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A.R. Moxon (he/him) is author of the novel THE REVISIONARIES and the essay book VERY FINE PEOPLE. His newsletter is The Reframe: www.the-reframe.com He can climb trees, but chooses not to, recognizing that trees do not attempt to climb him. This is where he toots.

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2026-02-08 18:11:22 GMT

Today I wrote about the racist accommodation to the racist response to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show; the moral hazard of extending good faith to those who act in bad faith; and how alienating white bigots is actually part of the solution, not a part of the problem. https://www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-game/

2026-01-14 11:21:55 GMT

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In a conflict between civilians and authorities, it is civilians who should receive benefit of the doubt; who should be allowed to claim to be frightened, who should receive qualified immunity under the law.
In interactions with authority, civilians are the ones who usually wind up dead, and unlike authorities, civilians are not trained for armed conflict. Civilians have the more justifiable claim to fear—a FAR more justifiable claim.

2026-01-14 11:21:38 GMT

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If our authorities exist for the protection of the people, then the laws should exist for the protection of the people, not the protection of authorities. If the law exists for the protection of authorities, then the authorities do not exist for the protection of the people.

2026-01-14 11:21:32 GMT

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Under this framework, it is civilians who should enjoy greater considerations and protections following (hopefully rare) violent interactions. This might sound extreme or unrealistic to you; I'd invite you to sit with how obvious it is, and how warped social beliefs around policing have become.

2026-01-14 11:21:24 GMT

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This shift isn't a framework that says it is legal to go out and shoot authorities; it is rather a recognition that, in conflicts between police and civilians, it is civilians who far more justifiably can fear for their lives, and civilians who are far more justified in defending themselves.

2026-01-14 11:21:14 GMT

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What we have now is a "qualified" immunity for authority against citizens that effectively functions as absolute immunity; the legal assumption that in interactions with civilians, it is police who have the greater claim to fear, and who are justified in any force they deem appropriate in response.

2026-01-14 11:21:04 GMT

Let me give you a thought experiment:
Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.
https://www.the-reframe.com/absolute-immunity/

2026-01-12 13:09:48 GMT

This weekend, I wrote about the state murder of Renee Good, and the fascist claim that her murderer enjoys absolute immunity, and a common-sense reversal of qualified immunity that protects civilians from authorities, rather than the other way around.
https://www.the-reframe.com/absolute-immunity/

2026-01-09 13:07:04 GMT

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If you’re of the opinion that simply being frightened means authority gets to kill whoever they want, maybe shut up for the rest of your life and heal your twisted soul
Or at least considering that civilians murdering nobody have a far greater claim to fear than the heavily armed Trump Gestapo agents murdering them

2026-01-09 12:47:06 GMT

before murdering renee good, the ICE goon was frightened for his life, we’re told
It’s meant to justify the murder
nobody telling us this ever seems to wonder whether the woman who was murdered might have been afraid for her life
killing because you’re afraid is only for cops, it seems

2025-12-29 10:48:04 GMT

Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.

2025-12-24 03:13:44 GMT

As a conservative Christian college student, it’s my firm religious belief that the correct answer to every question—in this test or any other, whether multiple-choice, essay, or oral examination—is C, and if you don’t give me full credit then you are taking away my freedom of religion and secret police should take you away to protect free speech.

2025-12-22 18:57:10 GMT

CBS really Bari'd the story, huh

2025-12-22 13:03:06 GMT

lady looks like she's about to ask the ghostbusters if they're gods.
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2025-11-03 12:31:53 GMT

I wrote about Nazism in a small Michigan town, and in a large North American country; about the uses of and limits of shame; and on the importance of holding shared standards. https://www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of-shame/

2025-10-29 11:44:04 GMT

When you're right, you're right.
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2025-10-18 11:39:28 GMT

did you guys hear that the adult leaders of the hitler youth were using slurs in their group chat

