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what do you conclude if people never shut up about it while claiming that they are forbidden to talk about it?
Looking forward to hearing stories in the future about how Timmy's dad only has 8 fingers because of his accident at the diaper factory.
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Politics, on the bottom line, is neither a positive nor a zero sum game. Neither win-win nor win-lose. True politics is a negative sum game: point of it is to pay a price so that your enemies have to pay a higher one. You're going to lose, question is simply how to lose less
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real lived experience of the country makes your posts so much stronger. There's no way for me, a middle aged American who spent my life as a political hobbyist, to compete with these people. I'm crippled by seeing and remembering too much.
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If you're keeping score a point for the algorithmic hyperreal thesis is that foreigners thrive in American political conversation. Add up all the Aimees, Miles, weird guys from Sweden and England not to mention Elon. It's wild. The lack of social commitment and distance from the
One of the most pervasive myths of our time, and perhaps the core belief which generates almost all of the contradictions seen at the level of discourse.
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This guy thinks that if there were "democratic control over our surplus" then we'd democratically decide to do what he wants. Many such cases
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Liberals of all stripes, both left and right, attribute so much to “hate”—probably out of a desire to believe in a personal state and unalienated society—what is really the result of indifference by an impersonal state and alienated society.
After taking a break from X for a few months to go outside and touch grass and tree bark, I am pleased to inform you all that I have learned absolutely nothing from the outside world.
They should make it so that you can "redeem" your IQ points. Maybe for every IQ point you can get 15 cents off at Barnes & Noble or something. And to get those points back you can fill out monthly surveys or subscribe to a loyalty program.
I know a place where they don't have to worry about garbage on the streets because there are no streets. A place that has zero crime, zero bad vibes, and has transcended the need for political leadership. A place so perfect, it can hardly be said to be a place at all. 👼
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I like to imagine whenever God Emperor Musk (GEM) hits the like button and replies to one of the big dissident accounts, a GEM alert is sent out to all the dissident group chats.