How To Talk To An Economic Doomer Much of our moment’s economic skepticism is thanks to crushing doomerism brought on by excessive social media use
They Want The Robots To Be Racist I have a bad habit of pretending the right-wing mind is some labyrinthian construct that one can only comprehend by sinking oneself into the deepest depths of conservative thought. Then I see right wingers begging machines to be racist and I realize how fucking stupid I’ve been, how needlessly
The Science of the Squishy Lib Open mindedness, generosity, tolerance, finding common ground in our humanity: This is what the libs want. By “the libs,” I don’t mean anyone to the left of Newt Gingrich, but rather folks who have tightened their blindfolds during our slow but steady descent into fascism and have hoped against
I’m Begging The Democrats To Watch TV Americans are raving with praise for a show about a billionaire family being tormented and killed by a saucy little demon and Democrats are shying away from an Eat The Rich ethos. That millions of Americans are titillated by the suffering of the wealthy on their TV screens apparently means
The Free Speech Warriors And Their Bad-Faith Game Read the Westminster Declaration and you will find exactly zero specificity about the suppression of speech in free societies.
A Bad-Faith Presidential Candidate To Save Us All I can see it so clearly in my mind’s eye: A Democratic presidential candidate adorned in all the trappings of 21st century jingoism, using the no-holds-barred language of conservatives, bulldozing his way through Republicans and into the hearts and minds of normie voters who love this shit. This presidential
Resisting In The Age Of Accelerationism So-called effective accelerationism is a fascist Trojan horse for the 21st century