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"The cruelty is the point" This is the title of an important article from last year about the ideology of our current regime. Namely, that it indulges in such gratuitously cruel stupidity that one wonders, simply… why? Why bother? Well, it's because it's designed

The Illiberal Right Throws a Tantrum - The Atlantic I'm seeing a word more and more pop up in the screeds of the right-wing thinkers trying to come up with an ideological justification for that which cannot be justified (Trump's ego-driven regime) - "integralism"

Top Streamers Said to Earn $50,000 Per Hour Playing New Games - Kotaku When I wrote my gaming blog in the far mists of prehistory (1998-2001) and it became popular, I started flying out to game companies to do developer interviews. I paid my own way out of pocket,

My take on the state of play for the Dem. nomination (get used to a lot of these!) in order of the latest polling. Biden: "officially launched his campaign" this weekend, which is effectively meaningless in this day and age. Has what seems like a prohibitive edge in

Rep. Justin Amash Says Trump Should Be Impeached - The Washington Post Libertarians have gotten a bad rap of late, justifiably. I know, I used to be one! I thought that was the ideal, you know, let everyone do what they want and stuff works out. Well, stuff is not

China's New Video Game Rules Officially Ban Blood, Corpses, Mahjong, and Poker - Gizmodo Welcome to the latest iterations of "reasons the Ministry of Culture rejected your publishing application". They're all a joke. These are literally reasons to come up with after the fact

The Mueller Report is dropping this morning. It’s completely meaningless. Here’s why. * There are no charges within it we already don’t know about. The President and his aides are not going to be led out of the White House in cuffs, gifs to the contrary. * Your mind