Modern feminist discourse often frames patriarchy as a system sustained primarily by overt misogyny: domineering husbands, sexist institutions, abusive men, online incels, and explicit beliefs about female inferiority...
Continue reading“The most important thing about propaganda is that it is not a thing done to you. It is a thing you participate in.” Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (1962)
Continue readingNot every coup looks like Pinochet (thank fuck for that). The modern coup is a more elegant creature. It does not need tanks. It does not need generals. What it needs: control of the media, control of the judiciary, a...
Continue readingHere is a thought that keeps circling my brain like a fly that will not die.Everyone on the left agrees: capitalism is the problem. It is the root. The cancer. The original sin. If we could just get rid of capitalism,...
Continue readingThe take: “Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. We must invade to protect ourselves.”Who said it: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Tony Blair, and most of the US Congress (a who’s...
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