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Capitalism Is Coming For Your Kids

Capitalism Is Coming For Your Kids

There’s an accelerational aspect to capitalism that – quite conveniently for capital – is invisible to people living within the system. It is as felt by the subjects of capital as it is unseen. It is destructive, yet unopposed. The acceleration is not toward the future, not toward something better and

Elon Musk Is Running Interference For The Worst People In The World

Elon Musk Is Running Interference For The Worst People In The World

Among the most darkly interesting parts of the Twitter experience during the Trump era – which I'll define as 2015 until the Big Boy is but a ghost haunting Mar-a-Lago – has been watching people become red pilled in real time. Otherwise normal folks with whom you've interacted

We Must Not Fall For the Bad Faith of RFK, Jr.

We Must Not Fall For the Bad Faith of RFK, Jr.

I have what you might call an earnestness detector: I can and always have been able to tell when someone is saying what they mean, dealing in unsullied good faith, and when someone is crafting narratives with a foundation of bad faith, arguments they do not mean but must deploy

The Overactive Conservative Imagination Is Killing Us

The Overactive Conservative Imagination Is Killing Us

In my youth, I was a libertarian – sort of. Not a full-blown “public roads are tyranny” libertarian, but I had a strong presumption that government action was bad unless proven otherwise. One of the things that persuaded me in that direction was Penn and Teller’s show, Bullshit. It was

Bernie’s Gleaming Good Faith Exposes the Right’s Wretched Bad Faith

Bernie’s Gleaming Good Faith Exposes the Right’s Wretched Bad Faith

In a political landscape ruled by good faith, Bernie Sanders’ almost adorably earnest political messaging would draw MAGA freaks to him like a tractor beam. Sanders, after running the two most important presidential campaigns in American history, is still the only major political figure (politely) raging against our brutal, soulless

Capital's Footsoldiers Will Do Anything To Fuck Over The Poor

Capital's Footsoldiers Will Do Anything To Fuck Over The Poor

House Republicans, in their bad-faith attempt to pretend they give a shit about the nation’s debt, are once again pushing the nation to the brink of financial catastrophe. Forgetting how badly this blew up in their faces during the Obama years, Republicans are refusing to raise the country'

Yes, It Is Virtue Signaling

Yes, It Is Virtue Signaling

My belief that schoolchildren should not be mowed down by automatic weapon-wielding madmen is unshakeable, unwavering. Many describe my long-held stance against mass murder in U.S. schools as "resolute." I have never once considered I could be wrong on this issue, or that I need to stop