related but distinct to this particular expression is *also* an overarching fear of being in any way possible to criticize, leading to the development of complex ideological structures to prove that every impulse and emotion and thought you have is Good, lest you prove yourself internally corrupted
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2w agothe thing that the ultraliberalism article really nails is how this dynamic is born of severe anxiety: you're committed to the idea that only X is allowed to speak, so you have to constantly work overtime to prove you're X... even as you know you're not.
The guillotine, which was a tool of a bourgeoise revolution that brought humanity into the next mode of production after feudalism, is actually a symbol of capitalism.
Time to put on my beanie, go to the cafe, order a matcha latte, and then pull my physical copy of The Reconstruction Papers by Liberal Currents (now available for pre-order in the United States) out of my tote bag and try to prominently angle the cover towards alt-looking women.
boys aren't suffering, on average, from insufficient levels of validation for people who perform masculinity well. it's far more common they suffer from pretty grotesque patriarchal bullying for not performing it well until it breaks them
it's not actually important to recognise that men can enjoy opening pickle jars. we do not have a shortage of such recognition, unlike its opposite, which is that they might not
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As a former professional athlete, this is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Your kid has a less than 1% chance of getting an athletic college scholarship. You’re better off putting the money into a 529 plan.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Gluesenkamp Perez: "At town halls, what I saw was the people who were the most upset had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice & they view their best shot of their student going to college as an athletic scholarship. So when we rush to moralize we miss some of the nuance."
It has been a delight to see Kojima come to New York and just do the most basic tourist shit imaginable. Go off, king. Show me your photo taken on the steps of the Met. Prove you can go above 42nd St.
小島秀夫@hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp · 2mo ago
this is just IRCP horseshoe theory btw same reason Hasan did his stream with Ashley St. Clair joking about being a stepdad, same reason a lot of leftist guys came out swinging so hard for Platner (e.g. "he could fuck my mom if he wanted to")
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 2mo ago“HR Lady” what did he mean by this
Kinda funny that the pundits complaining about hr have basically never worked in an office with hr
Ridership on the Phoenix Valley Metro Rail also continues rising since the B-line to South Phoenix opened in late 2025, with passenger counts up 20% compared to this time last year! The route has taken more than 12M passengers over the last twelve months, the highest since 2019
Kinda wild that Hunter is straight up actually existing Diamond Joe
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2mo agoHunter Biden spending his whole day every day on Twitter being like "I'm not a pedophile, I was smoking crack with ADULT hookers at the Super 8 outside of Newark, you guys have pictures of all of it INCLUDING my hog from My Leaked Stolen Laptop™" is a masterstroke. Should've done this years ago.
Dan Abnett's Hive is excellent so far and might be my new first recommendation to someone looking to read Warhammer 40,000 fiction. It's one of those (fairly) rare books of its type that elevates itself to being just Solid Sci-Fi on its own.
a thing no one talks about who hasn't read slaver and eugenics propaganda is how seeped those fuckers were in weird psychosexual shit
Jared Friedman 🇺🇦@silkscreenfiend.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt's amazing how deep this goes, into the paranoias of the GOP's direct ancestors, the slaveholders. There was so much psychosexual anxiety woven into antebellum (and then Jim Crow-era) white culture, with exactly this same dynamic - obsession with the idea that their wives might prefer Black men.
"Let us die to make men free" gets the attention on here, but don't sleep on "I have read the good news of the word of God written in rows of rifles: the vengeance you mete to slavers shall be repaid by Me with grace to you, crush them beneath your heel as Christ did the devil"
Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · 2mo ago"He hath loosed the lightning of His terrible swift sword," "I have read a gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: 'as ye deal with my contemners so with you My grace shall deal,' Let the Hero born of woman crush the serpent with His heel" Ie, "deal with confederates like a vengeful God"
I DONT HAVE TO TAKE INSULIN BECAUSE OF THESE DRUGS. WHAT IN THE ENTIRE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU GUYS
Anil Dash@anildash.com · 3mo agoThe AI of drugs. The same tech financiers have been saying for years that they want GLP-1s in the water supply.
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yes the "solution to the deleterious effects" would be 'hire middle management' because contra the idiot leftist reading of a very stupid book, middle management actually serves an essential purpose requiring skills not all that common in the population at large graeber and his ongoing consequences
Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · 3mo agoAnd yet if no one was willing to work as a grocery store clerk we'd all starve, while if no one was willing to be in middle management in the national parks service we could probably find a solution to the deleterious effects of that before they kicked in.
Gonna be honest, feels like there's some gender going on there - developers have created The Sims For Boys, but they have to pretend it is a game about sword fighting and industry, even though the core of the game is getting the shade of blue on the living room wall juuuuuuuuust right.
This sort of thing feels like an ever present danger for the guys as we age I think there needs to be soft landing syllabus or some like Normielib Path we can travel together
BARO@baro.bsky.social · 3mo ago100%. My dad went from a pretty radical cop hating leftist union man to being upset about political correctness and wanting to vote for our former disgraced right wing police chief for mayor, mostly due to facbook.
