We need to bring back intellectual elitism. Sorry, but a virologist will always know more about vaccines than a yoga mommy blogger with a ChatGPT Plus subscription.
“He’s a good man, Savannah” has been taken so far out of context by younger people that folks are unironically saying this. He was not a good man. He was a cheater and her mom who said this was a bird 😭
i think people from the US officially lost their right to being smug and mock chinas authoritarian surveillance state the past decade or so
you have AI flock cameras, palantir, massive surveillance state, being slave to billionaires, cant even touch a pool of water
bell hooks is a ~controversial~ figure but she cooked when she said a lot of people do not want to deal with the fact that they were not treated lovingly as children and are trying to reconcile that dynamic with what they understand to be love
My favorite thing about this performance was right after it happened, Hotep Twitter was like 'why is Solange promoting Twerking instead of educated women' and the dancer turned out to be a chemical engineer, LOLOLOLOL
She also mentioned that because of these losses, there's a big void in artistic advancement across the board. The people who died would have mentored the next generations, the way it's always been. Their absences are absolutely felt. Didn't put this together until she said it.