Yes, the boat hit the iceberg, but putting the children in lifeboats is the most destructive thing imaginable to their psyche. It's time for us to stop all this evacuation talk and just complete the voyage.
Yes, the first 7 watertight compartments are now flooded with frigid North Sea water, but it's time for us to stop being ruled by our fears and get back to our normally scheduled travel. We MUST open the shuffleboard courts on the lido deck.
Look at children's faces when they're in lifeboats. They're frightened. They're confused. They don't want to be there. Their parents don't want them there. We need to put them back on the boat, whose deck is now pitched at 90 degrees.
It's time to declare this sinking OVER.
Look, I too want to survive this sinking, but I look at how people insist on wearing constrictive life-vests and taking to life boats and I sympathize with those who wants to spend their time drilling holes in the hull. Better to show this ocean we don't fear it than to cower.
Do you know what a full evacuation of this sinking ship will DO to our scheduled arrival time?
The cure can't be worse than the *glub glub glub*
Wow, there is a lot of drowning on both sides of this evacuation issue.
I don’t think people shoving their children into lifeboats understand how cruel they’re being.
Lifeboats are terrifying. They indicate a ship about to sink. What a terrible message to send impressionable children.
We need to trust parents as the true experts. Parents understand exactly how much sea water their child can swallow, and what their child’s core body temperature should be. It isn’t our place to shove our opinions on drowning down their throats.
What you alarmists in your lifeboat bubbles don’t realize is ordinary people don’t care about life jackets or buoyancy or physics, and when you talk about those things you sound out-of-touch.
Lifeboat isn’t real life. Go outside. Touch grass. Or seaweed; whatever’s down there.
If lifeboats work, then why are so many people in lifeboats still getting cold and wet. Answer me that.
The pro-evac crowd needs to improve its messaging.
I might get myocarditis from this fascist lifeboat, so I will choose to die in the ocean rather than risk it.
Remember: I will die *with* seawater in my lungs, not *of* seawater in my lungs.
I oppose measures to put out any rescue calls to nearby ships, when we don’t know the cost, and many survivors with means to pay might ride for free. I don’t want to create a culture of dependency and I fear many of the passengers in steerage will use their rescue to buy drugs.
Don’t call me anti-evac, that is a slur as bad as any that has been used in history.
Soon we will be forced to wear armbands to identify ourselves, like this one that I am wearing right now, which I made and put on myself, while I harass the crew, for trying to help.
These are the questions every evacuee of a sinking ship should be allowed to ask, at length, never moving until they are satisfied, regardless of their ignorance of evacuations or boatmaking, even if they're blocking the lifeboat line for everyone else.
I’ve heard from many critical analogy enthusiasts recently; to them I say:
1) The point isn’t “both types of risk are equal.”The point is “people opposed to necessary disruptions during emergency ignore those most vulnerable, and the fact of the emergency itself.”
2) 🖕
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I'd like everybody to yell at me, so I wrote about the upcoming election.
Or, to put it more specifically, I wrote about what an anti-fascist coalition might look like and how it might fall apart, using the election as a context.
We’re dealing with rising fascism both globally and domestically, as I might have mentioned once or twice recently—“domestically” for me meaning the United States, though maybe you find it is true in your part of the old cosmic blueball, too.
I think there are a lot of people who realize this and agree that it should be stopped, and that’s good for people who want to stop fascism’s rise—people who I am going to assume includes you, the reader of this. Isn’t that nice of me?
Say that the person who was the focus of the rally was a politician, a man who had once been president of the United States, had stopped being president of the United States, and now was running to be president of the United States again.
Say the person was going to use the rally to talk about all the violence he thought should happen, and who he thought the violence ought to happen to. Say all the people who came to the rally came because they liked to cheer at suggestions of violence.
At the U.S./Mexico border, Republicans are defending their right to make themselves feel safe by murdering refugee men, women, and children, using as rationale a once-fringe Nazi conspiracy theory they are promoting.
They’re talking about a civil war in order to protect this "right." And yes, they’re framing it all as self-defense, as if they—the ones eager to murder both foreigners and fellow citizens—are the ones in danger, and the rest of us—who they are eager to murder—are the danger.
And yes, they’re also against antisemitism, they’ll tell you, whenever they aren’t promoting their Nazi conspiracy theory.
Promoting ideas and actions in the name of some fine thing that you don’t believe in and might actually oppose is what is meant when someone says "bad faith."
For example say your name was Elise Stefanik, and you were for example a US Senator
Say also you belong to a political party whose leader is an open fascist who approvingly quotes Hitler in order to promote a conspiracy theory called ‘replacement’ that forms the undergirding bedrock of antisemitism, to better enact eliminationist brutality against refugees.
Now say that, in order to enact eliminationist brutality you find it useful to demolish and discredit things like awareness and knowledge and learning and the concept of knowable truth.
What worries ME is that when the Republicans (who are a fascist party) do what fascists do when opposed (which is baseless retributive retaliation) that pre-defeated cowards like Dowd will blame not them for their fascist acts but those who dared anger fascists with opposition.