You might be wondering: Americs is a rabid dog, destroying everything its path. shouldn’t they put a stop to this?
Study the Beardaments. All Shsll Be Revealed.
Yo it's fuckin crazy they did weekend-long maintenance (site unavailable for selecting new plans) specifically the weekend before the student loan deadline
... And what they changed was making the website harder to use and removing useful feautures/info. Burn in hell.
@spiroswallower@jeremiahjw@adamjohnsonCHI Ultimately it's still "this woman has no agency. She will be fucked. Either you do it gently or we do it brutally." That's still rape.
Also I think the drunk guys from the tank also say that they just got back from themselves on women right before this.
@spiroswallower@jeremiahjw@adamjohnsonCHI A couple of them threaten to in a liberated town. The main character is given the ultimatum to have sex with this girl who - in a better time & place would've courted - or one of the drunk rapist guys will take her instead. You're not directed to look at those guys as "good", but
I'm not even sure if it was unintentional too. A few parts read like Atlas Shrugged monologues, but, analyzing it even a little bit does kinda reveal a much greater truth. Maybe he's accidentally telling on himself as regards the limits of his philosophy? Maybe it's on purpose?
Finished this last week. Was thinking about it again & it's really strange(?) that Heinlein writes himself *as* the character called "the professor", but H's new political philosophy is entirely irrelevant to how the revolution is won. His duplicity, but especially cynicism wins
lenskymaxxing is the new method. you need to read Kant and write erotic verse for women who don't like you. you need to get killed in a duel by your flippant wastrel best friend and haunt him for life
Super tired of "billionaire doing X money-losing thing hahaha" style of leftist commentary. Recent closest actual analysis was recognizing AI speeches @ graduations were signals to investors, not fumbled techno-positivism. Hard to resist when every official's flagrantly stupid ig