2025-10-12 16:05:07 GMT

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.
https://www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of-human-virtue/

2025-10-10 12:28:13 GMT

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

2025-10-05 10:17:52 GMT

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."
-Anne Frank
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/us/chicago-apartment-ice-raid

2025-09-30 09:42:27 GMT

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

2025-09-26 11:21:37 GMT

you guys don't mock the president. my own grandfather was murdered when an escalator stopped, launching him 700 feet through a hotel lobby and into the open mouth of a waiting anaconda

2025-09-23 10:19:55 GMT

Trump: you can't fit all that liquid in a single baby, there's no way
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the number of liquid
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: it's just too big a number of liquid for baby
Headline: Scientists uncertain about Trump vaccine claims.

2025-09-16 10:11:12 GMT

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think
Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

2025-09-13 18:29:03 GMT

"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
https://www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-losses/

2025-09-13 11:14:08 GMT

"I think that’s what lies at the bottom of supremacy’s well: a fear of death, set within such a morally childish framework that it would be unfair to infants to call it infantile. It’s a belief that we won’t have to die, if other people do the dying for us."
https://www.the-reframe.com/the-die-ers/

2025-09-12 18:22:40 GMT

We sternly warn the left not to politicize the tragedy caused by our politics.

2025-08-30 13:04:05 GMT

"President Trump dead today, eaten by a tyrannosaurus rex while sitting fully nude on a golden toilet."
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2025-08-24 15:03:04 GMT

Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward.
Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursuing everything.
https://www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-trolley-problem/

2025-08-22 09:35:30 GMT

In the final analysis, a billion monkeys chained to a billion typewriters may indeed produce Hamlet, but anyone who would chain a billion monkeys to a billion typewriters isn't going to appreciate or recognize Hamlet when it finally emerges.

2025-08-08 11:44:40 GMT

If having principles about human rights is a purity test, then let’s have purity tests.

2025-07-31 11:36:18 GMT

The reason Substack pushed a Nazi blog onto people's phones is because—as founder Hamish McKenzie said in his response to Substackers Against Nazis 2 yrs ago—he believes it is valuable and important to platform Nazi voices.
This sort of thing is not a one-off. https://www.the-reframe.com/questions-for-substack/

2025-07-29 11:06:54 GMT

There appear to be two and only two mainstream opinion pieces now: 1) why the natural disgust and anger you feel is counterproductive and the obvious atrocity that elicited that reaction is complicated; 2) Nazi parents who want to liquidate your child for existing have several valid concerns, too

2025-07-27 11:25:18 GMT

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Happily, it so happens there is a very specific remedy set aside within our Constitution specifically for the occasion of a president posing a threat to our democracy and its people and the Constitution itself. This process is known as impeachment.

2025-07-27 11:25:08 GMT

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Any eventual Museum of Trump's Dangers to Democracy will have several wings; one devoted to corruption, one devoted to kidnapping and brutality forces, one devoted to the insurrection, one for collusion with foreign governments, and so on. www.trumpactiontracker.info

2025-07-27 11:24:53 GMT

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Most every Democrat in Congress will agree that Donald Trump is a danger to our democracy. This statement is not just true; it’s an understatement. Trump is a danger to democracy in the same way as an active fire is a danger to a building.

2025-07-27 11:24:38 GMT

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My second point is that Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy and to everyone living in it, and that means that he must be impeached, as much as possible, as often as possible.
https://citizensimpeachment.com/?ref=the-reframe.com

2025-07-27 11:24:05 GMT

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No one who actually believed the dire nature of my warning would be behaving this way. My actions would speak over my words.
What's my point?
My first point is that people tend to disbelieve stories when the actions don't meet the words—even if the story is true. In fact, if the actions of those telling the story don't match their words, people tend to stop believing the story is true despite mounting evidence of its veracity.

