An absolutely shocking number of people on the left and the right have trouble accepting that two things can be true at the same time.
Day: September 14, 2025, 9:55 PM
Auth
Everything about this is sad. Where even to begin?
* Notice that she is a natural authoritarian. She doesn’t have tight parameters around it, because she clearly hasn’t really thought it out and is just expressing her base sense of the world, which is that there must be social… https://t.co/of5IIHB1mk
— wanye (@xwanyex) September 12, 2025
I agree that progressivism has gone down a terrible path. They feel more empathy for hardened criminals and violent vagrants than for the people they maim and kill, hate their own civilization, support degrowth, and would annihilate all the things that make life worth living without even really understanding what they are doing.
What I disagree about, though, is that progressivism must be this way. Obviously this is false because in the past, progressivism was something very different. It actually did point to progress, to space exploration, to the advance of science and civilization, and to to raising up all people. Instead, now, it attempts to lower us all, trades away the rights of women and girls to nearly-demonic third-world hordes, and believes we should all be living in mud huts with no running water, no modern conveniences, and definitely no air conditioning.
It could be something else but now it chooses not to be. Maybe one day it will decide to get back on the right path, but it’s not looking too hopeful at the moment.
Gap Yap
A lot of solutions to societal problems that smart people propose would only work if the average IQ were around 115. Since it’s not, and that most of the left doesn’t even believe in IQ despite its blatant reality, their proposed societal interventions are non-starters.
And so much is then doomed to fail due to the unrecognized cognitive gap.
Spool up the CRISPR! We’re doing some eugenics.
Filmic
The destruction that copyright causes.
One of Chantal Akerman’s films (among many others) cannot see the light of day because of music rights. This is true of many works that are unavailable due to copyright insanity.
Copyright should be destroyed.
Claims and Claims
Women who say they are “reclaiming their body” by getting a bunch of hideous tattoos is like “reclaiming” a city by bombing it to rubble then dumping a bunch of trash in it.
It’s not even the real explanation, but it’s the one they wish to believe about themselves. And it’s absurd.
Alien Virus
The Covidians use Covid to explain everything bad much like some people use “aliens” to have some way of making sense of how anything they can’t comprehend occurred.
It’s sad and hilarious in both cases.
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A Note on Online Political Subcultures.
Hand
Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism.
This is all true, and terrible (though leans into prudery too much for me), but what is omitted is that feminists greatly overplayed their hand so there was a backlash. Insisting that women are not fully adult until 25, 30, even 40+ years old while men are full adults at 14-ish did them no favors. And believing as well as acting like that all men are crazed rapists while all women are innocent angelic beings also contributed.
And just as much, the issue became wrapped up in women’s intense intrasexual competition so they began accusing adult men dating very much adult women of “pedophilia” if the woman in question were a second younger, skinnier or shorter than the accuser1. No, it’s not “grooming” if a woman is fully adult and fully participating in the relationship, even if there is an age gap. Jesus Christ.
Solnit has always been kind of anti-sex, and that shows here too. She just hides it well behind a curtain of, “What about the children?” And much of what she writes about is disturbing, to be clear. I have no idea why adult men want to be with actual children. But insisting against all evidence that women have no accountability and no responsibility because they are children until 40+ doesn’t sound correct to most people. That’s because it’s fucking insane.
So most people reject it. As they should. And that’s one of the reasons feminism is failing.