RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/January 2018

January 2018
The democrats at the state of the union - embarrassing. What A Year This Month Has Been. A recap of all the shit that happened in January 2018 alone. Trump Derangement Syndrome - the ABC and the SOTU. United States immigration haters want to destroy the oldest, most distinguishing, and most interesting characteristics of our nation in favor of an invented tradition of chintzy white bread garbage. The Malignant Melancholy. An absolutely brilliant article that deconstructs the fake loneliness, borne of thwarted entitlement, felt by whiny white dudes (i.e. MRAs, incels, alt-righters, etc.) versus the true loneliness, borne of oppression, felt by marginalized demographics (i.e. women, POC, LGBT people, etc.). The Strange Cases of Anti-Islam Politicians Turned Muslims in The Atlantic: politicians from Alternative für Deutschland, Party for Freedom, and Front National have converted. How Do You Rebuild Your Life After Leaving A Polygamous Sect? The challenges facing survivors of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. How ‘Cheap Sex’ Is Changing Our Lives – and Our Politics "The positive here is people have realized the experiment has been a failure – even a great number of people who voted for him." 'It's all explosive': Michael Wolff on Donald Trump Aziz Ansari accused of sexual misconduct. Bernie Sanders and the rise of social democracy in the United States. Vice has put two executives on leave as details emerge about sexual harassment allegations. James Franco accused by five women of being "sexually exploitative". Improving ourselves to death. Research and analysis of self help woo and how it came about. Celebrity politicians are a sign of the United States's political decline according to The Guardian. How the heroin trade explains the US-UK failure in Afghanistan according to The Guardian. Seven down, five to go (Moonwalkers) Sigmund Freud was a fraud and a promoter of pseudoscience. (Review of Freud: The Making of an Illusion by Frederic Crews.) Trust in digital technology will be the internet’s next frontier, for 2018 and beyond How can we tell if the President is mentally ill? Article by journalist James Hamblin covering claims that Donald Trump is mentally ill or disabled, expanding into criticisms of remote diagnosis, medical ethics, constitutional arrangements, and how much we can know of someone from their public behaviour.