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29 Jul, 7 tweets, 1 min read
what if all the nostalgia for the 80s and 90s is just because it's the last time most millennials experienced being middle class
like ok, I think I've finally made it

I own a house

I think I'm finally experiencing the middle-class dream

and it's weird how my sort of perpetual life homesickness-without-wanting-to-actually-move-back just VANISHED
but for most of my adult life, while I was, like most millennials, considering going to the doctor a luxury and dreaming of being able to actually afford dental care, and certain I would never own a home...
...when I would go back and visit my parents, when I came back here I'd joke (but actually be kind of serious) about how HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS BEING MIDDLE-CLASS IS FUCKING AMAZING, REMEMBER WHAT THAT WAS LIKE? as I returned to my strained apartment life
Like, to be clear, part of it is also just the normal nostalgia cycle for the time you were a child, and didn't have adult responsibilities

but it really seems like we have more hardcore 80s/90s nostalgia than I can remember for, like, the 70s
And I really wonder how much of it has to do with the vanishing of middle-class-ness.
anyway, this is all brought to you by

this morning, as I was having my tea and running my nice functioning, non-apartment-grade garbage disposal, I thought, "eh, I no longer give a shit about the 80s and 90s"

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28 Jul
It never fails, some Christian/atheist Debate Me Bro is always like “But I thought Jews LOVE arguing!”

Yes, debate is sacred in Judaism.

That’s a useful background for distinguishing whether someone wants to debate to learn vs debate to win.
The two are diametrically opposed. Whether you’re debating to learn or debating to teach, your desired outcome is to lose.

If you’re debating to win, you’re not there to learn.
If you’re debating to teach, you want to lose because it means that your student has understood what you were trying to teach and made it their own.
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27 Jul
Another big part of why Christian atheists have trouble seeing how Christian they still are is that Christianity advertises itself as being modular, which is not how belief systems have worked for most of human history. (1/x)
So a selling point of Christianity has always been the idea that it's plug-and-play: you don't have to stop being Irish or Korean or Nigerian to be Christian, you don't have to learn a new language, you keep your culture and just also be Christian.
Evangelicals in particular love to contrast this to Islam, to the idea that you have to learn Arabic and adopt elements of Arab culture to be Muslim, which helps fuel the image of Islam as a Foreign Ideology that's taking over the West.
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27 Jul
before everyone panics about breakthrough COVID infections:

the Pfizer vaccine is about 95% effective. In a country with 320 million people, even if everyone were vaccinated, 5% is 16 million people.

like, 16 million is a scary-sounding "it isn't working!" number, but.
and of course, we're not 100% vaccinated, which increases the chances of coming in contact with someone with COVID

but either way, IIRC the vaccine is actually *more* effective than initial projections
And the people being hospitalized because of COVID are, overwhelmingly, still unvaccinated people

get your shot
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27 Jul
@science_gamer @whatanerd @unclefeezus That’s a super-obvious signpost to start with.

Less obvious baked-in societal Christian attitudes revolve around forgiveness, how to handle wrongdoing, the existence of evil, etc.
@science_gamer @whatanerd @unclefeezus Hell, someone just did a great thread on how the difference between Stephen King’s and Stanley Kubrick’s versions of the Shining is the difference between Christian and Jewish concepts of evil.
@science_gamer @whatanerd @unclefeezus We have different ethics (Jewish values strongly lean communitarian; Protestants are individualistic, Catholics tend toward the middle). Christian thought tends to be suspicious of ambiguity; Jewish though tends to be suspicious of certainty.
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27 Jul
Christian atheists object to being identified as having come from Christian backgrounds for the same reason men object if you start putting “male” in front of words like “doctor.”
A big part of power and privilege is the invisibility of belonging to a specific group, because it positions you as the unquestioned (and therefore justified) default. It means that your perspective is objective, unlike those agenda-driven marginalized people.
And all of that protects the status quo. Any marginalized person who wants to change it is self-interested and agenda-driven.

But the fact that you are NOT neutral in your pushback, that your self-interested agenda is trying to preserve the status quo, is occluded.
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26 Jul
ah yes, the most white, male, Christian reaction in the world

if someone says I said something antisemitic/sexist/racist, etc. instead of doing any self-examination I'm going to freak out and accuse them of being in bad faith
literally nothing is going to change for the better unless people with privilege:

1) understand that having your behavior called racist/sexist/antisemitic/etc. is not somehow worse than BEING that thing

2) learn to sit with the discomfort hearing that causes
like, so someone says a thing you said was racist/sexist/etc.

STOP PANICKING

you're not going to die, you're not fucking "cancelled" or whatever

take a deep breath
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