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Five years ago, this was the last normal week of our lives It’s been half a decade you guys

Yes, I will die on this hill. You cannot buy authenticity and love. The reason people *love* Joe Rogan is because the conversations he has on his podcast reflect the conversations that people have in real life. For starters, the format. It's long and searching and not set up

Anyone else find it a bit odd that Trump isn’t on Twitter but the Taliban are?

Women will post this shit and then wonder why the entire planet and every major religion has imposed strict social restrictions on their sovereignty since the dawn of time in every place humans have ever lived

What did you think gender equality meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays? Lol

Something really hilarious about people who put up “Hate Has No Home Here” lawn signs cutting off family and disinviting them from Thanksgiving for voting the other way

Actual shot (not AI!) of a French detective working the case of the French Crown Jewels that were stolen from the Louvre in a brazen daylight robbery. Somehow he looks like he’s smoking even without a cigarette in his hand, but surely everything you know about life is screaming at you: this case is officially screwed! To solve it, we need an unshaven, overweight, washed-out detective who's in the middle of divorce. A functioning alcoholic who the rest of the department hates. Never gonna crack it with a detective who wears an actual fedora unironically.

Beef tallow is just right-wing coconut oil

Dear Latino Men, You’re now the new face of white supremacy. Welcome to the club. Signed, Asians and Jews

Nietzsche’s words so perfectly capture our zeitgeist

The evolution of Bumble: - Sick of men inboxing women (“the patriarchy is so creepy and icky!”) - Starts dating app to reverse the natural order (women now make the first move! So empowering! So brave & stunning!) - Women complain it’s exhausting - Reinstate the natural law

I am on a LA to Miami flight and I think I am the only woman on board who has virgin lips - no lip filler This is the other social contagion we don’t talk about. Entire swathes of women just walk around with cocktail sausages as lips

Actual shot (not AI!) of a French detective working the case of the French Crown Jewels that were stolen from the Louvre in a brazen daylight robbery. Somehow he looks like he’s smoking even without a cigarette in his hand, but surely everything you know about life is screaming at you: this case is officially screwed! To solve it, we need an unshaven, overweight, washed-out detective who's in the middle of divorce. A functioning alcoholic who the rest of the department hates. Never gonna crack it with a detective who wears an actual fedora unironically.

Dear Latino Men, You’re now the new face of white supremacy. Welcome to the club. Signed, Asians and Jews

“Elon shouldn’t be going all in to shill for Trump; as the owner of a platform, he should be a politically neutral tech overlord” Firstly, there’s that big publisher vs. platform distinction. The former editorializes and curates. The latter does not (at least in legal theory). Why shouldn’t he be able to share his personal opinion on his platform just like everyone else? Secondly, that hasn’t stopped the overwhelming majority of the media and entertainment class from openly shilling for one side. They’re just mad now because god forbid one influential mogul is breaking their monopoly on the narrative. He’s a class traitor. They will go after him now with a vengeance that will bring him to his knees. It’s not going to be pretty.

Something really hilarious about people who put up “Hate Has No Home Here” lawn signs cutting off family and disinviting them from Thanksgiving for voting the other way

Being a fan of Hitler and Stalin should automatically disqualify you from being America First

I am on a LA to Miami flight and I think I am the only woman on board who has virgin lips - no lip filler This is the other social contagion we don’t talk about. Entire swathes of women just walk around with cocktail sausages as lips

Women will post this shit and then wonder why the entire planet and every major religion has imposed strict social restrictions on their sovereignty since the dawn of time in every place humans have ever lived

Anyone else find it a bit odd that Trump isn’t on Twitter but the Taliban are?

Yes, I will die on this hill. You cannot buy authenticity and love. The reason people *love* Joe Rogan is because the conversations he has on his podcast reflect the conversations that people have in real life. For starters, the format. It's long and searching and not set up

That full Zelensky-Vance-Trump convo will be analyzed and dissected to no end in International Relations 101 classes for aspiring diplomats as a classic example of what NOT to do. Eastern Europeans sound pretty rude to the Anglo world. Part of it is an artifact of their language(s). Part of it is just the handicap of using English as a second language and not picking up the complexities of slang and tone. Moral of the story: for high stakes negotiations, hire an interpreter, even if you think your English is good enough. Also they are trained to make sure to not convey the emotional content of the message and by slowing down the back-and-forth, it tends to be a natural brake on escalation.

This conflict weighs so heavily on me. I have Jewish friends and I have Muslim friends. I have a deep affinity for Israel and for Arab culture, and do a lot of work in the Middle East. But let’s be clear about some things. Anti-Israel + Pro-Palestine demonstrations erupted around the world *before* Israel responded. BEFORE. Let's recap that sequence of events. 1. Palestinian militants wake up in the morning and decide to go and murder Israeli civilians, take hostages, and declare their intent to destroy Israel 2. Demonstrations erupt around the world supporting Palestine and condemning Israel 3. Israel responds to this threat Go back over it again in case there is any ambiguity. There is no moral grey area to inhabit here. No fog of war that one can hide behind. Palestinian militants murdered civilians. In cold blood. They raped Israeli women. They set children on fire and beheaded them. Grandmothers were raped so brutally their pelvis was broken. A pregnant woman had her baby cut out of her stomach and beheaded, only to then suffer beheading herself. Palestinian militants murdered Jews, on a mass scale, in the most barbaric and heinous ways possible. And then vowed that they would keep going, to the thunderous applause of their sympathisers living in the West. Members of our intelligentsia and elite students openly cheered Hamas, laying the blame *entirely* at the feet of Israeli policy. They justified the most barbaric atrocities under the banner of liberation and decolonization. If you can't see the problem with that, I don't know what else to tell you. It is easier of course to just keep quiet, to not talk about it. But I am compelled to. Because 90 years ago, no one spoke up. Yet. It is important to recognize that this is war, and in this war, there are people are dying on both sides - children, women, civilians. Many people have been trying to build bridges to bring about peace – and all their work crumbled just like that. The world before Oct 7 was a different world. Peace in the Middle East was achievable and now, we’re back to reliving ancient hatreds between the sons of Abraham. One of the problems with discourse today isn’t just about the things we say; sometimes it’s about the things we don’t say. Even when we think that “our side” may have not been totally right, we hold back from criticizing because we fear weakening the moral standing of “our side.” So on one side, they cannot criticise Hamas, and on the other, they cannot criticise the Israeli government / IDF. But Hamas isn’t Palestine, and the Israeli government isn’t Israelis / Jews. This distinction is important. And for those who say “but Palestinians support Hamas overwhelmingly,” please ask yourself exactly what choice you would have if you were born into the same cultural and social milieu? You’ve heard the phrase the “bigotry of low expectations.” Sometimes it is compassionate to expect less. Moral clarity is important, but so is being compassionate and not giving up on humanity. When will we beat swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks? When will we no longer take up sword against each other, nor train for war anymore? I recall the words of Rudyard Kipling: “What profit to kill men?” “Very little - as I know; but if evil men were not now slain; it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers.”

Nietzsche’s words so perfectly capture our zeitgeist