The idiotic Adam Creighton, who has seemingly been banished from Australia to the US by his Murdoch bosses, put out a Tweet stating: “’Guess which developed country had the lowest…
It is ironic that Elon Musk has taken over Twitter and allowed all sorts of RWNJs to spout their drivel, while he owns shares in Tesla. Those who are cheering him on do not believe in climate change and likely would not even consider buying an EV, while those who are appalled by him are those who know climate change is happening, and are likely to buy EVs, but are now unlikely to buy a Tesla.
The industry that has sprung up around the hatred of Meghan Markle is an extraordinary development and I wonder where it has come from. Since assorted RWNJs whined that they…
Research has shown that conservatives desire security, predictability and authority more than progressives do, and progressives are more comfortable with novelty, nuance and complexity. If you put a conservative and…
White supremacists terrorised Black and Indigenous people for 300 years, and when that terror was finally made illegal, white rebel groups rose up to further terrorise Black and Indigenous people for another 100 years, and while zero reparations were paid to remedy that 400 years of terror, now to simply acknowledge that 400 year terror is called the "woke virus". White privilege is when the cancer of white supremacy is to be ignored—but recalling that history is called "a virus".
Under the influence of great fear, almost everybody becomes superstitious. Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity towards those who are not regarded as members of the herd. Fear generates impulses of cruelty, and therefore promotes such superstitious beliefs as seem to justify cruelty. Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
This feels a bit weird, and astonishes me a bit. I never thought this is where I’d be after one month short of six years; having written one thousand essays,…