It WASN’T “I do love the bright sword for its sharpness, the arrow for its swiftness, or the warrior for his glory. I only don’t love that which they defend.”
Everyone is twelve now. Fuck these edgelords.
She wasn’t attracted to the right by the romanticized aesthetic of “traditional America” — big beautiful houses and bread-making and families with half a dozen children. Rather, she says, “I was in love with the frisson of transgression.” The online right had begun to engage more explicitly with forbidden subjects: nativism, race science, and gender essentialism drawn from evolutionary psychology. “There was an element of gnosticism to it,” she says, “the sense that you know secret things that other people don’t know.” After college, in the waning years of Trump’s first term, Anna wrote for popular right-wing outlets, worked for conservative institutions, and attended movement conferences. She fell in socially with the young firebrands of the New Right; she remembers it as partially happenstance. “You kind of meet people and proceed on and then suddenly you find yourself being a part of this thing,” she tells me. A portion of her early writing was about feminism and gender: “I was doing the typical right-wing female thing where all these men will kind of pat you on your head for saying the edgy thing — about women, as a woman — and they need you to be their mouthpiece.”
Usually, she silently endured her peers’ soliloquies on women’s deviance and the urgent need to curtail their rights. When she did manage a retort, it was not well received. On one occasion, at a professional dinner, a male acquaintance spewed out some “really gross” things about women (she declines to share details for fear of being identified), and she gently pushed back. “He freaked out,” she says. “He was banging on the table, screaming at me, saying, ‘Nobody cares what you think, woman’ — using the word woman as an invective.” She worried he would become violent. No one at the table came to her defense, men or women. “You almost don’t realize what’s happening until five years later,” Anna says, “when you look back and you’re like, Oh gosh, I was being used.” She also blames herself: “I was too frivolous with ideas.”
More seriously: when you get people who speak honestly -- as I do think this person is doing -- what you see is that a lot of the people who get involved with this stuff really do so for basically frivolous reasons. it's a game, then it's a livelihood, then suddenly it's Real and not funny anymore
Sure, but by the same token there are also certain things you cannot say if you want to be invited to party with white supremacists. 'The right' is at least as stuffy as the left is, but hides it by punching down.
There needs to be a sixth Horseman though.
Republicans can’t be doing this when they’re walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they don’t want the Mad King to yell at them bsky.app/profile/tito...
I’m genuinely sad that people are trying to streamline reading, the greatest invention the human race ever came up with, by blending existing texts into a soylent-style nutrient slurry
I feel like this is that scene in the big short where they have to explain that the two guys where not confessing, they were bragging because the didn't understand the magnitude of what they had done.
Business schools shouldn't be part of universities, but neither should the be left unsupervised.
I feel like one thing they should teach at Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business is "Don't explain on social media that you have found a cheap alternative to yourself"
I am not PhD person, but like, it seem to me that grunt work is the point. AI cannot do original research. Earning a doctorate is about producing new knowledge that cannot be scraped from anywhere. He is admitting here that he is derivative and, perhaps worse, replaceable.
This question is half snark and half serious, but if AI can do 80% of your work, what's the point of you? Why would I pay nearly 200,000 for something machine can come up with?
Maybe next time believe people when they say out loud the most heinous shit they intend to do
The economic impact of this pointless war is already being felt. Thanks, Trump.
@durbin.senate.gov did you completely miss the reference to annexing Canada, or is this a policy you approve of?
Senator, all due respect to Asian Carp haters, for whom I'm sure this is a big deal, I think the fact that he threatened to annex Canada again merits a mention.
Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.
I keep seeing posts and videos titled "Are men okay?" and like, do you think a healthy gender identity elects Trump and produces Calvicular? Do you think "tactical" baby gear and grenade bath bombs are a sign of some one at peace with themselves and their role in the world?
Today’s edition of Tehran Times features photographs of the children who were killed by what is increasingly looking like a U.S. missile strike on an elementary school in Iran.
So public transit being nigh unusable because we insist on building infrastructure to accommodate more and more cars is fine, but one person ordering a fancy coffee is individualism run amok? Am I reading this situation correctly?
It's hard to internalize the fact that the administration really does believe the Iraq war was "woke" and that they would be able to easily defeat a substantially more powerful nation simply by being based chads
Democrats still get grief for a decade-old “deplorable” comment whereas Republicans acting like the Klan barely hits the news. Bigotry is a career strategy for them.
"I'll spend the time and intellectual resources to type out a paragraph explaining that I do not care. The laugh-cry emoji will surely illustrate my apathy."
March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.
A little green knitted frog sitting in the palm of a person's hand, wearing a tiny knitted Sirens jersey and rainbow pants
A photo of just the little knitted Sirens jersey, on a white blanket
teeny tiny Sirens jersey for my frog who is coming with me to my first PWHL game tomorrow :)
Despite the algorithmic parts, we live in an era of unrivaled connectivity and community when we have already made those bonds. It is possible to call a great of people in a great deal of places and have a clear conversation or share or receive data. The enemy wants to get in the way of you doing so
okay so this seems pretty clear. he knows what it is, he did it on purpose, he chose keeping it over his career with the Marines, if we know this then Susan Collins will also know it, it will 100% come up in the general, let's be done talking about this guy as a real candidate
I’ll leave for later why reporters didn’t fact-check - there’s an ugly story there too. But the urgent issue is, Platner would be crushed in the general. It's best to lance the boil now. Here’s the document, sourced and Wikipedia-ready. You should read it. The NRSC sure will. 11/
Mom: Microwaving the liver of a deer you scraped from the interstate a putting on plate does not count as cooking.
Oracle: If you invade Persia, you shall destroy a great empire.
Trump: I have the greatest empire, okay? People come up to me they say 'wow, what an empire, you have so many bombs, your economy is so hot...
Oracle: Indeed.
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DHS and ICE, by there nature, cannot be reigned in. They exist to enforce arbitrary laws. I swear this regime and these quisling dems are turning me, step by step, into a fucking anarchist. Fuck.
