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Retired Internet personality. šØ šØ šØ Find me at https://t.co/JkqmiUUmGW šØ šØ šØ
Joined August 2017
My take on how Harvard, via arrogance, malevolence, and incompetence has made itself a legitimate target for the Trump administration.
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This whole shtick isnāt going well for them.
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I am a registered Dem who has never voted Republican but in 2024 Iām voting for Trump. There are 2 main reasons:. The first is that Biden promised a āreturn to normalā but has failed completely. Libs are just as crazy as ever. A Kamala presidency will be more of theā¦.
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āWhy do you even care?āā. The answer is that weāre going on a decade now of enforced cultural and academic mediocrity where almost all institutional knowledge production has converged on a narrow set of tedious, preapproved intellectual tropes. ā¦.
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On a Zoom with 25 people. 1 person has pronouns. This is down from 60% of people having pronouns a couple years ago. Libs are so over this.
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The ultimate way of owning the libs is herding them into a tiny space where they inflect maximum damage upon each other and donāt have any mechanism to balance things out.
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All of this stuff is supposed to be kept behind a curtain but millennials are such narcissists they canāt help bragging about themselves.
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This was a memetic blood libel that was repeated endlessly in academic medicine. They said that black babies cared for by white doctors in the NICU were more likely to die. However, the real story was that white doctors were caring for sicker babies: when you controlledā¦.
Third thing: . (A) Black babies with high birthweights disproportionately go to Black doctors;. (B) The Black babies sent to White doctors disproportionately have very low birthweights.
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2019: āRacist!ā. 2020: āRacist! Grandma killer!ā. 2021: āRacist! Grandma killer! Transphobe!ā. 2022: āTruce plzā.
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Sorry for the language but:. A lot of people donāt want to think about politics and want it to run silently in the background. But libs have raised the stakes. For example, you have to worry about whether the midwit teacher is saying weird gender shit to your 6 year old (ours.
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Impressive because he goes through. 1. Itās not happening. 2. Why do you even care. 3. Itās happening and itās a good thing. 4. What about some other thing. all in about 30 seconds.
John Oliver, in arguing how the Dems should respond to the trans kids issue, falsely claims āthere is no evidenceā trans kids āpose any threatā to fairness in sports. There absolutely is evidence that trans females have a competitive advantage.
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ā¦powers and Trump has much better people than in 2016/20. If youāre tired of neocon military adventures, nuclear brinksmanship, child mutilation, gender fetishists, valorizing criminals, administrative state surveillance, and censorship, Trump is the best hope for a reprieve.
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If the PhDs were happily and quietly producing their quixotic, esoteric slop no one would object. The problem is that these people want to ādo politics.ā As a class they are extremely unpleasant and disruptive and their ideas reliably make society worse.
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I really donāt understand what the experiment is thatās being run in the UK. In the US thereās been too much immigration via open borders, but Hispanics are culturally compatible and are absorbed quickly into the working class. And the US scrapes elites across the globeā¦.
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Swann Marcus had disappeared. Will Stancil didnāt miss a beat poasting. This election has separated the wheat from the chaff.
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Matt Taibbi thinks the libs were very close to having things cemented. They had all the institutions and were working on impenetrable bureaucratic safeguards for informational control, speech restrictions, etc. Itās interesting to think about how they might have done it if a.
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This one was so good. Have to poast again.
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Trying to muster some sympathy here but the core project that these people were involved in was turning American empire inward and treating the public as hostile natives who needed to be surveilled and subverted. There was really no part of American life that wasā¦.
My friends in DC are catatonic. They can't believe what is happening to them. This is nothing like 2017, they are acting like this is the apocalypse, because for them, it is.
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Kamala might just be successful and usher in a new regime of retarded, vibes-based politics where politicians are memetic spectacles, have no platform, make no promises, hold no opinions, but are explicitly aligned with (and captured by) this or that set of powerful interests who.
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I know, right?
"She wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens who are in prison" is the WILDEST thing I've ever heard in any debate. EVER.
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All of a sudden Iām seeing Matt Taibbiās tweets. Wasnāt seeing them at all for a long time. Anyone else notice this?.
We in the press were sent off on a wild goose chase for a year because the Clinton campaign hid its funding of the Steele dossier. Far more serious offense, and admitted, but I donāt see any of you calling for jail time.
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ā¦same. Like Biden she has a major cognitive impairment and the same people will be running the country. The second reason is that a lot more smart people āget itā this time around and are supporting Trump. Thereās a lot that can be done administratively using executiveā¦.
