On Saturday, former resident of federally subsidized artist housing Larry David published a satirical essay in the venture-backed elite leisure zine Air Mail. David has been practicing the dark art of blogging for Air Mail for a bit now, publishing a couple of Christmas-themed dispatches for their "The View From Here" vertical—imagine "Shouts & Murmurs" with an even fainter pulse—but this time he went political, setting his sights on the Democratic Socialists of America.
The piece, which Hell Gate has been referring to internally as "the cringe nuke," or TCN, is formatted as a series of proposals David made while attending a hypothetical DSA meeting—stuff like, "We'll require that all Caucasian women wear a hijab on weekends in solidarity with their Muslim sisters." Because the DSA is woke and woke is… hijab?
Some of his other satirical DSA policies include:
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