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Somebody with a budget said it often enough that you stopped checking. https://wargr.com/raise-others/2026-07-12 https://wargr.com/assets/articles/raise-others.jpg Raise others to your level Raise others to your level, an essay by Michael Wargr. https://wargr.com/assets/articles/raise-others-og.jpg Raise others to your level social card It is easy to celebrate someone rising until their growth exposes the place in you that has stayed still. https://wargr.com/mercy-of-death/2026-07-12 https://wargr.com/assets/articles/mercy-of-death.jpg The Strange Mercy of Death The Strange Mercy of Death, an essay by Michael Wargr. https://wargr.com/assets/articles/mercy-of-death-og.jpg The Strange Mercy of Death social card Most people treat death as a distant abstraction. I met it at fifteen, and it never went back to being an idea. https://wargr.com/knowing-yourself/2026-07-12 https://wargr.com/assets/articles/knowing-yourself.jpg The side effect of knowing yourself The side effect of knowing yourself, an essay by Michael Wargr. https://wargr.com/assets/articles/knowing-yourself-og.jpg The side effect of knowing yourself social card The most confident people I have known never seem particularly interested in the question of how they look. That, it turns out, is the trick. https://wargr.com/fuck-you-nazi-scum/2026-07-12 https://wargr.com/assets/articles/fuck-you-nazi-scum.jpg Fuck you, Nazi scum Fuck you, Nazi scum, an essay by Michael Wargr. https://wargr.com/assets/articles/fuck-you-nazi-scum-og.jpg Fuck you, Nazi scum social card Everyone knows Nazis sit on the far right. 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