For those who say Cancel Culture Isn't Real, a museum curator was accused of being a white supremacist because he—get this—said that he would still curate *some* art created by white men. Totally inoffensive, yet he was branded a racist and forced out. https://t.co/MdHGex0WfD
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) July 14, 2020
The only people who say cancel culture isn’t real are those who want to engage in it to enhance their job prospects.
>When you know literally nothing about the history of china https://t.co/k80i9llDpV
— Zero HP Lovecraft (@0x49fa98) July 14, 2020
Most people know zero history of any kind. Absolutely none. Not even the faintest clue. And the consequences of that are everywhere.
c. 20% of small businesses are going out of business. 32% of Americans couldn't make their rent or mortgage in July, up from 30% in June.
You haven't even begun to see riots. I hope they storm the white house and Congress when Congress is in session.
Let the politicians reap. https://t.co/qIEDMje8Ho
— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) July 15, 2020
Believe it or not, we’re now in the good times. In a year or so, we’ll look back on these days of relative calm as the halcyon era.
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Trans women significantly outnumber trans men, and nonbinary females significantly outnumber nonbinary males. In these groups, people born male seem much more interested in a solid female identity, whereas people born female are more interested in an ambiguous one. 1/
— Aella (@Aella_Girl) July 15, 2020
It’s because, as unpopular as it is to say, women get a *lot* of advantages in the West for being women — the dating market is much, much, much, much easier (even given the risk of violence), and if you’re a reasonably attractive woman, many doors just open for you (sometimes literally).
Even women who claim not to want these advantages benefit from them, and especially if they are non-sociopaths and pretty, they often don’t even realize they are walking the easy path in many areas.
I am not trans in any way, but if I could’ve been born a woman, I’d much prefer that. It would’ve made most of my life easier (and some parts harder).
So, then, it makes sense from a benefit-maximization perspective to keep being a woman, while attempting to negate the worst parts. It’s an understandable strategy. You can see that strategy here, where Alice still benefits from being a quite attractive, slim woman, while attempting to negate the worst parts of being a woman:
I'm waiting for some soup to cool on the stove, so I guess I'll do a thread about gender
(no surprise reveal, just some ruminations)
— bletchley punk is a fullmetal engineer (@alicegoldfuss) July 15, 2020
Not to pick on her (I like her, she’s smart), but it’s the strategy in action.
@voxdotcom Why would you publish this?
The author, Clay Ackerly, a doctor but not epidemiologist, should take just one evidence based medicine course
One physican's experience with one patient does not rewrite the textbook on immunity and herd immunityhttps://t.co/HqSnHYJsQw
— Michael Mina (@michaelmina_lab) July 13, 2020
Oh, Vox will publish any old shit. No one knows if herd immunity is possible or not yet. No one. I suspect it is, but this wanker certainly has no fucking clue.
I think the fundamental rot at the core of our iteratively more dysfunctional culture is just dishonesty. We're meant to personally integrate explicit falsehoods with the expectation that they'll make us more ethical/likely to err in preferable directions. This. Will. Backfire.
— Mason 🏃♂️✂️ (@webdevMason) July 13, 2020
Great insight. Thus, we have woke/cancel culture, which is really about competition over good jobs.
We have #metoo, which became about competition over jobs and suppressing dating market competition.
We had that wearing masks and social distancing was racism and xenophobia. Now, we have that disliking TikTok and its feeding data to the CCP is racism and xenophobia.
See a common theme? I do. Mason picked up on exactly what’s going on here — under liberalism, we are supposed to assimilate absolute falsehoods for the cause. But fuck the cause if I am supposed to believe and promulgate codswallop. I’d rather the cause die than degrade myself to that level.
It's just miserable for kids to be deprived of in-person education and social contact with their peers for this long. The consequences could be enormous. We're living through a state/governance failure of almost unfathomable proportions https://t.co/fc6GjYHQ3Q
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) July 13, 2020
People are just now realizing what I realized was going to happen way back in February.
Glad all y’all could join me! Wish I’d been wrong!
Don’t know about other banks, but mine (Santander) makes it abundantly clear that they will *never* call you. So if anyone claims to be calling from the bank, it is automatically a scam. https://t.co/xw9kGande0
— Tits McGee (@Scientits) July 13, 2020
My bank also will never call me. So if anyone is calling from my bank, I also know it’s bogus. Makes it easy. I’m a suspicious person in general, so unlikely to fall for such scams anyway.
Coronavirus Surge Is Killing America’s Small Businesses.
This is, I believe, not accidental.
Nearly 110,000 small businesses across the country had decided to shut down permanently between early March and early May, based on data collected in weekly surveys by Alignable, a social media network for small business owners.
And it’s just beginning. By fall, I expect at least triple that number to have shuttered forever. The effect on the economy will be immense; this’ll be a depression like no one alive has ever seen. We’re still in the early stages, where many people people retain some measure of false hope. And none of it had to happen, but it’s what our plutes wanted. And they got it.
30+50-5 https://t.co/DOPXTUozNY
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) July 13, 2020
Nothing, because I am completely incapable of adding any numbers in my head.
Literally every relationship has power imbalances. Dating is itself a power imbalance.
I guess that’s why libs want all algorithmic matches. Note that this won’t actually solve the problem, but it’ll fake-solve it, which is what liberals strongly prefer.
Yet another twitch from the monkey's paw of 2020: the New York Times finally found a tech company it could love; it just happens to be the one feeding Americans' private data to the Chinese Communist Party. https://t.co/JokVJ8gBoq
— Mason 🏃♂️✂️ (@webdevMason) July 12, 2020
If you don’t love TikTok, you are racist. Now I’ve fucking seen it all.
If a young woman has any sense of self-worth she’ll be smart and date older men
— Alexander “Chadicus Rex” Cortes (@AJA_Cortes) July 13, 2020
Uh oh, someone’s looking to get canceled! I think this is mostly true. On balance, women are better off dating someone who has his life together rather than same-age peers — especially with how men 18-28 tend to be such shitheads. Women are more likely to be treated better by someone with more experience, and more likely to be happier with someone with more resources (more money == better life). (And note, this isn’t about gold-digging, etc. The simple fact is more money means just a better life for everyone.)
Sociopaths gonna sociopath no matter their age. If I were a woman, I’d likely aim to date people 5-15 years older than me, depending on my own age. Just makes sense.
Registered dietitians – they know the calorie count and vitamin content of a lettuce leaf, but know nothing about diet. Ignore them. https://t.co/y52DG0xrCc
— GuruAnaerobic (@GuruAnaerobic) July 11, 2020
Fuck snacks. Snacks are how you get fat and stay fat — they should be very infrequent and small. Dietitians are utterly clueless. Most exist to reinforce and promote the prerogatives of the processed food industry. Same with nutritionists. 99% charlatans full of utter malarkey. Listen to them to be unhealthy and die early.
Want to really know how to eat correctly? Listen to the non-steroidal weightlifting bros. They know what works.
Meat-eating boosts muscle health better than plant-based diet as we age, new study suggests.
I will never stop eating meat. Everything available suggests it is better for you than plant-based diets, especially if you lift weights. (And I lift a lot of weights.)