David Polansky
@polanskydj
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Just a note here that I continue to write essays on all manner of topics on my own website. Link in bio.
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Here's my backfilled rationalization for why this trivial incident resonates across America--and by "America," I mean other mentally ill people who are way too online.
The biggest issue with Phillies Karen is how strongly the issue resonates across America. My theory as to why that is has to do with teachers' unions and HR departments. Most Americans are tired of being heckled by middle aged Democrat women with authority demanding that we all
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What we propose instead is an educational system that produces people who also don't read those writers, but they do tweet about them.
We’ve built an academic system where it’s normal to go from kindergarten to PhD without ever seriously reading Homer, Augustine, Dante, or Shakespeare. In any other age, such a person wouldn’t be considered educated at all.
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I enjoyed Spike Lee's latest, but I have a hard time believing that a teenage boy would have this poster on his bedroom wall
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You are free to consider "Krassenstein" as a metonym for an entire type of person on social media.
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Depending on political orientation, people seem either pleased or appalled by our Vice President's response to Brian Krassenstein, but my sincere opinion is that the U.S. Vice President should not be interacting with a Krassenstein.
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If you happen to know a bunch of single men who have no idea how to read a sankey diagram, this $100k could be yours.
OnlyFans star offers $100k to anyone who finds her a husband: ‘I’m a very weird person’
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Not one of these is remotely a philosopher, what is going on here.
The 21st century has only three philosophers of any note whatsoever: Nick Land, Alexander Dugin, and Jason Reza Jorjani. I do not know who the hell Lynch is but I'm told its Youtube slop.
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I don't even know who "Rudyard Lynch" is, and honestly it's more fun to imagine the possibilities here.
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This is in many ways a synecdoche for the Palestinian situation going back many years, in that human interests and national ones are at cross-purposes
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RT @the_point_mag: “I first set foot in New Orleans in 2008, hopping out of a boxcar from Birmingham into the CSX train yard in Gentilly, a….
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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Plaquemines Parish near the mouth of the Mississippi and proceeded to devastate the landscape: upwards of […]
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RT @polanskydj: There's an unfortunate tendency among Canadians to defend the status quo no matter how badly reform is needed. I wrote for….
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The cheap option above would have been to frame this as "populist" but let's call it what it is.
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Look there's a reason effective foreign policymaking has always been an elite practice unsuited to democratic outbursts. The fact that too many of our own elites have done a poor job of it for years doesn't change that fact.
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Second this, with the caveat that you don't even really need a reason to impose such limits on output.
To repeat: writers on geopolitics should be limited to 4 articles per year at max. Things move glacially in that world, and you cannot write about it constantly without falling into sensationalism.
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RT @polanskydj: I am in the Toronto Star today with a discussion of the inevitable denouement of the tariff question
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Following this up with a comparison of Plato's Symposium and Eat, Pray, Love.
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I would kill 1000 strangers to save one of my family members and I’m not even particularly close with them. I’m certain I would wipe a country off the face of the earth to save one of my kids. Is it fair? No of course it isn’t.
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TFW when you're going for Dugin, but pitch too far over into Third Worldism.
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