James Lindsay, anti-Communist Can't wait for Gluttony Month, Sloth Month, Greed Month, Envy Month, Lust Month, and specially Wrath Month.

Tara Ann Thieke It is precisely my recognition of distance between myself & all my favorite characters--male & female, old & young, of every era & condition--that makes reading them a valuable activity. Taking that away destroys the worth of literature.

RetroGames HQ @beepbopbrandon “Bad” Billy Pratt Which is not something I resent them for and is actually something I enjoy 90% of the time but it is still hard. It's just a hard thing, that's it. Women are allowed to say some parts of being a mom are hard

Whenever there’s a big new broadside against liberalism, you’ll see a “this is a meaninglessly broad term for what was really a disparate set of thinkers spread over centuries” lines of rebuttal. Okay — what doesn’t exist isn’t worth attacking. But it isn’t worth saving either.

The economy is fine, the earth isn’t dying, people work less than ever, and there are like eight nazis in the entire country. On the other hand people get taken in by lies like this post that they read on their phones, so yeah, maybe it is the phones.

BoiltOwl The lack of humility is amazing, looking at something that's stood for 300+ years and saying "well, that's got to be torn down."

Caspar Salmon Katy Montgomerie 🦗 Let Women Speak, No, Not Those Women, Only Women I Agree With

"73% of PLACE NYC endorsed candidates won seats and will make up 40% of all elected council seats" isn't because MAGA-fever has taken over deep blue NYC - it's a rebuttal against the alarming trend to lower the academic bar from the far-left. nypost.com/2023/06/18/par…

Here's an example of what I call "hermeneutical tribes". A news event takes place & information workers sort through a massive constellation of cold, dead data points. They select, omit, & arrange these facts relative to an interpretive schema - a hermeneutic. 1/6

The NPR mind depends entirely upon “things that seem one way but are really the other way” which is a seductive trap because it makes you feel intelligent by giving you the lofty sensation of self-overcoming

Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 Language is fluid and ever-changing, words are not fixed in aspic, they can mean what people want them to mean. Also: words mean only one narrowly prescriptive thing and cannot be used in any other context at all because racism. I can't keep up!

Yes. The radicalizing aspect of this isn’t that it happens (always has), but that in the last 5 years (when the activist left went libertarian), people started being told they’re bad/conservative if they believe society has even basic norms that should be respected or enforced.

North Landesman Arguably the books in school libraries are far more diverse now than in the past yet less kids than ever are reading. I don't think a lack of LGBTQIA+ content in school libraries explains why elementary school students can't read and don't want to read in their spare time!

You know who could pay off student loans, any time they wanted? The colleges themselves. My own U-Illinois is no Harvard (financially), but has a solid endowment of about $4,000,000,000. We could literally pay off our $14k average undergrad debt for the last 285,714 graduates.

you will never catch me saying someone I hate is bad at something they're good at. I just read a poem by a mfer I can't stand (not that one) & i had to be like "okay... work." a true hater does not hate falsely. that's the true hater first commandment

Gonna tell my kids this was Waiting for Godot.

Schools can NOT eradicate, poverty, cure addiction, or mend broken families. They CAN create calm, orderly environments in which content-rich curriculum is taught and learned well. If those things are done, individuals will be better equipped to tackle the other issues as adults.