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I would be happy to pay higher taxes for a more generous welfare state *if* I had a guarantee that the government is not going to use federal funding to discriminate against people who share my values

This is so creepy and disturbing. We should stop giving abusive monsters positions of power and influence.

a) the claim might not be true b) now suddenly computer science and Mandarin are for girls? c) if you getting “left behind” leads you to vote for the party that wants to abolish the welfare state then clearly the masculine paradise you want has winners and losers so git gud lol

it may be true if you subscribe to the elite-bubble gentleman’s agreement whereby claims about the supernatural and the afterlife are a separate magisterium, not relevant to real-world politics, where you can endorse people’s views without it signaling any commitments beyond “I’m one of you”

a further data point confirming that: -Boston has a “people being jerks on Scruff when you don’t answer them fast enough” problem that other places do not have -100% of the people who have done this to me are white twunks over 40

i think when it comes down to it, I don’t trust anyone other than myself to write a “the Purge but for sex”movie, and I wouldn’t want to write one anyway

ok I guess I have five days to learn everything there is to know about sports and also film (this is about Learned League)

prestige magazines just don’t want you to be happy. I made this meme about it a while back

trade is a social issue (read: Gender) and the illiberal left (who are actually centrists) are a purely elite phenomenon with no popular support

a sign of aging, but a very weird one: hearing a song playing ambiently and recognizing it exclusively from a podcaster’s impression of it, which was part of a clip compilation you’ve listened to on YouTube more than is healthy

it’s such a blessing to be able to travel alone and make decisions about your own comfort and how you manage challenges without having to also manage other people’s feelings about it

I will say the piece itself is not as bad as the headline, but if you want to argue for aesthetic restrictions, you should make more of a case that they don’t cost much than Arieff bothers to do here.

S.F. is rushing to build new housing, but we shouldn’t settle for mediocre designOPINION: If City Hall wants its residents to get behind the “Family Zoning” plan, it needs to work a lot harder to build architecture that is well-designed, columnist Allison Arieff writes.www.sfchronicle.com

in 1790 saying what Mizelle is saying here would have gotten you accused of popery and prompted a nationwide freakout over whether Rome was pulling the strings of the United States government