@rhubarb1921.bsky.social
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My wokest opinion, or maybe my least woke, is that interpersonal kindness and honesty are inseparable from systemic justice and good policy. I don't trust petty bullies and dishonest interlocutors to maintain left-wing principles when granted power. You betray those principles when you are cruel.
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My wokest opinion, or maybe my least woke, is that interpersonal kindness and honesty are inseparable from systemic justice and good policy. I don't trust petty bullies and dishonest interlocutors to maintain left-wing principles when granted power. You betray those principles when you are cruel.
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I have a new, long piece in The Ideas Letter called “The Great Reckoning: What the West Should Learn from China," arguing that we must learn from China even (or especially) when its successes unsettle our assumptions. Link below.
October 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I have a new, long piece in The Ideas Letter called “The Great Reckoning: What the West Should Learn from China," arguing that we must learn from China even (or especially) when its successes unsettle our assumptions. Link below.
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when i was in middle school, my english class had a discussion about jobs, and when i said that i didn't think people weren't meant to work for a living, everyone looked at me like i was insane. i still believe that. when most people find out how extreme my views on work are, they think i'm nuts
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
when i was in middle school, my english class had a discussion about jobs, and when i said that i didn't think people weren't meant to work for a living, everyone looked at me like i was insane. i still believe that. when most people find out how extreme my views on work are, they think i'm nuts
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Requiring people to pay for their education or training at any time in their life is a harm.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Requiring people to pay for their education or training at any time in their life is a harm.
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Hereditary fortunes should be taxed at 99%
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Hereditary fortunes should be taxed at 99%
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"College age" is an inherently stupid and detrimental term/mindset people just implictly go with that leads you into thinking the window of 18-25 is all you have to further yourself via education, and ends up deterring alot of people from pursuing their desires
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"College age" is an inherently stupid and detrimental term/mindset people just implictly go with that leads you into thinking the window of 18-25 is all you have to further yourself via education, and ends up deterring alot of people from pursuing their desires
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Almost all modern social problems in America can be linked to car dependent infrastructure
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Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Almost all modern social problems in America can be linked to car dependent infrastructure
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rules about nighttime “quiet hours” where like it’s considered an offense to disturb people by being loud after 10 pm or whatever should extend through 10 am, and they only don’t because our society thinks anyone still in bed at 7:15 is a morally weak person
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
rules about nighttime “quiet hours” where like it’s considered an offense to disturb people by being loud after 10 pm or whatever should extend through 10 am, and they only don’t because our society thinks anyone still in bed at 7:15 is a morally weak person
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Autism, ADHD, and childhood trauma/CPTSD would be the top 3 things I would investigate before diagnosing someone with "your personality is bad and wrong" disease.
October 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Autism, ADHD, and childhood trauma/CPTSD would be the top 3 things I would investigate before diagnosing someone with "your personality is bad and wrong" disease.
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"Personality disorders" as a clinical diagnosis do way more harm than good. They convince people that there is something fundamentally wrong with them that cannot be changed. The associated symptoms/behaviors can be fully explained by other, more constructive, less stigmatizing diagnoses.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"Personality disorders" as a clinical diagnosis do way more harm than good. They convince people that there is something fundamentally wrong with them that cannot be changed. The associated symptoms/behaviors can be fully explained by other, more constructive, less stigmatizing diagnoses.
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There is no societal benefit to legalized gambling that outweighs the cons. Make it something you HAVE to do in back alleys
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
There is no societal benefit to legalized gambling that outweighs the cons. Make it something you HAVE to do in back alleys
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every president should be hung after their term(s). that way, the only people who run are genuinely willing to die for their policies
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
every president should be hung after their term(s). that way, the only people who run are genuinely willing to die for their policies
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white collar crime should be punished more harshly than violent crime
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
white collar crime should be punished more harshly than violent crime
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Love how file sharing was framed as stealing but a comparable situation where the only meaningful difference is that tech industrialists get rich is not supposed to be stealing.
So it's only individual consumers who steal, and who they steal from is not artists but in fact tech industrialists.
So it's only individual consumers who steal, and who they steal from is not artists but in fact tech industrialists.
