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Feb
13
Date Down
Had a few tweets talking about someone who got cancelled due to some consensual but inappropriate affairs.
Deleted them.
No upside to discussing this stuff. It's taboo. No punishment is too harsh for these people in the current atmosphere. Everyone's Weinstein bad. No degrees.
— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) February 13, 2020
I think a lot of this comes from the much higher college attendance and graduation rates of women. This makes it very hard for them to find “appropriate” partners as they mostly refuse to date down (for some understandable reasons).
Since women are competing for a small and ever-decreasing pool of males, they are now more stringently policing this dating market. Thus the expansion of #metoo beyond all reason. This also partially explains the rise of prudishness.
Punishing other women while pretending to punish men is an excellent way to “clear” the dating market and reduce competition. This explains a lot of what you’re seeing with all this.
Feb
12
Capitalism Protection Program
Your body is the most precious asset you own.
Not taking care of it is nothing but reckless.
— Preethi Kasireddy (@iam_preethi) February 12, 2020
I agree with this, especially when you consider that your body includes your brain which instantiates your mind.
This is why I am 100% fundamentally and ideologically opposed to the Fat Acceptance movement and their ilk. Believing in such a thing as FA is a desecration of your self and a protracted corruption of the one gift that is yours and yours alone. It is sacrilege and a heresy against one’s self.
Feb
12
Minotaur
Troubleshooting WMI problems makes me want to drive a tractor like how is this a real subsystem that exists on a billion computers
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) February 12, 2020
Many people enter the uncanny maze that is WMI. Few people leave. Those who do escape come back changed — just a little bit different. A little off. They’ve seen things they can’t name, can’t describe, can’t contain properly in their mind. And a little of that aberrance slips out in the way they smile, in how they hold their head, in a faraway look that forever witnesses a black sun setting for the last time in an airless void.
This is WMI. There is no going back after.
Feb
12
One Day Pro
One day, we will look back at listing our pronouns in our bios and after our names as being as archaic and bizarre as wearing codpieces and referring to one another as “your humble servant” and the like.
Feb
12
We Shill Be Released
Woke theory dictates that to succeed at all is to *necessarily* never have been oppressed, and all that's left for you then is to be — and always have been — the oppressor, or a silent ally thereof. It's not only ahistorical, but a blatantly ludicrous attempt at writing reality https://t.co/MSbmm7iMAs
— Mason 🏃🏻✂️ (@webdevMason) February 12, 2020
“Intersectionality” like “privilege” is something that should’ve never escaped academia. There, it is useful. Outside of that it’s just leveraged by neoliberals masquerading as progressive to obtain and hold power.
Feb
12
Win
A margin call is when you find out you've failed a real life IQ test… https://t.co/qdevutFoME
— Fat Tony (@FattestFatTony) July 18, 2019
True. I know or knew personally many people who failed that IQ test. Told me my trades were bad. I still have all my money and more. They lost all theirs.
I win.
Feb
12
Left In Front
The main problem with the left’s compulsory sexual libertinism is that it’s neurotic not erotic
— Anna Khachiyan (@annakhachiyan) November 14, 2019
And what there is of it, is all performative. Most of them are deeply prudish in really hilarious ways.
Feb
12
Pallmall
A few years ago I was hanging out with a friend who is significantly younger than me. We went to a mall as she needed to buy a gift for her mom. It was of course nearly deserted as malls these days tend to be. I told her that back in the 1980s that malls were nearly always jam-packed with people, even on weekdays.
She said she’d never been in a mall that was crowded. Not once in her life (she was around 20 or 21). I described to her how back in 1986, say, it often was hard to walk in malls unimpeded as they were just awash in people. And during Christmas season it was a whole other level of cheek by jowl humanity.
Times change, of course, and I didn’t care much for malls when I was young. But I think I kind of liked them better when they weren’t ghost towns. It was before society and everyone in it had fully deserted one another and thinking about how malls used to be reminds me of that time before we’d all just given up.
Feb
12
Biden Not Time
It’s looking less and less likely that Biden is a contender and that’s great.