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+ Policy 360 explainers (either in a podcast episode or an article): Dismantling Department of Education, Dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, etc.
+ How Covid Changed Everything from Know Your Enemy. Tries to take an honest look at what Covid did to us. (I specifically asked them to share this one with the main feed, and since others did too, they listened!)
+ Republic Makeup. This ended up being way more interesting than I thought it would be and I wish it was longer. Fascism, anti-trans-ness, privilege, performance of wealth, artificiality, aspirations to godhood, the most annoying song I've ever heard in my life...I could read a whole book about this.
+ The FBI stole a money launderer's identity and ran his business for a year. Nobody is out here doing reporting like 404 Media.
+ This AI Calls Your Elderly Parents If You Can't Be Bothered. I hate this world!!!!! The way we're trying to outsource every single thing that makes us human and gives life meaning to technology!!!! All so we can, what, be more productive little capitalists???
+ The 'She Made Him Do It' Theory of Everything. I love Rebecca Solnit.
+ What Exactly Does Trump Think Is in the Smithsonian? This is a WaPo link, but it's so good--I was so moved. You should be able to access this even if you don't have a subscription (which I do not).
+ My Strange Weekend with the Pronatalists.
+ Are People Bad at Their Jobs or Are The Jobs Just Bad?
+ Mis-perceptions of parity in m/f relationships. Yikes.
+ DOGE Is About Sex. Also yikes, but gets at something I think is very true and under-discussed.
+ Simulacra for Bootlickers - The McMansion Hell lady on the intersection of architecture and fascism by way of snark.
+ How Covid Changed Everything from Know Your Enemy. Tries to take an honest look at what Covid did to us. (I specifically asked them to share this one with the main feed, and since others did too, they listened!)
+ Republic Makeup. This ended up being way more interesting than I thought it would be and I wish it was longer. Fascism, anti-trans-ness, privilege, performance of wealth, artificiality, aspirations to godhood, the most annoying song I've ever heard in my life...I could read a whole book about this.
+ The FBI stole a money launderer's identity and ran his business for a year. Nobody is out here doing reporting like 404 Media.
+ This AI Calls Your Elderly Parents If You Can't Be Bothered. I hate this world!!!!! The way we're trying to outsource every single thing that makes us human and gives life meaning to technology!!!! All so we can, what, be more productive little capitalists???
+ The 'She Made Him Do It' Theory of Everything. I love Rebecca Solnit.
+ What Exactly Does Trump Think Is in the Smithsonian? This is a WaPo link, but it's so good--I was so moved. You should be able to access this even if you don't have a subscription (which I do not).
+ My Strange Weekend with the Pronatalists.
+ Are People Bad at Their Jobs or Are The Jobs Just Bad?
+ Mis-perceptions of parity in m/f relationships. Yikes.
+ DOGE Is About Sex. Also yikes, but gets at something I think is very true and under-discussed.
+ Simulacra for Bootlickers - The McMansion Hell lady on the intersection of architecture and fascism by way of snark.
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The article about DOGE clarified some things for me that hadn't really made sense previously, but laid out like that are obvious (and horrifying). It is unfathomable to me that there are apparently these hordes of radicalised men who yearn for a situation in which women will be forced to sleep with them, and make joint lives together with them, due to being dependent on those men for food and shelter. Putting aside the misogyny, where's their self respect? (And how could they think that the women in this situation would have anything but fear and contempt for the men to whom they've been forcibly attached by circumstances?)
As always, a fascinating collection of links.
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I found myself describing the way Russian propagandists, and supporters of Russia on the right and the left spoke about Ukraine as 'geopolitical abuse apologism'
YES.
I think some of these guys haven't thought through what it would actually be like to be in that situation--they're so far into their own woundedness and resentment that it doesn't occur to them that it would probably suck to live with a woman who doesn't actually like you. But! Others simply don't care because they see women as status symbols who they can show off to other men OR as servants to emotionally and physically take care of their needs. And who cares if your servants don't like you? I don't think they have any sense of self-respect, only of how they appear to other men.