I used to teach social cognition skills to people with schizophrenia and I often think about how Left Twitter would benefit from the same treatment.
— Syd (@SydneyAzari) December 23, 2020
It’s funny because it’s true.
Year: 2020
Ed Up
Titles don’t make you better than anyone else, and they shouldn’t be bragging rights. Jesus Christ, we’re trying to build a more equal society. That doesn’t begin with putting your stupid fucking degrees in your handle. I cannot relate to this stream of “feminism” in the least. https://t.co/TFCqjxF8Ag
— britney gil, NJHS, bus patrol (@_britneygil) December 16, 2020
I agree!
-Mike, CISSP, CCNP, CCDP, AWS CSAA, MCSE, MCP, VCP-DCV, ITIL, Sec+
😉
Pod But Not Lib Kind
An amazing spaceship recliner pod, available in the 1982 Neiman Marcus Christmas Book. Yours for a cool $32,000. pic.twitter.com/4VVPK2IniB
— Humanoid History (@HumanoidHistory) December 19, 2020
I wonder if anyone actually bought this? $32,000 in 1982 is $85,0000 in real dollars. That’s a big fucking chunk of change for a fancy chair.
Centrist Chanting
The Democratic Party is what leftism would look like if you stripped it of every single thing that could possibly inconvenience plutocrats, intelligence agencies, or the military-industrial complex.
— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) December 24, 2020
Thus the centrist chant of “Everything is impossible!” Nothing can be any way other than exactly as it is. Any change will, in their mind, destroy everything. (Where “destroy everything” means raise their taxes slightly or elevate someone else in relative status compared to them.)
Self-Disc
The way to get what you want is to keep courageously jumping down inner rabbit holes of self-exploration, learning what makes you tick, clearing your illusions and healing your psychological wounds. Also you'll wind up wanting completely different things from when you started.
— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) December 24, 2020
This is just how I discovered I wanted to be Galactic Overlord, as it happens!
Faceless Tome
1. I know it's Christmas Eve but people should understand what's happening with Facebook ads and the Georgia Senate runoffs.
These elections will determine the trajectory of American politics for the next two years.
Facebook's conduct is indefensible
Follow along if interested
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 24, 2020
And the libs invested everything in destroying the great peril (sarcasm very much intended) that was PornHub, yet you hear hardly a peep about Facebook’s imperiling of the entire republic.
Of course not. The liberals have a desperate and furious fear of sex but Facebook is something they all use (so how could that be harmful?).
Pluto & Croesus
just wow…
Dems desperately trying to get money to Americans. NYT dismisses it as “political theater”—Dems trying to “jam” through aid pic.twitter.com/TdM8zBGZCh
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) December 25, 2020
Even if they often write good stories, the NYT is very much the paper of the plutes and the educated and it can’t help but reflect their priorities. They all have money, trust funds and rent is taken care of, so they find it difficult to care about a single mother struggling in Paducah.
Journalism was far better when it wasn’t all Ivy Leaguers and trust-funders.
See What’s Out There
"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen." Larry Niven.
— David Deutsch (@DavidDeutschOxf) December 17, 2020
Indeed. And we should have outposts on the moon, Mars, and be building one on Ganymede now.
Going the Distance
It's a little unnerving that so much that's written (or drawn) against compulsory distancing ends up being indistinguishable from denying the effectiveness of distancing at suppressing transmission of the virus. https://t.co/SEWVAndoi2
— David Deutsch (@DavidDeutschOxf) December 18, 2020
That bothers me, too. Lockdowns, when done correctly, work. In the US, that was unlikely to ever happen and in fact did not.
The arguments against them are not that they are scientifically unsound, but rather that they cause enormous psychological and economic harm when done for more than a month or so. That should never happen.
Redshift
Immigrant Neighborhoods Shifted Red as the Country Chose Blue.
So much for that demographic destiny of the Democrats! Which I always knew was BS. Turns out you have to give voters something they want or need or they don’t vote for you.
Mysterious, that.
Elvis Song
My hot take is that trying to solve male loneliness is basically worthless because dating apps and social media have all but destroyed in person organic relationships for a large quantity of people
This is gonna sound cringe but only abandoning patriarchal culture will save them https://t.co/z5vhawjfIj
— Darrell ❄ Owens (@IDoTheThinking) December 24, 2020
Really good thread. It is weird how when you observe that many many men are paralyzingly lonely, you get “WHY DO YOU HATE WOMEN YOU RAPE CULTURE APOLOGIST????”
Women being far more choosy than men, algorithmic distortion, and many men being total shitweasels, means loneliness for life for many (and not just men).
Live Like
The only time I ever see television commercials is when I visit my parents or in-laws. It feels like having some kind of schizophrenic break with reality.
I almost can’t believe that watching commercials is normal to many people, or that it was ever normal to me
— Zero HP Lovecraft (@0x49fa98) December 24, 2020
Same. Commercials are shocking. It’s one of those “People…live like this?” moments when I happen to see one.
I sometimes go months without glimpsing one but when I do, it’s like I’ve been transported into some hellworld of manic ruination, some Stygian mortification of being and self.
Yumming Up Roses
Make a fudgier seasonal brownie by spiking it with spiced eggnog.
Yes I think I will. Making this on the morrow.
Bouncing Off
It’s important to keep in mind at this point that every person you interact with is absolutely out of their minds
— Alena Smith (@internetalena) December 23, 2020
I have noticed this. And I shouldn’t revel in it, but I am spiteful, so it’s funny now to see how bad off are all those libs who were like “Zoom is just as good as in person” and all “You wanna kill grammmmmmaaaaa” at any mention of how much lockdown sucked.
They are bouncing off the walls pants-on-head crazy now. It’s amusing, at least. Sad. But also kinda hilarious.
Class Over
$65k F-150: working class
$35k EV: elitist$35K fishing boat: working class
$2k canoe: elitist$8k ATV: Working class
$1k mountain bike: elitistFree on-street parking spot for F-150: working class
Bike lane: elitist— Aaron Klemz (@aaronklemz) December 18, 2020
I have noticed this, too. We’ve untethered wealth from class, which in many cases (like this one) makes no sense. But it’s all emblematic of the pervasiveness of consumer “choice:” class is determined by one’s purchased objects, which enables those items to be marketed more effectively. The causality here of course goes both ways. All of this can thus be encompassed by the neolib conjoined propaganda/marketing complex and no thoughts outside of this can be entertained.