Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

“You have to reduce the American experience to a few ridiculously grim variables, and remove everything from movies to rock n’ roll to monster dunks, to spend today sulking.”

This @mtaibbi defense of Thanksgiving is so good it pisses me off a little bit

taibbi.substack.com/p/thanksgiving…

“We don’t ask Russians how they can sit around the yelochka every New Year and open presents knowing that Ivan the Terrible used to roast prisoners in giant frying pans, or how they can smoke Belomorkanal cigarettes knowing the White Sea canal is filled with the bones of slaves.”

“The Founding Fathers may have been scum, but they didn’t just steal a continent from the indigenous, they stole one from a British King, which is, come on, hilarious. These revolutionaries — Kurt Vonnegut called them “Sea Pirates” — then drew up a document sanctifying…

…their own pursuit of obscene wealth, flying flags that were strikingly like “Let’s Go Brandon” in sentiment while reveling in the horror they inspired in aristocrats all over Europe. Then, they started opening their doors to castoffs, screwups and cultists from other countries”

Those who claim America’s history is uniquely terrible tend to know little of history, and those who claim America is uniquely racist tend to have never lived abroad.

America’s past is not our original sin. It is not responsible for today’s problems.

Happy gratitude day!

Higher res graphic in here

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-wokeism-…

Here’s the high res image on its own

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"In the space of a generation America has gone from being a country brimming with undeserved over-confidence, to one whose intellectual culture has turned into an agonizing, apparently interminable run of performative self-flagellation."

taibbi.substack.com/p/thanksgiving…