As American as Ashli Babbitt's Left Shoulder
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Trying to prove my haters less right.
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Lapsed poster. Novelist. Mostly a has-been lurker.
Support a worst-selling author. Buy my novel via dubious-looking links:
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Plato's allegory of the cave is about a Goon Cave
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The American right has picked, or more accurately invented, enemies on the left: blue-haired baristas, “Antifa,” Soros. In the interest of equity, I’m declaring war on suburban Golf Guys, electricians with four poorly paid employees, and MAHA moms. That’s fair, I think.
September 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The American right has picked, or more accurately invented, enemies on the left: blue-haired baristas, “Antifa,” Soros. In the interest of equity, I’m declaring war on suburban Golf Guys, electricians with four poorly paid employees, and MAHA moms. That’s fair, I think.
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Fortunately there's only 3 more years of rapidly escalating fascism before there's a peaceful exchange of power
September 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Fortunately there's only 3 more years of rapidly escalating fascism before there's a peaceful exchange of power
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so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people
"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"
September 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people
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The car is on fire but at least there’s a strong and steady hand at the wheel. The driver is also a pedophile btw.
September 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The car is on fire but at least there’s a strong and steady hand at the wheel. The driver is also a pedophile btw.
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First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out (because the message test performed at a low percentile rank compared to other messages in our testing bank for non college men who opt into online surveys through various consumer reward programs)
okay ryan, but does it raise or lower trump's approval rating among people who sign up to take surveys in a digital ad-testing production system? that is the only question that matters
August 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out (because the message test performed at a low percentile rank compared to other messages in our testing bank for non college men who opt into online surveys through various consumer reward programs)
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Third Amendment enthusiasts it is OUR MOMENT
August 17, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Third Amendment enthusiasts it is OUR MOMENT
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you have my vote, Andrew Cuomo!
August 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
you have my vote, Andrew Cuomo!
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want to know what could get more young people into the trades? a massive DEI transformation of these industries, that’s what
the trades really *are* in a massive crisis, that’s true, but it’s not lack of access to training or training capacity that’s the problem, the problem is that younger people don’t want to do these jobs, they’re hard on your body and a lot of these industries are extremely hostile to young people
July 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
want to know what could get more young people into the trades? a massive DEI transformation of these industries, that’s what
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the trades really *are* in a massive crisis, that’s true, but it’s not lack of access to training or training capacity that’s the problem, the problem is that younger people don’t want to do these jobs, they’re hard on your body and a lot of these industries are extremely hostile to young people
July 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
the trades really *are* in a massive crisis, that’s true, but it’s not lack of access to training or training capacity that’s the problem, the problem is that younger people don’t want to do these jobs, they’re hard on your body and a lot of these industries are extremely hostile to young people
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i'm sorry, are there fewer than 17 different types of jobs or industries? genuinely unclear to me why having multiple different types of job programs is supposed to be a bad thing, even if you're myopically focusing on trades and apprenticeships, these are going to be different programs
We have 17 different programs doing job training. It’s broken.
July 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
i'm sorry, are there fewer than 17 different types of jobs or industries? genuinely unclear to me why having multiple different types of job programs is supposed to be a bad thing, even if you're myopically focusing on trades and apprenticeships, these are going to be different programs
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rest in piss, hulk hogan, you racist megalomaniacal unwatchable sack of shit, i hope satan does the five moves of doom on your ass for eternity
July 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
rest in piss, hulk hogan, you racist megalomaniacal unwatchable sack of shit, i hope satan does the five moves of doom on your ass for eternity
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It’s so fucking funny hearing socialists from Brooklyn say that they think theo von is a down to earth guy, just completely falling for the “im a humble country boy” routine like total fucking city slicker rubes lol
July 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It’s so fucking funny hearing socialists from Brooklyn say that they think theo von is a down to earth guy, just completely falling for the “im a humble country boy” routine like total fucking city slicker rubes lol
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My favorite quotation about what laws are, and it's one I think of whenever this Supreme Court announces a decision, is "The law is whatever I write on a piece of paper," which is attributed to Iraqi political activist Saddam Hussein.
June 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
My favorite quotation about what laws are, and it's one I think of whenever this Supreme Court announces a decision, is "The law is whatever I write on a piece of paper," which is attributed to Iraqi political activist Saddam Hussein.
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A thing people don't remember about 2003 is that "they have WMDs" was the pitch to *high-info* voters.
The pitch to low-info voters was "the dastardly muslims attacked us on 9/11 and we have to hit them back by deposing the muslim king saddam hussein who attacked us"
The pitch to low-info voters was "the dastardly muslims attacked us on 9/11 and we have to hit them back by deposing the muslim king saddam hussein who attacked us"
June 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
A thing people don't remember about 2003 is that "they have WMDs" was the pitch to *high-info* voters.
The pitch to low-info voters was "the dastardly muslims attacked us on 9/11 and we have to hit them back by deposing the muslim king saddam hussein who attacked us"
The pitch to low-info voters was "the dastardly muslims attacked us on 9/11 and we have to hit them back by deposing the muslim king saddam hussein who attacked us"
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O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.
June 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.
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we need to elect democrats who will make david shor homeless
May 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
we need to elect democrats who will make david shor homeless
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Convincing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the blue fluid from bus toilets is a wave-disrupting proton immunity elixir. He signs up for a $1200 monthly subscription for a two-ounce vial. "You have to rub it on your gums," I tell him. "Of course," he answers. It sounds like sneakers in a running dryer.
May 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Convincing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the blue fluid from bus toilets is a wave-disrupting proton immunity elixir. He signs up for a $1200 monthly subscription for a two-ounce vial. "You have to rub it on your gums," I tell him. "Of course," he answers. It sounds like sneakers in a running dryer.
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the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time
April 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time
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Guy who makes Skibidi toilet plushies in Akron for $2.50 an hour since his union was destroyed: this is a religious experience for me
White dudes are just bored, that’s why we need to destroy the economy.
April 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Guy who makes Skibidi toilet plushies in Akron for $2.50 an hour since his union was destroyed: this is a religious experience for me
Seems like economic rhetoric is in a good place when we are all getting on here to argue that Being Poorer And Dying Sooner Because Of Our Jobs Is Good, Actually.
April 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Seems like economic rhetoric is in a good place when we are all getting on here to argue that Being Poorer And Dying Sooner Because Of Our Jobs Is Good, Actually.
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this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd
April 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd