In America—and, therefore in the rest of the world—unless you are a special case, consent isn’t on the menu.
There’s something to defend here, in this predator’s paradise, and, at last—at long last—I would like that something to be the victims, not the predators.
Our long national nightmare of minimizing toxic chemicals in our food is finally over.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/10/fda-toxic-chemicals-food-analysis
"When someone is gang-raped, there appears to be something to defend, and it’s not bodily autonomy; there appears to be something to protect, and it’s not the victim."
Life in this predator's paradise and the problem of shameless people.
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
My unpopular take is that God actually *is* returning to judge sins, but it's more like American Idol where God is like "damn dawg, that was a really impressive sin, a little pitchy but I’m putting you through to the next round" meanwhile Simon Cowell looks over at him in disbelief.
Book 1: Harry Potter and the Generational Culpability
Book 2: Harry Potter and the Manufactured Consent
Book 3: A People’s History of Harry Potter
Book 4: Harry Potter and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy
Book 5: Harry Potter and the Racist Dog Whistle
Book 6: Harry Potter and the Strawman Argument
Book 7: Those Who Walk Away From Harry Potter
For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys!
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?
Today I wrote about the age of billionaire consumption, all the proofs that what they are consuming is humanity itself, and the use of human expression as the best countermeasure in response.
"Look, me and the EU people got this little misunderstanding. See, they're EU ... I'm US. They got the Arc de Triomphe, mine is the Great Big Arch. We both got two all-white parties, special laws, lettuce, cheese, fascists and Nazis, but their Nazis have swastikas. My Nazis have no swastikas."
"It’s probably existentially terrifying to believe you are one of the Good Ones, unilaterally authorized to decide who is a Good One and who is not, only to discover that some of the other self-authorized Good Ones disagree with you about that." https://www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/
"What I’ve noticed is how frequently “this isn’t us” is said, not as an aspiration to improve but as a denial of responsibility—as just another way of staying exceptional, just another way of demanding first sympathy for a situation we have helped bring about."
"The story is about how the Terrible Things, which usually happen to the people who deserve Terrible Things, somehow happened to one of the people who do not deserve Terrible Things, according to one of the sorts of people who get to decide which people deserve what."
www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/
I wrote about the regrets of a Trump supporter whose fiancée was abducted by ICE, the ways these stories reinforce the exact spirit of supremacist exceptionalism that caused them in the first place, and the better, more honest, stories we might tell instead.
Pleased to announce my autumn reading list:
PURGE NIFLER, by Salman Rushdie
A RANK OF ELEPHANTS, by JRR Emily RR Dickinson, Jr.
THE LIEUTENANT JOKE SOCIETY, by Angry Mitch Album
CHAD, by Jonathan Franzen
THE TALE OF THE BOY IN THE LAND WITH THE LAMP FULL OF SAND, by Hilary Mandel
In their defense, I did authorize them to go ahead and do this, but I swear you spend a few precious words making sure you're clear and still people just won't read. Troubling. Concerning. Looking into it.
Soon You Too Will Be a Commie by @JuliusGoat
https://www.the-reframe.com/soon-you-too-will-be-a-commie/
“The case being made: Commies are dangerous traitors and violent extremists and domestic terrorists. People who fix problems are Commies. People who use evidence are Commies. People who stand up for others are Commies. Commies are dangerous people, and dangerous people deserve to be abused, brutalized, charged, convicted, incarcerated, disappeared, tortured, killed. It’s all for our protection, the bullies tell us.”
RE: https://mastodon.social/@bks/117269240729724712
Choose a better hill to kill on.
@JuliusGoat is so worth your time, y'all.
"I think we should do things #Nazis cannot do. What the Nazis and anti-human #billionaires who are ruling us are trying to do is continuously shrink who is meant by 'Us.' I'd argue that they are each trying to shrink it until it only means 'Me.' Let me suggest, then that we should always do tell a story that expands the meaning of 'Us.'”
#TransRights are #HumanRights
#BlackLivesMatter bc Lives Matter
:BLM: :better_pride: :af: