I think a real chunk of it is also that some people want to be the ones doing Important Discourse in an ecosystem where others post about their frivolous interests (it sounds hyperpretentious when I write it out like that but really it's a very slight subconscious tendency towards pretentiousness)

Houndstooth coat / pockets are bulging / with Nembutal…

both sides would swear up and down that they’re nothing like the other but it’s really just spiderman pointing meme, one of them is wearing a collared shirt

from October 2016.

The whole of politics is contested pain through policy. If you like that MTG did transphobia through a bill you're my enemy, but at least be honest enough to say you're happy with the process because you find the outcome to be good or neutral. medium.com/@cd_hooks/st...

Bari wouldn't know this because she's never published a genuine scoop in her life and her exclusives consist of "check out what my rich friends said to me... by the way, we're friends, did I say that already?" Calling Weiss unqualified for her job is putting it gently.

None of these people are actual "nerds," none of them have any real technical abilities or non-standard interests. The only thing they bring to the table is social license to say stuff like "what if there was a doorbell camera with a gun in it"

Even still! I mean look at this

These defenses should be imprisoned

What is morally, practically, and electorally the right thing to do is often not allowed by law, frequently by design by those who hold the levers of power.

But someone has to be the person to take the risk to make the world better, even if they don't live to see it. That's civil disobedience.

Yeah, I think infused or extracted are the terms you want

Come to California. Though maybe it’s so rare now that it no longer gets dirty looks bc people are just nonplussed.