a laboratory of perverted social science by a MAGA Dr. Frankenstein

everyone should be judged on their ideas and not their background but like cmon

don't forget to check off "require cities and towns to allow more multifamily housing" too

i'm sure it's only a fraction of the story here but i wonder how many young women with broadly conservative (or gender-trad) politics are still self-ID'ing as "feminist"--feel like social media-era universal choice feminism is a real phenomenon

this seems like an obvious point but for the most part how we respond to the abstract idea of a democratic candidate with right-wing views on, e.g., immigration is different from how we respond to actual democratic candidates with (relatively) right-wing views on immigration