No better way for liberals to honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day than arguing that Racism is unrelated to capitalism
— Jellicle Chad (@PrettyBadLefty) January 18, 2020
Oh, that’s going to make a lot “progressives” angry. The progressive and liberal cause is lost. I no longer identify with any of that or support even in principle, because it no longer credible in the world as now configured. It’s a dead end.
Many liberals today get so angry when you point out that our bad economy is a major contributor to the rise of the far right. But here’s a 2009 report from Obama’s Department of Homeland Security making that exact point. pic.twitter.com/ykqgSoLX5e
— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) October 28, 2018
The truth basically doesn’t matter to anyone. Facts are irrelevant and becoming more so by the day. I used to think liberals were better than conservatives, but they’re not. It’s just that their fantasies sometimes accidentally comport with a version of the real world more often than conservative’s imaginings. It’s just that, though: accidental. I wish I could believe anything else but the evidence is just too apparent.
“Being occasionally destroyed is, I think, a necessary part of the human experience.”
-Catherine Lacey in Nobody Is Ever Missing
I watched Ready or Not with Samara Weaving.
A sharp little movie that was buried putatively because it was to be released shortly after a mass shooting (which movie is not, these days?), but really was shelved because it’s extremely anti-plutocrat, portraying them as people who’ve sold their souls and relinquished their humanity for wealth, but aren’t actually even really competent at anything. So, much like real life.
Weaving gives a great performance as Grace. I can’t explain this scene in depth because it’d require too much background, but following the carnage she endures, and all the trauma that she’s experienced, after her husband who of late had been trying to murder her explodes in front of her, some of his blood and viscera splatters into Grace’s mouth and onto her face.
She’s already seen and done so much she’s not disgusted by it, or really bothered by anything anymore. She smacks her lips a few times and gives an almost-perceptible look saying, “Ok, whatever” and almost seems to be laughing at herself — presumably at the contrast of who she was a few hours before to now, from happy bride to mouth filled with blood in a burning house.
It’s a great scene, both explosive in its effects and subtle in its acting. It’s a flawless juxtaposition. (And I’d bet the lip smacks were improvised.) Lady has talent. Movie is good. Recommended.
Had an online algorithm white board exam for an iOS native position. Neither Swift nor Objective-C was an option in the software. The interviewer wouldn’t let me use C because he only knew Java. At the end of the interview he said the recruiter didn’t tell him I was not technical https://t.co/Mu8hqUF7gD
— Janie Larson (@RedQueenCoder) January 17, 2020
I’ve had a whole lot of bad job interviews which just goes with being in tech I think. Many I’ve walked out on. The worst was probably one where I was supposed to be interviewing for a Windows/Exchange admin position and the interviewer kept asking me mainframe and AS/400 questions. I said that I wasn’t familiar with those technologies, never said I was, and I was unsure why I was being asked about those as I had no interest in or experience with them.
The interviewer aggressively said to my polite query, “I’ll ask about whatever I want to ask about,” and I said, “Well, I’ll leave whenever I want to leave, then,” stood up and did just that.
Always stuns people. But the fucks I do not give are vast.
Disagreeing with a woman is now “sexual assault.” Good times in Hell world.
US Court: Wearing Unearned Military Medals Is Free Speech.
I agree with this. Strangely, I don’t give a crap about some mook wearing some medals he didn’t earn. Most military people can tell after even a second looking at him, and definitely after talking to him or any people like this for two seconds.
It’s irrelevant to my life if someone wants to make themselves look like a fool.
Every time I see one of those posts from a 23 year old woman about how straight guys will only have a mattress on the floor and a card table I remember I used to live that way because I was paycheck to paycheck and still coming up short, and had no friends and severe depression
— McKinsey Foucault (@neoliberal_dad) January 15, 2020
Eh, feminism has just become elite upper 20% competition between women now, largely about policing and upholding their assortative mating preferences and strictures. Why would you expect anything else?
Seeing more and people refer to the medical system in this country as a “crime cartel” and “organized criminal enterprise.” I am not responsible for this, as it’s an obvious conclusion given the evidence, but glad it is spreading.
This man is not a “Romeo”.
Revolting, inaccurate and irresponsible headline. https://t.co/3obFmhMbU9
— Elaine Milton (@oratorio_silver) January 17, 2020
If you’d ever read Romeo and Juliet, then you’d know he actually is a Romeo.
Romeo in the play was violent, impulsive, feckless and short-sighted — just like this dude. The headline is therefore 100% accurate.
The Green New Deal Is Not the Radical Position, It Is the Compromise Position.
The GND is about 20% of what we actually need to do. People have no idea how much climate change is going to destroy and re-shape. We can either be in control of this inevitable process or it can be in control of us.
We will it seems choose the latter.
1. I've thought a lot about why the left largely ignores @Chris_arnade's remarkable book, Dignity, a book on poverty and class in America. I think it's because he challenges the core identity of Democrats, and they can't see in the blind spot he identifies.
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) July 7, 2019
There is so much vitriol against Arnade by the pseudo-left that something odd must be going on there. I think that thread gets at most of it.
I must do something to compete with these mega-SUVs and trucks. My masculinity is feeling very threatened! Thus, the only choice as my next vehicle is this puppy:
The component of male lived experience that is wholly unaccessible to women, more than any other, is the colossal and abyssal apathy of the universe towards you. Women cannot relate to this, except perhaps women of exceptional ugliness, childless crones, and FtM transexuals
— Zero HP Lovecraft (@0x49fa98) October 30, 2018
Whatever the flaws of this account and its ideas, this is 100% absolutely true. I don’t think many women alive understand this. Perhaps none.
It is childish to continue to push unity: A) Warren is not going to win, that's clear, B) It seems like this was all done to help ensure Biden wins, C) It was done with her blessing.
— Jellicle Chad (@PrettyBadLefty) January 15, 2020
I think this is all true. As near as I can tell the only reason Warren entered the race is to be a spoiler candidate against Sanders to make sure he did not get the nomination and that Biden does. Nothing else makes sense given the latest events.
Biden will get the nomination, will lose without much of a contest to Trump, billionaires and millionaires are happy, and all is right with the world (from their perspective).