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ā¦a āmember of the Partyā and thus deserving of special privileges and immunity from the predictable consequences of their politics. If that doesnāt end up happening and theyāre fed into the grinder like everyone else itās a huge shock and theyāre outraged and bereft.
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As an undergrad I took a ārace, class, and genderā history seminar led by a white Ivy-PhD postdoc who would give me a dirty look on the rare occasion Iād venture a milquetoast centrist opinion. I went to her office hours at the end of the semester to pick somethingā¦.
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I love that Walz sent a grandmother to jail for opening a Minnesota coffee shop in DECEMBER of 2020 but allowed an entire police precinct to be burned down in May 2020 for the George Floyd festivities. If you want a case study of anarcho tyranny you canāt do better than that.
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āUrinal cakes are cakes!.Urinal cakes are cakes!.Urinal cakes are cakes!.Urinal cakes are cakes!.Urinal cakes are cakes!.Urinal cakes are cakes!.Urinal cakes are cakes!.Urinal cakes are cakes!. It says it in the name! šš»ā.
@feelsdesperate The answer is contained in the question, if trans women weren't women they wouldn't be trans women. it's like asking whether blue cars are cars, or whether tabby cats are cats. Don't waste my time with tautologies.
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Just a reminder that Taylor Lorenz, who wants health insurance executives terrorized, went to a $90k a year Swiss boarding school.
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I dunno maybe Iām old but funeral selfies seem weird.
AOC is preening at Jordan Neely's funeral??? What a fucking joke. š¬šæšµāš«. The Party of Arrested Development doing what it does!
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We decided, the past 10 years, for reasons I still donāt understand, that emotionally dysregulated hysterics, the sort of people healthy societies sideline and in some cases institutionalize, need to be put in charge of very important things. Itās been a disaster. An.
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@sabreenaGS Have you considered that youāre engaging in stereotypical para-academic performative art that is ubiquitous in Europe and the US?. If this is one iteration of institutionally manufactured ādissentā sanctioned at the highest levels how are you turning āagainst the colonizersā?.
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I think libs are secretly hoping conservatives win on the youth gender stuff. Libs know something is terribly wrong but they lack the courage to do anything about it and they desperately want someone else to take on the social risk of going against these orthodoxies.
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Itās crazy that if you get an upgraded flight or a fancy hotel room for free (I do this often with credit card points), the feds come after you. But if you, whoops, š¤·āāļø lose $850 million dollars like DeBlasio and his wife did, nobody even blinks.
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Trump is not a Republican or a conservative and the MAGA contingent is forward looking not reactionary. Trumpās key enemies are sclerotic 20th century institutions and post WWII and post Cold War ideological dispensations. Libs may not like Trumpās vision but theyāve totallyā¦.
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Libs have made trans the *Defining Civil Rights Issue of Our Time* and almost every elite institution from Ivy League medical schools to the US military to the ACLU to Planned Parenthood to the DNC to a sprawling Pritzker-funded NGO apparatus has pushed this bizarreā¦.
Tell me more about how itās democrats who are obsessed with trans.
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Lol, I forgot about this banger. Remember when they tried to argue knife fights are just normal things cops are supposed to let happen?.
A Black teenage girl named MaāKhia Bryant was killed because a police officer immediately decided to shoot her multiple times in order to break up a knife fight. Demand accountability. Fight for justice. #BlackLivesMatter.
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Spanish food, Italian food, and French food are all āwhite people foodā and they are 3 of the 4 best cuisines in the world.
The old "wypipo don't season they food" bit. These people hate us, Tim included.
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One of my favorite COVID moments was when Nancy Pelosi had a journo in her home and she opened her $24k refrigerator and it was stocked with fancy ice cream. Nancy is a WINNER. She doesnāt cry, sheās not mentally ill, she doesnāt do fake empathy, she doesnāt care about you.
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ā¦up and asked her what she was doing next year. She remarked bitterly that she didnāt know and that, āthey only want to hire people who are black,ā for the tenure track jobs. As best I can tell this sort of person imagines themselves to beā¦.
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Wow Iām so shocked that a populist rebuke caused the merging of the two nearly identical establishment parties that agreed completely on globalizing the economy, the need for copious illegal immigration, and the virtues of neocon warmongering. Who could have predicted this??.
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theyāre lying āto make us hate each otherā
they're lying "to make us hate each other".
