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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 21 hours ago • 467 comments

Rating wines based on how much Stormy enjoys playing with the cork Nero d'Avola - 78pts - went underneath door when mom was using the washroom

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

I am all for "ungovernable" stuff being part of a winning communist strategy, but I get the feeling that for many people they haven't thought much beyond "and then they won't be able to govern us"

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

An adverbial theorist of perception seeing a bunch of stodgy sense datum theorists: nightmarishly bluntly rotating

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Stormy, our cat, has determined that the most efficient way to wake up a human to be fed in the morning is to push Capital Vol 1 so it falls on my head. She recognizes a tome when she sees one.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

what’s it going to take for the average liberal voter and mainstream liberal news outlets to start turning on the current useless democratic establishment

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

submitted 4 days ago • 506 comments

when i say that there are people who care less about workers and their rights than they do the primacy of a masculinist blue collar identity politics, i am taking about people like sean o’brien

submitted 3 days ago • 586 comments

Horrifying Canadian higher ed news: York University, one of the country’s major R1s, is apparently suspending admission to a number of key programs (including GWS, languages, classics, and enviro biology)—very likely auguring cuts. This appears to be straight out of the West Virginia playbook.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

They screwed this all up.

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

“A migrant from Iran, Artemis Ghasemzadeh, 27, wrote ‘Help us’ in lipstick on one window.”

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

I was gonna ask what a Palestinian looks like, but apparently, the shooter doesn't know either "A video that showed a bullet in a man’s left shoulder and stated the victims were an Israeli father and son and neither are Palestinian."

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This is so fucked up. Holy shit.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

There absolutely has been. Yes. Among the major selling points of originalism has been that it somehow prevents this. That leading originalists are very transparently doing this is a more fundamental critique of originalism than anything nonoriginalists could possibly say.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

elon musk is like if a president wasn't protected by the secret service

submitted 9 days ago • 57 comments