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- Nonetheless, I don’t think this is the leftism we will wind up with. Tribalism is in the air, on the left as well as on the right. It is based on a scarcity mentality, the idea that life is a zero-sum war between us and them. It emphasizes division and conflict, not solidarity and cohesion. It draws out the authoritarian tendencies in any movement. On the right, tribalism brings us the ethnic authoritarianism of Donald Trump. On the left, it seems likely to bring us the economic authoritarianism of a North American version of Hugo Chávez.
There's gotta be some sort of Godwin's Law about 'wingers and Venezuela.
I'm tired of using my allotted NYT articles I get without a subscription on this guy. And I don't see a near future where I can subscribe so that I can read Brooks' and sexual marketplace guy's takes that usually either piss me off or annoy me. That may sound pithy and annoyed but I'm actually frustrated because I want to kindle my superiority with the words of David Brooks.
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am_Unition · 2747 days ago · link ·
I use the Firefox Focus app (thanks veen) on my iPhone. It’s only somewhat inconvenient to copy links over from Safari, but it skirts the article limit. I’m sure there’s an equivalent anonymous browser if you’re on Android.