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I've categorized this fashion as "American Talibanesque" and it has negatively polarized me away from light-tone jeans and khaki workwear pants forever.

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Malicious compliance is my favorite kind of compliance.

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"There will be the strong temptation to do nothing. If we kick out Trump II and elect a Democrat in 2028, there will be the strong temptation to simply continue the turn towards an ever-more-powerful executive" @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com nailed my greatest fear about '28 precisely: 2020 again

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

once you start seeing the gender it never goes away

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Cursed and blessed that my democratic rep isn't a geriatric pushover, so I can't use my brand of Firebrand Introvert Policy Wonk to primary challenge anyone usefully.

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Lest I be accused of always posting about the same thing, here's a neat off-topic thing: I fried four pounds of Italian-style chicken cutlets today. You gotta do it when the weather is good enough to open every window in the house because even shallow-frying will really stink up the place.

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Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

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It's about time I subscribed to the Inquirer, actually.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Oh no I cancelled my NYT subscription months ago in an ADHD-fueled haze, oh no. It's a shame I'm going to forget to ever renew it even though I wrote this skeet to remind myself. Alas.

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Developing a new model for "which unwell reply guy is going to do real-world violence?" which hinges on how abstract and un-name-like their username is. More abstract username, more likely to be from SA or 4chan originally, more likely to do real world stuff.

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Resistance in literature: scrappy teens in the wilderness. Resistance in real life: 300 year old elite institution is attacked and lawyers up to a truly apocalyptic degree. There is backroom pressure via elite social channels. Scrappy teens have a broken media diet and miss most of the action.

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I've spent my entire academic career avoiding hearing any of the opinions of guys like Sam Harris and, in that respect, I've been enormously successful and forfeited no intellectual development. This is in part because nothing Sam Harris has ever said or done is worth $60.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

The realization that swing voters are so much weirder than we think is finally catching on. I call this the "talk to literally one Pennsylvanian" theory of political economy.

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"there exists a rigorous mathematical description of the commonalities between every Seinfeld episode sufficient to reconstruct new episodes recognizable as instances of the genre" is an indisputable and bizarre fact at this point, even if the episodes reconstructed in this way are bad.

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ChatGPT is intimidated by Eagles fans, which as a Philadelphian kid seems to be the first time ChatGPT arrived at a correct position on its own.

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As I (myself a severe depressive) have noted, a major problem for American politics is that mental illness polarization panned out to the left getting “I can’t leave the house” crazies and the right getting “I AM AN INVINCIBLE GOLDEN GOD WHO CAN DO ANYTHING” crazies.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Our standard three-act story structure tells us that things will get worse and worse, until some massive confrontation — after which they'll be great. This expectation is really bad for us, especially when during this current traumatic moment. My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

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I know that half the liberal intelligentsia plays modded Paradox games regularly but I need you all to know that, in an analysis of a WW2-era propaganda poster, my students at an elite university needed 15 minutes to correctly answer a single question about how WW2 ended before we got to the poster.

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[grabbing america by the lapel] HAVE BETTER OPINIONS THINK BETTER THOUGHTS DO BETTER DEEDS

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"If Kamala Harris had just said [something she did actually say multiple times]!" is the new "they didn't teach you this in school: [something they 100% did]!" of post-2024 internet discourse. The problem was the zone was flooded and half the electorate decides on vibes and nobody heard any of it.

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Like, several people I know with actual doctorates didn't know what Harris' policies were because the US has a massive disengaged voter problem. New voters and disengaged, otherwise-smart voters treat politics like sports, inasmuch as a lot of people don't follow a specific sport.

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Today's "still so many papers to grade" theory: The pandemic illustrated 2 things to the average American: 1. the people in power do not care if you die (absent the nuance of who was in power). 2. the economy does not need you to go in-person all the time and you could spend time with your family

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Like I said, deep breath SPEAK LOUDLY, CORRECTLY, AND OFTEN.

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"My moral purity is more important than your civil rights" is not an ideological position conducive to reliable civic engagement.

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If a load-bearing pillar of your electoral strategy is to get people who refused to vote in 2024 (when it really obviously mattered) to vote for you in the future, you're going to lose. By all means, try, but don't bet democracy itself on people who will just find a new excuse not to vote for you.

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Quite literally wrote an entire essay leading up to the advice that people should 100% be writing news headlines like that. Since most legacy media have decided propaganda is more profitable than news, you have to fight propaganda with better propaganda to defend Reality.

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