“I won’t vote for democrats until they do more (I will not specify WHAT) to stop this thing that voting for democrats would have entirely prevented.

“A politician must earn my vote” is really the ultimate triumph of consumerism.

No conception that voting is a collective power. Just an empty belief that a vote is a type of currency that one uses to purchase a politician.

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

trump is genuinely an aberration. one could not have predicted him winning from the perspective of 2014. it took an incredible chain of contingencies to happen. it almost did not.

No ✌️

“especially Raichu” is doing incredible psychic damage to me here

The chain of thought that would eventually lead someone to conclude they should teach children how to read without focusing on the sounds that letters in a word make is genuinely fascinating to me. Just everything that would entail about how they view the world. Study these people’s brains in a lab.

I’d argue this stems from online

I actually love that they somehow have convinced themselves our economic system is in a “late stage,” it’s hilarious imo

You could sub out the word capitalism in most usages for the word badism -- a hypothetical ideology centered around bad things happening -- and the content of those critiques would not change at all.