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Name of the Father

"Not everyone loved Jarrod's family history," explains Burchfield, Sr. "Like Ali, half of them came to see him win, the other half to see him lose."

Tim Struby
5h ago

If the mainstream should always include extremists in the conversation — if gatekeeping is useless and counterproductive — then all you have to do in order to force extremist ideas into mainstream discourse is to grab some attention. If you get a Twitch stream or a podcast and you start screaming that the Holocaust was fake, or that the USSR was good, etc., and you manage to get a decently big audience by doing this, you should now have a say in how the country is run.

1mo ago

I find myself exhausted by the way everyone processes political controversies these days, including warnings about a dire American future that are now a daily occurrence online.

3mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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