2025-07-27 11:23:47 GMT

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You might start to wonder if I was having a laugh, or taking the piss, or mobbing the jolly, or some other British expression I may or may not have made up meaning “unserious person.” Your confusion would be understandable, because my actions wouldn’t be telling a story consistent with my words.

2025-07-27 11:23:35 GMT

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What if I refused to call the fire department (let's pretend I have the only phone), explaining that unfortunately the fire department wasn't close enough to the building to successfully fight the fire?

2025-07-27 11:23:27 GMT

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But what if I then returned to my office and very calmly went back to work? What if, after warning of a horrible fire, I refused to pull the fire alarm, explaining that fire alarms are a loud distraction, and generally unpopular with the building's other residents?

2025-07-27 11:23:16 GMT

Say we're working at the top of a tall building. If I burst into your office and say "the building is on fire!" you'll be thinking of evacuation, of raising the alarm, calling the fire department—and understandably so. A building on fire is very bad news.
https://www.the-reframe.com/impeachment-is-a-duty/

2025-07-14 01:26:28 GMT

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2025-07-13 17:21:21 GMT

I wrote about being a person of privilege in a supremacist society while trying to oppose supremacy, and the some ideas on how best to avoid becoming an obstacle to that struggle.
https://www.the-reframe.com/be-bolder-not-a-boulder/

2025-07-10 09:54:56 GMT

We sternly warn the left not to politicize the tragedy caused by our politics.

2025-07-06 12:53:28 GMT

*observing a man being choked to death* listen man, I'm with you in your struggle but only if this stays completely peaceful

2025-07-04 17:04:13 GMT

On my country's 249th birthday, I wrote about the problem of sharing a nation with millions of evil people, and how to live a human life in the face of overwhelming inhumanity.
Oh and the Beastie Boys make an appearance.
https://www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-good-deed-in-a-weary-world/

2025-07-04 14:39:37 GMT

If you’re a Republican who isn’t a Nazi, yes you are.

2025-06-21 17:04:56 GMT

I finally wrote about the great episode of LOST, The Constant.
https://www.the-reframe.com/lost-038-a-constant-of-sorrows-i-am-man/

2025-06-19 12:05:56 GMT

Put Weird Al in charge of everything until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

2025-06-16 11:13:18 GMT

In the linked essay, I mention Nancy Mace's standard TERF question, asked most recently to Tim Walz: "What is a woman?"
My answer is simple. A woman is not a *what.* A woman is a *who.*
I want to expand a bit from the essay on why I think this matters.
https://www.the-reframe.com/shows-of-weakness/

2025-06-13 11:40:18 GMT

It's hard to credit MAGA with ignorance. If they were ignorant they'd sometimes accidentally choose less evil over more evil, but no. No matter where you set them, no matter how many times you spin them around, their moral compasses point with unerring certainty toward maximum atrocity and cruelty.

2025-06-12 22:56:22 GMT

“The reason we can say that the Republican Party is a hate group is that we’ve seen politically empowered and popular hate groups before, and they look like the Republican Party. More importantly, they act like the Republican Party.”
https://www.the-reframe.com/the-elephant-in-the-room/

2025-06-08 12:08:06 GMT

"If we'd do well to use the split between Musk and Trump as an occasion to welcome Musk into the big tent, wouldn't we do just as well to welcome Trump into the big tent, too? If one mass-murdering Nazi billionaire in the tent is good, wouldn't two be better?"
https://www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-middle/

2025-05-28 11:01:18 GMT

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If I could change one thing about US culture, it would be this unshakeable and absolutely backward belief that life must be earned, and generating profit is how you earn it.
Life is a human right. Profit must be earned, and those who want to earn it must respect human rights in order to do so.

2025-05-28 11:01:11 GMT

Pretty wild to be living in a time when humans are being forced to work in order to even be considered deserving of life or even to be considered human at all, while simultaneously human labor is being systematically eliminated from the concept of work.

