Imagine traveling thousands of miles just to prove you’re as unlikable in a second language as you are in your first. That’s the JD Vance commitment to excellence in failure.

Is this what he meant by "concepts of a plan"?

One reason I think Black folks often go so hard for and remain loyal to abusers is because so much of Afro-American identity has been shaped by being abused by the people we were socialized into aspiring to be like.

White people have abused us for centuries yet we spend every day trying to be like them and have what they have. We crave whiteness and aspire towards it in nearly everything we do.

We love abusers because that’s encoded into our identity.

To reject abusers is radical.

Who is tracking the next flight from Budapest to Moscow?