Every viral covid tweet is like:

The new variant is more contagious than MEASLES and it kills AND disables 99% of everyone it infects

BUT a few government officials could EASILY eradicate it if they would just [do 1 thing that we’ve already tried that definitely wouldn’t work]

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) July 21, 2022

She’s 100% right. I see lib fantasyland shit like this all the time now. I wonder, do they really believe it or is it just virtue signaling? I think many really are true believers.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

The reality is that both major mobile OSes have the problem below. They don’t want you to be able to access your own files without them in the middle. That’s why there is no real file manager. That is a deliberate strategy, but the rubes buy that it is for “security.” Because they are fucking rubes.

Russia: "We're telling you openly for the millionth time the invasion is about seizing territory and erasing Ukraine and Ukrainian culture. We've also kidnapped a million Ukrainians and murdered tens of thousands more!"
People: "Ah, yes, I hear you: NATO is bad."

— Dr. Ian Garner (@irgarner) July 20, 2022

That does seem to be the script running in a lot of people’s heads. Doofuses abound.

The Duffner Brothers are my age which confirms my suspicions that Stranger Things isn’t nostalgia for the 80’s, but 80’s movies they watched in the 90’s. It’s like saying your story is influenced by Goodfellas when you never saw it, you just watched the Animaniacs pigeon cartoon

— Old World Monkey D. Luffy (@hyenasandgin) July 19, 2022

Agreed. The Duffer brothers (born in 1984) don’t really remember the 1980s, and it shows.

imo the truly degenerate or oppressive society isn't the one that has either exorbitant sex or sexual repression, but rather one that says "you don't know what will make you happy, *I* know what's truly good for you"

— Aella (@Aella_Girl) July 20, 2022

I very much agree with Aella here. I am just as opposed to the liberal authoritarians as I am the conservative ones. There are many on both sides, all attempting to make me do things “for my own good.”

To anything like this, I have an extreme aversion.

Finland's prime minister in 1922 vs Finland's prime minister in 2022. pic.twitter.com/Ckwo2NmXV1

— Guy Walters 🇺🇦 (@guywalters) July 19, 2022

I wish our president and 95% of our politicians weren’t 900 years old. Much more would be done about climate change if the president was Sanna Marin’s age (she’s 36).

Nobody over 70 should be elected or even eligible for any national office.

I do not regret for 1 second ensuring my kids normalcy in 2020. We allowed them to see friends in April 2020, go on vacation, and work out at the gym. They needed it for their mental/physical health. I think it was selfish for the adults to ask the kids to sacrifice for them.

— Vanessa (@vlal42) July 20, 2022

It was very odd. I have an acquaintance with a high-school-age daughter, and the daughter lost 80% of her high school experiences and events due to needless Covid restrictions (she was a dancer and volleyball player). She’s permanently scarred from it, according to her mom, and inconsolable with rage about it.

And we did this to millions and millions of kids. We are insane.