Going to take that new, barely-tested Russian vaccine and get superpowers.
I know it.
Month: August 2020
Harris
The main opposition to Harris as she announced her campaign came from black and brown people from her own state who experienced her criminal justice policies first hand.
Its bogus to try to cast opposition to her as “whites who just don’t get the representational value.” https://t.co/qe2niHkR4b
— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) August 12, 2020
Yep. Terrible cop and has done nearly as much as Obama to harm black people. Being black doesn’t mean you won’t stomp all over everyone else once you make it, and that’s exactly what she’s done.
She’s the VP pick and if Biden manages to win and take office (doubtful), likely the next president, given his health.
Life Goals
I am not friendly and I don’t want to be friendly.
I want to conquer the fucking galaxy.
MaskCon
It's not correct to say that 6 months ago "we" didn't know masks were important. All of East Asia knew they were important, and there was lots of research showing that masks, even cloth ones, were effective at mitigating transmission of coronaviruses like SARS. https://t.co/Id4sQqhwZu
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) August 11, 2020
That narrative — and how very wrong the “experts” were — is now being actively erased. Soon, it’ll become a “conspiracy theory.”
I’ve seen it happen before with other topics and it’s happening now.
Pained Dream
Saw this headline on the magazine Aeon:
Ah, what? I do very much feel pain in dreams. Someone knifed me one time in a dream and it felt very much like I was getting stabbed. I woke up gasping from the pain.
(To be clear, I felt the pain in the dream and then its remnant when I awoke.)
Inyesvate
Just learned my son is using his mask as a feedbag, stashing goldfish crackers and other such snacks in it.
— Em Carpenter, Justician (@wvEsquiress) August 11, 2020
And they claim innovation is dead.
For Me
One time I made my whole very-religious high school angry at me because I said in front of a class that I was going to sucker punch Jesus if I ever saw him.
This was not the smartest of moves, I have to admit.
What’s Left
A lot of people are confused right now about what the Left is doing to Alex Morse and why. And understandably so. But it’s a really instructive case for understanding what is happening on the Left in this moment. What’s happening is confusing for two reasons:
— Shant Mesrobian (@ShantMM) August 10, 2020
Good thread. I think it’s mostly correct.
I entered a relationship with my current partner when I was 29 and she was 23. The day I turned 30, apparently, I became a total creep perv as she was 23 and a college student. Funny how that happens! One day, you’re fine, and the next day, you go total pervo! Without anything else really changing. It’s quite mysterious.
He doesn’t mention at all the attempted elimination of dating market competition by women 35+, which is a really huge part of this, but his contentions aren’t wrong.
What It Be
My position: I think anyone age 18 and over should date whoever the fuck they want to any time they want to.
Fin.
The New P
The new prudes are getting even more fanatical. I hope that means this movement is on its last gasps for now. Enough women resent it and are against being infantilized that they might be able to halt the Bitter Berthas who want to squelch dating market competition.
It’s more than about that, of course, but that’s a lot of it.
All Very Sad
THE MYTH OF “CONSENSUAL” SEX
31 y.o.: I consent
22 y.o. college student: I consentweirdly invested people on twitter: I don’t! pic.twitter.com/pcKcoMD4VN
— Christoph (@Halalcoholism) August 9, 2020
These people really need to get a life. A lot of envy, jealousy, probable anger that they’ve never had any fun. It’s all very sad.
Agents
Let's keep people as children for as long as possible. They can't be trusted to make their own decisions. https://t.co/W0G4ZFa6uf
— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) August 9, 2020
Good god, Vanessa’s take is deeply, deeply stupid.
People think I am exagerrating when I say liberal feminists want to remove all agency from women. But no, they really do.
the power argument is also simplistic. Younger, more attractive people have access to more partners than older people. Youth and attractiveness are a form of power.
Power has multiple dimensions, it isn't all "older is more powerful."
— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) August 10, 2020
Exactly.
I cannot believe the paternalistic idiocy of claiming grown ass adults are children. I would have been sick if anyone claimed this about me when I was twenty.
— Molly Crabapple🇵🇷 (@mollycrabapple) August 9, 2020
Same. It’s just 100% bonkers.
If People
If people can be so delusional about how much they themselves eat and why they are obese and unhealthy, just imagine how fantastically fallacious the rest of what they think and believe must be.
Y
This website is a good reminder that a habit of the most toxic people is to micromanage and abstractly moralize over other people's relationships.
— Gaily Bedight (@marwood_lennox) August 9, 2020
Seems to be just liberals in general these days, but it is worse on Twitter.
I wonder why, sociologically?
Dated
Men who date women who aren’t independently wealthy are low key kinda sus and predatory. Like they could just be pregnant for 9 whole months and might become dependent on your income and you’re just fine with that? Ok
— strategy consultant (@neoliberal_dad) August 9, 2020
Oh, that is great satire on the current liberal position on (mostly men) dating. Why the liberals have gone so fucking nutso I don’t have any idea.