Stephen Barlow Kevin Anderson In my experience, people tend not to reflect very much on their biases, on their "positionality" and why they think of certain things as normal/inevitable/good and others as not. Also, there are very significant costs to you if you challenge your tribe's assumptions...

But politicians should be biased. It's literally their job to act in accordance with a niche set of morals and ethics

"I just don't understand how anyone can think [opinion I don't agree with]" isn't the flex you think it is

Saying "economic migrants", as if moving away from a place where food is too expensive and you can't get a job to earn money to turn the heating on isn't a valid play, is a MASSIVE red flag

"he refuses to accept ignorance or or illusion as on the part of the masses as an explanation for fascism, and demands an explanation formulated in the terms of desire: no, the masses were not innocent dupes .... they wanted fascism" - p42

You deserve a sense of belonging and relational solidity that doesn't require you to hold opinions you haven't fully and earnestly investigated.

I think this is useful to remember interpersonally: someone who has nothing left to lose has no reason to retreat.

the older I get the less confident I am that I can confidently say anything about anything in a way that will be useful

New Rule: You can’t suggest a workout on social media/podcast without an accompanying video of you doing that actual workout. This will clear out the BS advice quickly.

Can we now stop calling psychiatric drugs "meds". The assumption being they are medicinal. As if they have healing properties. They don't. Nothing is being healed. You are being drugged. Sedation & blunting of emotions isn't health care. It's drugging Now we can talk

The anger you’re feeling watching $1,000,000 in American bombs obliterate a school in the Middle East while you can’t afford to take your child to the dentist is completely justifiable.

Frankly, I expected better from a FIFA Peace prize winner.

Everyone who’s looking at their phone right now is a fucking NPC