The Star Wars prequels are an underrated political epic about a galaxy wide slide into fascism and my man George didn’t get the respect he deserved
Joan Westenberg
joanwestenberg@nos.social
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“Foul-mouthed leftist” 🍕 I write about tech + politics + humans.
ACAB actually means Assigned Cop at Birth and some of you jokers absolutely were
Underrated trade idea:
Buy water
Wait
SEC investigation? bullish. prison time? bullish. cellmate named brick who wants my private keys? extremely bullish
people say “Oh You can’t solve ALL your problems with a shovel and a suspiciously cheap plot of land in the desert” but guess what. not only is that false, its also slander, and i will see you in court. and then also in the desert.
the best (???) thing about American politics is you get shit like the “Give Free School Lunches to Kids Act” and that sounds awesome but when it passes you find out it raised the cost of school lunches and somehow made it easier to buy an AR-15
when you see minimalism as inherently ethical and morally righteous you ignore how it becomes a consumer trend in itself
I made an X account yesterday in an attempt to break out of my own echo chamber.
Get a feel for what the other side are talking about.
Posted the exact same content I post on Mastodon / Threads.
Today my X account was suspended because of “a user report.”
seeing the inevitable chorus of folks blaming trans issues for harris losing.
without googling, name a single pro trans policy that Harris ran on.
lot of folks in tech want to identify with Galileo boldly challenging religion in the name of science but when it comes to trans rights they are literally on the side of the Catholic Church
Whole lotta quote tweeting the messenger going on rn if you know what I mean
every Democrat: (deep breath) “well actually, the real reason we lost was—” falls face-first into an open manhole
My biggest learning from the election has nothing to do with what democrats got wrong.
It’s about me. I’ve been in too much of a bubble. I’ve been lazy & overconfident in my own analysis + thinking.
My values are strong. But I got a lot to learn about how i write and the messages i create.
Opinions are like assholes the new York times has a lot of them
in this house, we do NOT “give back” to the community. we take from the community, we hoard it in a mason jar labeled “secret beans,” and then we pray that none of our sins can see through the glass
gonna get roasted for this, but if progressives don’t start reaching out to young men, the grifters and outrage merchants will keep winning.
i, too, have been stabbed in the back by 60 of my closest friends. but unlike Caesar, I did NOT cry about it. i took it like a man: drunk & face down in a Denny’s parking lot
I never hold grudges. I release them into the world to grow and multiply on their own. Consider it my gift to humanity.
for mental health reasons I have decided to spend 1000% more time on social media thank you for your support
they say I’m out of touch with reality. I say reality’s out of touch with me. I mean, look at it—completely unhinged and running on fumes while im doing great