It's ironic that the comedian whose view on "truth to power" resonates most with me is Norm Macdonald, a conservative who I probably wouldn't have agreed with on much else, but never once lost sight of making people laugh.
I don't know what to tell you, but "all the kids care about Palestine and that's why they listen to us" is the most how-do-you-do-fellow-kids thing possible.
I have to say Oprah’s biggest accomplishment is probably making a book club that makes you dumber
i really love that “did donald trump lose the 2020 election” is such a simple trap. if they say yes they get targeted by trump and his supporters and if they say no then they’re immediately shredded in the media
I think it's not a coincidence that both Vance and Ted Cruz - two guys we're told are very skilled at formal debate - both undermine their ability to be persuasive by having zero theory of mind.
Fundamentally, you have to assume your reader is not a small child and understands that by choosing the word "seminal" you are not *actually* comparing something to cum.
"Crazy" gives away the game here. This is not about empathy, it's about feeling self-righteous. I've dealt with mental health issues for many years and it is deeply condescending to say that I can't even hear a word with negative connotations used for something I know to be negative!
Everyone in Thiel's orbit is a psychopath, and I don't mean in the generic "bad person" sense, I mean they do not experience even the faintest whisper of empathy. Their world consists goals and obstacles.
I can't really overstate what a failure the stenography era of journalism is.
The midwit meme but every caption is "polls don't tell you anything"
