I repeat: if you’re in a red state, get the fuck out now. Do not wait. Do not stay and attempt to make it better. You can’t and you won’t. Get yourself out and help others if you can. Those places are going to look like Ethiopia in the 1980s soon, but with way more guns.
Just leave. There’s nothing else you can do.
I don’t even like the Bowie song really, but this is a wonderful performance. What a voice on her.
This is better than the album version — and I love the album version.
I wish I were young enough to become an A-10 pilot because I really want to be one of the people laying down some rounds on obese overconfident F-250 clowns when the time comes.
Guess I’ll just have to make do with a sniper rifle. Hitting targets from 500 meters for me is cake. Let’s do it.
the “calm down, the GOP won’t do THAT” crowd will always be with us, but they’re increasingly making smug noises at cavernous, empty rooms
it is also nice to know that this is absolutely driving them nuts.
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) April 8, 2023
One of the reasons I like Faine is that she always makes fun of the idiotic “But that could never happen” narrative. It’s always been false but it was the accepted worldview for 15-20 years on a lot of things. Now those people are fewer but still out there.
I told you they were coming for contraception (yes, I know mifepristone is used for drug-induced abortion). This is just the beginning; it will only get worse from here. I hope a state like California just starts ignoring this sort of thing altogether.
Abortion was always more about other things, mainly putting women back in their place socially and sexually. Another thing that “could never happen” is beginning to happen.
And how half of them were like these trust funder Ivy Leaguers who spent the whole time being like "8 year olds don't need math instruction, or supervision, or socialization, YOU MONSTER."
And Twitter (took sociology in grad school) was like "yes! 10,000 hearts."
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) April 7, 2023
Yeah, that was some fucking weird shit there. I still can’t understand it. And there were so many of those people! According to them, anyone from two years old on up was just fine in solitary confinement, and needed no education or other normal stimulation. And if you didn’t believe that you were KILLING GRAMMA.
What a bizarre time and what an oddball set of ideas and practices that developed around Zero Covid nonsense.
It’s not just in my head that I get treated vastly different by women now, and vastly differently than my partner gets treated. Here’s the proof. A few weeks ago I went to an optometrist to get my eyes checked. She was young (28ish?) and cute and was obviously attracted to me. During the course of the exam, completely unnecessarily, she touched me 6-8 times. My arms, shoulders, my leg. I have very nice muscles so I understand — even though as a man, I could never get away with that.
My partner (a woman, to be clear) went to the same optometrist and the doc did not touch her even once during the course of the exam. My partner and and I do not share the same last name so the optometrist would not have had a way of knowing we were associated (I doubt she’d be checking addresses).
Also to be clear, I did not feel harassed or even bothered by the optometrist’s casual touches. She was fun and cute so could pull it off. But that never would have happened to me a few years ago and didn’t happen to my partner.
Interesting how we have double standards on male/female behavior that no one can admit, though.
If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed.
Yes we are. But large companies and politicians want it to be destroyed because it threatens existing power — there is little more dangerous than having an accurate and unbiased record of the past that also prevents the corporate “steal all culture, rent it back to you” approach.
I’ve always thought its days were numbered and I’m surprised it’s lasted as long as it has.
🤔 https://t.co/8Xb0H7Mob3 pic.twitter.com/EHeZenvwUn
— ⬢ Jens Wiechers ⬡ 🇺🇦 (@jwiechers) April 4, 2023
You can do a lot with 12 horsepower if you’re a good driver….
Rebecca Ferguson and Fallout? Together? LETS FUGGIN GOOOOOOOOOO https://t.co/fQ46WCkJ2r
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) April 6, 2023
That was my reaction as well. Haven’t been stoked about a show in a while. Let’s hope it’s actually good.
Driving on less than 5 hours of sleep is just as dangerous as drunk-driving, study finds.
Given that I always drive on less than 5 hours of sleep without a single exception, I have my doubts if this applies to me.
AR-15s and $55K ChildCrusher 5000 GTX pickup trucks are the dual murderous, idiot symbols of the American right. https://t.co/vlDyA5Oo92
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) April 6, 2023
Goddamn I cannot fucking wait to see these mooks and their stupid trucks in little pieces beside the road after an A-10 makes short work of them. I just cannot wait.
Armed men everywhere, government travel restrictions on pregnant women, an incarceration rate well above the (high) national average = a certain American vision of freedom https://t.co/pOpErTRFFf
— Chase Madar (@ChaseMadar) April 6, 2023
As I’ve said a million times, red states are only gonna get worse. This will be a very American version of the fascist authoritarian nightmare. Get the fuck out now while you can.