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@feelsdesperate

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Superfluous elite, center-right Foucault curious, anti Med Twitter, expansive liberatory agenda, overbroad definition of fascist

Okay, Oklahoma
Joined August 2017
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@feelsdesperate
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You can’t overstate how tedious and stupid the past decade has been.
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People are dunking on this but… If you live in even a modest home in an upper middle class neighborhood with high property taxes in a high tax state and make reasonable contributions to a 401k most of your money is gone.
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JUST IN: More than a third of Americans earning at least $250,000 annually say they are living paycheck to paycheck, per Bloomberg.
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This was a memetic blood libel that was repeated endlessly in academic medicine. They said that black babies cared for by white doctors in the NICU were more likely to die. However, the real story was that white doctors were caring for sicker babies: when you controlled…
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Third thing: (A) Black babies with high birthweights disproportionately go to Black doctors; (B) The Black babies sent to White doctors disproportionately have very low birthweights.
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@feelsdesperate
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2019: ‘Racist!’ 2020: ‘Racist! Grandma killer!’ 2021: ‘Racist! Grandma killer! Transphobe!’ 2022: ‘Truce plz’
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I really don’t understand what the experiment is that’s being run in the UK. In the US there’s been too much immigration via open borders, but Hispanics are culturally compatible and are absorbed quickly into the working class. And the US scrapes elites across the globe…
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This one was so good. Have to poast again.
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Kamala might just be successful and usher in a new regime of retarded, vibes-based politics where politicians are memetic spectacles, have no platform, make no promises, hold no opinions, but are explicitly aligned with (and captured by) this or that set of powerful interests who
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I know, right?
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"She wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens who are in prison" is the WILDEST thing I've ever heard in any debate. EVER.
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@feelsdesperate
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All of a sudden I’m seeing Matt Taibbi’s tweets. Wasn’t seeing them at all for a long time. Anyone else notice this?
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We in the press were sent off on a wild goose chase for a year because the Clinton campaign hid its funding of the Steele dossier. Far more serious offense, and admitted, but I don’t see any of you calling for jail time.
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…a ‘member of the Party’ and thus deserving of special privileges and immunity from the predictable consequences of their politics. If that doesn’t end up happening and they’re fed into the grinder like everyone else it’s a huge shock and they’re outraged and bereft.
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As an undergrad I took a ‘race, class, and gender’ history seminar led by a white Ivy-PhD postdoc who would give me a dirty look on the rare occasion I’d venture a milquetoast centrist opinion. I went to her office hours at the end of the semester to pick something…
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I love that Walz sent a grandmother to jail for opening a Minnesota coffee shop in DECEMBER of 2020 but allowed an entire police precinct to be burned down in May 2020 for the George Floyd festivities. If you want a case study of anarcho tyranny you can’t do better than that.
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‘Urinal cakes are cakes! Urinal cakes are cakes! Urinal cakes are cakes! Urinal cakes are cakes! Urinal cakes are cakes! Urinal cakes are cakes! Urinal cakes are cakes! Urinal cakes are cakes! It says it in the name! 👆🏻’
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@feelsdesperate The answer is contained in the question, if trans women weren't women they wouldn't be trans women. it's like asking whether blue cars are cars, or whether tabby cats are cats. Don't waste my time with tautologies.
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@feelsdesperate
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I dunno maybe I’m old but funeral selfies seem weird.
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@Theo_TJ_Jordan
Theo Jordan
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AOC is preening at Jordan Neely's funeral??? What a fucking joke. 🎬🍿😵‍💫 The Party of Arrested Development doing what it does!
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@MonicaHesse The times I knew it someone was having their period in high school was zero.
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@feelsdesperate
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Spanish food, Italian food, and French food are all ‘white people food’ and they are 3 of the 4 best cuisines in the world.
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The old "wypipo don't season they food" bit. These people hate us, Tim included.
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One of my favorite COVID moments was when Nancy Pelosi had a journo in her home and she opened her $24k refrigerator and it was stocked with fancy ice cream. Nancy is a WINNER. She doesn’t cry, she’s not mentally ill, she doesn’t do fake empathy, she doesn’t care about you.
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…up and asked her what she was doing next year. She remarked bitterly that she didn’t know and that, ‘they only want to hire people who are black,’ for the tenure track jobs. As best I can tell this sort of person imagines themselves to be…
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Wow I’m so shocked that a populist rebuke caused the merging of the two nearly identical establishment parties that agreed completely on globalizing the economy, the need for copious illegal immigration, and the virtues of neocon warmongering. Who could have predicted this??
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We live in extraordinary times. There’s no longer a formal process by which the public indicates consent to be governed. There’s no discussion of policy. Instead, political legitimacy is now derived from an authoritarian and moronic memetic spectacle? …
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The presumptive Democratic nominee.
