someone in the replies recommended Aella lmaoooooo
One of the podcast episodes of all time. What an interesting woman.
Never trust someone with more sexual partners than showers in a year (especially if swimming is their main form of exercise).
Jesus that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time
unfortunately she gets namedropped every now and again on Trueanon and I’m forced to remember
jared polis next stop red scare pod
So glad not to know who this is.
I can’t imagine the type of person who comes out of that counting it as a positive experience.
I was about to say I’m glad I don’t know who they are, but as it turns out I do know who they are, FireFox betraying that I’ve searched these names before.
@captgouda24 is Nicholas Decker - whoever that is.
He’s a lib political blogger. Maybe best known for writing an article titled “When Must We Kill Them?” about conservatives but that’s probably one of his only good takes, because his other takes go a bit something like this
and I imagine you can find more stuff like this if you want to scroll through his account.Side note: How I first heard about him was actually meeting him at a (non-political) event where he was wearing a shirt that said “READ MY BLOG” all over the front of it and the url to his substack on the back. I had no idea he was a figure of any note until I heard a bunch of other people at this event talking about him.
the third image
Oh yeah, and what happened before the Industrial revolution that might have DIRECTLY made it possible in one place by preventing it from being possible in the other? Does he actually think that colonialism started 1 microsecond before the industrial revolution? Where does he think that wealth that existed in Europe before the industrial revolution came from?
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to have a liberal’s understanding of history. Events just float around in a space-like vacuum, most of the resulting opinions forming like gravitational effects from the dark matter between them (racism).
public intellectuals
