I take my old discord rants (and some new ones) and turn them into articles for the void....
The thing about a forum for a "debatebro" streamer is that everything kind of leaks out from the format. There are no more people in front of you, only interlocutors. It took 20 minutes to agree with someone because any slight ambiguity in language was viewed as an attempt to downplay, to sidestep, to talk down the issue. Why? They are not prepared for a human being. They are prepared for a…
I am a TA, watching a teacher come into primary school and have to be taught by the kids what a "fronted adverbial for time" is. Why? Because we used to teach people how to write instead.
I was dumb enough to argue on discord again. The following article is going to read as unkind, and unfortunately this feels unavoidable because the facts of what's being presented are simply unkind on its face. The following is a discussion of the very bones of reality, of the nature of empathy itself, and no matter how hard you try, you will leave something of yourself on the table when you…
On 28/2/98, Andrew Wakefield published a (now retracted) study in The Lancet, supposedly linking the cause of autism to MMR vaccines through a disease in the gut. Unlike most researchers, the first thing he did was call a press meeting . Through his position in the medical field, and his newfound immediate proximity with the press, Mr. Wakefield was able to immediately present his new findings as…
On the 29th of April 2026 three men were stabbed in Golders Green. Two of them were Jewish, most people didn't hear about the third. This is of course, not because the first two were Jewish, but because the third was a Muslim. On the night of the 4th of May 2026, a former synagogue, which is currently being purchased as a site for a new Islamic community centre, was set alight. Counter Terror…
I recognise that a lot of my readers are American so I'm going to attempt to explain British politics in an article I can reference in the future. Right now we're at a turning point, the current traditional two parties may occupy the opposition and the leaders of the government, but take up neither second or first in the polls as things stand so how did we get here? Labour Labour have a historic…
Often when the middle east is discussed as a target of occupation, war, genocide etc, we see similar points brought up over and over and over again. “Did you know that they throw gay people off of rooftops? Did you know that they treat women like scum and force them to be covered?” One question these people are seemingly never asked is “do you think invading these countries will actually fix those…
One of the wildest realisations of the world of the online left is that some people's perspectives are informed more by what polling data says than the narrative that surrounds that data. I think a textbook example was during the election of Zohran Mamdani. The right leaning contingent of the server I was in told me that Mamdani wasn't polling well with black voters in some kind of fake idpol own.…
Case Study 1: Me Before we start let's clarify my background, I am of Turkish Cypriot descent, a third generation product of the diaspora following the attempted ethnic cleansing of Turkish Cypriots from the island. My Dad's side of the family are often mistaken for being Indian or South Asian as they are darker than other Turks, and we think this is where our surname comes from, as it is not…
To Start: Some Clarification I want to be clear about what kind of racism we are dealing with before we begin. This is not about the canteen lady who asked me (one of the only brown kids) if I knew the ham and cheese panini had pork in it for seven years straight, it isn't about the microaggressions, the othering, the dirty looks. The internalised product of the horrors of the United Kingdom are…