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…appropriately for birth weight (a critical factor in neonatal outcomes) the effect of physician race went away. This was a huge methodological shortcoming and the paper never should have been published in PNAS, a prestigious research journal.
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…for our professional and business classes. The UK is economically stagnant and they’re importing a large, culturally incompatible, less economically productive immigrant population? Do the British elites spend all their time in London enjoying the amenities of a global…
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The idea of Trump being unable to repress his voracious sexual impulses (while shopping!!) and raping a 50-something woman in a department store changing room is a hilarious lib fever dream. OTOH a toxic middle aged entertainment lawyer knocking up the nanny and then…
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I grew up in an affluent suburb with a lot of successful professional women and they seemed uniformly indifferent to politics. They were focused on families and careers, and it was implicit that ideological excitement was for people who needed to compensate for less full lives.
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The libs have informed me that I am completely wrong about this. Teenage girls will tell teenage boys they like they are having a period and you can absolutely become a hero by carrying tampons around.
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I love that mentally ill leftists decided that it was a good idea to dress up in keffiyehs, do intifada kabuki, and run around screaming at affluent Jews in NY and LA. Having terrorized their donors, I am very excited to watch all sorts…
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It’s great that, in honor of a guy who would harass and inconvenience normal people on their way to work, protesters are inconveniencing normal people on their way to work.
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I’m unable to come up with a theory of mind for how a rational person would see this as ‘progress’ rather than the dystopian authoritarian madness it clearly is.
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Enoch Burke
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BREAKING: Teacher Enoch Burke arrested at Wilson’s Hospital School after refusing to endorse and affirm transgender ideology. Judge Barry O’Donnell, who made almost €400,000 from 2016-2018 representing TUSLA as a barrister, ordered his arrest. TUSLA is the Irish State ‘Child
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It’s hard to make sense of what happened to Kamala Harris. This is someone who has had a long, high profile career in public life and in middle age she’s all of a sudden not able to anticipate and give clear canned answers to 12 or 15 predictable question topics?
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…finance capitol and just not care what’s happening outside that bubble? Genuinely curious as to what the political class’s legitimizing narrative is.
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Why are libs crying about this? Kamala was the highest profile DEI hire in the history of DEI.
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The hats were weird. In retrospect it was an early sign that people weren’t well.
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It’s crazy when billionaires on here are like ‘You’re never going to believe what I found out!’ and it’s something you knew 5 years ago.
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I am sitting next to a top scientist who is a professor at @UCSF . She is explaining how higher education is failing us. Among other things, she just told me that the words ‘excellence’ and ‘resilience’ are no longer permissible speech at UCSF because they are ableist and
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@NathanJRobinson Meaningless rhetorical dodge - you’re the one engaging in a tautology to avoid the question. A urinal cake is a type of cake but you wouldn’t eat it (or I dunno maybe you would if the ideological incentives were significant enough).
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Ok how did that go?
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The Ivies are in chaos. The Jewish donors don’t like the midwit 3rd world leftists and the midwit 3rd world leftists hate Israel. The university admins can’t extricate themselves because they’ve set a precedent the last decade of always being on *the right side.* Lmaoooooooooo
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The best way to make a living is extracting money from the federal government, way better than the professions which reliably get their pound of flesh. If you don’t believe me drive northwest from DC through endless neighborhoods of $2-$6 million homes. What do these people
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The DEI takeover is an interesting form of radicalism in that the transformational vision was explicitly to be effectuated by something akin to a late Soviet repressive bureaucracy. No gulag, but step out of line + maybe you lose your job, your apartment, + you’re unpersoned. ..
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‘It’s a minor nuisance when you get your car stolen and you shouldn’t own one anyway.’
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The current sci fi female action heroes are forced, inauthentic, forgettable, and lack charisma. It’s very odd because growing up it seemed like Hollywood had this solved (e.g. Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hamilton). Of course they blame the ‘fanbase’ for their artistic failures.
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Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has said women in Star Wars, such as The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland, struggle due to a male dominated fanbase.
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It’s really amazing how quickly American intellectual and cultural life became Sovietized. They were extraordinarily successful in creating paranoia: implicit bias, micro aggressions, invisible racism, strange new definitions of what was acceptable language that emanated weekly
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I’m fascinated by the Kamala campaign aesthetic, the slightly hallucinatory, uncanny valley unreality of it. This image is basically an AI-generated SSRI ad for libs.
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I thought it was weird that Joe Biden had some sort of significant, unreported on medical event that required him to be shuttled back to Delaware emergently and then wasn’t heard from directly for several days during which time he abdicated his reelection campaign via Twitter to
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Congratulations Banana Republic on making it through peak wokeness without having to change your brand name.
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That the government plunked down 20k Haitians in a small Ohio town is far crazier than anyone eating cats or ducks.
