I actually think lack of empathy and class exploitation are—get this!—complicatedly interrelated variables! Though boots’s humane Marxist approach is definitely cool! Fuck leftist bros who use Marx to justify being dicks to everyone.

Happy Pride everyone!

Holy Father the post will perform better if you append the url in a threaded reply as opposed to linking it in the tweet

Technological progress — valuable in itself — requires careful discernment of the anthropological vision that guides it and the ends it pursues. If technological development advances without a corresponding ethical and social progress, the result may be an increase in means without a growth in humanity: “having more” without “being more.” There is a risk that individuals will be evaluated principally according to the outcomes they produce. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…

I like this pope enough that I would consider converting to Catholicism if they weren’t weird about women and gays.

Barney Frank missed his chance to be a professional TV reviewer in his retirement—it was a better vehicle for his natural bitchiness. Look up his review of House Of Cards, it was hilarious!

Is there a pop star whose catalog is “beloved” whose lyrics are as consistently terrible as Michael Jackson?

Well this is horrific.