Reading about the “frisson of transgression” or whatever draws the bored ghouls to fascism and it occurs to me: that’s what they think “woke” is. That we’re just having a laugh. Saying naughty things that mom and dad told us not to say. They do not understand belief.
Maybe Future-You is the real problem. Why is she always agreeing to do stuff?
Either staring at that thing all day long or setting alarms on a working clock to remind them to check twice. Noting it in a little log: “December 18th, 2025, PM: STILL RIGHT.” Planning to submit their findings to scientific journals.
But that would mean the Sith are in on it! Galaxy-shaking revelations. All that anger and “fighting” was pure kayfabe.
Yeah, and you deal with it by saying to whomever is hosting, “[relative] is a racist. If they’re invited I will not be there.” Probably won’t change anything but at least then you can stuff yourself and watch football in peace.
Second draft: our society would be infinitely better if the left truly considered their opposition as dangerous as their opposition pretends to consider the left.
Democrats feel like they are stuck with Republicans. Republicans do not feel the same in return. When they escalate their bigotry, dem response is “how do we maintain some semblance of normality knowing these guys are already one foot out the door on America?”
East Side Story
It’s true and I don’t know why. A family composed of 4 of my favorite people in the world lives there. I have a great time every visit. But I still don’t want to say nice things about it.
I’ve been daydreaming about this for months. His need to be praised is so powerful, his prospects for accomplishing anything legitimately praiseworthy so slim. “Imagine all those people you pooped on a few weeks ago getting out in the streets out of actual gratitude.” It could work, I tell you.
A and C, yes. B, hard no. Iowa rolls. Minnesota just sits there.
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
They’ve got one foot out the door on humanity. The thing they’re always looking at is an imagined horizon of freedom from human-ness.
Some of us are Day-vids,
But most of us are Daves
It’s different when you lived through it. I don’t listen to pop music of the 50’s intentionally but it doesn’t bother me the way that most of those from 1989 do. When it engulfs you like a poison gas cloud, you develop some resentment.
Get the tone here: surly over-confident teenager doing a tantrum because at least 60% of his shit went into the toilet and WHO’S PERFECT?!?!
Or just get used to de-escalating the horniness despite the disappointment. Lean into the political soft-off.
Who’s a cleric?
I had a similar thought reading that. But also it’s a really good sign that even though dead-ender centrist dinguses are still trying to tell us they’ve got the lock on the procedural fixes that will undo this administration, normies are getting slowly radicalized anyway.
Guess which school’s journalism program will be getting more applicants in the next few years.
Maybe not. Doesn’t strike me as the sort who’d pay it much mind even if they did.
Almost there myself. I feel like Will is someone that has been pulled aside by everyone who cares about him and told, with detectable exasperation, “THIS is why no one likes you” and each of them has their own reason.
I enjoy your posts in general but this one is perfect.
People are deranged about you, Will, it’s true. But this is transparently bad faith. She’s agreeing with someone who is pointing out a difference between the monetary contribution of someone who is destitute and that of someone who is relatively comfy. Not saying the contribution isn’t “real.”
Existing = looking for love. That seems right!
I also think there is foundational projection, as it were. They know that they work in service of a deeply insincere political philosophy, that if that support were made difficult or unpleasant in some way, they could drop it without being unduly affected, and they assume we’re the same way.
Truly, this seems like the first step for all of us: stop talking to MAGA people in your life and tell them that that’s why you’re not talking to them. You can’t gently coax a person out of a cult.
That’s what I signed up for! When will someone from HR be walking me through the benefits enrollment process? I’ve heard they don’t offer Vision.
I figure I’ll start out in the antifa mailroom and work my way up through spunky diligence.
The endless posing as Shrewd Realists is bananas. Like we’re the stupid ones for giving a fuck. We have already seen what happens when we let the devil take the hindmost. We can’t protect every individual, it’s true. The Devil is well funded. Giving up on a whole category of person is grotesque.