Temu Tony Stark does not feel your pain: There’s a reason why totalitarian regimes go out of their way to stomp out empathy. If you wish to pursue the commission of atrocities as policy, you must first ensure the moral collapse of the people you need to carry out those atrocities.

Any time a tiny morsel of news sneaks through my news blackout, I remember why I signed up for a Masters degree in late 2016.

When I and Howard Zinn before me talk about the unexpected, we're mostly talking about things like the fall of the Berlin Wall or 9/11 or the Zapatista uprising. But we can now add to that list INFOWARS SOLD TO CORPORATE OVERLORDS OF THE ONION.

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I love that part of the rationale for this was that ‘people on Bluesky thought it would be funny’