Excuse you, Glenn Close's character is clearly a Meemaw
— Midsammar💭 (@samthielman) October 30, 2020
No, Big Ma.
At least that’s what we called the matriarch of my family when I was a li’l demon child in the rural South.
Day: October 30, 2020, 5:03 PM
Lock Us All Up
The horror of permanent quarantine is how perfectly it bleeds into American life—rising despair among the young, the isolation of the old, the failure of the state + society to proactively do anything, the empowerment of a professional caste to arbitrarily enforce the stagnation
— Isaac Wilks 🎤🐢 (@wilks_isaac) October 25, 2020
Well said. Permanent lockdown/quarantine, the weird fantasia that this will work in most countries, is where we’ve arrived because there is not the political nor the social capability currently to attempt any other approach.
However, that does not mean it’s a good one, because it certainly is not. The celebration, nearly, of this absurd level of restriction is something I will never understand.
Intrusive Thoughts
It’d be a terrible and cruel experiment that I’d never do in real life, but it’d be interesting to lead two people to fall in love with you and during this say the same (or as nearly as possible) things to them over the course of the two relationships.
Doing this would make one the Mengele of love, but I’m also sort of curious what would result. How similar are people? What would happen?
Note: don’t do this. It’s evil and bad. But my brain still wonders.
The Old Swing
The reason politics Twitter has a hard time understanding that swing voters exist is because no prominent voices on politics Twitter are swing voters. This is a very partisan and polarized platform and a poor proxy for the electorate as a whole. Campaigns that get this fact win. https://t.co/Zp3lSrPJea
— 1) (@Yair_Rosenberg) October 28, 2020
Twitter believes they don’t exist because as pointed out there are none on Twitter or among the commentariat.
But US elections are so close, even if “only” 5% are swing voters they might be worth competing for. This is something that Twitter people don’t understand because they “can’t imagine” how anyone could not be decided — but most people barely pay attention to politics, have no idea what is occurring in the news, and if they do vote they decide based on little to no information.
This is the reality; Twitter is the mirage.