When you have a strong attraction and even a thing for someone who turns out to be of mediocre intelligence, it is worse than an ick.

Charles Baudelaire

Rainer Maria Rilke

oh so you don’t WANT to go to the gulag? Maybe you should you thought about that before deciding to lack basic empathy??

Cowardice is such a pervasive and vile vice. It is without a doubt the worse vice of all. And it alienates me from society, I feel so lonely in the midst of the timid. I understand it for those who are traumatized into it, but it’s everywhere. C’mon, man.

Sophistication and class have been used for centuries when it comes to marketing alcohol and now that the younger generation doesn’t care about sophistication and class, marketers think the issue is the alcohol and are using the same marketing for non-alcoholic alternatives.

They always want to automate production. But what about consumption? When can consumers get a rest?

I don’t really give a damn about “antisemitism on the left” anymore than “misandry on the left” but I vehemently oppose Islamophobia on the left.

I think I have more in common with them than civilization as I find it. I feel like I am a different species than those around me and then suddenly, there: my species. The spark dying in my heart still lives somewhere.

A while back a lovely woman I was talking with on tinder gave me her number but decided she wasn’t interested in me when I texted her this and said I couldn’t stop laughing. youtu.be/eqWgu-EtvHU

Does anyone familiar with NYC politics have a suggestion for who should replace Tisch? I think lobbying for a particular appointment might be the best way to get her out

Women being butt naked, or covering literally every inch of their bodies, can both be done out of patriarchal norm. So eliminating patriarchal norms is not and never will be done by legislation over how much skin women can or cannot show.

Something I have noticed is that White Supremacist discourse is identical to Zionist discourse, just replace White with Jewish.

most liked tweet is just basic heckin empathy

“You don’t even need to be happy, AI has automated happiness!”

Twitter, including leftist twitter, is very Manichean in their opinions on figures living and dead. Perhaps that has to do with the sort of minds that frequent this app and say the most on it

We already have open-borders and anarchism. We already have communism. But the benefits and rights of those are reserved for the ruling class.

Conservatives would give AI rights sooner than trans people. Symptomatic of capitalism: capital is entitled to more rights than humans are.

A woman said years ago that rape scenes in films always emphasize the rapist’s perspective rather than the victim’s, *even* when the victim is a central character. And that such scenes would be way less common if the camera focused on the rapist’s face. I still think about that