Trans ideology is mostly senseless, but it’s only marginally more senseless than the ideology it replaces.
Not that that makes it great. It just means there are two Big Stupids battling it out, while normal-ish people cringe on the sidelines.
The thing that’s really annoying to me about science twitter is the feeling that everyone on it is always At Work
— strategy consultant (@neoliberal_dad) August 8, 2020
Yeah. Fuck putting on professional airs all the time. Fuck this, fuck that, fuck all ya’ll.
Send it to my boss, his boss. I do not give a fuck.
Global warming projections are now so dire that 10 more years of staggeringly high emissions leading humanity rapidly towards a 3°C hell is now being framed as 'hopeful'. https://t.co/nFFjwYpHMp
— Ben See (@ClimateBen) August 4, 2020
I have noticed that, too. Strange how short is memory.
3 traits I’ve noticed most often in people who get cripplingly invested in culture warring:
– Lack of strong individual interests outside of group affiliations
– Sense of humor restricted to amirite and mockery
– Totalizing (hedgehog) aesthetics
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) July 15, 2020
I agree. As with many conservatives, I think the prissiness and prudishness then becomes a devoted hobby for these types.
the only reason to make a list of your important identities is so that you can destroy them https://t.co/Ow09R968um
— bowser (@browserdotsys) August 5, 2020
Why are libs so fucking obsessed with this identity bullshittery? They claim not to be nationalistic but cling to artificially-created utterly illusional neoliberal identities like it’s going to save them.
Ok, then, I’ll go:
1) Galactic Fucking Overlord
2) Galactic Fucking Overlord
3) Galactic Fucking Overlord
beginner tech support: try and fix problem, fail to find answer, get frustrated
intermediate: know enough to know user is lying, maybe succeed through clever questioning
expert: the problem is that the user is talking to you, the solution is whatever makes that stop
— Steven Binch (@GrimConch) August 8, 2020
Grizzled veteran of the tech support wars: Solve a problem in five minutes the user and their entire IT team has been working on for weeks, then both the user and the IT team get angry at you, because you’ve embarrassed them and accidentally made them look bad in front of their bosses.
That’s my life.
I was thinking about aesthetics today and obesity. And now that I think about it more deeply, much of the pushback against the reality of the harm of obesity is not about health, but the desire to be thought beautiful/attractive even though obesity is very destructive of that actuality and its claim to exist.
Because, as almost everyone knows, the absolute quickest, most surefire way to suddenly become hugely more attractive is to lose weight. And I suspect a lot of that is evolutionary, not cultural (though culture modifies it and its parameters, and it’s more complex than my gloss above).
So a lot of the Fat Acceptance movement truly does not care about health, but because losing weight is so hard for so many it attempts instead to cack-handedly modify the perception of others rather than to work on improving themselves.
Alas, for the most part, modifying the perception of other people who don’t really care about you or your particular psychoses is even more difficult than modifying and improving one’s self.
This is a bad piece, and the dumbest kind of whataboutism. https://t.co/PytGJOL6lT
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) August 7, 2020
Fuck Sarah Jeong. I will always, always hate her for what she did to Naomi Wu. Again, fuck Sarah Jeong.
That she’s also a complete idiot is some sort of revenge.
Amazing how ingrained CCP propaganda has become even in mainstream outlets that would deny it. Why is WeChat the only bridge? Because Beijing blocks everything else and censors WeChat. Why is everything about whether it upsets Beijing? Terrible framing
https://t.co/jUYkUsi73N— Space Cowboy Balding 大老板 (@BaldingsWorld) August 7, 2020
Assclown Dems screaming about Russia; meanwhile, Chinese propaganda pervades the US. Why? China had made many, many Americans very rich, and made the already-rich wealthier.
Cherry Coke Zero is basically impossible to find anymore due to the pandemic shortages.
This will not stand! My blood type is Cherry Coke Zero. I need that stuff.