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We live in extraordinary times. Thereās no longer a formal process by which the public indicates consent to be governed. Thereās no discussion of policy. Instead, political legitimacy is now derived from an authoritarian and moronic memetic spectacle?.ā¦.
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ā¦appropriately for birth weight (a critical factor in neonatal outcomes) the effect of physician race went away. This was a huge methodological shortcoming and the paper never should have been published in PNAS, a prestigious research journal.
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The idea of Trump being unable to repress his voracious sexual impulses (while shopping!!) and raping a 50-something woman in a department store changing room is a hilarious lib fever dream. OTOH a toxic middle aged entertainment lawyer knocking up the nanny and thenā¦.
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I canāt overstate my contempt. Itās been a decade of nonsense, of hysteria, of fake moral panics, of distractions and inanity, and you losers have nothing to show for it. Libs, you accomplished nothing, youāre mediocre failsons and you ended up exactly where you deserve to be.
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Enthusiasm for Nixon revisionism is a pretty good heuristic for identifying high quality right wing accounts.
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Ta Nehisi Coatesā entire gambit is to make childlike, stupid, and uninformed arguments and then hang the implicit threat of calling you racist over your head to prevent you from pointing out that he is fact stupid, childlike, and uninformed.
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I grew up in an affluent suburb with a lot of successful professional women and they seemed uniformly indifferent to politics. They were focused on families and careers, and it was implicit that ideological excitement was for people who needed to compensate for less full lives.
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The libs have informed me that I am completely wrong about this. Teenage girls will tell teenage boys they like they are having a period and you can absolutely become a hero by carrying tampons around.
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I love that mentally ill leftists decided that it was a good idea to dress up in keffiyehs, do intifada kabuki, and run around screaming at affluent Jews in NY and LA. Having terrorized their donors, I am very excited to watch all sortsā¦.
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Itās great that, in honor of a guy who would harass and inconvenience normal people on their way to work, protesters are inconveniencing normal people on their way to work.
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Iām unable to come up with a theory of mind for how a rational person would see this as āprogressā rather than the dystopian authoritarian madness it clearly is.
BREAKING: Teacher Enoch Burke arrested at Wilsonās Hospital School after refusing to endorse and affirm transgender ideology. Judge Barry OāDonnell, who made almost ā¬400,000 from 2016-2018 representing TUSLA as a barrister, ordered his arrest. TUSLA is the Irish State āChild
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Itās hard to make sense of what happened to Kamala Harris. This is someone who has had a long, high profile career in public life and in middle age sheās all of a sudden not able to anticipate and give clear canned answers to 12 or 15 predictable question topics?.
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ā¦finance capitol and just not care whatās happening outside that bubble?. Genuinely curious as to what the political classās legitimizing narrative is.
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I canāt express the joy I feel watching a generational project in progressive politics come crashing down and amounting to nothing. Iām so happy this is the legacy.
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Midwits become very hostile any time an argument is developed beyond the parameters theyāve established. Thereās a 110-IQ outer limit and if you go beyond that they feel personally attacked.
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ā¦.āCalling people smelly is ideological and represents a means of social control.ā. Yeah, ok brilliant insight. PhD Smelly herself is incidental - the reason sheās getting attention is that she serves as an avatar for the institutions and social class who churn out theā¦.
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Maybe my favorite exchange ever on this app.
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Hard not to view events through the lens that empire has turned inward with the federal government playing the role of increasingly paranoid colonial administrators alienated from and hostile to the local population. Helene cuts a swath through a regressive imperial backwater,ā¦.
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Wokeness is a liberatory movement for midwits. It gives them *moral authority* over people who are smarter and more talented than they are. The power to scold is a major reason why wokeness became so popular.
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Zero interest in the thoughts and experiences of sex workers. Itās been a tedious cultural fixation for about a decade now and absolutely nothing interesting has come of it. The primary purpose of the discourse is to provide lurid content to bourgeois libs under the false.
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Why are libs crying about this?. Kamala was the highest profile DEI hire in the history of DEI.
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The hats were weird. In retrospect it was an early sign that people werenāt well.
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Look at what the libs are doing to the Washington Post. Theyāll burn an institution down out of pure spite if they donāt get exactly what you want. Thatās why every healthy institution - no exceptions - needs a critical mass of conservative institutionalists who putā¦.
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Itās crazy when billionaires on here are like āYouāre never going to believe what I found out!ā and itās something you knew 5 years ago.
I am sitting next to a top scientist who is a professor at @UCSF. She is explaining how higher education is failing us. Among other things, she just told me that the words āexcellenceā and āresilienceā are no longer permissible speech at UCSF because they are ableist and.
