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Prop 8: Here’s Why

Living in blue states and having blue friends, sometimes, I think, shelters a lot of lefties. You start thinking, “Holy fuck, what the fuck could these people possibly be thinking when they go around willy-nilly nullifying other people’s marriages? What the hell?” What you don’t realize is that all that rhetoric and scare-mongering? The “gay […]

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Why Hand-holding, Flower-loving Matriarchies Never Rang True to Me

Oh look, matriarchies can be violent (just like any other human social setup)! I admit, I write a lot of violent matriarchies. Mainly because I believe that any social setup that represses another group within it is going to be violent. The most egalitarian fantasy group I have are a bunch of polyamorous, socialist, gender-fucking

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Heroes and Monsters

A TED talk by Philip Zimbardo, most famously known for the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, about power and corruption. And power and redemption. Includes an overview of the Millgram experiment, for those unfamiliar with it. That one still terrifies the crap out of me. This is about the power of institutions and how they affect

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