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Jun 29, 2021 14 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Yes we crashed the ship into the iceberg instead of changing course but what’s important is it was a bipartisan decision between people who had already taken the lifeboats.
Yes we could have changed course but we asked all the most selfish assholes in the world and they said no.

What? Yes there were enough of us in control to do it anyway but I feel you’re missing the part where the assholes said no, so it would have been a partisan decision.
Oh so I suppose YOU had a plan? Let’s hear it.

So easy for you to be critical and say “just don’t hit the iceberg” but I don’t see your navigation charts.
Yes we sighted the iceberg days before but what you don't realize is some people claimed icebergs are actually very normal and good for ships, and you wouldn't have wanted to not give them equal time to make their point; anyway they convinced a lot of people!
Yes there *could* be room on the lifeboat for lots more of you but as you can see I have pretty sweet leg room and the stuff I looted off the ship once it became clear we were hitting the iceberg, so I'm going to ask you to shoo back onto the ship.

Oh so now *I'm* the bad guy.
I worked hard for this loot. You could have been looting but instead you spent all your time of the foredeck yelling about an iceberg.

The foredeck isn't real life you know.

Wow, the things you're saying to me right now are basically hate speech? So much for the tolerant port.
Not hitting the iceberg would have been partisan! Now we're unified. Well, all of *you* are unified. Glub glub.

All I have is this one *small* lifeboat, but you don't hear me complaining.
I keep hearing people screaming "don't hit the iceberg" but nobody talking about how we'll PAY for not hitting the iceberg.

I support not hitting the iceberg but we have to do it without changing our speed or direction.

I think we should offer the iceberg tax incentives.
Screams from the frigid water reaching the half-capacity lifeboats are teaching my son to hate himself.

So divisive for people to constantly break people into categories based on drowning status.

People screaming about icebergs are the *real* icebergs.

Critical Drowning Theory is only further dividing those in the water from those in the lifeboats.

You have the same two legs and two arms as me. If you define yourself as drowning, that's probably why you're drowning.

Are you drowning? I can't tell. I don't even SEE oxygen.
This screaming about drowning is very unpopular; I've polled everyone in my lifeboat and let me assure you it does not have majority support.

Look we all ALREADY agree nobody should drown, but how do you expect to convince us to help you if you keep blaming US for OUR lifeboats?
I knew it. This is about taking OUR lifeboats. Repackaged Marxism.

Sure we took the lifeboats but that was BEFORE the ship sank. Stop focusing on ancient history and look forward.

I started with nothing but this lifeboat my father put me in. You have flotsam AND jetsam. Use it.
You think I have any flotsam? You think I have jetsam? I don't. Nobody in the lifeboats get any handouts; only people in the water. This is the true inequality.

I could use flotsam as a paddle. I could use jetsam as a footstool. But instead you sit and cling to it. Selfish.
People in lifeboats are the only ones who can be criticized anymore. It's like we can't say anything anymore, because, well.

Because you'd hear us and swim over. And I have a lot of legroom on this lifeboat.

My point is I'm being silenced.

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