Pongalh
6d ago
Tangential, but heterodox lefties Theory Underground found their anthology on Charlie Kirk and the Left book, featuring Michael Tracey and Zizek, cancelled by Amazon: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LUZnOEkEKmw&t=7s
Pongalh
7d ago
Working remotely has made the politicization of work much less salient, at least for me.
Pongalh
10d ago
Because the American right writ large does not give a shit that Israel has turned Palestine into rubble. After October 7th, plenty of people here were gung-ho for a little genocide/purge.
Well, some of us are influenced by a libertarian and/or paleocon bleeding heart and anti-war POV. Just sayin
Pongalh
24d ago
"Bring on the nazis. I'd rather have literal Hitler spread his brain-rot than give the left another day to spread theirs."
Is it common knowledge that Nazis in the 30s were only into it because it wasn't communism? Or were they positively proactive about it (as was my impression)?
Pongalh
24d ago
"though Tucker's not really on public airwaves or mainstream cable."
Yep. My parents miiiiight remember him if he were to go back to FOX. As it stands, they know Kimmel far better.
Pongalh
26d ago
Right. Curb Your Enthusiasm has toyed with Hitler. (But then maybe until like a week after Oct 7th it was being safely done from a solidly NYC Jewish place of "we can do this"?)
Pongalh
27d ago
"outside American feelings."
As an American, that matters most. As much as extracting yourself from a brawl that will go on brawling with or without you. At least your hands are clean.
Pongalh
27d ago
second best option: extract America from this eternal nonsense as much as possible.
Actually that's the first best option
Pongalh
28d ago
Right. So, rather the Americans should be telling Israelis to move to some corner of Montana and have at it. Because what's happening is not tenable by modern ethical standards, either lording it over a population in that way or having a state charter built on the lord.
Pongalh
30d ago
Interesting because it's been much, much harder for me to hold on to fake email jobs than my jobs delivering pizza and flowers. I left all the latter, the former left me (save for one).
Pongalh
30d ago
"Jurors." Interesting choice. Hm, is this literally true or is it meant to signify anti-sprawl boomer liberals who value civic participation or something? (Or possibly unsuccessful albeit decent, basic people with nothing better to do with their time? But even those folks mostly have cars.)
Pongalh
30d ago
Some writers have begun intentionally introducing mistakes into their writing in order to not be thought of as using LLMs. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sarah-waller-1b967671_i-recently-read-an-article-where-the-writer-activity-7381594464328359936-6dNO?rcm=ACoAAAIRfjcBLt5fKoXIZEwnmoXzpmaEixqxsJ8
Pongalh
1mo ago
The death penalty is extremely right-coded. Even back when opposition came from Christians it was considered progressive.
Yep. I recall the 1995 film Dead Man Walking featuring Susan Sarandon as a nun iirc, whose heart bled for convict Sean Penn
Pongalh
1mo ago
I actually wrote about this a bit ago: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/3337822/pennies-trump-target-second-term/
Pongalh
1mo ago
You say 99% on their side, and yet his discussion of trans issues is way more than 1% of his output. IOW if you don't talk much about the other 99% of your issue positions how much do you really hold them?
Pongalh
1mo ago
Indeed there was an infograph recently of most popular social media worldwide and Finland stuck out as being the only one where Threads reigns supreme
Pongalh
1mo ago
being qualified to carry a gun selects against "bottom feeders," a term I feel is more appropriate for say, fentanyl addicts. but it probably does select for people who are not well into the arts, i.e. philistines. That's a kind of bottom feeder for many.
Pongalh
1mo ago
What sucks is when the hot fashionable women are the ones saying these things and the frumpy ones are not, and even defend men.
Given men's nature, it's hard to know which way to cut.
Pongalh
1mo ago
Wasn't long ago that conservatives were lambasting the notion of stochastic terrorism. Do they buy it now?
Pongalh
1mo ago
The more important point to me is the privacy part. How many of us would really come out unscathed if all our private convos were unearthed? (In general too many people want to chalk up to extra horrible malice what is better explained by the new information environment.)
Pongalh
1mo ago
That Brooklyn lefty campaigner guy who was killed on CCTV with his girlfriend nearby, conservatives were very much "welp, hoisted by his own..." as in this is the result of his own views on crime. A smug schadenfreude was palpable, but I didn't see overt celebration myself.
""News" exists to create opinion, not inform it."
Well let's not forget humdrum local news, weather news, and business news. It's not all top level How to Think About News.
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