2025-05-19 10:25:58 GMT

If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/534/004/909/187/893/original/3075cece43358fd3.png

2025-05-11 13:36:24 GMT

I wrote about our Kidnapping & Enslavement forces, the traditional notions that government is made for profit and human beings are meant for efficiency, and the ways these notions inevitably lead to enslavement.
The profit we gain from society IS society.
https://www.the-reframe.com/our-purpose-isnt-efficiency

2025-05-10 12:20:44 GMT

The ethos of MAGA is demolishing livable society for themselves because they are so captured by bigotry that the thought of sharing a livable society with others causes them psychological trauma. They've sold their inheritance for a bowl of poison, and they lick their fingers as they gobble it down.

2025-04-26 13:46:32 GMT

A look at one of the most pressing problems of 2023: the lament that "the left" wouldn't be friends with "the right," over "political views."
Defining these terms and dealing with a strange spectacle: the world's most unfriendly people, demanding friendliness.
https://www.the-reframe.com/if-you-want-to-be-friends-then-why/

2025-04-19 11:25:27 GMT

"I didn’t always believe that Republicans were fascist, but I do now. I was persuaded. Who persuaded me, you might ask? Guess what—it was Republicans themselves. They've been very persuasive."
From 2023, on bullies, persuasion, and the margins of permission:
https://www.the-reframe.com/youve-persuaded-us-already/

2025-04-18 11:53:25 GMT

The thing that’s very important to remember about American conservatives and any other sort of fascist is that anytime they posit some value or principle or positive outcome, they are lying, often to themselves. Every time they talk about stealing and enslaving and murdering and terrorizing, they are telling the truth.

2025-04-12 12:15:01 GMT

Hey my reflections on leaving Substack a year ago are on Techdirt. Isn't that neat? https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/11/a-newsletter-writer-reflects-on-leaving-substack/

2025-04-04 11:46:06 GMT

I for one am amazed that allowing the world's stupidest man to bellow like an idiot while swinging a sledgehammer into every surface encountered has not fixed all of our problems but has instead made all problems worse and caused new ones. It makes no sense; he had the longest tie, the goldest hair.

2025-03-29 15:39:48 GMT

I used the 1-year anniversary of moving my newsletter off of Substack (they monetize Nazis among other things it turns out) to write a few thoughts on the lessons I've learned from the experience.
https://www.the-reframe.com/1-year-after-substack

2025-03-25 02:06:05 GMT

Brb just texting war plans in an unsecured group chat, we white guys are always the best candidates for any important job.

2025-03-22 11:40:37 GMT

I'm no epidemiologist, but what if for public health we got rid of all the scientists and their centuries of human knowledge clawed from the vast sea of human ignorance with rigor and testing, and turn it all over to people who were educated by vape-pen bro podcasts and their own magical thinking.

2025-03-21 17:38:14 GMT

I’m not an efficiency expert but for our space program I think the best thing would be to shut down the federal agency that successfully implemented history’s first moon landing and turn it all over to a white supremacist con man who glues his trucks together.

2025-03-12 12:29:19 GMT

Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.

2025-03-06 20:29:11 GMT

Democrats giving up on trans rights because they poll badly is like a sports team deciding to score on their own goal instead of the opponent’s because that’s what’s been getting the loudest cheers lately.

2025-03-05 20:31:23 GMT

Republicans are going to demolish the country and then they’re going to say that Biden did it and all of these Nazi maga dipshits who only want genocide and slavery to come back are going to pretend they believe it because that’s easier than facing the horrifyingly failed reality of themselves.

2025-03-01 12:55:13 GMT

Not uniquely evil for the U.S. to stand in solidarity with a despot aggressor and in opposition to a democracy when that democracy is inconvenient and the despot is convenient, but the Zelenskyy shakedown strikes me as uniquely unprofessional. Trump/Vance are sloppy mob henchmen, real Fredo shit.

