Trump’s personal mistakes on the coronavirus have been extensive and deadly. But the public health establishment’s failures have likewise been disastrous, totally apart from him — and we should be just as comfortable calling out that fact. https://t.co/3c3buWr1sm
— Cody Fenwick (@codytfenwick) June 23, 2020
Imagine if our experts hadn’t told us that masks were useless and that social distancing was racist. Just imagine. That history is being erased now, but we shouldn’t let it happen.
This is stupid and dangerous and an infrastructure bill must be passed ASAP https://t.co/H3s7kHKUm7
— Milena Rodban (@MilenaRodban) June 23, 2020
We are about to transition from the “really bad” to “oh shit fuck this is very fucking bad kill me now” phase of the Pandemic Depression.
A friend who works for a police department in Ohio said they received numerous calls today to investigate "Antifa dust" on the cars and driveways.
It's pollen.
And now I can't stop laughing about people calling the police on trees.
— Maggie Downs (@downsanddirty) June 23, 2020
We truly are the stupidest people ever to live. Truly.
There is an inherent expectation to masculinity that men can suffer more, and this is right and good
Women are not expected to suffer. A woman in pain will always draw sympathy
A man in pain, he'll be told he needs to "man up"
— Alexander "Chadicus Rex" Cortes (@AJA_Cortes) June 23, 2020
This matches the experience of my childhood and young adulthood 100%. He’s not wrong even if I don’t agree with him politically on much.
Participating in ‘decolonization’ is a fairly low-cost activity for most people. You just throw out all the old books on your bookshelf that you’d never read anyway and replace them with POC authors you’ll never read either.
— scientism (@mr_scientism) June 22, 2020
Well, he’s not wrong. Much more is always done for show than for anything else. This is true at any time and in any human activity.
When you see clueless press headlines about SARS-Cov-2 and lack of antibody persistence, realize that antibody persistence is only one of four (or so) types of immunity, and that alone doesn’t mean much for sustained immunity to the virus.
The press doesn’t know much in general, and it shows.
Buttedgelord is holding on to the delusion that the US is a meritocracy. He's telling you to blame yourself for not having "better skills."
I know dozens of Ivy League grads who need help to open a CSV file. They oppose free college because tuition keeps you out of the club. https://t.co/B8SGgD0g2k
— Louis Winthorpe IV (@theskyisblack) November 20, 2019
Yep. I’ve known Ivy League grads who couldn’t find their fucking Start menu in Windows…after using a computer for a decade or more, and who couldn’t figure out how to check the voicemail on their office phone. That’s, of course, after being shown how by members of my team a dozen plus times.
Do progressives truly not realize that all relationships have power imbalances, that can have to do with age but not necessarily so? It’s not a very indicative indicator, in other words.
One of the very worst relationships I’ve ever seen was an older guy dating a younger woman. She treated him like garbage and controlled all his money. Let him do nothing. Fifteen year age gap and she was most definitely abusing him in every way possible. According to progressive orthodoxy, she was being “groomed” and “exploited,” but quite the opposite was actually happening. Not the only example I’ve seen of that, either!
And don’t get me started on the whole idea that dating outside your race is racism. Jesus fucking Christ that is fucking moronic.
I just intuitively ate Los Angeles.
Face masks don’t even have to work especially well to be effective.
Contrast with the stupid-ass article below. Fuck, who allowed that crap to be published and why?
4 potential consequences of wearing masks.
This article is utter, utter bullshit. Does not match the science or at all, or even the precautionary principle. It is total and unrestricted garbage and those who wrote it should be fired.
This is a perfect example of fake quantification, misuse of science, and just unabated pure assclownery of the worst kind.
Jesus Christ, I am glad I figured out the below. That was puzzling me, and thus bothering me.
Now, I will go “groom” my seven-years-younger partner by giving her a nice kiss.
Things like this have started to convince me that “progressives” see pretty much all relationships as one of predator/prey:
If you examine all the “any age gap is evil” and “dating outside your race is racism” and such in that light, it starts to make more sense — and this predator/prey belief also matches up perfectly with the neoliberalistic mindset. Contextualized this way, applying as a lens this assumed adversarial nature of relationships, and the boring contract negotiation aspect that progressives seem to adore, it all begins to resolve into some sort of legible but fucked-up ideology.
When you apply this ideology, that every relationships is by nature adversarial, predator/prey, a contest to get the best de facto contract, the panic over someone not being exactly like someone else makes a whole lot more sense.
Progressive “morals” are some wacky bullshit.