Author: Alan Buddug
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Characteristics of Fascists
Fascism is hard to define. For the time being, we’ve all accepted that it is a bad thing, which makes things even more confusing because no one — not even fascists — wants to claim the label. To make matters worse, there are a lot of fash-adjacent groups (e.g., neoliberals, capitalists) who want to define…
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The Slappening
There was a recent yearly media event wherein the culture of celebrity doubles and even triples down on itself creating a feedback loop of vapid, self-congratulatory bullshit that people who are into that kind of thing cannot help but watch. I’m talking about the Oscars. At said celebrity event, a wealthy celebrity smacked another wealthy…
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The Luddites Were Right
In today’s English, a Luddite is someone who hates technology, especially whatever the the current version is. History treats them as a foolish cult that destroyed industrial machinery because they thought it was a tool of the devil or something. In truth, though, the Luddites were not just reasonable, but correct. Advances in technology quite…
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Gas Prices
The government can do very little about gas prices. If you don’t believe me, please believe this pro-capitalism financial journalist’s opinion: Related: What Democrats don’t get about gas prices by Rick Newman Please note that when he says “the left” he means Democrats, who are not the left. Here are a few facts: Yes, the…
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The Malignant Narcissism of the Biden Administration
When a narcissism looks at you and tries to imagine what you want as a person, they will quite often think that the one thing you’d most like to be doing is serving them. I mean, what else would be more fulfilling to you, right? So, when the Biden administration read a study about how…
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Police Infiltrators
The police think they are the good guys, and that the left, generally, are not just the bad guys, but literally Satanists (based on the fact that Soviet communism was anti-religion). Nevermind that there’s no correlation between being a good person and adherence to any major world religion, but imagine that if your worldview were…
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Murder of Brandy Knightly
A protest peacekeeper named Brandy Knightly was murdered in Portland on Saturday, February 19 by a fascist extremist named Benjamin (Ben) Smith. Brandy Knightly was assisting with a march in solidarity with Amir Locke, an innocent man who was tragically murdered by police serving a no-knock warrant in pursuit of a different person. Knightly was…
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Poverty, Homelessness, and the American Love of Automobiles
Other nations didn’t make the same decisions regarding city design and transportation as the US, and there’s evidence that the US model contributes significantly to poverty and homelessness. Yes, there is less poverty and homelessness in European cities. An article by Walter Jaegerhaus in Common Edge explores the question of what went wrong with American…
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The Politics of Sydney Carter’s Clothes
You may have heard of the recent criticism of Texas A&M coach Sydney Carter’s clothing. In full, her job with Texas A&M’s women’s basketball is “player development coach and assistant recruiting coordinator”. Coach Carter wore some clothes at a game that were more stereotypically feminine in style, and the critics said she should have worn…
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Columbia Warming Centers
Last night was a victory for Columbia as advocates for our homeless community members convinced the city council to change the threshold for opening the city’s only emergency overnight warming center from 9 degrees Fahrenheit to 25 degrees Fahrenheit. The emergency warming center’s purpose is simply to keep people alive who might otherwise perish during…