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October 23, 2020

The "sexy enemy" Halloween costume: Carnivalesque role inversion and sexual taboo bending to strengthen Us-Them boundary

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As Halloween has become adult-oriented over the past 20 years, the "sexy Halloween costume" has become standard, and was satirized...
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October 22, 2020

Programming note: Halloween season, and Millennials' inability to celebrate Halloween outside a Saturday

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Just a brief note that I will continue ignoring the 24-hour news cycle, the cravings of take junkies from social media, and so on and so for...
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October 14, 2020

Which groups are most dissimulating about Trump support, and which DGAF about elite media pressure?

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Part 1 and part 2 on the brokenness of the polls in predicting the outcome of the upcoming election. Now we'll look inside the cross-t...
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October 13, 2020

"Shy" Trump vote stronger in 2020, only revealed by impersonal questions that let respondent avoid feeling shamed by media hysteria

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Building on the previous post about how the polls are still wrong due to the warping effect of media hysteria, let's take a look at how...
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October 9, 2020

The polls are wrong again: expecting the unprecedented, and ruling out the amply attested, in a status quo election

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By this point, the results of presidential opinion polls reveal more about their own methodology, and the broader climate of opinion that is...
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October 6, 2020

TikTok trend: late 2000s revival (scene girls, Manic Pixie Dream Girls, pop punk)

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As of this year, we've left the vulnerable / refractory phase of the 15-year excitement cycle, and entered the restless / warm-up phase ...
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September 29, 2020

Realignment only after Trump's 2nd term, not during / after Biden: Disjunctive vs. rehabilitating phases of the regime cycle

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The phrase "realignment" has gotten thrown around so much over the past several years, 99% of which has been nothing more than wis...
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September 26, 2020

Slovenly chic for haughty individualist strivers

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Matt Christman from Chapo Trap House still wears diapers and makes his butler change them and wipe him down afterwards. — 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙚✨ (@a...
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September 20, 2020

Riots target squishy Democrats in (failed) attempt to amp up turnout, not Republicans to intimidate enemies

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When the riots first started, I discussed the importance of who they were targeting -- namely, their fellow liberal urbanite Democrats. The...
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