All kidding aside, I think ubiquitous tattoos are the worst thing to happen culturally and aesthetically in several hundred years.
Just foul, foul, foul.
Annoying
Roboflop
God my partner and I really need our own planet. With robots to do everything.
People are a total loss.
Good Right
Also: tattoos probably fuck up your immune system right good and likely lead to a far greater chance of cancer.
So, FAFO I guess.
Intat
When I’m in a hiring position, I’m far less likely to hire someone with tattoos (of either gender).
Perfectly legal, by the way. Why hire someone with demonstrated bad judgment when you could just…not do that?
Delta V
If I were world dictator, I’d ban all tattoos and those who have defaced themselves with those abominations would be sent to the mines — in the asteroid belt.
Tattoos look bad on anyone, but on women in particular they are like smearing shit on a classic painting. Which I guess is part of the point? Regardless, I wouldn’t want to be shit-smeared.
Osity
Cosma Shalizi and Ian Welsh are doofclowns of similar pseudointellectual doofosity.
Demonize, You Get Demons
PMC liberal white women seem really surprised that there was a backlash when they spent a decade portraying half the population as default crazed rapists who were both disposable and sorely needed when housework time came around (otherwise, those evil men Schrödinger’s rapists should shut up, we don’t want to hear about your icky feelings).
Hmm. Mysteries never cease.
The backlash was inevitable.
Can Manage It
Nobody is manager at your job at 33. Your parents weren’t managers at their jobs at 33, but you’re baffled at why I said 33 years old is wild to be a Mayor?
It is indeed abnormal.
Y’all please.— aaLuminati 👁 (@SpoiledAaLona) June 25, 2025
I was the equivalent of a supervisor in the army at 21 and ran an entire (small) unit for nearly a year by myself. I was night shift manager of 19 people when I was 24 at a major title insurance company in the US. My team and I handled millions of dollars in business a year.
I was infrastructure manager (with a personal assistant!) when I was 26 for a nationwide organization with hundreds of employees.
Where I work now, one of our best managers is 34 and she’s been there for a year so she was doing it when she was 33.
What the fuck is this mook talking about?
Allmen Brothers
Yes. This is downstream of the end of the Cold War and the War on Terror. As it became clear that there was no global working class ready to overthrow the Western order, leftists needed another revolutionary class to fantasize about. They began to fantasize about Muslims. https://t.co/EvLWJIHzZ0
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) June 26, 2025
Mostly agreed. The left began to fetishize Muslims to a truly bizarre degree after the Cold War.
That’s why (in large part) feminism transitioned to, “A burqa is feminist! All men are rapists, so women should not go out alone! Any skin showing is sexualization!” and such. All part of a larger trend that Noah mentions above.
Terrible stuff.
Scarab
Almost unfathomable to me how much the Right is intentionally destroying the things that makes the US a wealthy, prestigious and powerful country https://t.co/mA5CmlvP4g
— mike (@mike_slugs) June 26, 2025
They’d rather rule a dungheap than serve in a utopia.
And they will get their wish soon enough.
Qurb It
I kind of do think that veiling is backward and modernity is better. It's a personal choice obviously, so that's just my opinion. https://t.co/xeWBQuvakP
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) June 27, 2025
I’m with Noah. Fuck that noise.
When the burqa became “feminist” is about when I was done with feminism. Veiling and the burqa is anti-human and misogyny always. None can tell me the bottom photo represents more freedom, no matter what inane bullshit doofuses like the clown that Noah cites come up with.
They really won’t be happy to their goal of having women be constrained and wards of men again is met, will they? The left and right agree here; horseshoe theory is very real.
MAGA Clowns Clownin’
Republicans decided solar and batteries were gay energy, so we lost to China in industries we invented. https://t.co/L8p3zWtjsL
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) June 27, 2025
Stupidest fuckers in history. That alone has and will set the country back 20 years.
Oo
I hate tattoos and recumbent bicycles so much.
At least recumbent bicycles aren’t as common as tattoos.
Land the Drone
Serious question. After seeing what Israel did to Iran last night, why are we not taking back the CCP farmland TODAY? pic.twitter.com/chQ1TxYRia
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 13, 2025
Yes, that all should be back in American hands. But now we also want to sell public land to the CCP.
Amazing.
Uninformed and Unradiant
That there is no such thing as genius is how pitifully mediocre people convince themselves they could’ve been Claude Shannon or Marie Curie if they’d been in the right place at the right time.
But it’s a lie. A coping mechanism. The unfortunate reality that makes lefties white-hot with rage is that some people are just vastly smarter and infinitely better at some things. As my dad said once when I got annoyed that my sister had far more inborn prowess for music than I did, “Talent sits where it sits.”
Genius is real. And rare.