Contextual Notes
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I’m talking about what goes unnoticed. This account started 2 days ago.
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I’ve been following dictators for a while, and I like to rate them not by how consequential their actions were, but by how unhinged they get over time.
In the Dictator Delusion Scale I sketched earlier, Levels 7–9 are where power stops managing reality and starts replacing it.
This is where authoritarianism becomes ontological.
This is where authoritarianism becomes ontological.
January 14, 2026 at 12:34 PM
In the Dictator Delusion Scale I sketched earlier, Levels 7–9 are where power stops managing reality and starts replacing it.
This is where authoritarianism becomes ontological.
This is where authoritarianism becomes ontological.
I’ve been following dictators for a while, and I like to rate them not by how consequential their actions were, but by how unhinged they get over time.
January 13, 2026 at 5:31 PM
I’ve been following dictators for a while, and I like to rate them not by how consequential their actions were, but by how unhinged they get over time.
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Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
January 8, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
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A decade ago, when Trump one the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even as late as last year as people attributed economic anxieties to Trump’s wins.
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?
January 12, 2026 at 9:05 PM
A decade ago, when Trump one the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even as late as last year as people attributed economic anxieties to Trump’s wins.
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?
Can we talk about Joanna Coles at The Daily Beast? While criticising Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, she regularly mocks accents and cultures — especially with a bit called “be beast.”
January 13, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Can we talk about Joanna Coles at The Daily Beast? While criticising Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, she regularly mocks accents and cultures — especially with a bit called “be beast.”