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“There’s a real appetite to date leftists now,” said Abby Beauregard, “but it’s really hard to find explicitly leftist dating spaces.”
Most fornication apps have a “liberal” option, but no “leftist” option, so lefty singles are finding more explicit ways to signal their politics to like-minded love matches, on Hinge and beyond. Some have turned their dating profiles into mini-manifestos, writing out their entire belief system as answers to the apps’ prompts.
“There’s a nice feeling on the apps right now with people being proud to be communists or leftists, and they’re saying that,” said Carolyn, age 38.
Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.
PJ O'Rourke
History suggests governments eventually resolve prolonged chaos the old-fashioned way: war. Whether that’s in Eastern Europe, Asia, or somewhere else, the risk is rising. For now, all we can do as individuals is insulate ourselves—financially and geographically—from, as Doug puts it, “the elephants trampling the grass.”
I’m glad to be in Uruguay. Doug Casey’s glad to be in Argentina. Here, the pace is slower, the politics are less theatrical, and the news cycle doesn’t try to kill you before breakfast.
But the U.S.? The republic is gone. The empire is in the open. And under Trump 2.0, chaos isn’t a bug in the system—it’s the system.
Matt Smith
