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🔒 I Sure Hate This Annoying Pandemic of Online Age Restriction Laws

With everyone all focused on Donald Trump and Benny Netanyahu starting World War III out of a mutual desire to stay out of prison, another major war recently began that hasn’t earned the same headlines: Australia’s war on the internet.  Now I know I don’t talk about

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Substack is at the Gambling Stage of Desperation

Some men are probably coming to break Chris Best’s legs.  That’s the best explanation for why Substack is entering an exclusive partnership with Polymarket as announced in a comments-disabled post from Substack’s Official Substack, a newsletter that has nearly 6 million subscribers. The post got fewer than

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The Innate Hypocrisy of the Pronatalist Movement

When it comes to issues on which people care way too much about other people’s preferences, the worst offenders have to be steak doneness, and the decision whether to have children.  Like most people, I have strong opinions on both, when it comes to my personal preference. If you

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Epstein Was Never the Head of the Conspiracy. The Reality is Worse. (Part 2)

Releasing the Epstein emails in the manner that they did was considerably worse than not releasing them at all. I’m not even convinced that releasing them was a good idea in the first place and there, I’ve said it.  Right up to the point that they actually did

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Staying Rational When the Conspiracies are Real (Part 1)

I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t expect the US Justice Department to ever release the “Epstein Files.” I made a snide comment about it on Substack literally two days before they dumped a trillion of his emails onto the internet without warning. The instant result was like

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Why the Right Keeps Losing Female Influencers

One of the most fascinating things to happen in recent political discourse, for me, has to be the question of: What changed Ashley St Clair’s mind?  For those who don’t know, St Clair was one of the midlist female figures in the world of online MAGA influencers, primarily

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Substack Has Become Middlebrow Twitter (Derogatory)

Hey, Ghost readers! I know a lot of you are here to get away from Substack, which is precisely why I set up this alternative for y’all. Part of my schtick is talking about social media and internet culture, and how it’s pretty much all going to heck,

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Drew Pavlou and the Shitpost Economy

If you’ve been on social media much over the past few years you may have noticed a rising star in the “politically bonkers” space. Drew Pavlou is a damn near omnipresent figure on Twitter who shows up in so many retweets by MAGA influencers and Trump administration officials that

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But At Least Woke is Dead, Right?

On Wednesday they shot a poet.  37 year old writer and mother of three Renee Nicole Good was sitting in her car observing an ICE raid in a Minneapolis neighborhood when a number of the goons rushed at her car, yelling at her to leave the area. Paradoxically, while issuing

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Why Do Covid Revisionists Need to Fabricate Evidence to Make Their Case?

Yoel Roth, the former head of Trust and Safety at a now very dead website that used to be called Twitter, was recently made aware of something disturbing. He’d been quoted in a recently published, bestselling book, without his knowledge.  This in itself isn’t a problem—if you’

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In Defense of Rob Reiner's "North"

Rob Reiner’s final film was a sequel to his very first film.  This, obviously, was not planned. It’s a fact that will be remarked upon in history, but Reiner didn’t have the ability to foresee and plan for the end of his own career in the same

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Well, That Sure Was a Year

Have you ever stopped to think about the fact that we’re now more than a quarter of the way through the 21st century? That it’s now actually plausible that some of you reading this will see the 22nd century? One thing I’ve been doing this year is