George Orwell worried that a shrinking vocabulary would eventually produce a shrinking range of thought.
It is difficult to think a nuanced thought with a blunt language.
An underdiscussed part of modern capitalism is how low-wage workers are often micromanaged every minute they’re on the clock, while many high-wage jobs come with hours of unstructured computer time where no one really cares what you’re doing as long as the work gets done.
“Nagging” is how we turned men’s lack of accountability into women’s character flaw.
Instead of questioning why he needs to be asked 10 times, we criticize her for asking 10 times.
Even though we're quickly moving towards a post-literate society, you can tell that books remain sacred objects that carry enormous power and authority in our culture based on how uncomfortable they make people who don't engage with them regularly
genuinely fuck whoever came up w the dumbass idea to replace THE DICTIONARY BUILT INTO GOOGLE with the ai overview's definitions i hope everything in their life fucking sucks
If Mamdani starts to take money from the Israeli lobby, sits down with the Israeli lobby, or does anything that is tangebly zionist, then I will be protesting him too.
But at this point, going to a vigil and then eating at a Palestinian restaurant afterward with Palestinian families is not something I will be using my platform to protest. Frankly, there are WAY bigger fish to fry.
@pomegranatist Bye the way you think you're so morally superior when you probably have yet to do 1% of what mamdani did to help nyc residents. People like u are the reason why the left is so fragmented and will always nitpick instead of banding tgt against the far-right
If college being free for everyone would make a college education worthless you are blatantly admitting a college education exists to be a class gateway