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Lol libs are terrible at math. She doesnāt understand how statistically improbable this would be if it was random. Sheās unintentionally making a strong empiric case that she and her friends are transing their kids.
āMy kids are trans, my sisters kids are trans, every kid I know is transā¦ā What are the odds that sheās normal and we are all crazy?
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@NathanJRobinson Meaningless rhetorical dodge - youāre the one engaging in a tautology to avoid the question. A urinal cake is a type of cake but you wouldnāt eat it (or I dunno maybe you would if the ideological incentives were significant enough).
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The Ivies are in chaos. The Jewish donors donāt like the midwit 3rd world leftists and the midwit 3rd world leftists hate Israel. The university admins canāt extricate themselves because theyāve set a precedent the last decade of always being on *the right side.*. Lmaoooooooooo.
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When I was in my 20s I lived in several druggy neighborhoods with lots of low grade criminality and it didnāt bother me because I was totally self absorbed and only cared about myself. As soon as you have a family or start caring for other people in a meaningful way the healthā¦.
I love this account, have followed her for years, sheās not beholden to anyone, which is rare and cool. But itās not just that people are scared, itās that theyāre angry that their quality of life has suffered but that it doesnāt have to be that way. Conservatives have solved.
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The best way to make a living is extracting money from the federal government, way better than the professions which reliably get their pound of flesh. If you donāt believe me drive northwest from DC through endless neighborhoods of $2-$6 million homes. What do these people.
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Weird/ normal
Making Vance weird is inseparable from the project of making Levine normal. If Levine is normal then Vance really is weird and vice versa. The Administration worked tirelessly to enact this agenda for all four years.
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The DEI takeover is an interesting form of radicalism in that the transformational vision was explicitly to be effectuated by something akin to a late Soviet repressive bureaucracy. No gulag, but step out of line + maybe you lose your job, your apartment, + youāre unpersoned. .
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āItās a minor nuisance when you get your car stolen and you shouldnāt own one anyway.ā
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Once a month we should do a Twitter āland acknowledgementā where we remember the original lib inhabitants of Twitter who were massacred and run off and are now relegated in a sad and diminished state to the Blooooooosky reservation.
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Just a reminder that Chris Rufo is the most consequential conservative activist of the past 20 years. No one has been more effective in calling attention to DEI and developing legislative and institutional policy to go after it.
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@jonfavs There are other things besides abortion. Sorry, I know thatās all you guys have but people care about other things.
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Lol I love this. Anytime thereās an āideological emergencyā or roiling moral panic the universities grind to a halt so that everyone can do *wellness.*. But no accommodations can be made for having a baby. Academia really does privilege the most unwell and hysterical people.
Georgetown Law has told a pregnant student whose baby is due during exams that she must take the test a few days postpartum, with baby in tow. No early or remote exam since āit would be inequitable to all the other non-birthing students in her class.ā.
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The current sci fi female action heroes are forced, inauthentic, forgettable, and lack charisma. Itās very odd because growing up it seemed like Hollywood had this solved (e.g. Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hamilton). Of course they blame the āfanbaseā for their artistic failures.
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has said women in Star Wars, such as The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland, struggle due to a male dominated fanbase.
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ā¦regressive, pseudo ideological bilge that is culturally and academically dominant and so sheās on the receiving end of a lot of displaced anger. Obviously itās better to have a coherent politics that focuses on the institutions rather than individual people butā¦.
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Basically Dems are praying for abortion to save them?. I get the strategy, but man, what a garbage political party.
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ā¦failed to offer an alternative. What theyāve proposed are increasingly authoritarian tactics to prop up the old institutions and a stale liberatory ideological narrative that also peaked in the mid 20th century. Libs, you really have to come up with something better.
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The most important reason I voted for Trump was because I wanted a rebuke of the institutions:. They locked us in our homes because of COVID (they may have funded the research that caused COVID), they kept kids out of school for years, they censored and surveilled normal people.
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Iām generally a āfree speech guyā but whatever this is needs to be stopped and stopped right now.
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Itās really amazing how quickly American intellectual and cultural life became Sovietized. They were extraordinarily successful in creating paranoia: implicit bias, micro aggressions, invisible racism, strange new definitions of what was acceptable language that emanated weekly.
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Iām fascinated by the Kamala campaign aesthetic, the slightly hallucinatory, uncanny valley unreality of it. This image is basically an AI-generated SSRI ad for libs.
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