Got me blocked on this post:

Which I have to say is one of the funniest reasons I've ever been blocked by someone for. I think it might even be the funniest because imagine simping for judges or politicians that hard. Like I get it if you're still under the misconception that they're people, and you think the deaths of people is objectively immoral, but even so I don't see how that warrants an immediate block. 😂😂😂

ah yes With No Small Amount of Chagrin, my old backup band.

holy shit your last ranges were:

Biden 0-1Warren 0-1Sanders 99-100

#never knew about the mexican repatriations jfc

Kevin Starr:

Despite the overwhelmingly American nature of this [Mexican American] community, however, millions of Mexican immigrants, including their American-born children, were forcibly repatriated to Mexico during the early 1930s by the federal government in a program that can only be described as ethnic cleansing. The spectacle of thousands of Mexican people being assembled at local stations with their luggage and hastily wrapped belongings prior to being stuffed into crowded trains for shipment back to Mexico would prompt chilling comparisons with the even more ominous deportations of Europe soon to begin, and it foreshadowed the removal from the Pacific Coast in early 1942 of all people of Japanese ancestry, citizen and noncitizen alike.

I hadn’t known about this before I read Kevin Starr’s book. I don’t know why we don’t talk about it.

The Mexican Repatriation was a mass deportation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans from the United States between 1929 and 1936. Estimates of how many were repatriated range from 400,000 to 2,000,000. An estimated sixty percent of those deported were birthright citizens of the United States. Because the forced movement was based on race, and ignored citizenship, the process arguably meets modern legal definitions of ethnic cleansing.

Anarcho-primitivism is just anti-vax for Me, An Intellectual types; it's the shortsighted privilege of those currently reaping the greatest fruits of industrial civilization to idealize their absence, while the perspective of those who actually suffer for want of food and medicine are ignored. It's pretty goofy, all things considered.

catastrophizing when people criticize you is (intentionally or not) one of those shitty manipulative tactics people use to avoid getting criticized, and sometimes I wonder if the best way to make them deal with criticism isn't just to let them. although if they were gonna take it out on me, i'd probably keep my mouth shut just to avoid the hassle.

transitude