#148. Bear with me
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> A bear's muscular structure is highly suited for strength and power. They run at about twice the speed of a human. Their jaws can crush bone to suck the marrow within. Grizzlies can bite through 6â pine trees. If a bear decides youâre a threat, and why wouldnât he, heâll probably finish the job. And if he doesnât, the abscesses, sepsis and rabies will take care of you. And yet. And yet, the ladies of the e-right would rather take their chances with a one of these hulking monsters, than with a random male human, who might mansplain or manspread or tell them to smile, or worse, give them âthe ick.â Maybe women are just too woman-brained to conceive of the risk bears pose. But on the other hand, maybe it was never about safety â bears hold frame. You may be disemboweled, but at least a bear wonât trauma-dump on you.
> Libs love âthe smell of books.â They could âjust get lostâ in a good bookstore, provided that itâs run by unimaginative wine aunts. If they walked into one that didnât have a F&G âbanned booksâ section and a "racial grievancesâ section and a âMy Two Theyddiesâ section, they would of course blow a fuse. Bookstores suck, and so do bibliophiliacs (front row kids who âreadâ nothing but erotic fantasy audiobooks and Between the World and Me).
> In order to determine the future of fertility, we must look to the ancient past.
> Area anon plants flower bed in memory of his late stepmom.
> Does the right wing need to offer more support to our not-particularly-sensitive buttchugging young men?
> Radfem Hitler continues to demonstrate her beautiful mind.
đŹCringe CornerđŹ
> Almost half a year later, Politico finally got around to covering
âs Natal Conference, and itâs the usual hand-wringing you expect. Jokes on them, because it caused Elon to discover the event and he shared Bennettâs based-as-hell keynote with many millions.
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> If you by chance should come across a video clip that starts immediately with a Person of Historical Oppression being oppressed, you should look for a clip that starts a few seconds earlier.
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appeared on podcast to discuss Philip Rothâs American Pastoral, which he ranks as one of the top two great modern American works.>
guests on âs podcast to talk about how modern society has made it so hard to have kids by pressuring parents to helicopter.> Sargon makes the case for being nice to newly-based females.
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guests on âs podcast to discuss his effort to revitalize a small Michigan downtown.đ°Reads of the Weekđ°
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develops a mental model of the glowie, the spook, the secret agent person, the sinister actor who pulls strings to hurt you â for your own good. You just wouldnât understand.
> When Dudley was a wee lad in the 90s, he once heard a disturbed autistic man on a street corner shouting about Lyndon LaRouche (actually true). That insane street shouter? He grew up to be none other than
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criticizes the religious urge to deface art.
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back again this week with a piece on the scolding signage that marks widespread fraying of social cohesion.
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reviews an old but prescient doomer book, The Collapse of Complex Societies, by Joseph Tainter.
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is continues his forgotten history of the early American left and the men who tried to fight it. As usual, itâs real âyou think things are crazy now?â stuff. Book deal when?
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explores why women donât want to have children anymore, and explodes a few feminist myths along the way.
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is usually a must-read, but this week she pulled out some bona-fide Dudley bait, with a field guide to right-wing women. Tag yourself.
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interviewed JD Vance for First Things about the resurgent populist Christian right.
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reviews The Man Who Stayed Behind, about an absolutely Mao-pilled American who fought for communist utopia in China and never wavered, even though they gulaged his ass twice for a total of SIXTEEN YEARS. Fascinating psychology at work here.
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thinks literally any king would be better than what we have now. Just let somebody rule, for the foundersâ sake.
đŠTweets of the WeekđŠ
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The bookstore tweet really resonates with me since they opened up a new one in my town, I made the mistake of thinking it might be somewhat decent (my town is starved for new places), only to find that the grand majority of it was "BookTok" romance novels that were originally published on Wattpad by thirty-something AWFLs that never got beyond their "Thirty Shades of Gray" phase and pop culture tchotchkes like Funko Pops. It's like Hastings or Entertainmart but with an veneer of almost masturbatory faux-intellectualism, exclusively tailored to the tastes of people who have those Ruth Bader Ginsburg saint candles and still think having an encyclopedic knowledge of the Office is a substitute for a real personality.
And I thought the only one who liked bears around here was James OâKeefe.