Hegelian Princess (@julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social)
But police violence, and Trump’s daily assaults on the presidential competence standard, are only part of the disaster. On the other side of the political aisle, among self-described liberals, we’re watching an intellectual revolution. It feels liberating to say after years of tiptoeing around the fact, but the American left has lost its mind. It’s... See more
Matt Taibbi • The American Press Is Destroying Itself - Reporting by Matt Taibbi
The memo spoke of threat, but its theme was inevitability. People around L.A. often spoke of homelessness like it was preordained that one of the richest kingdoms in the wealthiest nation in human history would also lack the will to keep its citizenry safe—a hypothesis that felt like fact, even common sense, and consequently enabled people to talk
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To avoid abusive power means deciding that the power of these men isn’t something we want,[4] isn’t something that can make our lives better, or more just, or more sustainable. And when I work for them, I am participating, exploiting those further down the ladder.
Cameron Russell • How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: A Memoir
weeps, cringes, shakes. It’s wrong, simply wrong, what’s going
Jason Sugg • Occupy Psyche: Jungian and Archetypal Perspectives on a Movement
“Putting it crudely, we really went to town,” Beightler reported. “To me, the loss of a single American life to save a building was unthinkable.” That’s a sentence worth reading twice. In Beightler’s mind, he was facing a trade-off—and not a particularly difficult one—between lives and architecture. But, as he well knew, those buildings were inhabi
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