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2 days ago | discourseblog.com | Katherine Krueger

Sure as night follows day, it was absolutely only a matter of time: Elon Musk and Donald Trump are no longer friends and they’re fighting like schoolyard babies online. To which I say: Let them finish each other off Bloodsport style!!Things have deteriorated fast since Musk’s recent exit from Trump’s White House.

4 days ago | discourseblog.com | Rafi Schwartz

Mortality is a weird thing. On the one hand, it can be a tremendous motivator, a ticking clock that pushes a person to make the most of their limited time. This is the “memento mori” reminder that ancient Romans would apocryphally whisper to their emperors and generals, humbling them while at the same time inspiring them to further greatness—before it’s too late.

5 days ago | discourseblog.com | Jack Mirkinson

Discourse Blog has long held the view that activist and all-around real one Greta Thunberg is awesome. Discourse Blog has also long held the view that Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham is a piece of human refuse, floating along, scaring young children, making plants wither and die merely by glancing at them, and generally infecting the world with the stench of his evil.

1 week ago | discourseblog.com | Caitlin Schneider

You know that thing people say about how every generation thinks it’s the end of the world? How at many points in human history people thought we were nearing the collapse of civilization, but then life went on, and there’s simply a cyclical nature to exactly how pronounced that feeling is, depending on what’s happening in your corner of the world during your lifetime? I find that refrain annoying on many levels…but I do tend to think there’s some amount of truth to it.

1 week ago | discourseblog.com | Jack Mirkinson

No one who looks honestly at what is happening in Gaza can really deny anymore that Israel is committing genocide. The world’s leading human rights organizations have come to this conclusion. So have the world’s leading scholars of genocide. Now, as Israel’s campaign of starvation, slaughter, and ethnic cleansing deepens further, even some prominent Israelis are beginning to admit the truth.