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doing philosophy, editor @negationmag.com -- mind in hell, despairing not (?)

broke: finally, some christian democrats woke: this take ignores the history of black christian democrats bespoke: that vast majority of american politics is and has always been christian, explicitly or otherwise, and that's an actively bad thing

I think it's important to think about this in a careful way. These results are confusing, and we should try not to get confused. Two facts: The anti-trans attack on Democrats failed utterly; and America *is* getting more transphobic, and transphobia-by-itself largely succeeded at the ballot box.

mcc@dryad.technology · last wk.

Seeing people saying "ha ha Elon Musk ate shit" but what if, just what if, the reason he spent all that money on blatantly ineffective anti-trans ads was not to make Republicans win but to make people more transphobic

hi, is this the ceo of build-a-bear? yes, that was my email. yes, the golden calf... yes, yes, from exodus... yes, it has to be the nuremberg chronicle... hello?

exodus 32 depicted in the nuremberg chronicle.

i think twitter socialized (maybe continues to socialize?) a lot of left-wing thinker types into either 1) behaving like the dead polemicists they admire or 2) learning to view people who do 1) as somehow commendable and you know. that's probably been for the worse in most respects

you ever notice how absolutely massive media brands simply cannot be bothered to correct the automated captions for their short-form videos? just such a tiny shitty little thing. what a time to be alive

so many left-wing writers/academics want to be public figures in a way that is pretty funny (and a little sad too). posting takes like they're press statements, narrating the Stories of their Wars of the Mind, making broad statements about The Way It Is and Gotta Be