October 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Love how file sharing was framed as stealing but a comparable situation where the only meaningful difference is that tech industrialists get rich is not supposed to be stealing.
So it's only individual consumers who steal, and who they steal from is not artists but in fact tech industrialists.
So it's only individual consumers who steal, and who they steal from is not artists but in fact tech industrialists.
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France should not only pay back the Haitian reparation money, they should pay reparations to Haiti for kidnapping and forced labor.
October 17, 2025 at 6:48 AM
France should not only pay back the Haitian reparation money, they should pay reparations to Haiti for kidnapping and forced labor.
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Wrote about the end of CITY: The Animation and how it once again raised the bar of brilliant animation, design, music, and sheer imagination to breathe life into Arawi's world. Many thoughts about an all-timer production & how it might connect to KyoAni's future blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/09/29/c...
September 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Wrote about the end of CITY: The Animation and how it once again raised the bar of brilliant animation, design, music, and sheer imagination to breathe life into Arawi's world. Many thoughts about an all-timer production & how it might connect to KyoAni's future blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/09/29/c...
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Ezra Klein proudly announcing “I am the white moderate MLK warned you about“ essentially
Ghoulish, racist, transphobic, pinche gringo
Ghoulish, racist, transphobic, pinche gringo
September 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Ezra Klein proudly announcing “I am the white moderate MLK warned you about“ essentially
Ghoulish, racist, transphobic, pinche gringo
Ghoulish, racist, transphobic, pinche gringo
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The fact that @thenation.com published this, instead of, I don't know, firing @joanwalsh.bsky.social for having the audacity to remember the things he's actually said, is a pretty good example of why I work here, and not at some other places.
We can, and should, deplore Charlie Kirk's murder, without whitewashing who he was. ttps://www.thenation.com/article/society/charlie-kirk-assassination-tragedy/
Let’s Not Forget Who Charlie Kirk Really Was
The right-wing influencer did not deserve to die, and we shouldn’t forget the many despicable things he said and did.
www.thenation.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The fact that @thenation.com published this, instead of, I don't know, firing @joanwalsh.bsky.social for having the audacity to remember the things he's actually said, is a pretty good example of why I work here, and not at some other places.
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Ezra Klein is really out here making it seem like whiteness is some intellectually crippling shit.
September 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Ezra Klein is really out here making it seem like whiteness is some intellectually crippling shit.
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Andor: We’re done for, no one can save us now…
Babu Frik (offscreen): Hey-heyyyyy!
Babu Frik (offscreen): Hey-heyyyyy!
May 14, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Andor: We’re done for, no one can save us now…
Babu Frik (offscreen): Hey-heyyyyy!
Babu Frik (offscreen): Hey-heyyyyy!
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This should've been titled "How Neurotypical People Often Misinterpret Autistic Social Cues"
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April 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
This should've been titled "How Neurotypical People Often Misinterpret Autistic Social Cues"
www.rutgers.edu/news/trackin...
www.rutgers.edu/news/trackin...
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Jimmy Carter spent the rest of his life doing volunteer work as penance for being the president and now I hold all of them to that standard
"it's wrong to expect the former president to do emotional labor" hello? where am i
March 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Jimmy Carter spent the rest of his life doing volunteer work as penance for being the president and now I hold all of them to that standard
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Bella Ramsey got diagnosed as #ActuallyAutistic after a crew member with an autistic daughter assumed Ramsey was autistic too. They said they didn't like heavy waterproofs and thermals during filming of Last of Us because it's "too much stuff on my body." www.vogue.co.uk/article/bell...
“There’s No Reason For People Not To Know”: Bella Ramsey Opens Up About Their Liberating Autism Diagnosis & The Epic New Season Of ‘The Last Of Us’
“The label of being autistic has been so helpful to me because that’s helped me to understand myself, but gender and sexuality-wise, labels do not feel comfy for me in any capacity, because I feel lik...
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March 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Bella Ramsey got diagnosed as #ActuallyAutistic after a crew member with an autistic daughter assumed Ramsey was autistic too. They said they didn't like heavy waterproofs and thermals during filming of Last of Us because it's "too much stuff on my body." www.vogue.co.uk/article/bell...