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The first time I was exposed to *the Science* (ie credentialed midwit overconfidence) was when I was in med school and they assured me that long acting opioids (OxyContin) had low addictive potential.
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She’s not up for this. She’s going to be an unaccountable hood ornament for the administrative state - that’s why she’s being foisted upon us. Her being in charge is not believable so if something goes wrong we won’t know who to blame.
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Kamala: "For example, thinking about developing and creating an opportunity economy where it's about investing in areas that really need a lot of work and maybe focusing on again the aspirations and the dreams but also just recognizing that at this moment in time some of this
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Daily reminder that ‘indigenous’ just means penultimate conquerer.
@aziz0nomics
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I feel like shedding some followers. Palestinians are indigenous to Palestine.
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It’s funny how many online libs are spiritual 8th graders. So many replies are like: ‘Oh yeah?! I bet girls don’t like you!’ Or: ‘You just don’t know because everyone thinks you’re gross and you’re not part of the in group!’
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Lol libs lost their minds when Trump was elected in 2016. What’s being implied here is that libs have to be given exactly what they want all the time or else their disruptive hysteria will persist. Placating the loudest and most mentally ill people is not a reasonable ask.
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Remember the time when you could go to Thanksgiving with your relatives and not complain about politics the whole time? This election is a chance to bring up the joy and look to the future.
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Ibram Kendi is The First Black Intellectual. This combination of mediocrity and malignant narcissism is what defines our era.
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Because I’ve spent almost three decades in the institutions, I know what a ‘JD Vance’ is: his type is smart, industrious, eager to show he ‘belongs,’ generally appreciative of the opportunity, but slightly uncomfortable and awkward as a result of being under socialized, and…
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Conservatives need more Bari Weisses. In my wife’s demographic there’s been no one more effective in communicating to educated women and moving them rightward.
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Steve McGuire
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How well are @bariweiss and @TheFP doing? This well:
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For many of us Ibram Kendi was a very consequential intellectual figure. His ascent was one of maybe 6 or 8 key events that were dispositive in proving the stupidity and derangement of our intellectual and culture elite.
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I was a normie Obama lib until 3 things happened that broke my brain: 1) Russia collusion hysteria, 2) elite public health/ gov't response to COVID, and 3) ideological takeover of my academic specialty
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What libs didn’t understand was that a lot of people were against racism not because they thought it made them Good People, but because they didn’t want a social and cultural life dominated by endless, tedious identity narcissism. Once libs demanded that identity parades and
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To me, Tim Walz is something out of a nightmare: an authoritarian leftist True Believer whose peppy, Midwestern, deconditioned mid aged persona recalls John Wayne Gacy’s clown suit. Is Walz a real sort of person? Or is he a strange and unique mutant concocted in the DNC lab?
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@Sulliview lol WaPo is imploding and functionally a Bezos charity at this point and all you can do is bang your AWFL gong?
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Elon Musk is an ‘eccentric billionaire.’ Meanwhile normal billionaires in Illinois:
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@chicagotribune
Chicago Tribune
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Commentary: Elon Musk, the eccentric, far-right billionaire behind X, SpaceX and Tesla is testing the world’s willingness to regulate the ultrarich. Billionaires, with money to burn, can make great friends and difficult enemies.
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@matthewstoller Engagement bait. You can’t be this clueless about economic policy.
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Ah so all the libs are unhappy with the tone the debate over immigration has taken? Where were all these people when we were doing a 2-minute-hate, race hoax every other day from 2018 to 2023? When we were forced to attend racialist class guilt assignation sessions at work?
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Will we ever be rid of the Obamas? Barack is a tedious narcissist with zero intellectual curiosity who couldn’t wait to move to a luxury island and Michelle is a bitter, bitter person who remains resentful despite everything good that has happened to her.
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The role of the press has changed tremendously. They don’t vet and scrutinize presidential candidates. Kamala doesn’t even talk to the press publicly. The role of the press now is to cheerlead and to be part of the campaign.
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Jesse Singal: ‘In 2024 does it make me a Republican that I think if you’re doing fentanyl on the train you should be arrested and maybe be coerced into treatment?’ Lol, yes Jesse, yes it does.
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A lot of lib political energy is just laundered disappointment with family, relationships, and career. There aren’t any real political interests and so there can’t be any real political solution.
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Tim Walz is the dad an entire generation wish they had instead of the one they lost to Fox News.
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All lib cultural programming is meant to discourage you. Women are encouraged to do demanding professional work 50+ hours a week and have children and then are scolded as ‘privileged’ for needing childcare. Anything you do to make your life work well is a crime to them.
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Inside this week’s issue of The New Yorker:
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The right is all doom and gloom but count the victories: Legacy journalism and Hollywood are imploding. Assistant professors and the PhD class are a laughingstock. Previously unassailable institutions from the CDC to Harvard have been brought low. These are all giant wins!
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