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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

Jun 6

"Most women would rather have a baby than a job." I don't know whether this is true, but I enjoy seeing something that seems intuitively appealing asserted with such confidence. emmaecollins.substack.com/p/pregnancy-is…

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There is at least some quantitative data in support of this vibe shift, which I first noticed online some years ago when @annakhachiyan tweeted "I can't believe they took our husbands and gave us jobs."

https://twitter.com/Musa_alGharbi/status/1533650409331499008?s=20&t=BfGoazQHVATX7AhSo2zqrA

That tweet was one of the cardinal instances of a single self-contained remark -- a tweet -- able to strike through the mask and inaugurate a whole new sensibility

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

May 21

Went to emergency room with 104.2 temperature. Was told that pharmacies are giving paxlovid without prescription to al who need it. Waited until 9 am for pharmacies to open. The pharmacy told me it’s only for the immunocompromised

Called another pharmacy and they have it waiting for me

The wait at the hospital would have been eight hours

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

May 5

You try to frame the story one way up top and reluctantly put the facts you gathered lower down in the story nytimes.com/2022/05/05/wor…

Uh, so, like government censorship by a white supremacist government + propagandistic use of what clearly wasn't "misinformation". OK.

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

May 3

Abortion is different from other culture war issues in that the public has not grown more progressive on it over time nytimes.com/2021/10/19/opi…

Striking anecdote here about pioneering abortion provider who carried a pistol to defend herself against pro-Life terrorists -- but refused to do abortions past 14 weeks.

"Seeing an arm pulled through vaginal canal was shocking."

Will be interviewing the author of this piece tomorrow for a podcast at Year Zero

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

May 1

Before it became a liberal cause, gay marriage was one part of an intramural dispute between LG who wanted to create a defined and stable identity within bourgeois society and Queer theorists who wanted to subvert heteronormativity and identity entirely

The bizarre hybrid gender ideology that both radicalizes and hypostatizes identity through medical intervention now being taught to elementary school children showed you could both subvert bourgeois society and make oneself coextensive with it by capturing its institutions

Gay marriage supporters wanted to ally with bourgeois society to marginalize Queer theory. They did not want to be a Trojan horse for injection of Queer theory into bourgeois society. And yet here we are -- with the postulates of Queer theory being taught as axiomatic

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

Apr 30

According to this article in a Stanford University conservative student publication, DEI managers in Santa Clara County earn $147K a year while engineers earn $127K. stanfordreview.org/woke-watch-sta…

The DEI managers in other words are hired to increase hiring of diverse candidates in an engineering field who have no incentive to become engineers rather than DEI managers

Take a pay cut to do painstaking technical work

Get a raise to surveil and bully and harangue other people over a problem that will always exist so long as you get paid more for managing the problem

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