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Twitter is a really important forum for the culture war. And Elon Musk has figured out a way to profit from panicking the elite into frantically trying to save Twitter from free speech. But is the social media platform really worth anything? Twitter said on Thursday that its revenue grew more slowly than analysts had…

Social media troll Taylor Lorenz, fresh off playing the victim, decided to show her value to the Washington Post by doxxing the Jewish woman behind the Libs of Tik Tok account. The opening paragraph of this national embarassment begins with, “A popular Twitter account has morphed into a social media phenomenon, spreading anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment and shaping…

Republicans tend not to believe that Biden will run again. So do a lot of other people. Except that Biden has repeatedly made it clear that, no matter how implausible it may seem, he will run again. Even if he has to crawl to run. President Biden has told former President Obama that he is planning to…

Boycotts used to be a major conservative tool. Do they still work? Not as well, but they can work. Big Tech’s biggest vulnerability is the need to project an impossible perpetual motion machine of constant growth. What happens when that illusion of perpetual growth is challenged? Then the bottom suddenly drops out. Netflix reported its first…

Academia is its own beast and assuming that what goes at a college will protect Fortune 500 employees is unrealistic. That said there’s a precedent here and it’s an important one. Forcing people to use male pronouns for women or vice versa has been an important tool for ideological compliance.  The “you shall comply” familiar…

The debate about the homeless crisis is really a debate about the nature of homelessness which, as facts have repeatedly shown, is a case of mentally ill and drug-addicted vagrants whose presence on the streets has been enabled by the homeless-industrial complex. Despite that most of the LA mayoral candidates promise to fix the homeless…

An important piece of subtext for the radical COVID control policies we’re seeing on display in Shanghai and elsewhere in Communist China. China’s leaders have said that the country, unlike most of the rest of the world, cannot afford to live with the virus because it has a large and vulnerable aging population.  I’ve explored…