2025-02-23 15:15:57 GMT

I wrote about our foundational supremacist culture, its inevitable outcomes of genocide and slavery, and suggest 3 principles for building counterculture.
Imagining the best so we will know it when we move toward it.
https://www.the-reframe.com/building-counterculture/

2025-02-20 02:21:20 GMT

I have learned in recent years there are 10s of millions of Americans not only willing but eager to go watch a lynching from the comfort of a picnic blanket and the only thing that was holding them back was the social penalty; really makes you think about those who warn against social penalties.

2025-02-18 11:42:18 GMT

Ninja Costello: Look all I wanna know is can you tell me what are those little pointed throwing stars
Ninja Abbott: shurikan
Ninja Costello: then why don't you do it?
Ninja Abbott: I keep telling you 'shurikan'
Ninja Costello: YOU KEEP TELLIN' ME YOU'LL TELL ME BUT YA NEVER GET AROUND TO TELLIN'

2025-02-16 14:30:30 GMT

I wrote about the worst people in the world, charting the depths of their depravity and vastness of their incompetence, and offered some thoughts about the opportunity presented by their failure to acknowledge reality and their refusal to access any form of human virtue.
https://www.the-reframe.com/the

2025-02-15 20:39:19 GMT

No fights are the wrong fight to pick. Pick every fight. Fight these fascist fuckers every time about everything. Fight them even when they aren't fighting. If they run away, chase them and keep fighting them until they beg to stop and then fight even harder.

2025-02-12 11:41:56 GMT

This "Gulf of America" is just another fascist loyalty test. It's a way of checking who is going to abrogate reality for no reason other than a cowardly refusal to stand up to the bully or an opportunistic willingness to toady up to one. Anyone who will call it that will help you round people up into camps or look the other way while you do it. Anyone who won't puts themselves on the round-up list.

2025-02-12 00:51:39 GMT

If the president can ignore court orders and illegally circumvent Congress, there is no Constitution. It’s gone. There’s no enumerated right that the president can’t take from you, no law Congress can pass that is binding, and no court that can protect you from any of it. It’s the whole ballgame.

2025-02-11 12:34:02 GMT

In 2023 I wrote about my bully, margins of permission, and the popular misguided idea that the way to stop fascists is by persuading them them to not be cruel, rather than persuading them that if they are cruel we will fight them—because a bully hates a fight.
https://www.the-reframe.com/youve-persuaded-us-already/

2025-01-31 02:38:50 GMT

Anyway all Republicans are despicable fucking human beings and should be shunned from polite society if any such thing still exists, Jesus fucking Christ blaming a tragic plane crash on diversity to cover the fact that you fucked the FAA, just the biggest pieces of shit in the world.

2025-01-31 02:01:57 GMT

50 or 100 times a day this week I have wondered how so many people became so morally dead inside as to not only accept grotesque cruelty and bigotry but cheer it, often for no other detectable reason than that human suffering seems to make them cheerful. Not even greed; just a love of cruelty. Humans who have made monsters of themselves by hating humanity so much they delete their own humanity.

2025-01-20 17:35:23 GMT

I wrote about the fascist party that's taking power, the deepest natural laws that they oppose, the ways that this opposition renders them fundamentally, illegitimate no matter what power they hold, and what that means for all of us.
https://www.the-reframe.com/the-moon-is-down/

2025-01-18 17:44:20 GMT

I wrote about the coming fascist oligarchy, the billionaire scam upon which it rests, and the nature and purpose of game we need to play in order to become people of opposition. Transforming the national spirit, expanding the scope of possibility. Part 1.
https://www.the-reframe.com/demolishing-the-billionaire-scam/

2025-01-10 13:09:41 GMT

"Physics doesn’t care about wealth; if natural systems protecting humans from laws of physics fail, physics will crush rich and poor alike. When it comes to the planet we’re all in the same boat, so our planet becoming inhospitable ought to be a concern to all."
https://www.the-reframe.com/all-in-the-same-boat/

