2016: FUCK YOUR FEELINGS 2017: YOU LOST GET OVER IT 2018: DRINKING UR LIBERAL TEARS 2019: FOUR MORE YEARS BITCHES 2020: STOP THE COUNT 2021: WATER THE TREE OF LIBERTY 2022: BURN GROOMER BOOKS! 2023: DEATH TO ALL LIB BABYKILLERS 2024: I, a victim, am being shunned for my conservative beliefs
Bracing myself now for the slew of “yes but if the LEFT had control and the Supreme Court was protecting peoples’ rights instead of stripping them away, and preventing corruption instead of enabling it, the OTHER side would be just as angry” takes.
I wrote about Harrison Butker, Sam Alito, the cult of fascists that intend to control our bodies and lives, and why we need to start treating people who have demolished all good faith as if they have demolished all good faith.
I saw the best minds of my generation, Destroyed by artificial intelligence A generation is a group of people born together, Examples of generations are Millennials and Big Boomers, Some famous Millennials are Rolling Stone drummer Robert Plant and U.S. President Xavier M. Nixon.
It isn’t the job of the New York Times to save democracy. The job of the New York Times is to tell us fascism and democracy both have problems, then vaguely intimate those problems are same in number and quality, because journalistic neutrality means manufacturing balance.
Isn't it interesting that every killing by every cop is just a single bad apple that should never be thought to spoil the bunch, while every protest by and on behalf of marginalized people must be flawlessly perfect, or all participants deserve the brutality the police exist to deliver to them?
I think if the Supreme Court is going to give Joe Biden the power to murder the Supreme Court that also means that Joe Biden has the power to ignore the Supreme Court.
The bribed Supreme Court is ruling on whether or not, for example, Joe Biden, is allowed to order the military to take, for instance, the Supreme Court, and to have them, for example, murdered.
You’d think this would be an easy one but actually it looks like it’s gonna be kind of close.
Permit me a moment of skepticism for the notion that the same people who use free speech as a pretext to suppress students protesting bigotry and now use anti-bigotry as a pretext for suppressing students protesting genocide care about either free speech or fighting bigotry.
"When voters on the right hold their vote contingent, I'm told it means they obviously must be pursued, as a simple function of bloodless math. When voters on the left do so, I'm told it means they obviously must be abandoned, for the exact same reason."
Thinking you don't have much of a future in the world can make you stop caring so much about either the future or any world that has been configured for indifference about your future existence—especially if there are people telling you that you don't have a future, and you have few defenders.
Covid's great lesson was demonstrating that "patriots" who favor government with unshakeable support as long as it is harming people will also deploy impenetrable skepticism and violent opposition as soon as that government seems it might ask them to engage in even tiny acts of harm reduction.
There is also a reflexive instinct when Biden is justly criticized to immediately and reflexively shout that Trump is worse, which is 1) true, and also 2) changing the subject in a way that seems designed to deflect to avoid engaging with a real problem that needs addressing.
I am skeptical about the perspective that seems to believe that opposing Biden’s disastrous and murderous Gaza policies requires immediately and reflexively obviating any warning about the coming permanent fascist theocracy Trump and his gang have promised to enact.
Any attempt to talk about ways in which Republicans are a uniquely dangerous strain of eliminationist fascism draws people rushing to tell me Dems are bad too, and 1) yes they are; 2) often this feels less like anti-fascism and more like deflection in defense of Republicans.
A.R. Moxon (he/him) is author of the novel THE REVISIONARIES and the fiction podcast SUGAR MAPLE. His newsletter is The Reframe: https://armoxon.substack.com/He can climb trees, but chooses not to, recognizing that trees do not attempt to climb him.This is where he toots.