When he puts respect LITERALLY on the names of Alex Pretti and Renée Nicole Good by doing them the dignity of spelling their goddam names right, I’ll consider it.
If he lacks the journalist integrity to fucking spell check the names of two people who were executed in the streets by their own government, what else does he get wrong?
I was in a book club with an Ezra once. Can’t say for sure if he was good, but he didn’t suck which is more than I can say for the aforementioned Ezras
Sure, yeah. Gov’t workers get unions. This is not a surprise. What is a surprise is… how bad this “journalist” is:
The murders of Perri and Renney Nicolle Good…
I grew up in and out of boys homes and shit and man I’ve endured enough pranks to last several lifetimes.
Hell yes. I watched a couple last night and they’re excellent. Seems like he’s tight with the Let’s Talk Religion guy as well, so that’s cool. Thanks for the recommendation!
No, but I’m gonna check ‘em out. Always on the lookout for this type of stuff
Hell yes this looks right up my alley
While not necessarily documentaries, and, as much as I am loathe to recommend YouTube content creators, I really like
Mostly because I enjoy falling asleep to the sound of men’s voices talking about long ago and not-so-long-ago times. There are others, of course, but these are my favorites.
Yeah I see that now. Thank you.
I think one of the ways my autism comes out is just like, not understanding neurotypicals? (No shit, huh? (Also I hate that language but whatever)) And in moments like this, where something is just so painfully obvious to me — something I’ve been shouting about for literally my entire life — it makes my brain hurt trying to comprehend how people can’t or won’t see it.
Like, I used to labor under the assumption that all people believe, as you said, that capital pushes the state into fascism, but that everyone was just willfully complicit. Then shit like this happens and I’m like, “oh wait… yall like, really thought corporations were like… okay?” I dunno, does that make sense?
Sometimes I just feel really alien in this world and this is just one of those moments.
Ratio refers to the ratio of women to men. Epstein is telling musk that musks gold digger of the day might be uncomfortable because there will be SO many women. Musk then effectively says “my gold digging wench will do whatever I tell her to do because I don’t regard women as people so whatever it’s good”
My read was that this initiative was originally taken during the Biden admin with the intention of watching right wing extremists. Of course those tools, once built, have the capacity to surveil anyone, so when Donny and the boys came back to town they found they had a welcome home present waiting for them: a shiny new surveillance apparatus.
Thanks, Joe.
Old man yells—at The Cloud.
This very much reminds me of Nel Noddings and other folks who kind of pioneered the Feminine Ethic of Care movement (maybe not the right word).
While I have some quibbles with her, I do think her book Caring: A Relational Approach to Ethics and Moral Education is worth a read. Her chapter on natural caring and ethical caring in particular really helped me reframe my own concept of self care, especially when there is so much to be done.
It’s about the color I would expect from one of these types
Exemplar of the master race. A true specimen.
She was among the first of the current era dems to grow a spine and be hyper critical of Israel. The party almost ate her alive after her “all about the Benjamins” comment. Glad she made it through and is still kickin ass. One of the few major politicians that’s probably actually a Good Person.
That style is a very weird mishmash of Western European/Mediterranean and like southern amerikkkan plantation owner and is very in vogue among certain sets of moneyed 20-30 somethings at present.
That said, from everything I’ve read about the political inclinations of Gen Z and Alpha, it seems like they’re the most ideologically incoherent generation of Americans yet, which I can only assume is a mostly vibes based ideology based on whatever media diet their meager attention spans will allow them to consume.
I’m also not trying to fan the flames of inter-generational conflict either; those younger people are just victims of an entirely different propaganda machine and media landscape than my generation and the generations before me. From actually interacting with that demo, it seems they’re largely pretty alright people who unfortunately have oatmeal brains thanks to modern tech, social media, and AI.
Just in case anyone wants to know, Wayzata is one of the single wealthiest cities in MN. It’s on Lake Minnetonka. Motherfuckers have like, lake yachts and sailboats and shit there. It’s obscenely wealthy, old money people. If this guy is scared of wayzata… he’s the most bitchmade human on the fucking planet.
Cismale here (feel free to tell me to gtfo) and I tend to agree with you insofar as many (most? All? Any?) cis allies haven’t done any sort of rigorous analysis on their own gender, socialization, and the massive privilege it begets.
Before I continue: How do you see us being better allies and comrades? Truly asking.
Personally I tend towards gender nihilism, but decades of having a penis and testicles, being socialized as, being perceived as, and ultimately “being” male (i.e. internalizing masculinity, patriarchy, binary gender, etc.) — especially at critical points in my biopsychosocial development — give me an unshakeable experience. No matter how much I choose to see beyond gender, to assert its lack of existence, whatever, I still inhabit a male body and feel at home in it and benefit from a society who privileges me as such. I am destined to fuck up, make mistakes, cause harm both implicitly and explicitly. Such is the burden of gender — and I have it the easiest.
My point is that yes, you are right to be dubious of us, because even the most well meaning are socialized as gendered people, and benefit from the privilege of gender and it’s more work than 99% of us can ever be bothered to do (at least, at present) to actually be the allies y’all need. I wish that weren’t the case, and I hope that it isn’t, but goddam.
I doubt that’s helpful at all. I dunno. I’m just ranting. Feel free to cuss me out if I’m making useless unproductive noise here.