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Critical Fearist

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Recovering academic

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Two jackbooted thugs in Trump’s America march up to a two story home in a desolate suburbia. They knock on the door, demand the man there confirm his voter registration, “Republican or Democrat?” “Sir, I am a Pothead” the man lazily replies. They acknowledge him and leave. That’s our fucking future

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LinkedIn is just modern day Successories from the early 90’s

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What the actual fuck

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why the f do i read the NYT

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reminds of a neat word from when i studied polisci in undergrad: “unipolar”

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return of the night of the day after a neverending story part iii: the quest for peace

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remember how some of us were surprised when we found out the writer of Dilbert was such a huge conservative dick? remember what his work was about? boring white collar office guys and bitter antisocial animals. how do you think those kinds of folks vote?

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you can pay upfront or afterwards. they don’t actually care. but they’ll get their blood

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dude was legit. Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! is radical stuff

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trump has so much baggage the world has forgotten, we can continuously create new outrage just by looking at old news people chose to ignore

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Apologies for the droste style effect of screenshots here

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It has been 12 years since the GOP ran anyone other than DT for POTUS. that’s kinda wild

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I am unsure how paying off a sex worker constitutes an official act of the executive office but then again there is so much bullshit he’s created it’s easy to get confused

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It would be hella awkward to run into each other at a club dinner if he were to say something mean ya know

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I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

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i mean i get ep thompson’s perspective and agree somewhat. but look at neoluddism in the 90s and the connection to New World Order black helicopter shit

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i spent so many years studying luddism from an admiring left wing perspective and i totally failed to understand its fundamental reactionary aspects. how did i miss how deep those roots go

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there are STS folks like Langdon Winner who have written about this distinction. it might have been latour or some other philosopher of tech but this point of view is usually called “instrumentalist” and it doesnt recognize any value laden aspects or political affordances of tech so it kinda sucks

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The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

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“AI” is the culmination of the tech industry. Every time you use it, you destroy the environment, erode labor protections, endanger workers overseas, enrich the ruling class, and make something unforgivably worthless, all at the same time – and it's all hidden from you in a frictionless distraction.

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Empty vessels make the most sound but the strongest voices speak the least.

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I have never truly understood why having a whole bunch of pets was a bad thing. “You mean, if it were up to me, I could spend all my free time with my dogs and cats and birds and shit instead of humans? Sign me the fuck up”

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Recent events show me how I have never really been a hardcore leftist in praxis, but just a really just a liberal who hates the DNC

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When these post show up in a future employeers report on their decision not to hire me, just note that this is an experimental strategy for boosting my personal media brand which I have yet to monetize

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If my neighbor were to get pissed at me from smoking on the back porch I would just tell him I have a prescription for terminal autism

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in the radical hellscape capitalism is creating for us joy is an act of resistance

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i am genuinely impressed w shaggy because the only mystery i could get up to is the case of where the fuck did i put the lid to the milk jug

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That’s the struggle we all face. We try to do better than our parents. But at the moment there doesn’t seem to be another group of people who so readily failed

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I think the thing that frustrates me most about boomers as an archetype is how so many of them fell short in the strides they tried to make and possibly were even more reactionary and regressive than their own parents

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Social media is literally gambling for our attention like a casino analyzing just when a player stopped participating, and thinking about “how can we get this person to stay here longer to spend more time?”

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every now and then i have this thought and im like where the fuck does this idea come from

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough's avatar Kaitlin Has Had Enough @gothamgirlblue.com
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“Unless we win forever, the United States isn’t worth having” is both the animating purpose of the Confederacy and the campaign platform of a major party in 2024 and somehow this is not a problem that “serious people” even care about, let alone making an issue to the general electorate

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I’d be questioning my whole existence after a burn like that

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it is hard to find a group of people that love losing more than the Democratic party

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these spaces that are kind of boring and mundane yet bizarre and surreal is what i love about cities like new york. not the rockefeller plaza nonsense

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social media is actually a diary you share with the world

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Do you also read the New York Times, fellow millennial?

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Toast is basically a piece of pizza. And pizza is a piece of toast

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It’s not ableism, to argue that people with horrible opinions, in their old age, who have benefited for much and are now senile, are awful, horrible, fucking individuals

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The millennial backlash against present day boomers is a sign that regardless of ablism, there is some truth about fools in their old age being miserable

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no more “oh fuck we are out of this cheese and now i have to drive all the way to the grocery store just to get more.”

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for every one we mark as “privileged” when they envy the poor… maybe this is why. poverty sort of absolves you from most responsibilities beyond your direct needs and those closest to you. no?

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