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McCarthyism made anti-communism look bad and gave cover to actual communists. When Communists were *everywhere and everyone*, soon, no one believed there were any communists anywhere in the government. Spoiler: There were, actually, communists in the USG. You'd think this would be a lesson today.

submitted 27 days ago • 28 comments

This is how meme culture makes people dumber. Some of these are totalitarianism, some of them are just things you don't like. (How concerned are you about national security before you're "obsessed"? What qualifies as "controlled" media?) Sigh. At least I used to get paid for teaching.

submitted 27 days ago • 26 comments

So much free speech on Xitter....

submitted 135 days ago • 3 comments

My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.

submitted 141 days ago • 341 comments

This is how I imagine every person on here who responds to my posts about the biology of sex.

submitted 141 days ago • 10 comments

I can’t tell you how different it is on X now after so many people have left. I have always followed mostly right-wing accounts because I cover them, and they are running out of people to pick fights with. So they’re just mostly fighting with each other.

submitted 141 days ago • 5458 comments

Let us pray 🙏

submitted 147 days ago • 1941 comments

Truest thing I've seen in weeks

submitted 150 days ago • 43 comments

Sagan, the sage? From his 1995 book. The state of #America

submitted 154 days ago • 191 comments

Rest a while

submitted 153 days ago • 71 comments