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5 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The Matrix
What Women Want
You’ve Got Mail
Life Is Beautiful
Saint Elmo’s Fire
The fact that everyone inside the matrix is established as a real person but our heroes are instructed that they have to treat all of them as disposable cannon fodder because they aren’t an awakened one like them is something I can’t get over.
I get that it is a trans allegory made by trans women, but I think it missed the mark badly. Its appropriation by noxious people who put it toward solipsistic ends feels inevitable to me.
You've Got Mail is the worst of the bunch.

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A.R. Moxon Profile picture
6 May
Liz Cheney is an interesting case. A Republican who actually has a line she won't cross, but it's one that's nightmarishly beyond every other moral event horizon. So much grotesquerie on the side of the line she accepted.

She simply thought her evil party less evil than it is.
The Muslim ban? Acceptable.
Authoritarian president? Acceptable.
White supremacist agenda? Acceptable.
Genocidal Covid policy? Acceptable.

Trying to murder Congress, to overturn Democracy and install a despot? Cheney, and only a couple others, find that unacceptable.
It's hard not to notice that Cheney is only drawing the line at the moment when her life specifically was in danger—which it was.

Hard not to assume she's acting in self-preservation.

But notable to see the rest of her tribe is so captured by fascism they can't even do that.
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5 May
Still thoroughly baffled by stories premised on the assumption that there is a “normal” we can return to, and the assumption that—following this year-long revelation of how predatory that “normal” truly is—a return to it would even be desirable if it were possible.
Still thoroughly baffled by stories that take as moralistic posturing a desire to move forward into a less predatory “normal,” rather than retreat back to a “normal” that let a half million die, by protecting profit and convenience over life.
Still thoroughly baffled by by stories predicated on the notion that a pandemic that isn’t remotely over is over, particularly when one of the reasons it isn’t over is because of people’s apparently indestructible urge to pretend it’s over.
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2 May
What Republicans think doesn’t matter.
Here's what I mean. The story isn't what Republicans believe. The story is that Republicans are not participating in reality.

Their beliefs are dangerous—but their beliefs don't matter. The beliefs of Republicans mustn't be considered as we make policy. They must be ignored.
There is a dominant cultural narrative that the only way we can survive this moment is by coming together with Republicans. That's dangerously incorrect.

The only way to survive is by addressing reality, which means ignoring the beliefs of people who have rejected reality.
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1 May
Saw a clip of Trump blathering to strangers at his gross resort for rich Christian fascists, and it really brought home what hostages we all were to the mundane grotesque whims of this dull-minded pathetic bully.
Conservatives need to understand that on top of everything else Trump manifestly is—fascist, racist, sexist, ignorant, cruel, foolish, crude, narcissistic, evil, greedy, genocidal—he is also deeply, deeply, pathetic.

And you all voted for him. Your gross pig king. We see you.
I don't forgive people for voting for Trump and I probably never will. There's no excuse for it. I don't seek common ground, I don't seek understanding, I don't like them and I don't want to be liked by them. I think they're garbage and I think deep down they know it.
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30 Apr
Republicans want to make it legal to run over protesters with cars.

In case you thought the defense of the nazis who invaded Charlottesville was limited to just Trump.
We are in a global pandemic, we face climate catastrophe, wealth disparity is at levels unseen since the great depression, cops kill 3 people daily, & the top Republican priorities are bullying trans teenagers, demolishing democracy, and making it easier for Nazis to kill people.
It is impossible to compromise with Republicans.

Impossible, not because we hate compromise, but because compromise presupposes a second party that is participating in the same reality and in the same organization.

Republicans are, quite simply, not participating in America.
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29 Apr
I would say that the government that imposed a Muslim travel ban, a family separation policy, sweeping deregulation of environmental protection, multiple trillion dollar giveaways to billionaires and deliberately spread misinformation about a pandemic, was also “big government.”
Government that spends all our money on things with zero/negative civic or social benefit = harmless benign “small” government.

Government that spends all our money on things with positive civic or social benefit = dangerous scary “big” government.
We are a country of 330 million, the 3rd most populous on earth; covering nearly 4 million square miles, the 4th largest country on the planet.

Anyone suggesting that we could have a “small” government is a lunatic or a thief.
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