It was nazis when I came and nazis when I left.
Did anything even happen?
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Aug 11 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
It has been 72 hours of the most ridiculous @ATT customer service experience ever.
It's ongoing as I write.
So. My sim card has been acting up. Just doesn't show up for work from time to time...
So I call into Customer Service and they explain that sim cards deteriorate over time and they could either send me a new one or I could just grab one at an AT&T store.
I pick store.
It's faster and I'm passing one anyway. Right?
No.
May 9 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Consent and Hair: A Quick Guide for Dudes
A lot of you are still confused about this whole consent thing and how you should navigate it. So I wanna just bring it down to something y'all are all familiar with.
Navigate your consent like a good barber.
Most of y'all get haircuts from time to time.
Some of y'all go regularly
Some of y'all go occasionally
Some of y'all have a favorite barber
Some of y'all go to whoever.
None of y'all want people coming up to you on the street trying to just cut your hair.
Apr 9 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
What's the big deal about Humanities and Civics?
Well they're the disciplines that teach us how we relate to each other and the world around us.
They are not the opposites of STEM fields. They are the critical context necessary to use those STEM fields properly
One of the reason that conspiracy theories, magical thinking, short-sighted policy and knee-jerk policy positions are increasingly easy to make is that we have a declining understanding of how systems interact.
This isn't ALL bad education. Everything is increasingly integrated
Apr 9 • 30 tweets • 5 min read
Why is Capitalism bad?
It has occurred to me that people frequently don't mean the same thing when they talk about Capitalism which makes it difficult for people to understand each other and how their opinions actually relate to each other.
Let me try and help a little.
Firstly. Capitalism is not the same as commerce.
Being against Capitalism is NOT being against people starting businesses or innovating or buying and selling goods or being paid fairly for their work.
People often get stuck here.
Apr 8 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
As much as we all love to hate it, News Media works exactly the same way that our brains do....
It takes in a functionally infinite amount of information, ignores 99.99% of it, and then after running the remaining .01% through bias, creates a narrative that makes it make sense.
We tend to think of the News as "what happened" but we also know that's not really what it is
There's:
What happened
What people witnessed
What there's evidence of
What people told News
What the News thought was important
-How the News framed that-
THAT'S what News actually is
Apr 4 • 35 tweets • 6 min read
How To Lose Your Principles and Become A Corrupt Politician: A Handbook.
So you want to make positive change for your community and provide a counterbalance to the self-serving corruption you see in your legislative bodies?
Cute.
Let's talk.
Chapter 1: Campaigning - I bet you didn't realize your moral code would get challenged so early huh?
Here's the thing. Your community is struggling. That's why you're running. They have no money. So funding yourself through their donations alone is a no go.
Mar 1 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Why I oppose killing people: A short essay.
So if I say "It's ok to kill certain people if they really deserve it" that sounds reasonable on its face... cause we can all imagine situations in which someone deserves to die.
But that's not really what I'm actually saying...
As with most things, I'm not going to personally investigate each individual situation.
So I'm really saying "It's ok to kill certain people if someone proves they deserve to die"
Which... still seems reasonable, but also still isn't really what I'm saying...
Jan 1 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Social Darwinism is killing us all because of a fundamental misunderstanding of the relationship between "natural selection" and "society"
The entire POINT of society is to nullify the pressures of natural selection.
And we forget this.
Our economic and social systems are based on the misapplication of "survival of the fittest" to the members of society.
This is of course, absurd.
Survival of the fittest refers to an individual or species adaptation to the natural dangers of the planet.
Sep 2, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Q: Why should relationship and sex education be an early and ongoing part of child development?
A: Because if it isn't then they're all getting their information on how to treat one another from other kids with fewer seasons under their belt than the show you just binged.
Toxic masculinity exists cause boys learn flawed lessons about how to treat other humans from other boys who learned flawed lessons about how to treat other humans from other boys...
And by the time they grow up, they presume that's the way it's supposed to go.
May 20, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Asking a Black person why they "see racism everywhere" is like asking someone with a deathly allergy why they notice so many bees.
It's kinda difficult to overstate the level of gaslighting Black people endure in America
Despite libraries full of documented history detailing the countless ways America has worked overtime to make Black lives miserable
We are still told daily that we are being melodramatic
May 3, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
How do you feel about being trapped on a train with a military trained white man totally willing and able to strangle a human to death in public with no fear of consequence?
It is truly soul crushing to watch the same exact political arguments play out with the same exact scripts over and over throughout your entire life and have exactly nothing resolve for the better.
Day after day new people spout ancient talking points, unfettered by new information or new perspective.
As if the argument is cryogenially frozen each time it's debaters get bored.
Same rhetoric. Same fallacies. Same lack of progress for anyone.
Dec 17, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Never said it was ideological.
But post Civil War, America actually tried for a moment to create a better society.
But it ultimately capitulated to the KKK and the South's conservative fascism and worked to appease them with reparations at the expense of rooting them out
America will spend $50,000 to make sure a poor person doesn't get away with $5
And this pattern repeats throughout the entire society
Being cruel to poor people is literally a multi-billion dollar industry.
This is why the war on poverty was never anything but a war on the poor.
Aug 10, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
It's weird how one person doing something you thought they'd never do can break your faith in humanity faster than 100 people, doing exactly what you hoped, can restore it.
I have to constantly remind myself not to fault all of humankind for the failings of the few.
It's not easy.
May 14, 2019 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
There are two general camps of thought in Black culture about solidarity with white people.
Those who believe that it can be productive
Those who believe that it can never be productive
The Second group's position is often supported by the response of white people to the First
Are there Black people who look at the history of whiteness in America and find nothing to feel for white people but righteous indignation and scorn?
Yes
Are there those who seek the humanity trapped under whiteness?
Yes
But let me explain. Mostly we just don't trust y'all
Oct 8, 2015 • 63 tweets • 7 min read
Having sex with a woman is a rite of passage to becoming a "real man". Without having sex, one is denied his birthright--his manhood.
Sexual rejection is existential rejection.
