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If you love literature, you've got to be into it for more than the implications.

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The faith that Dems have in the "focus group" mentality is honestly so great that they should apply to be a religion and at least get a tax break out of it.

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The apparently Augustinian argument that you should love your family first as, part of the "Ordo Amoris," is easily reconciled with the teachings of Christ when you just admit that Augustine was wrong. He was unwilling to admit that even preferential love is a condition of fallenness, a sin....

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

From John Nova Lomax's "The Sole of Houston" on walking all of Westheimer

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I seriously think they should just break in like the Jan6 people did. They've have way more just cause, and it'd have a precedent in what the Trumpers alread did.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

There is one good writer left at the times, Lydia Polgreen, and she's better than good, she's great. But the rest of them--even the ones I agree with have gotten so deadly dull: they never say anything that anyone who reads their columns hasn't thought already.

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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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I honestly think it was a huge mistake for Dems to absorb Never Trump Republicans. They brought no real constituency and only muddled our political messaging.

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Saw two movies this week: Presence and One of Them Days. I enjoyed the cinematography in Presence but the acting and story were not great. One of Them Days was really, really fun; great acting, humor, pacing--highly recommended.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking about it, and this also applies to album titles. See Wussy, "Cincinnati, Ohio" and fIREHOSE, "fromohio,"; both great sad albums, and both use Ohio as a mantle of their sadness.

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I love books from before 2010, as my university library might actually have a physical copy.

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

I'm done arguing with liberals for the most part. Too many people are off the BlueAnon deep end right now and aren't operating in reality. You can't have a conversation with someone who is coming from a position of "My party and I are right about everything" after they've lost twice to a clown.

submitted 31 days ago • 149 comments

It's not that they went too far, it's that whatever they did, it was mostly for show, however "far" it went. There was no serious political effort to catalyze action, just procedural bullshit to make sure they looked ok on the record.

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Politically correct/"woke" liberalism made language the terrain of political struggle because elite liberals thought that language was something they could master and control, and it turns out that the dumbest shit on earth wins on that terrain because it's fun and disinhibiting instead of shaming.

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

My mom's a librarian and I honestly think growing up in libraries saved my life--it gave me something to love and something that felt like me. Still feel that way now. Last vestige of the public good in our godforsaken society.

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The "flipped classroom" dresses itself up in the language of progressive change but in practice the effect is more or less to make professors into service providers.

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This is basically true, but it's also capitalist through and through. It's like the yimby discourse; yeah I'd rather have more housing than less, but if it's all built by developers and owned by landlords, how good is it, really? Why can't we think the public good outside this framework anymore?

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What people too often forget about hysteria is that it's a response to something that really is there. Panics and hysterias are inherently problematic, but it doesn't mean there's no "there there." The real alternative isn't to dismiss it, but to think through it in a different way.

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Yes it's cheaper to eat at home but come on, we live in a society that basically demands that we don't do it as often as we should. It's not just that daily routine/labor demands make it hard; it's also that the economy would tank if we all started eating at home more often.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

bluesky is frustrating cause it's all Facebook refugees and Twitter refugees and until a Tito figure can align us as one we're all just blocking each other

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

Motion smoothing makes me dizzy and nauseous. How can people handle it?

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In 2028, the Dems have a chance to run a real outsider--someone who's willing to say "something's wrong with this party's elites" but instead they're going to run an insider--someone who says, "something's wrong with this party's base."

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The trans panic is just a rehash of old homophobic ideas, Exhibit A.

submitted 67 days ago • 42 comments

Not a huge George Conway fan, but there is both insight and irony here; insight because it's true, irony because because he and other never Trump types are the ones who devalued the public good in the first place; they're the ones who made it affordable for Musk to purchase.

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Write because you are still breathing and because your heart, which is probably already diseased, still beats. - Elias Canetti, THE BOOK AGAINST DEATH, t. by Peter Filkins

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

This lifestyle has just always been associated with rebellion and with dropping out. My worry is that rebellion itself is no longer left-coded; coding _itself_ rebellious is a horrible trick that the right is playing on us, but the left has also conceded the territory of rebellion too easily.

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Swiss Colony Petit Fors are the best dessert ever.

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My 11 year old daughter is working on a recorded project, "How I think fonts would sound if they could laugh." It's pretty funny. Times New Roman is haughty and British, as one would expect.

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