Smug centrist media bro types once again totally fail to parse the depths of rage people who aren’t them are feeling https://t.co/oYMo4MxXcD
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) August 3, 2022
Also most of those dudes have no women friends. It helps if you have women friends and every single one of them is incandescently enraged about their bodily autonomy being violated and their rights being taken away.
I think it would have been good for vaccine confidence to act a little more confident in vaccines.
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) August 3, 2022
Don’t be crazy now. It was VERY IMPORTANT for liberals to tell you that the vaccines didn’t really work, you’d get Covid 5,000 times a month, and there was a 12,981,506% chance of you getting Long Covid. VERY IMPORTANT!
It shouldn’t surprise us that weird busybody religious fanatics assuming control of people’s private medical decisions and family planning would be unpopular politically. https://t.co/Ik7xoemlPS
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) August 3, 2022
They aren’t nearly the majority, they are just very loud and very fanatical. But it only takes 10-20% of those types to really fuck up a society.
I recognize that we live in a weirdly prudish time, where everyone likes to say they are sex-positive, but most everyone acts like it’s icky to be blunt about this basic fact that people like fucking. But people like fucking. And they do it all the time.
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) August 3, 2022
I love that Amanda is blunt about this and stands firmly against the New Liberal Puritans. The New Puritans have done incalculable harm to our culture and were an important factor in Roe being overturned. They are also kind of mystifying — they seem to truly believe that sex is some sort of unusual and repugnant activity that people only engage in when forced to do so by incomprehensible, repellent urges.
It’s always a great thing to push back against those trying to return to Victorian societal norms.
“No one knows us here. We can do whatever we want,” she said, and did just that. She was dancing on the beach in a blue bikini. I was watching, awed at her easy grace, her freedom. A few others were just as transfixed as I was. I didn’t mind. Who wouldn’t want to see her? She wasn’t my girlfriend (though we were more than “just friends”) and I’m not jealous or possessive anyway. She was the best of what was and what could be — and she wanted to spend her time with me.
I was 17. She was 16. It was 1993. We’d done an island drop onto a beach off Cedar Key, a pretty penny for me then — but worth every cent and more.
These lines from Mackenzie Porter’s song “These Days” brought this back, another lovely memory of my dead friend.
Every time you smell sunscreen
Baby, do you see me dancing on a ‘Bama beach?
Do you smile at the thought of it?
I do smile. I do.
I’m so glad I have that memory but also so angry that she’s dead. I will kill god in revenge.
As expected, China won't go to war over Pelosi's visit (and LOL at all the dorks who thought they would).
But this pattern of chest-thumping also suggests that when the attack actually does come, it'll start with a blockade… https://t.co/AoxjGZ4aQY
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) August 2, 2022
Yeah. Absolute doofuses.
And agreed, a naval blockade with missile/naval artillery attacks on the island will be what happens. That’s the natural way to deal with a relatively-small island like Taiwan. An immediate amphibious invasion makes zero sense. Blockade, see what resistance you get from other players, then invasion in 3-6 months when interest wanes and Taiwan starts running out of food.
That’s most likely what’ll happen because that’s just the play.
Imagine losing an abortion vote in an R+15 state. Abortion is healthcare and popular in this country, and anti-abortion activists are a radical, fringe group that want to strip women of their human rights. Never forget that.
— Rina (@rinanpakkala) August 3, 2022
The Fundies and Fascists won’t give up easily, but Kansas was indeed a pretty big loss for them.
When you talk to me, realize you’re talking to a man who has read The Silmarillion — and enjoyed it.
I think Stephenson’s Anathem is a great book, and his best, even if I suspect he didn’t really understand Husserl all that well. But Husserl is really fucking hard to understand, so who can blame him? At least he was grappling with the ideas very competently. That’s so much better than what most people do.
Anathem is one of my favorite books, even though I’m not a Stephenson fan. He railgunned that fucker out of the park, though.