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kimberley
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metropolitan liberal elite 🏳️‍🌈 🌹
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The comorbidity of neo-Nazism and transphobia isn't just a kind of "one bad belief leads to all bad beliefs". At its core, it's the same belief: belief in a rigid societal order where your station at birth determines your future, your role, and how you must labor.

A belief in biodestiny, in short.
Today, I examine how the boundaries of the Nation are co-constituted by race, disability, and sexuality, but also---notably---gender and control over reproduction.

And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake.

Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...
December 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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the faux-AI evangelists see the artistic process as a race to get to a finished product, instead of something valuable in itself. the process is where you develop those skills you don't have yet, it cannot be skipped, it is where the art happens
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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I’d say it’s designed to teach you how to think but being a better person is a likely side effect
A liberal arts education is designed to make you a better person, not train you to do a job.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging
YouTube video by Clasher Sports
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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So many people who imagine themselves to be Marxists have a deeply liberal and idealist understanding of transphobia. It's not a debate, it's a power struggle and if you aren't willing to clearly take trans people's side, you are a scab.
Nah, bullshit tbh. You don't deal with the presence of transphobes by debating them. That the guy arguing no felt comfortable doing so and wasn't immediately heckled into silence speaks to a fundamental fucking rot.
November 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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In a sane world, the government guilty of committing genocide would be dismantled, and forced to pay reparations. Instead they are allowed to corral their victims into a concentration camp and steal their land. We live in the most obscene of all possible timelines.
November 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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'we need to expand the tent!' 'to the left also, to include socialists?' 'no no, exclusively rightwards tent-expansion, thankyou'
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
please send help. i cannot stop laughing.
Oh my GOD. The song that Rudy Giuliani used in his anti-Zohran post is fucking AI-generated.

It's a song called "September 11, 2001" and it's from some AI slop factory called The Experience. You need to hear how bad this song is.

music.apple.com/cz/album/sep...
September 11, 2001 (9/11) - Single by The Experience on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 1 Song
music.apple.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
yuuuuuuup
listen. I try not to get too dire about my past mental health because I'm genuinely in a very good place now but if you told 15 year old Caitlin that she was alive and happy at 35, she would be so thrilled that it would never occur to her to ask if she had wrinkles or not
October 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.
Saying that someone doesn’t deserve to be a senator isn’t canceling them, that is the public opinion candidates are subject to in a democracy.
October 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Brb just writing a screenplay about a struggling inflatable costume factory in a wholesome but dying American small town that unexpectedly helps save democracy, and democracy saves it right back.
October 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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(solemnly) You've had mail.
September 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
when i read this transcript i wasn’t sure if it was parody or not.

wtf is this timeline?
Trump to top military officials: "I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. National Guard, but our military. Because we're going into Chicago very soon. That's a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor."
September 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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“average voter is centrist” is a statistical error, average voter holds dozens of contradictory and sometimes insane policy views that more or less counterbalance because theyre all conflicting
Just some thoughts on doing politics with real people, whose views are idiosyncratic but no less real. I know a guy whose worldview is “gay married couples should be allowed to open carry while smoking weed in public” and another who is skeptical of vaccines but supports universal healthcare.
September 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM
oh my god he actually says “FAFO” instead of “fuck around, find out”. is little mr war man afraid of a few swear words?
Hegseth: "Should our enemies choose foolishly to challenge us, they will be crushed by the violence, precision, and ferocity of the War Department. To our enemies, FAFO."
September 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content

for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive

enjoy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...
Sen. Eric Adams: Combating Gun Violence
YouTube video by New York Daily News
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
magnificent thread, as always 🪡
Let me tell you a beautiful story about this couch. 🧵

IG msviciousdesign
September 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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“Male loneliness” is a vague, empirically unfalsifiable Potemkin village of an argument meant to smuggle yet more anti feminism into popular consensus.
September 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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To those laughing about Trump getting stuck on an escalator, maybe read a history book? Escalator ambush was actually a common technique among communist groups during the Cold War primarily intended to make a guy a little late for something
September 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
WHAT DOES HE THINK STAR WARS IS ABOUT EXACTLY
September 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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(anytime someone calls me on my phone, a device i voluntarily bought for this specific purpose) SON of a bitch,
September 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM