Will Truman

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[Will Truman @trumwill]

I knew my mistake as soon as I said the words to the toddler.

"Do you want to go to IHOP?"
"YES! IHOP!"
"Wait no"
"HOP HOP HOP!!"
"No, we're not going to the trampoline park, we're going to-"
"IHOP! LIKE A BUNNY I GO HOP HOP HOP"
"No, it's food"
"NO FOOD! HOP HOP HOP!"

[Will Truman @trumwill]

@moonbeamer6 @dilanesper Is there another one that's not that? (I know sometimes there are threads that cover the same area that form adversarial communities.)

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@EricaGrieder Our daughter's birthmom was looking in West Texas and almost everything out there was paying $15/hr. (Actually getting a job did prove challenging for her, though.)

[Liz Is Amused @lizisamused]

A woman invented objectivism & a man invented communism

Really makes you think... 😏

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@ArthurKolchak In the movie Stonehouse, they presented it along those lines. Eastern Bloc said "We want to show you a movie..." and it was him with the honeypot.

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Soldiers of Misfortune: The Drawings of Urs Graf the Elder
https://t.co/KZJi4iFFRg

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Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season
https://t.co/HoZr92XJW9

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The Triumph of Labour: Walter Crane’s Cartoons for the Cause (1896)
https://t.co/e7RvYheWJo

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I was born in 1978 and when I was in college we had the WTO protests and a campus Republican group that was disbanded by the school administration and 20-foot tall visually disturbing pro-life displays....

So for me it's more of an "Everything old is new again" during each cycle.

[Will Truman @trumwill]

(I should have some humility here because I have a limited number of partners - and only one in the last 20 years - and maybe that's not representative. But this is what I've learned as it pertains to the ones I've had.)

(I also should have put this in response to an earlier tweet.)

[Will Truman @trumwill]

I think there really is a fundamental disconnect because of how sex works for men and women. One of the most important lessons for me is that the optimal order of events is that she orgasms and then after that you penetrate.

As a guy, this makes no sense. You have sex *in order* to orgasm. Or at least at our basis levels. So even if we know a woman can orgasm multiple times (and it feels great when you're inside a woman and she is orgasming) then best to get in there and go.

But if a woman is going to orgasm multiple times, the best can be at least once before, because that makes the second and third time even better (and, of course, it makes it more likely there will be a third time or a second or a first).

For guys, when we think about orgasming more than once, we think of sex and then once out of the refractory period going again, but when we do that, the second time often actually doesn't feel as good. So I think we can internalize this idea that it's cool that women can do it multiple times, but the second and third time is probably not as good as it often isn't for us if we have sex three times in a day. I mean it's great! But it's not as great.

So some of guys' response to this is selfishness or laziness. But some of it is that guys come into the whole thing with certain assumptions they don't necessarily even realize they have.

[Will Truman @trumwill]

Private Lives and Taxpayer Dollars, from James Joyner https://t.co/hY5hXSIfXz

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Imagine a historian in 2035 writing a political history of the 2020s, and he points out that every election, the out-of-power party won a cost-of-living election and then used their mandate to ignore or exacerbate affordability only to be destroyed in the next election, where voters again said “to be clear, I don’t want whatever bullshit you’re up to, I just want life to feel more affordable,” and then, once again, the winning politicians prioritized everything except affordability, and this story repeated itself over and over again.

One of my strongest held political opinions right now is: Democrats should do everything they can to avoid that history being written.

[Will Truman @trumwill]

This is the kind of content I am here for.

[indefatigable fox cop @shitotaur]

I was listening to “Short Skirt/Long Jacket” by Cake and I was wondering what kind of facility was the young lady touring? My guess - DOD contractor doing specialty machining for missile components

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Veteran’s Day Forum, from Steven L. Taylor https://t.co/2jMJuNPl5x

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The Next Congress Begins to Take Shape https://t.co/WYaYbezWFA

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Hegseth Survives First Impeachment Attempt, from James Joyner https://t.co/MLjExfKFQM

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@FormerlyCBM @TylerBoliver Simply not lining up behind them because they're afraid of them would be a good start.

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@btharris93 I very rarely find the opposite.

[Kolchak the Dude (He/Him) 😇 🐊 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦🍌 @ArthurKolchak]

Honestly, the major problem with the “pick the bear” meme is that it’s semantically vacant. Clearly it can’t be taken literally as human women are not, in fact, hanging out with bears in any significant numbers. But if we take it as a metaphor we are left frustrated as we never seem to get an explanation from the invokers as to what the bear-picking signifies beyond a putative female “right to feel weary about the opposite sex.”

So, I say to the “pick the bear” meme invokers: get back to us when you are ready to talk frankly about the matter of *behavior*- the behavior to which you think women are entitled owing to their supposedly rational anxieties concerning men and the behavior you think men have the responsibility to adopt in order to alleviate these anxieties.

And yes, I suspect that if you ever get around to doing this, you’ll probably just end up rediscovering small-c chivalry from first principles and calling it revolutionary feminist praxis. 🙄