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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art posted this today and it’s still cracking me up

Just listened to a UChicago panel with Democrats, and wow the center left in America seems determined to learn the wrong lessons from 2024. They don't get that the point of MAGA is anti-institutional, and think playing the same game in more moderate tones will eventually pay off.

In Trump's America, this impossibly hot woman just got an M.

I'm a reverse solipist (constantly saying "I lack the divine spark" in a cheery and chipper tone)

What I thought coding would be vs what it turned out to be

I know it's not true, but I love imagining that they just earnestly hadn't heard of sex variations before, and will now change course. "Sorry, our bad!"

People like this ranger are really the only reason I haven't fled this country yet. Who knew that Parks and Rec would be the last great argument for US patriotism.

There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain

valentine's day card arrives from the future

I wish more people realized Nietzsche wasn't a serious philosopher, nor did he want to be. He was just a silly little guy with big opinions about tragedy and a bundle of neurodivergences that would make a contemporary psychologist blush.

the computer is the anti-christ

Interesting counter-intuitive observation

"I promise I won't get all political" *moments later*

"So we took matters into our own paws"

Breaking News: the Pope cares about podcast beefs.

This here, from Curtis Yarvin's 2022 fever dream rants.

"patriotic tslurs are fine, we think"

Controversial opinion. I hope that he gets really into this, for 3 reasons: 1. the more time he spends on silly conservative spectacles the less time he spends on policy; 2. this will generate a backlash and will radicalize people more than policy; 3. the garbage fire will be better horror than A24.

I find it interesting that transfemmes are the focus of so much of this reaction. Under the phony concern for women is a deep insecurity with what it means to be a man. They are furious anyone would want to leave the team, like how in wars traitors are often shot.

Listening to the Wall St Journal interview people about DEI: "they are trying to stop me from speaking truth to power" the truth to power: "i don't think there should be so many black women on the courts" so brave

When will the mainstream media discuss the news that there is effectively a travel ban for trans people? We don't even appear in the travel advisory anymore! Trying not to catastrophize but this is really concerning.

This is right I think. More Caligula than Hitler. Not everything bad is fascism.

Apparently teaching kids about the history of American racism + acknowledging gender nonconformity "not only erode critical thinking but also sow division, confusion, and distrust, which undermine the very foundations of personal identity and family unity." Does he know what critical thinking is?

Another day, another anti-trans EO. He really doesn't like us! Darkest part of this one is that it compares trans healthcare for kids to FGM. I thought it was obvious those weren't the same, but I once again overestimated the sophistication of transphobes.

Save yourself a headache and don't read the Trump anti-trans EOs. Here's a highlight from the latest: "adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual’s sex conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life.

*people reading Heidegger's 1933 address* "Oh, it's just a Roman salute"

Best case outcome from the latest anti-trans executive order is for the AMA to challenge the administration and for the court to be forced to decide between gender ideology (specifically Trump's around large reproductive cells) and actual science - fingers crossed