kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

My dad a day after 1/6 was rattled, borderline horrified. Two weeks later he was asking me how I could get so worked up about a walking tour of the U.S. Capitol. Propaganda works!

I feel like Steve O politely asking Bill Maher to not smoke weed on his podcast because Steve O has had a lot of struggles with sobriety and Bill Maher being like Waaaa nooo me neeeeed weeeeed me seventy years olllllld is very indicative of who we treat as serious people in America

If you're bargaining from a place of "don't punch me in the face too bad, sir," you're gonna get punched in the face, and they're probably gonna do it harder and harder.

If your bargaining position is, "I will expose your pedophile friends and you will face tribunals," the conversation changes.

Lot of people yelling recently "but we don't have the votes!" True! That doesn't mean "immediately quit." (Also not what propter is saying here, to be clear.) It means create a spectacle, make things cause celebres, make the Republican position untenable.

Create bargaining position and force votes.

the very first step, before anything else, is having someone younger than 60 fucking years old who understands the modern media environment and can communicate in a way that exploits social media virality and a lazy press in order to shift momentum and public polling and counter fake trump populism