Horoscopes, MBTI, love languages, Harry Potter houses etc trained people to view themselves and others through the lens of flat essentialisms in a way that’s fundamentally right wimg

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My takeaway from the pandemic is that people were way more traumatized by the interruption to their lives than by all the death and I don’t think people want to think about that because, man, it’s really uncomfortable!

TBH, subsidizing cow farts destroying the atmosphere or w/e is just one of those things we're gonna have to do regardless of what the big chart says because bovine methane emissions are still not as dangerous as the Hitler particle emissions from when burger price go up.

I think one of the great ironies of this era is that it’s easiest to find community for perverts and outcasts and much, much harder when you’re normal

This “-maxxing” and “-mogging” stuff comes from an ugly place and has never been particularly funny. But what about if *I* adopt it, but ironically,

Need to create the Instagram Price Index. Annual 2 week Eurotrip, tasting menus weekly, bottle service once a month, DoorDash weekdays, useless kitchen gadgets, mid century modern furniture, millennial gray paint, weight loss peptides, Korean skincare products, the whole nine yards

Very fair!

Social Media moving from What Your Friends Are Doing to What Hot Rich Strangers Are Doing has ruined society, basically

Ya I more meant it’s weird how weird we still are about sex, not “everyone should be slutty”

We decoupled sex from reproduction in the 60s but the culture has never fully internalized that

It doesn’t seem like norms around consensual hetero sex have changed all that much in the last 25 years, at least compared to the 25 before that. It’s far easier to be a slut or a pervert now but most people still wait for Date 3

When I was a dumb babyqueer I made the mistake of complaining to a 50 something gay coworker about a “Pride cake” at work and this guy, who came of age during the AIDS crisis, looks me square in the eye and says

“Shut up and eat your cake”

There's no genuinely democratic system that is immune to most of the citizens repeatedly voting for evil.

A lot of the UKs problems are downstream of FPTP though, not that PR systems are immune to dysfunction either but it’s arguably a further indictment of the US system that the same system we use produces such bizarro outcomes even in a multiparty parliamentary system

It seems kinda sus US based bsky allows it though, surely there’s something they can potentially be charged with here

Didn’t know this!

It’s really not far fetched at all

She brags about doing serious crimes out in the open, over and over, with detailed explanations of how she does them. The feds threaten her with 10-15 years and losing her kid. She does what anyone would do and flips. Now they make her recruit idiots to do crimes.

What do you call someone who does crimes out in the open with no fear of consequences? An informant

Until and unless she faces legal consequences I smell an entrapment operation

No fucking way the feds don’t know about her at this point

BlowJOB?! No, it’s a blowpassion, a blowhobby if you will. I would never perform oral in the capitalist mindset

like i'm sorry but it is just ASTONISHING how little we care about the quality of children's media. soulless product-focused slop without moral or purpose but it's okay because everyone knows kids are dumb idiot non-people who'll clap at anything and we just need them out of our hair for 90 minutes

there are many candidates for the epitaph on the end of history's headstone, but right now "we raised our kids to be better people than us; unfortunately, they were" feels pretty apt

I’ve always had an odd soft spot for the PUP, who were generally more willing to talk to Sinn Fein during the peace talks than the “mainstream” UUP and DUP

The UVFs (strangely noble?) political wing, the Progressive Unionist Party tried to do this in reverse, arguing that uplifting the Protestant and Catholic working classes would remove the root causes of paramilitarism and strengthen the union with Great Britain.

It went nowhere.

Yummmmmm

(This was the thinking of non Provo leftist republicans and was the official line of both the OIRA and INLA during the Troubles. The idea apparently dates back to the 20s making it nearly as old as partition itself!)

When your strategy for Irish reunification is to bring the Protestant and Catholic working classes together under the banner of socialism

It’s good stuff!

Look, wars and recessions hurt the little people. Erick, Son of Erick will be fine.

The social and legal recognition of trans people is a fundamental blow to gender essentialism and therefore patriarchy. That’s fucking with power