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The 2nd amendment is not for hunting, it is not for self protection
It is there to ensure that free people can defend themselves if god forbid government became tyrannical and turned against its citizens
Not a good idea to watch that movie Anniversary this week. Its poster was deceptive! I thought I was in for, like, Stilted Nora Ephron. Instead I got Black Mirror ABC News. Save yourselves! Avoid!
"Man on Fire" is the most underrated @blackmirror episode; war is an ancient technology of dehumanization which keeps installing updates. We're living through an epic reboot.
On an accidental bender of rageful wife novels--Vladimir, by Julia May Jonas; Liars, by Sarah Manguso; Listen to Me, by Hannah Pittard. What's next? Accepting angry recommendations.
Wonder if there’s an emoji-laden Signal thread about who Trump should shoot in the middle of 5th Avenue
I think a lot about the Minnesota starvation experiment and how one of the participants spoke with crushing shame about how the caloric restriction made him resort to the humiliating, barbaric behavior of licking his plate after meals. Like, how did he come to this?
This video posted on 11/7/24; it’s kind of quaint how tame everyone’s “worst case scenario” projections are. The clip buttons with @mashagessen saying they have a great fear of all these bad things happening in the next 4 years. Try, the next 4 weeks.
nytimes.com/video/opinion/10…
We are in a period of massive disillusion and an apparent attempt to walk back the enlightenment. Maybe this is the Disinlightenment?
This is actually a deeply scary take? Like the recent exec order that mandates that 18 year olds be treated as children (they are not), this assumes a strange lack of agency or critical faculty for adults, and seeks to mandate the kinds of stories we are allowed. (#propaganda)
In a time of deep cultural divisions, I think human conversation—where people actually talk and listen to one another—becomes a release and almost a moral statement about society as it really is as opposed to how it’s presenting itself.
libertiesjournal.com/online-…
My cat just walked across my keyboard and elected to delete 1740 emails in my inbox, and while the undo function is available what if I just...don't