@sbyrnes@IM_Aeneas I said things are looking up since Calif is rejecting wealth confiscation. These bureaucratic/socialist tendencies exist well beyond Calif, so don't feel singled out. Shellenberger's book is great on this btw, I recommend - Progressives and socialists form a big Venn diagram
@sbyrnes@IM_Aeneas Modern democratic socialism doesn't require abolishing 100% of private enterprise to qualify as socialism. Many of the people shaping Calif politics proudly call themselves socialists. I'm using their own preferred terminology, not inventing my own. Just finish the train guys!
Mocking Charlie Kirk's death is a window into a deeper intellectual decay: people who've outsourced their thinking to algorithms, built their worldview from decontextualized clips, and mistaken constant exposure to outrage for knowledge. They don't know how much they don't know
@collected_mind Even the NYT of all places tried to help them (many simply yelled at Ezra for writing this ...none will understand they're part of an angry mob, just the modern variety) https://t.co/rZ4bnuhqw4
@1amIan@MsMelChen@robkhenderson This happens on many issues now - truly lets you see which of your friends and contacts can process the world (turns out a lot can't)
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Woke Part 3: the privilege awakens
Woke Part 4: return of the DEI
Woke Part 5: the intersectional menace
Woke Part 6: attack of the microaggressions
Woke Part 7: revenge of the cis
Woke Part 8: oops, all oppressors
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@patrickberzai I mean he definitely mocked all the things that no one wants back too. This is just shock jock stuff here, sad really bc he's actually funny and doesn't need to do it