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garethwatkins.bsky.social
Writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Tribune, Vulture, MEL, New Socialist. Host of Death Sentence podcast.
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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

New meta just dropped. The old meta was that you made a character black or trans and dumb chuds would do your marketing for you. The new meta is you do something kind of self-conciously rapey and white women who live in the suburbs with cop boyfriends will make TikToks about how its not feminist.

#facts

Great conversation about the political implications of a topic none of us can avoid lately—AI.

freddy kruger

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In one afternoon in 2022 I documented 300+ different examples of things being called ‘woke’. The list included headlines denouncing as ‘woke’ the US Federal Reserve, capitalism, the NYPD, BlackRock, DoD, the CoE, Wall Street, the Met, and Islamic fundamentalists, all published in a two month period

I always find it amazing that Democrats don't talk about the extremely obvious psychological problems that Miller has. Newsom should come back at him with the story of how his father lost his job and they lived in a slightly less rich area - make him the story.

Which way Western Man?

When you read interviews with Hamas higher-ups on what Oct 7th was supposed to do, they'll say it was to provoke an outsize reaction in Israel that would shock the people of the world into supporting Palestinian liberation. That's exactly what happened, but they didn't factor in...

Today in book writing: I worked out that the most viewed video on Pornhub has been viewed for a combined 11,796 years.

You can tell this is empty vice-signalling through the 'disrupt the flow of funding' part. There's no funding my man! People are just going to a part of a city they already live in.

They're all in a group chat coordinating their propaganda.

Technological civilization DESTROYED by rural England? Where have I heard that before?

The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is 4.24 light years away, so we'll need to develop light-speed travel, build a ship that can self-sustain for multiple years and set off by about September.

FETTERMAN ACTIVATE

I don't want to live in a world without Vibes Coders. Girls please DM me I shouldn't be left alone right now.

The rules are: 1) lol. lmao 2) It's gay and soy for a man to be seen eating soup.

Twitter poster The_Phalangist_Babyfur1488 (followed by JD Vance): Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; I shouldn't be left alone right now i need somebody to confiscate sharp objects and my belt

Found an incredible type of guy:

I'm always saying this normal thing!

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Things I've seen called woke: 1) High speed rail. 2) Construction workers wearing sunscreen. 3) Drawing dinosaurs with feathers.

Another slum dunk from a company that never makes a bad decision!

What's Yarvin's joke here?

Gotta love an 86-year-old woman with the heart of a poster

Somebody (me) should (is) write (writing) a book about this.

It's essential to understand the deeper historical, cultural, and economic roots of political alignment, what and why these people believe what they do. But at the end of the day a lot of the MAGA stuff is just shitty people having free rein to indulge the worst parts of themselves.

Weird white ladies from the suburbs whose husbands are cops IN SHAMBLES.

Who the hell is Nick Fuentes? And how did a 26 year old twerp become the nation’s most visible antisemite and the last survivor of “alt-right” era white nationalism @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social joined to help us trace through Nick’s life story postthroughit.substack.com/p/021-who-th...

What is it that they'll actually *do* with dramas to make them more palatable for Reform voters? Reduce the number of teeth the actors have?

Has anyone, in any discipline, ever tried to theorise why transgression is such a major part of sexual desire *but little else*? As in, people spend a lot of energy on thinking about transgressing sexual taboos, but somebody who's kosher doesn't spend as much time thinking about eating pork etc.

guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever