Unfathomably insidious and pernicious even if the therapeutic profession hadn't been swallowed by racial and gender manias

The sociology on this has been terrible. This isn’t a corporate manufactured ‘stomp clap’ act. ‘Edward Sharpe’ is an ironic persona created by a sophisticated LA guy coming out the back end of a failed creative project (punk edm act) and a drug habit he said fried his brain.

Like all good ironists, he’s not fully separated from the subject matter and the woman singing (who is high out of her mind) ended up being swallowed up by it and left her music career shortly thereafter. There’s so much here that is implicitly dark, how do people not see it?

If you want to make this clean we can just round up everyone who did an NPR Tiny Desk concert and send them all to Gitmo.

Propaganda doesn’t work because you’re stupid. It works because you’re too lazy to question your side.

Oh no people are treating this schizo murder as entertainment rather than as a basis for transformative politics, boo hoo, that’s terrible.

They don’t need to censor you if they can guilt you, shame you, and gaslight you into policing your own thoughts.

If you're a young person with enough stability/security in your life to have access to a computer and time, you have absolutely *zero* excuse for not using all of these tools that are being created for you, to create the future. This is your responsibility! With just the power of

Libs of TikTok She shouldn't be allowed any more plastic surgery

STOP: Watching the news. START: Visiting museums. Watching great films. Reading classic novels. Playing your favorite albums. Those who are stuck in the news cycle dishearten themselves and enrich the machine. Those who savor the arts enlighten themselves and enrich society.

One of the most invaluable lessons for a screenwriter.

There’s still good movies and tv made here and there. Enough to keep me occupied when I’m in the mood. But the immense amount of garbage you have to wade through on streaming platforms in order to find it is a real drag.

Most cults are online now. We have been blindsided by the capacities social media presents for creating and running cults.

The most honest and telling jargon Dems use is ‘our democracy’: it signifies their consensus on the need for managed democracy, that they are the ones to manage it, and that they see themselves as the rightful government in exile.

Make no mistake, if you are conducting your phone calls on speaker phone in public, everyone around you is wishing you ill.

This is encouraged in the free state of Florida.

I continually find that asking myself just two questions helps me figure out what I'm missing: - Could it be more complicated than I think? - Could it be simpler than I think? It's always one or the other.

Clear communication will not yield mutual understanding with people who aren't interested in mutuality. My decades-long mistake was in projecting my own sincerity onto others, believing the problems I encountered were solvable miscommunications rather than misaligned values.

This is quite the jingle

The CEO of Cracker Barrel just posted this to her Instagram stories and then quickly took it down.