@rebekah_e_s met multiple people in grad school who very sanctimoniously said, well *i* only read nonfiction, when I mentioned a novel I’d read recently. reader, we were in law school.
everyone on the left can rightfully see the absurdity of casting votes in accordance with vague racial/gendered signifiers and their largely symbolic, representational importance post-obama. except when it is time to do the same thing for decorative blue-collar ex-mercenaries that pay lip service to working-class and anti-establishment politics. then, of course, functional identity politics, over-identification with stand-ins, SYMBOLS over substance, is okay!
Heartbreaking hearing that the woman who Platner raped was hesitant to come forward because she agreed with his politics and didn’t want to damage The Movement. If you didn’t already realize, this sort of thing happens a lot more often than you hear about!
Unfortunately I do think the reason a lot of male pundits dug their heels in on platner is because many of them are a bit sexist and also kind of ok with xenophobia up to a point. The good news is that none of them will apologize or learn any lesson from this!
i would have supported the maesters if they poisoned targaryen men because what do you mean alyssa died at just 24 for not recovering from childbirth, and viserys really said let me put my child bride through the same thing my mother went through, but worse
one of her titles is “daughter of death” because her husband, son, and brothers had to die to pave her path and she takes on the roles all of them failed to achieve
hamilton wrote 51 op-eds in under a year on a shared burner account to win one policy argument, then died in a beef that escalated from remarks printed in a newspaper. the most influential poster in american history simply could not log off, and the constitution is the result
they should start doing matches in all sorts of different conditions. a r32 match in the arctic tundra. an r16 match in a savannah with a plague of locusts. a quarterfinal on the international space station
Absolutely hilarious that #FIFA thinks that having water breaks for every match ensures fairness, but then accepts a host nation venue that plays at 7,000ft altitude, which reduces endurance performance by 5-15%
@am_yers it’s beautiful. the most high stakes version of the simplest thing a player ever does. a million shots isn’t enough to prepare for the one that matters. football involves a good amount of luck already—that’s partly why upsets are so common—the shootouts just reveal it