All the time people claim that it’s gotten harder to distinguish satire from the real thing, but my honest opinion is that reading comprehension has gotten worse
A father and son are in a car accident. The father dies. The son is rushed to a hospital and taken to an operating room. The surgeon says “I can’t operate on this boy, he’s my son! Fortunately, the great surgeon Pagliacci is in town tonight. Take my son to him.” “But doctor…”
Half the internet does a full John-Gotti-interviewee-style “whaaaat murda?” bit whenever anything negative about a politician they like gets reported and it’s the most pathetic thing on earth
@worst_account@lolbertking also, if the implication is supposed to be that all of those thinkers built on what spencer created (impossible, because of time, but whatever), I don’t think that’s how pyramids work
like, you don’t build a pyramid by planting the top stone first??
It’s probably fine that vast swathes zoomers and younger millennials exist in a kind of permanent internalized panopticon in which all actions are assumed to be (and interpreted as) performances for a viewer
Feminism is the branch of inquiry that most consistently affirms that male sexual violence is neither inherent nor inevitable, that men are not born to exploit and dominate.
1. the united states is at war with iran lmao
2. many of the administrative tools and legal arguments he’s using were developed by the Bush administration
The perception of the Trump admin as a rejection of the Bush era has always been wrong, but it’s especially crazy that people are still holding onto that idea *now*
This is queer fetishism, queer men are actually real and not just a fun thought experiment about what straight men would be like if they were emotionally available.
Climate Stalin will kill us even quicker. The very last thing we need is the fetishistic idea that a single figure will solve all our problems and that everyone else is let off the hook to shut their brain off and follow orders. That will blind us on both ends.
No matter the verdict, we will keep fighting whatever charges remain.
We still need to raise money for two state-level lawyers.
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