2025-01-09 20:42:45 GMT

“Fascists love to tell us that their numbers are great. They hate hearing that our numbers are also great. They want us to think we have a them problem, and we do. But we should not forget to give them an us problem.”
https://www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-the-dark/

2025-01-09 11:59:28 GMT

"If one team playing the game stops following the rules, and nothing exists to stop them ... then you aren’t playing that game anymore. You’re playing a different game, defined by the people allowed to go on breaking the rules."
www.the-reframe.com/the-rules/

2025-01-05 18:31:52 GMT

Lessons from the election: How defending a people-eating system is an electoral liability; how we don't win fights if we don't fight; how we aren't the opponent of those we won't oppose; and how those who do not lead us where we need to go are not our leaders.
https://www.the-reframe.com/being-more-like-republicans/

2024-12-29 15:31:04 GMT

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In August I wrote about a turbo-creep VP candidate and his statements about women, and what it indicates that the people like JD Vance, who seem to provide our society with the least value, seem most confident in declaring the worthlessness of everyone else.
https://www.the-reframe.com/the-whole-purpose/

2024-12-29 15:30:49 GMT

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In April I wrote about the electoral math that the Democratic Party appeared to be applying, and the dangers—both moral and electoral—of running the same old plays, particularly when they fail to create sharp points of differentiation from eliminationist fascists. https://www.the-reframe.com/the-bloody-math/

2024-12-29 15:30:35 GMT

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In January, I wrote about my decision to move The Reframe off Substack, which is a platform I quite liked and upon which I had enjoyed quite a bit of success. I lay out the reasons here (Nazis, mostly). https://www.the-reframe.com/hello-i-must-be-going/

2024-12-29 15:30:22 GMT

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But that's what's ahead. Right now I'm looking back at the year that was.
I did a lot of writing on here, it turns out, and some of it I still like OK. So here are six essays from 2024 that I think are best.

2024-12-29 15:29:56 GMT

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I've got an essay teed up about that capitulation; a follow-up to last week's post about the murderous scam that is my nation's founding myth. And, because I can only stare at the eye of Sauron so long at a time, I'll do another palate-cleansing LOST recap soon.
https://www.the-reframe.com/a-system-built-to-eat-people-never-stops-eating/

2024-12-29 15:29:42 GMT

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And now we're witnessing a near total capitulation by our national institutions to the incompetent oligarchical American fascist party that will be taking the reins in a few weeks. This is a gang of empty-souled corrupt thugs and sex-obsessed bigoted religious creeps, and man fuck those guys I says.

2024-12-29 15:29:32 GMT

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For example, we had a slow seemingly inevitable crawl toward electoral defeat to some of the most horrible people the universe has ever produced, abetted at least in part by Democratic unwillingness to stop providing military and political support to the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

2024-12-29 15:29:23 GMT

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And everyone in my life stayed healthy, and there was no water damage to my house, which isn't always the case in every year. Not bad!
However, in many ways, this year was not a great one here for decent people in my country of the United States of America, and even less great in many other places.

2024-12-29 15:29:12 GMT

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And I published my second book, the essay collection VERY FINE PEOPLE, with the help of all of you nice people, especially the patrons who support me at the level I still for some reason (laziness) call Founding, some 3 years after the founding. https://www.the-reframe.com/a-very-fine-publication-date/

2024-12-29 15:28:56 GMT

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One good thing about this year is that for the first time in the history of the newsletter, I'm not announcing a move to some other site, and that is a considerable relief. Also, I spent the entirety of this year on the sunny side of 50, though I imagine the upcoming post-50 side is sunny enough.

2024-12-29 15:28:39 GMT

Well, it looks like we've had another year. We got it fresh and now it's blown all to hell. We just keep having those things whether anyone thinks it's a good idea or not; and it looks almost certain now that in a few days we're going to have another one.
https://www.the-reframe.com/annual-round-up-2024/

2024-12-29 12:23:56 GMT

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