Maybe It's Just Because I've Been Having These Conversations For Too Long But Sometimes Watching A Youtube

maybe it's just because I've been having these conversations for too long but sometimes watching a youtube video essayist analyse something is kind of like watching a third-grader run through their times tables. it's like... yes, very good, that's all true! so... what now...

Saul Steinberg, Country Noises.

The intense criminalization of physical confrontation is a significant factor in what has caused gun violence, particularly among young people. People need to be beating eachother's asses more. Genuinely.

Being a 'leftist' is funny because you go from a smol bean who lives in fear of making ontological statements about large swathes of people, to calling Germans wood-land beasts with Hitler particles lodged deep in their souls that yearn for genocide

Since sociological/psychological research is mostly fraudulent and, to the extent that it's not, is falsified post-facto by selective publication and reporting, commiting to making social policy on the basis of "science" just means submitting to the arbitrary preferences of the class of professionals who conduct and report on this research. If you think they'll always be on your side, then great. But when the day comes that this class of people happens not to take your side on something, you'll be sorry that you grounded your politics in a false scientism rather than on a set of interests and principles not subject to this kind of arbitrary manipulation.