Okay, I feel like I’ve been way too courteous and gracious with these “ladies”. They are faux russian, faux christian, faux bohemian — they are just suburban disaffected libs. One just has a more active mind that she uses to spin her venomous yarn, another is a cow-eyed ditz riding on her sex appeal.
Anna K really turned in a mirror image of liberal fascist she supposedly despises — a high earning middle age woman, kid out of wedlock, constantly yups about morals while sucking up to the powerful men and promoting poisonous politics. Meanwhile pretending to be a victim
Boost among independents for Trump probably largely from pandemic dissent and rfk jr support.
Take a bow all you “progressives” who dismissed lab origins, worshiped con artist Fauci and insisted on fascistic lockdowns and jab mandates. Take a bow!!
This article accidentally helps make sense of why some people have left the left by showcasing the preening moral self-regard, staggering incuriosity, and total incapacity for self-criticism of some of its prominent spokespeople.
@boutros555 no. that's how things are now but until recently something as big as the barbie movie would have had a cultural impact. signs of this impact would linger for years until it became an object of nostalgia. this process used to take decades and is now condensed into a few weeks.
So this was the sort of art that affluent liberals liked, or were meant to like, in the first decade of the 20th century.
I think this helps make sense of affluents liberals’ current turn towards bare life and hysterically deranged politics.
Do all this in fits and starts for two years. Blame it all on what, for that young person, is a species of the common cold. Acknowledge no mistakes, issue no apologies.
Scramble her ability to make sense of all this with relentless saccharine moralizing and absurdist politico-science.
Replace the example and wisdom of her elders with the selfish panic of a foolish herd.
Tell her she cannot go outside to run or play or argue or fall in love. Tell her that her needs and hopes and dreams can be suspended indefinitely at the whim of public health officials, and for the benefit of others.
Take a young person. Restrict her freedom to leave her house and see her friends and family. Tell her she is a disease vector who must be masked at all times or she will become a killer of those whom she loves. Plant her in front of a screen for months on end.
@DanielHadas2 The people screaming “socializing = genocide” for 2 years now care not at all for the young people their policies have killed or for the lives they’ve destroyed. I hope there will eventually be a reckoning.
For the logically-minded and socially isolated, lockdowns became increasingly terrifying as they stretched into 2021, because there seemed to be no logical reason they would 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 end.
In response to striking lecturers’ demands for a modest cost-of-living pay raise, better health care coverage, and a modicum of job security, a most enlightened university president and his provost—both pulling seven figure salaries—instead offered the following: