#Ideology

Two years ago, I wrote about the “gated-community” mentality that appeared to be both an underlying factor, as well as the culmination, of the current political climate (cultural civil war/political
Read more
What the ‘right wing’ of DSA and the broader socialist movement gets more or less right is that we have to forge connections with the working class as it presently
Read more
short(?) thread on how I go about building the worlds for the stories I writehttps://twitter.com/lehoczkyescobar/status/1270922379703783440?s=20 I think of worldbuilding sometimes in three levels, summarizable with answer to "what is d
Read more
When we encounter the family from the point of view of the soul, accepting its shadows and its failure to meet our idealistic expectations, we are faced with mysteries that
Read more
A take on academia’s apparent left-wing bias:Many comments about @epkaufm’s survey point to it being non-representative, too small, etc. This might be true, but misses the point: even a perfect
Read more
When I wrote JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE, I had a list of people I most wanted to read the book. @DavidAFrench was on that list. And so I'm especially grateful
Read more
The latest addition to the lexicon of totalitarianism is "Badfact." A Badfact is objectively true, but it damages the political narratives of the ruling elite, so everyone must be prevented
Read more
1 like = 1 thing that makes me sad 1. M has a boyfriend 2. M isn't a Christian 3. M lives 3 hours away and so I don't get
Read more
tonight, I can't get out of my head the idea that all Jews must be "indigenous" to Palestine; this ridiculous, nationalistic, racist, and violent co-opting of indigenous struggles the world
Read more
1/ I'm seeing headlines saying Trump "refused to condemn" QAnon at last night's @NBCNews town hallBut that's not exactly right. Trump *legitimized* QAnon by saying he believes "very strongly" in
Read more
Tweet a tendency at me and I'll say something mean about itMoreover, ICE must be destroyed This has been really fun lmfao people should tweet more at meMoreover, ICE must
Read more
Friend: "Yeah, but this is an ideological conflict. What types of people & ideologies come together in a moment like this to..."Me, cutting him off: "My only ideology in this
Read more
This doesn't necessarily vindicate the "what you do in middle school makes you a monster for life" argument, but it sure does confirm that Coleman should not be in office.
Read more
Not only do a lot of folks in the detrans women's community still deal with dysphoria but there's also a lot of concern about people retransitioning. I knew detrans women
Read more
this point by @mtsw is interesting and a common conception and SEEMS right but as a historian of religion I think it's incorrect. (brief thread) 1/ #twitterstorians the misconception, I
Read more
Interesting article on the issue of QAnon in Canada. A few thoughts in a short thread: /nhttps://twitter.com/AmarAmarasingam/status/1316745726270099457 1) We still don't know that the #RideauHall incident was motivated by QAnon.
Read more