You might have seen postwar antifascist public service announcement that made the rounds on the internet recently: America has treated antifascist education the same way it’s treated basically all education on how to not be a monster of a human being: by meekly saying “hey, don’t do that” and expecting that to be enough. Considering …
Category: Politics
An In Depth Guide as to Why People Vote Against Their Own Interests
So there’s a fair amount of people right now celebrating the downfall of Obamacare while simultaneously only being provided healthcare through the Affordable Care Act not realizing they’re one in the same. And there’s probably an equal number of people experiencing schadenfreude of seeing those people lose their healthcare because they voted for Republicans whose central …
Our Current Political Realities as Explained with Episodes of The Twilight Zone
I’ve watched a lot of TV and if there’s one thing I know, it’s that when someone says things can’t possibly get any worse, things will always become worse. I realize everyone is excited to get out of 2016 and has high hopes for the new year, but personally, I don’t really believe that the …
On Normalization
Wernher von Braun was born in Germany in 1912. As an adult, he joined the Nazi party and the SS. He worked as an aerospace engineer and is credited with inventing the V-2 rocket which was used extensively to bomb civilians during the Battle of Britain. The Nazi aerospace factories used a fair amount of …
Post Election Meltdown
Over the past month or two I’ve been watching Gilmore Girls and was planning on posting all my hot takes, but, well, life comes at you hard. So here’s my shitty election take: There’s this old George Carlin joke: you ever notice that everyone driving slower than you is an idiot and everyone driving faster …