I did read Marx, but also you’re assuming my comment was criticism which it wasn’t necessarily. As a foreigner it just struck me as very American. I actually agree with a lot of what you said however I also think that by fixating on money people are ignoring what I think are probably the main reasons this book is…

You’re missing something important though: money literally IS power. Money is how power flows and is expressed in a capitalist society, especially a society where capitalism is as all-consuming as the United States. Financial profit in this manner is worse than some purely cultural “erasure”, because money is the…

You can almost mental gymnastics yourself into believing he never saw any of this shit, and never heard anything in those tapes. ALMOST! Because none of us read all our emails, and a mayor doesn’t directly access his own snail mail, or email, and isn’t directly in charge of city lawsuit settlements, or most police…

So...

My partner got stuck listening to me rant about Buttigieg last night. He’s a young, small town mayor who thinks that qualifies him for the presidency. Even if he weren’t bland, uninspiring, and spouting this bs, I’d be outraged at the sheer caucasity of his presumption that he’s qualified and superior to other…

Apparently, it’s not the fact that the unemployment rate for black college graduates is twice as high as the unemployment rate for white grads. Black college graduates are paid 80 cents for every dollar a white person with the same education earns. White people leave college with lower debt and higher earnings.

“It proves men like him are more willing to perpetuate the fantastic narrative of negro neighborhoods needing more role models and briefcase-carriers”

Castro is the real deal, and he really gets it. His immigration plan and his proposals for ground-level-up police reform are the best I’ve ever seen. He actually has specific, detailed plans for how to change the laws so that police can no longer get away with randomly shooting citizens, esp. of color, and how to…

TFW you use an individual’s poorly-informed (in terms of viable sources) understanding of their family history as delivered -by members of their family- as means to dismiss them.

I could, pretty readily, get into Bernie’s litany of “and then the GOP found this bit of kindling,” but I’d rather leave it at: the dude’s an…

Yep. This should be a no-brainer. Bernie’s got to go. Some other reasons: His wife tanked a college in Vermont. It was due, so far as I could discern at the time, to her really, really fucking up fundraising projections and then spending way too much money. But the whole thing had an air of sketchiness. Either way,…

Yes, giant fucking weakness. All those other candidates have a ton of skeletons and this fucking pocahontas thing makes you say Warren should drop out.

All of this conversation is always missing one major thing: it is about being a woman and successfully navigating a patriarchical world, but not changing that world. Not fixing it. Just being able to have the same advantages as members of the patriarchy doesn’t actually help other women. One by one, we have to be…

The “women support everything” mindset is deeply ingrained and what causes a lot of this crap. The old sexist cliche of the boss telling his secretary that “the place can’t run without you” isn’t untrue in the boss’s mind; without his support staff he could get nothing done. But that doesn’t mean he rewards them…

I tried that “leaning in, won’t get out of bed for less than $4 an hour / act like a man” thing - it backfired spectacularly. I now sit in the corner and make documents pretty. That is my role. For added fuckery: I am a woman writer in tech.

Because there the OPEIU is very small and hardly visible just now. It’s starting to change, but access to those large companies, law firms especially, is really difficult. Most admins don’t start off wanting to be career admins, they just get really good at it. Most of us began thinking it would do to pay rent, then…

I have never understood why legal secretaries/administrative assistants don’t unionize. Law firms would collapse without them, yet they are often the most underpaid staff in the firm. They come in early, stay late, work weekends, often on salary so they receive no overtime, all  for a bunch of cheap flowers and a…

It’s the same with Bukowski. Everybody I ever met who loved him was not just a raging egotistical douche, but convinced that raging egotistical douchiness was somehow intrinsic to their creative genius. The kind of up-their-own-ass honkeys who romanticize self-destruction and curate their own drinking problem. I’m…

To really make some money sh should charge a dollar for all the people who have trophy copies on their bookshelf/*just lying around* and have never opened it

I’ve loved Wallace’s writing for years. That being said, I really hope Mary Karr writes about this or otherwise tells her whole story. (Even from a very big fan of Wallace’s work) The deification of Wallace since his death has been exhausting. It almost entirely comes from his commencement speech to Kenyon College…

Sure, he stalked her, beat her, and threatened her life as well as the lives around her, but he wrote some stuff that seems kinda cool. So....