I don't know how, exactly, but Perpetually Aggrieved Online Leftists have evolved a conversational tone perfectly suited to making me want to tear my hair out.
More and more, I think global-scale social media was a mistake.
This air of perpetual grievance, this epistemic closure and fundamentalist insistence upon binary thought would be moderated by relationships in-person.
the idea that sexuality is a Dangerous and Corrupting and Perverting and Evil force, and that it must be controlled, and expressed only in the most anodyne forms possible, for fear of Tainting the Children… like, you do see how that's not liberatory, right??
I love paying TurboTax a few hundred bucks every year to figure out how much money I owe the government, which the government already knows, but won’t tell me because TurboTax pays legislators to keep the government from telling me. 🥰
This is why I have less and less patience each year for purity-at-pride culture: a woman having a picture of her wife on her desk counts as "sexually explicit" to a culture that sees queer existence as inherently sexual.
One of the many, many reasons behind displaying overt sexuality at Pride is that queer liberation requires things that non-queer people demand to be hidden away---not be hidden away.
y'all understand that after they ban abortion, homosexuals and transgenders are their new unifying cause, their new moral panic, their new casus belli, right?
all of us queers, we get to be the new whip to hold their geriatric religious hate coalition together.
I’ve actually unfollowed longtime mutuals over over this. I’m deeply uncomfortable with people hijacking the language of consent to mean “I shouldn’t have to see anything I don’t want to, ever” when that has been the stated reason for oppressing queer people for decades.
Bill O'Reilly once wrote in an editorial that if two men hold hands in public he will have to explain anal fisting to his daughter, which raises serious questions about how he holds hands.
But that's the exact same energy this "kink ruins pride for families" purity culture has.
This one is pretty easy: Kevin McCarthy is working to block a bipartisan congressional investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection because Kevin McCarthy is deeply implicated in the Jan. 6 insurrection
Even as someone who considers themselves pretty sex-positive, I STILL feel this cultural push. It feels like the entire landscape is slanted, and if you don't actively strive against it, you will roll to the point of least resistance, which is Mega Prudishness.
For everyone asking when will we stop going from crisis to crisis?
We won't, this is what the beginning of climate decline looks like, constant natural disasters, political unrest and pandemics due to crumbling infrastructure.
Quit falling for flamboyant lawyers who know how to put on a show and start looking at who was never arrested at all despite being the ringleaders of the crimes
[share author='Max Kennerly' profile='https://twitter.com/MaxKennerly' avatar='https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2272212478/b00wlaliuo2qbd5vyit8.jpeg' link='https://twitter.com/MaxKennerly/status/1394386276875395080' posted='2021-05-17 20:16:09']So while extremist groups were openly talking about their plan to use violence to keep Trump in power, the DOJ—filled with stalwart Republicans who have since been picked up by corporate law firms—was ignoring that and instead going after @NunesAlt with a secret subpoena.
1. HIPAA applies to health-care providers, not ordinary folks talking about someone’s medical stuff.
2. If you’re NOT a health-care provider, you can talk *as much as you want* about other people’s medical stuff. Perfectly legal. Breaks no law. Full stop.
Oh my god 🙄 theyre gunna “weed mommy” MSG. White suburban people are going to get rich using this “new salt substitute” while for the past 2 decades society shamed and boycotted Asian restaurants/ products that used the same ingredient.
ftr “banning sexual content from the internet is inherently queerphobic” and “perpetuating the idea that hypersexualization is an inherent trait of queerness is toxic and erasive” are two statements that can be and absolutely are simultaneously true
As the articles keep coming about Bill Gates's close relationship with Epstein and his long history of sexual advances on Microsoft employees, I'll just reminisce about all the times people told me I was wrong about billionaires being bad because "Bill Gates"
This was just unsealed. In the last weeks of the Trump administration, William Barr's Justice Department tried to use a secret grand jury subpoena to unmask @NunesAlt, a Devin Nunes parody account.
At this particular moment? Amplify Palestinian voices. This is a war of narratives, and we need your help. We do not have a state-sponsored propaganda department, all we have is our truth and our social media accounts.
Welp had our first "I'm not wearing a mask, I'm fully vaccinated!" run-in at the day job today despite the MASKS REQUIRED sign on the door. It went about as bad as you'd expect.
CDC really didn't think about how violent this will be for retail/food service/in-person places.
I have a couple explanations that may be both true at the same time: - It is perceived as “weak” (solidarity) and should be weeded out from a “strong” (individualistic) society. - It reflects poorly on people who don’t want to spend the effort being considerate so they lash out at the people making them look bad in comparison.
Someone on tv just said, “when we want to incentivize rich people we give them money but when we want to incentivize poor people we take away money,” and holy fuck that’s so true.
This trend of blaming defund when the cops haven’t been defunded and blaming an increased minimum wage when the wage hasn’t actually been raised is really a new level of having absolutely no argument.
Another thing I keep thinking about is how Israel prevents construction materials from entering Gaza. So every bomb that drops, every apartment building and house that's destroyed, is gone forever. They're collectively and permanently punishing every resident there.
you will never ever be able to convince me that this sudden capitulation of CDC leading to the 'mission accomplished' announcements everywhere has nothing to do with poverty wage jobs needing their workers.
There was an attempted coup four months ago where the president sent his supporters and domestic terrorists to attack Congress, kill his vice president, and overthrow an election and people are either acting like it never happened or like it’s a totally manageable non-crisis.
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in reply to Spencer • •"I'm begging you to not be like this. 😭"
"Have you considered that maybe…"
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in reply to Spencer • •More and more, I think global-scale social media was a mistake.
This air of perpetual grievance, this epistemic closure and fundamentalist insistence upon binary thought would be moderated by relationships in-person.
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