brain dump

we need to have a conversation about how the "everyone is 12" theory of politics now doesn't only apply to conservative men who want to kick the bad guys' asses and then go home and eat a steak their bangmommy made just for them (NO VEGGIES!!!) but also to adult women who are literally afraid of other people having sex and being sexy. it's like there's been this massive regression among women in their 20s where we've gotten rid of feminism and replaced it with a new form of purity politics that requires never saying anything bad about another women unless you find a new and creative way to call her a whore. the misuse of "she caters to the male gaze" as a new form of enlightened slut shaming, labeling any woman who wears a short skirt or has sex with a man as "not a girls' girl" and "a pick me," the intense overreaction to celebrity affairs or even just shit like the summer house mess where a woman is now dating another woman's ex even though there was no overlap and the "relationship" was just kind of a situationship that fizzled but now these little girls are online demanding both people involved in the new relationship lose their jobs and not get any brand deals, the panic over mildly sexual content in literally any capacity like ads or an instagram post in a crop top, the compulsion to link everything back to the epstein files, the monthly meltdown over sex scenes on tv and in movies. everyone is 12 and AFRAID of sabrina carpenter.

It's ridiculous to treat ambition and success as a zero-sum game, as if girls can't possibly succeed unless boys are forcefully subdued.

IE: They wasted money they didn't need to over moral panic. And it ended up being a massive fucking virtue signal. IMAGINE MY SHOCK >.>

"centrism" is simply not a respectable position. Base your politics on an analysis of concrete reality rather than triangulating between left and right.

i mean of course "centrism" is mostly just an ideological veil worn by people who for some reason of cultural legitimacy don't want to admit that they actually have a right-wing politics

communists cannot understand that other people think they are wrong or that they might adopt positions based on what they think is correct or incorrect

ambitious indie project this, surprise box-office hit that, iron lung (production budget: $3mil) is the 'someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this, my family is dying' tweet.

I love reading about pre-20th century married couples who loved and enjoyed each other's company because it definitively dispells the obvious myth that absolutely no married couple in the entire history of humanity ever genuinely loved each other, that every married woman was miserable and battered and that every married man was an abusive control freak.