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The Last One: I’d Rather Be Right Alone Than Wrong With Company

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This is the last post I am going to write on Luigi Mangione for a while, not because I have run out of things to say, honestly I could keep going, but because I think I have said what I actually came here to say, across all of these, and at some point repeating yourselfContinue reading “The Last One: I’d Rather Be Right Alone Than Wrong With Company”

A Guess, Not a Diagnosis: Is the Online Left Drifting Right Without Noticing?

I want to be upfront before I even start this one, because I think it matters more here than it has in any of the previous posts, everything I am about to say is speculation, it is my best attempt to make sense of a pattern I keep watching play out, not a claim IContinue reading “A Guess, Not a Diagnosis: Is the Online Left Drifting Right Without Noticing?”

They Took the Account Down, Not the Argument

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So it looks like my Tumblr, LuffyMonkey1227, is gone. I do not have confirmation of exactly why, Tumblr does not exactly hand out detailed explanations when an account disappears, but I have a pretty strong guess, and the guess is that a mass reporting campaign from people who did not like what I was sayingContinue reading “They Took the Account Down, Not the Argument”

A Prediction: What Happens to Luigi Mangione’s Fanbase When Luigi Mangione Eventually Does Something Wrong

I want to make a prediction here, and I want to be upfront that it is speculative, it is not something I can prove in advance, it is a bet based on watching how these online defense movements tend to behave over time, but I feel confident enough in it that I am willing toContinue reading “A Prediction: What Happens to Luigi Mangione’s Fanbase When Luigi Mangione Eventually Does Something Wrong”

You Can Be Alt and Conservative, Whether That Makes Sense or Not

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There’s an argument I keep running into lately, usually framed as a kind of gotcha, that goes something like this: you can’t be alt and conservative. The logic seems airtight to the people saying it. Alt culture, whatever specific flavor of it you’re talking about, has historically leaned progressive, countercultural, anti-establishment in a particular direction,Continue reading “You Can Be Alt and Conservative, Whether That Makes Sense or Not”

Stop Treating AI Like It’s Only a “User Problem”

There’s a growing pattern in how people talk about AI, and it feels familiar in a frustrating way. Whenever something goes wrong—misinformation, bad outputs, misuse, unethical content—the conversation quickly shifts toward individual users. As if the core issue is just people using the tool incorrectly, and if everyone “used it responsibly,” the problem would basicallyContinue reading “Stop Treating AI Like It’s Only a “User Problem””

The Three Stooges of the American Online “Left”

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There is a particular kind of frustration that only comes from watching people with enormous platforms claim to speak for a movement they neither understand nor genuinely represent. It is not just disagreement. It is not even simple ideological distance. It is the exhaustion of watching the same three men repeatedly posture as the conscienceContinue reading “The Three Stooges of the American Online “Left””

Where Are All the Leftists? The Silence Around HasanAbi’s Dog Controversy

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It’s honestly been bothering me — the near-total silence from leftists and progressives about the HasanAbi dog situation. Like, where is everyone? Where are all the people who claim to care about compassion, about justice, about standing up for the voiceless? Because right now, it feels like the only people openly discussing the alleged mistreatmentContinue reading “Where Are All the Leftists? The Silence Around HasanAbi’s Dog Controversy”

When Compassion Gets Dismissed

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about something that happened in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death. Two people I knew online, one a good friend of mine and the other just an acquaintance through that friend, had a falling out over the whole thing. And honestly, I wasn’t surprised. Not because I wanted itContinue reading “When Compassion Gets Dismissed”