"I was victimized by the patriarchy, so I got a haircut"
Everything has to be a buzzfeed headline... Nobody "just does stuff" anymore. All of life's banal moments need to be presented as either a reaction or a challenge to really sell them. How else are you going to get online randos invested in your new haircut?
Attainment of wisdom is both the cause of and cure for depression.
Microsoft running psyops to keep the Linux community as toxic as possible
Democratic numbers man Geoff Garin, summarizing their analysis, stop saying, “We’re not going back.” It wasn’t focused enough on the future, he argued. Second, lay off all the “weird” talk — too negative.
omg 🙄 Geoff Garin is a dinosaur with a book of dusty mid-90's "political wisdom" in his back pocket. Guys like him are the whipped dogs of the Democratic party who can only grovel towards "centrists" and push the Overton Window further right.
Geoff Garin must see young progressives as not even worthy of attempting to placate with platitudes because we will somehow offend the mythical "on-the-fence" boomers that Geoff in all his political wisdom has been relentlessly pursuing his entire life. He is the embodiment of the pussified towel-twisting Democrat who enabled the rise of fascism by taking off his hat and bowing deeply as soon as it entered the room.
I hope they put Geoff Garin out to pasture and nobody ever EVER trusts his political instincts ever again. If he is numb to the vibe and trying to reign it in then he's overstayed his welcome and utility.
sis havin' an extra slice of that white-savior complex
He's so transparently pandering.
Ted Cruz is smarter than all of this which is why I hate him more than MTG. She's sad as shit because this is real to her. Ted is just a spineless grovelling coward with a shame kink who wants desperately to be powerful.
They are just so desperate for an Olympic level "gotcha" in their cultural crusade that they just singled out a woman boxer for being "too butch" and just ran with their assumptions.
Then every try-hard wannabe right wing influencer type just gloms onto it hoping to be chosen by the algorithm for ten hot seconds of vainglorious right wing attention/validation.
JKR is so far off base here that even if you are a dyed-in-the-wool TERF this is basically impossible to defend.
Gate-keeping feminity by excluding women born with a vagina who are too butch by your opinion to be considered "women" is going too far... even if you are otherwise onboard with gate-keeping "womanhood" from trans women.
I hate to say but everyone who said no dodged that bullet. If they took him in and eventually asked him to leave he'd off himself in that person's house instead.
Liberal tolerance is such a defacto default that people who would be hard done by a white christofascist America end up signing up for it because they assume it will include the same rights and freedoms they currently enjoy.
Also every trans Trumper believes they will be the token accepted trans person in the far-right. Same as some Jews cosied up to the Nazis to extract personal privilege at the expense of snitching on their own people only to end up at the exact same end-game anyways.
I had to temporarily live in LA for three months during which time I came to understand that LA is really a terribly place for humans to live. Yes LA "has everything" but it is all a 40 minute drive from wherever you are one-way. People in LA think driving 90 minutes round trip to go out for dinner is normal behavior because the city has so twisted their concept of "normal"
LA has very few places that are "pretty" surrounded by a hundred miles of sunbaked 1980's low-rise stucco squalor sandwiched between freeways. It's ugly, inconvenient and fully self-absorbed
The right wing viciously hates America despite their rhetoric to the contrary.
You cannot hate your fellow countrymen and seek actively disenfranchise them by dismantling the rule of law and the right to vote while at the same time purporting to champion "American Values".
MAGA are not patriotic Americans anymore than Mussolini supporters were "patriotic Italians". Just a grab bag of classless opportunistic assholes with a vision that extends no further than the tip of their dick.