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Aaron Bady Profile picture
@zunguzungu
Aug 26, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Houses, man
"No man who owns his own house and lot can be a communist. He has too much to do." -William Levitt
Fmu
"But the house is no friend to the poor"
Houses
My man Nathanael Lauster does not like houses

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Apr 17
Having kids has really helped me understand how much and how deeply we learn and internalize a hatred and contempt of so many of the traits that children have, precisely because we vest our self-worth and self-respect in the conceit that we have grown up and shed them.
We have contempt for people who "behave like children" and we moralize--implicitly or explicitly--about the consequences of adults displaying the kind of disregulation, impropriety, and joyous unsocialized play that children naturally have; when an adult does it, we are angry
I find it impossible not to read any discussion of "children in public" through that lens
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Jan 7
it is kind of funny that Powell tries so hard to say that settler colonialism is a new trendy theory and then has to admit the person he thinks is most responsible for founding it died seven years ago
Anyway, there's something uniquely aggravating when this kind of centrist anti-intellectualism, because at least the right just makes everything up and makes no pretense of reading or citing; Powell reads and cites just enough to demonstrate that his own unwillingness to learn.
He makes broad generalizations which the quote he cites to support it... doesn't. He derives ideologically amenable conclusions from material that doesn't point in that direction. But it FEELS like he's engaging with the material, because he's trying to make it feel that way.
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Oct 9, 2023
When people say that "Israel has a right to exist," they of course mean the specific form of its government--which views Palestinians as a demographic threat--must be preserved. Any other form of existence is unthinkable, and must not be imagined.
White South Africans (like Elon) in the 80s believed that if apartheid fell, they would be massacred, that white supremacy was all that kept them safe. It's all over the literature, feverish apocalyptic dreams of the slaughter that he fall of apartheid would bring.
It's an unsummarizable story, of course, and it continues, but those people were just wildly wrong. They were forced to imagine it, and it happened, because the entire fucking world didn't stand with them and insist on South Africa's right to exist undemocratic and unchanged.
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Aug 2, 2022
The way the right has turned "homeless person" into a thing you are supposed to be afraid of, synonymous with crime--rather than feeling empathy for a human being who we have so comprehensively failed, as a society--is bad
I remember walking to work once through the pre-dawn darkness--through the SCARY SCARY SF DOWNTOWN--and seeing a woman getting out of her tent, in nice normal clothes, clearly getting ready to go to her job, and I have not thought about "the homeless" the same since
(so-called liberals do this too, of course, and they are on the right whether they know it or not)
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Jul 29, 2022
not to be slavoj zizek but the thing here is that the peach is not the object of desire, the object of desire is the husband who can simply eat the peach (she is trapped in the need to be the martyr, thus cannot eat fruit)
this is why she made merch that says "eat the damn peach"; the desire is to desire the peach (instead of a desire for self-denial). she wants to be what she portrays the husband as being: enjoys things, doesn't stress, sorta lazy Image
a lot of these are just sad, but in some of them, the joke really is that she is being absolutely insane and wishes she wasn't
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Jul 5, 2022
That NY Times essay about how ectopic pregnancies are real babies is so unbelievably misguided that I don't even understand how to process it
Women are going to die from ectopic pregnancies because of all the pseudo-religious zealots in state legislatures that insist an ectopic pregnancy is a baby, or don't care enough about the distinction, and they decided to run this.
Feel what you need to feel! And yes, medical professionals should be as sensitive as possible to people's emotional needs and beliefs. But those beliefs are being used to put policies in place that will kill people.
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