Meta-Trans: Gender, Ethnicity/Race, and Transitioning between Them
This is probably going to get me a lot of flak but I realized that I’d be shying away from
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This is probably going to get me a lot of flak but I realized that I’d be shying away from
I think a lot of the societal breakdown we are seeing is a matter of human psychology — designed for
In the 1930s, Fascism was surprisingly popular in the US. Then a World War made the word anathema, but wanting
Social market dynamics are driving the ever-greater fracturing of public discourse. Can it be pulled back together? In this episode
The American political bubbles are now made of steel; we share fake news that reinforces our beliefs, and reject realities
In the words of the legendary Terry Pratchett, in the Discworld novel The Truth: “A lie can get halfway around