common stock/ work around the clock/ shove the poles in the holes
Jul 10, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Here’s my big brained theory on progressives: they aren’t “smart but misguided”. They literally get terrible reads on everything and don’t have the emotional restraint to stay away from bad ideas if they think those positions “reflect well on them” or make them seem smart to their peers. They can’t resist eating the marshmallow and have a paper-thin conception of what it means to be ‘smart’ that doesn’t include being able to learn from mistakes
In short, they’re actually fuckin stupid as hell, and doubly so for continuing to walk around feeling smart all the time
Jul 7, 2024 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I can’t think of anything more “debunked” in the post-Trump and post-Covid era than the continued insistence that an orientation towards Liberal politics is associated with things like intellectual curiosity and an aversion to authoritarianism
I don’t even believe things like “smart dogs are easier to train” as explanations for why they all, for example, somehow didn’t realize that Joe Biden was cognitively impaired. “Lack of curiosity” is practically the signature feature of how they think
Mar 19, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Listened to Taibbi and Walter Kirn’s cast last night and they were pointing something out re: the disinformation industry that I noticed when I took a work related course a few months ago in “behavioural insights”
The desired behaviours to be arrived at all seem to have been pre-determined by what feels like some higher, nameless board…but there’s no “insight” from the insights team as to why these are desirable
Mar 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The thing about elderly millenial guys who went from Vice 1.0 hipsters to Current Thing progressives is that most of them were not “bush era leftists”. Most guys like this don’t know basic stuff like “neocons are all democrats now” because they were apolitical before Trump
but they’re all like “fuckin Ariel Pink man…that guy’s a Fascist now man. Fuck that guy” lol
Jul 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The greatest feat of propaganda over the past 2 years was to convince the entire liberal chattering class that the only person who might question government appointed public health experts is local idiot, “Sharon64683658 from Twitter”
The types of people who bought that line are the real enemy
