“Disappointing, Potter. Getting caught sneaking out after curfew on one of your adventures? I was sneaking over the Berlin Wall at night to kill KGB and Stasi agents in their sleep back when your parents were in nappies, and I never got caught once. Use better OPSEC next time.”
Yes. Males evolved as the secondary sex to support the primary sex and take on drone-type tasks in the community. Patriarchy is unnatural because men are not leaders. Men are most content in strict hierarchies where they’re told exactly what to do—military, athletic teams, etc.
@Austen I agree with the sentiment, but a lot of us don't get decent personal finance education until well into college. And at that, sometimes all you get is a personal finance seminar at a national frat conference.
I know he lists other things here, but even the temptation to include “burritos” in a list of things we’d never in a million years want to live without is to me enough to discredit the entire ideology. Like, that should cause you to break out in fits of laughter. It should sound absurd to you. It should sound like something the enemies of neoliberalism would say to parody it.
Matthew Yglesias said in a recent article that home food delivery was one of the most significant and beneficial innovations of his adult life. I don’t even know what we’re doing anymore.
We are into strange territory here. This stuff has to be rejected categorically.
When the party at fault could be Israel or America, you publish unverified information from Muslim extremists.
But when the party at fault could be Muslim extremists, you avoid speculation.
You're activists too.
You have people who in basically every other context will talk about the power of media and misinformation, the impacts of even the most subtle kinds of bias, who will turn around and ask, “why do you even care that 30% of the characters on TV are gay? What does it even matter that every single burglar is portrayed as White?”