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How We're All Losing Our Grip on Reality

So Senator Mitch McConnell is alive, for better or worse. The heart attack with his name on it missed and clipped Lindsey Graham’s aorta. At least that’s the official story. The internet remains largely unconvinced—not that Graham is dead, which seems pretty incontrovertible, but rumors of McConnell’

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🔒 How White People Stole The Odyssey

I’m sorry to talk about The Odyssey again, but the scale of the right’s crash out is something to truly behold. During the height of the scandal I suppose we’ll have to call “Lupita Nyong’ate,” every far-right personality from Elon Musk down to your average

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Graham Platner and the Trolley Problem

I hadn’t intended to talk about Graham Platner. I’ll talk about the right and the left using American politics as the reference, but I try to steer away from granularity that I can’t purport to understand. In short, all I really know about Maine is that’s

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🔒 How We're All Losing Our Grip on Reality

So Senator Mitch McConnell is alive, for better or worse. The heart attack with his name on it missed and clipped Lindsey Graham’s aorta. At least that’s the official story. The internet remains largely unconvinced—not that Graham is dead, which seems pretty incontrovertible, but rumors of McConnell’

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Anti-Migrant Slopaganda is the Next NFTs

It’s hard to deny that we’re in a state of rising tension in many nations across the West as right-wing populists try to imitate, for some reason, possibly the most unpopular US president in history. Nevertheless, worrying anti-migrant trends are rising as times get tough and

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🔒 Graham Platner and the Trolley Problem

I hadn’t intended to talk about Graham Platner. I’ll talk about the right and the left using American politics as the reference, but I try to steer away from granularity that I can’t purport to understand. In short, all I really know about Maine is that’s

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Suicidal Empathy and Prescriptive Psychopathy

In today’s context of Elon Musk condemning some millions of people to death in an effort to shock the liberal West out of its addiction to caring about strangers, we’re once again in a discourse, unfortunately, about whether empathy is bad. Unsurprisingly, the richest people in the world

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🔒 Anti-Migrant Slopaganda is the Next NFTs

It’s hard to deny that we’re in a state of rising tension in many nations across the West as right-wing populists try to imitate, for some reason, possibly the most unpopular US president in history. Nevertheless, worrying anti-migrant trends are rising as times get tough and

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Chessboxing: Why the Right Can't Win Debates

As this is a politically opinionated column, I tend to get three different types of response: Lefties agreeing with me, lefties respectfully disagreeing with me, and occasionally, righties who, in every single case, very obviously did not read what they are responding to except maybe part of the headline.  Something

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Why You Can't Treat Online Communities Like Offline Communities

I don't like talking about Substack much because a lot of my Ghost audience subscribes specifically to get away from Substack, and I hear you. But part of my beat is talking about online communities and, for this week's topic, Substack just happens to be my

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Relax, It's Not Technically Genocide

By 2030, Elon Musk is projected to have killed about 14 million people, and I think that should be the primary thing that he is known for. I think this fact should be in the first paragraph of his Wikipedia entry and that it should come before mentions of him

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Trump's America is a Masculinity Drag Show

Here’s the most fascinating thing I’ve read in a minute: Studies show that voting for Donald Trump makes men feel more masculine.  To be clear, I don’t mean that Trump motivates men to be more masculine. That’s not the effect. He isn’t inspiring men to