1/6 “Woke is dead. Why won’t you drop it already?” Understanding this is pretty central to understanding the genesis of my project, so it warrants an explanation. Do you have any idea what it does to an overactive brain when you clamp a muzzle on it?

Tired line. A very specific set of (rather idiosyncratic) norms and beliefs went viral in recent years. In some cases they changed the basic functions of big companies/institutions. Wildly dishonest to claim that any criticism of them is racist.

Watching the 1997 masterpiece Anaconda with my son and Jon Voight as a Paraguayan snake catcher is easily one of Hollywood’s top five greatest casting choices.

I'm not sure spending 10 years declaring that Something Must Be Done and We Are Bravely Doing It, and then pivoting abruptly to "nothing actually happened and you're weird for even talking about it" is really the genius rhetorical move that some people seem to think it is.

You guys remember that M. Night Shyamalan film where the people retreated to a simulacrum of a bygone era, where their purity standards were still operative, and they dissuaded skeptics out of probing reality through fear of destruction? That movie was actually about Bluesky.

6/6 Oh no no no no. Friends, I am nowhere close to done with this. When the last outbreath of woke fuckery fades to air, and is suffocated by the last shovelful of wet, reasoned mud, only then, maybe, will I hang my boots and move on to writing about Stranger Things and cats.

5/6 Do you have any idea how much gunk has been left up there to fester? Now, when I can finally drain it, you’re telling me to bottle it back up? To be more helpful? To consider how releasing it might impact the people who forced me to absorb it in the first place?

4/6 Maybe you would, maybe you wouldn’t. It was up to you. My mind, which mostly can’t decelerate without chemical inducement anyway, ran for 10 years on a program that jacked it into hyperdrive, and didn’t allow any exhaust.

3/6 Might take me a minute to feel forgiving. This wasn’t just an annoying ideology, it was a social code. “I couldn’t disagree with you-” not because you were argumentatively sound. “I couldn’t disagree with you-” because you could ruin my life if I tried.

2/6 When you screw its valves shut, and restrict its ability to stretch? A lot of you must get this. If you know, you know. Woke has been “over” for a year, they say. Time to move on. Well, woke had a lot longer than a year to operate on me, and it was pretty fucking nefarious.

Righties like @MattWalshBlog, and many others, didn't become S.E. Hinton characters all on their own. The censorious left elbowed them into coolness. https://t.co/ENXs5M97gd

Not what I asked for, and the opposite of the point my upcoming piece makes, but thank you, @grok , for this most glorious of gifts.

I know they say "anyone" can get tricked into a cult but I'm not even that smart and as soon as my religious leader was like "hey, God just told me I need to fuck 5 bitches at once" I'd be like...hmmm seems weird

Matt Taibbi on his disgust at Mehdi Hassan, Jamal Bowman, and Hasan Piker doing USSR nostalgia at Mamdani’s victory party: ‘I could fill a whole book with stories of horrible things I heard and saw from eyewitnesses to the Soviet history. And to see people laughing about that

I understand Trump's back and in one sense there are bigger fish to fry. But I really think we need to come to grips w/the giant meteor that hit progressive institutions during this period, if only to ensure that the half-wits who profited off of it are shut out in the future.

Guys: stop with the "taqiyya" stuff. 1. There's no "fool the infidel" Muslim doctrine. Taqiyya allows to hiding beliefs (mainly in Muslim sectarian disputes!) if life is threatened. 2. Son of secular intellectuals (Muslim/Hindu) & lifelong progressive is a hidden jihadist? Srsly?

This thread is so painful. Sorry, but if "Brony" is a culture, pretty sure Nazi is too.

One of the remarkable things about my weird childhood is that I lived alternately among very poor people, lower-middle class people, middle-class people, and even affluent people, and I can say that until you've lived around poor people you can't possibly understand the level of

I misunderstood this. Apparently there's an Ai powered Will Stancil show circulating? I really need to see this. Can somebody please post a link?

The funniest miscommunciation in the world is when childless people think parents are jealous of them. We are sometimes too nice to say, but I assure you the kids soccer game in the morning is better than whatever you have going on.