Politics

When one side declares war, the war has started. Your refusal to fight back doesn't mean there's no war, it just means you're going to get fucking destroyed.

Americans feel poor despite being orders of magnitude richer than most others because our gov. cannot provide cheaper public options to costly private goods.

At the risk of making twitter really mad, I think “no ethical consumption under capitalism” means stuff like no matter how you get your produce, someone in the supply chain was exploited not like “fuck it - $500 SHEIN hauls”.

In any cause the undecided are who you have to convince. So if you actually care about the cause, you can't afford the luxury of despising them, regardless of how good it might make you feel.

yearly reminder everything looks exponential from the middle of a sigmoid

Suburbia is great for overbearing parents, not kids.

what’s become clear is that a large number of people faced with the trolley problem would just get mad about the fact that you’re asking them to pull the lever