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Real Socialists Heart Tariffs 4-Eva
If American socialists were real, they’d love tariffs. They’d be screaming for tariffs, because tariffs are the only way to fund the utopia they clai…
1 year, 2 months ago
Gaza HUMINT as HUMENT
War, Propaganda, and the Spectacle of Suffering
The war in Gaza is not only fought with drones, tunnels, and rockets; it is fought with cameras. It is…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Corporate Collaborators
How corporations ally with movements only to drain them, discard them, and return to what they have always been
Corporations often look like allies wh…
1 year, 2 months ago
America = Afghanistan
Afghanistan has long been called the “graveyard of empires.” Powerful nations have marched into its mountains with plans to conquer and reform it. Th…
1 year, 2 months ago
American Cultural Entropy
In physics, entropy measures disorder. Without energy, order breaks down. Culture behaves the same way. Without steady effort, values decay and syste…
1 year, 2 months ago
American Cultural Inertia
In physics, inertia is the tendency of objects to resist change. A body at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by force. Culture works the same way.…
1 year, 2 months ago
Mom and Apple Pie are Nazism
The phrase “as American as mom and apple pie” once described something wholesome and unquestioned. It evoked family, community, and tradition. Today,…
1 year, 2 months ago
Proxy Wars Evade Accountability
Proxy wars are the modern state’s perfect crime. They allow powerful nations to pursue strategic goals without the domestic consequences that traditi…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Tyranny of "Should Be the Norm"
“Should be the norm” doesn’t really mean anything in the real world, though, does it? People say it as if declaring it makes it true, as if a strong …
1 year, 2 months ago
The Day Jesus Got Heckled
For most of my life, I thought I knew Jesus. My image of Him came from pop Catholicism, Easter sermons, and Hollywood movies where He looked untoucha…
1 year, 2 months ago