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22 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
“admits” nytimes.com/2021/04/22/nyr…
Andrew Yang has confessed to naming his pecs, sentencing will be in three weeks.
Anyway look: Yang is pretty much unqualified to be mayor. His campaign is very vague. So it’s weird that so much of the critique of him is (1) he doesn’t follow the social mores of the progressive borg that dominates activism and media and (2) they dislike his personality.
Literally it’s a conversation conducted entirely among people who feel like you don’t even need to explain that naming your pecs is toxic masculinity.

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I remember reading this piece seven years ago and it's amazing how mainstream the subcultural dysfunction described here has gone in the following seven years. thenation.com/article/archiv…
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