It’s so bizarre when people claim that programs like universal healthcare and free pre-school and such are impossible in the US when countries with much less wealth than the US do this as a matter of course.
And no, they aren’t talking about it being (just) politically impossible. What is wrong with their brains?
Drag Me To Hell Has The Best Horror Ending.
Maybe not the best ever, but certainly really fucking great. Such a solid movie. Part of is that Alison Lohman does an outstanding job of being a sympathetic character. Ninety-five percent of us would make the same choice she did that brought on the curse. We all know how easily we’d sell our souls and that’s exactly why the movie works.
The worst movements to come out of the US in the past 20 years are the anti-vaxxers and the Fat Acceptance movement.
Those two causes probably have harmed more people than any others over that time, outside of politicians anyway.
A clarifying realization I had recently is that when rich liberals’ idea of a hot person is someone who looks exactly 39 forever because they believe in their souls that those are the prime child bearing years https://t.co/zaaAWaj0y4
— small business owner (@neoliberal_dad) May 8, 2021
I know he’s partly joking, but I wonder if this also has something to do with a lot of liberals seeing women under 30 as children (but, strangely, only women, not men).
I think this tendency also has to do with the fact that you’re most often hearing this claptrap from the most educated, most out-of-touch bits of the population, who spent their prime years in college and grad school, living like a kid off the parental largesse and wealth until they were 32.
Meanwhile, out in the real world, most people who don’t have fancypants lives are working hard jobs from the age of 16, having real experiences, and are not the grown children that the “elites” in fact are. Bet that’s a lot of it.
A close friend of mine who is an intelligent young woman has been suggesting I should go ahead and buy myself one of those new mid-engine Corvettes as she knew I was interested in them. She frames it as enjoying one’s life while one can (with the not-so-subtle subtext that I am as old as the hills and might kick off soon, so better do it now).
As someone who supports feminism I ask you, dear readers, what kind of feminist ally would I be if I were to deny the wishes, the dreams, of a discerning and bright woman such as she is? It would be a moral tragedy, most assuredly. It should not be done.
Therefore, ethically speaking, the only correct answer is to purchase a mid-engine Corvette. It is indeed the feminist thing to do.
Still looking for that oft-predicted mega-surge of DOOOOM, still not happening:
Funny, that.
I know I do not feel fear and anxiety in any sort of normal way, but people who are vaccinated holding to all the same restrictions as pre-vaccination…what are you thinking?
Why did you bother to get jabbed at all?
Traffic light travel plan will let new Covid variants into UK, scientists warn.
This is always going to be true. Covid is never going away and there will always be variants. That’s why we have vaccines.
The alternative is turning your country into a penitentiary, which more than a few places seem happy enough to do. Why more residents aren’t rebelling I have no idea.
I guess it’s good that the anti-vaxxers and the anti-maskers are the same people as then one doesn’t have to attempt to answer the question of which group is stupider.