Anarcho-Karenist. Alt-Centrism or barbarism. No pods, no casters
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Aug 29, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
I'm Doing The Work and reading Angela Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete. It starts with the gobsmacking claim that anti-slavery was a fringe position until the Civil War. This would be a surprise to Pennsylvania, which outlawed slavery in 1780.
She repeatedly claims that "no one could imagine a world without slavery." Not only were Northern states outlawing it mere years after the Revolution, it was being outlawed all over the world. We're not off to a great start here.
Like if anyone can be a cop then cops aren't cops.
May 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It is in facf a pretty wild story about DC's most unprofessional and incompetent staffer who came to work on mushrooms, answered constituent letters without approval, and was eventually fired for not showing up at all. Oh and he thinks Raytheon engineered the war in Ukraine.
Well if you couldn't even get Modi and Bolsanaro on your side.
Dec 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The activist effort to get Americans to use a clunkier demonym is annoying, but I'm more offended by scrubbing "immigrant." It's not a dirty word. It's actually what many great Americans have been.
I had to look up how "seminal" is masculine. Apparently it derives from the *se- PIE root meaning seed or having the properties of the seed, which is also the root of semen. If you need the resources of an actual linguist to learn why something is offensive, it's not offensive.
Dec 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Oh right, the poor Jewish immigrant who was a rich Catholic from Florida.
She talked about going to the Colombian village where she was born and not only was she not born there but her family is essentially royalty. She's related to senators and generals. Her great grandfather helped found the Colombian national bank.
Nov 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
If Elon Musk is having this much trouble getting people to pay for a blue check just wait until he tries to get people to live on Mars.
On that note, colonizing Mars is an incredibly dumb goal. It's like Earth except completely unable to support living organisms.
Sep 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Have you considered New York is not the problem here.
Hating Amazon and Ikea is some of the most boring and ordinary things you can do.
Aug 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is all Biden trying to distract you from his failure to get me to beat the second boss in Returnal.
Seriously this is the first game since I was a kid where I want to beat it but I'm just plain not good enough at it.
Jul 4, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
It's weird how defensive people get when you say Trump isn't funny. Also it's abundantly clear in context that I meant intentionally funny, but pretending otherwise is a good way to fawn over Trump while keeping plausible deniability.
(Also I think the top one blocked me a couple of months ago, really weird thing to exaggerate.)
Jun 26, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I think in 500 years historians are going to teach that America had the most sophisticated democracy the world had ever seen, and in the end that was their undoing because no one knew what they were voting for anymore.
You just can't expect the average person to know the difference between a candidate's floor votes vs their committee votes, or the limits of the Byrd Rule. The public is judging candidates by how they play a game you need a college degree to understand.
Jun 19, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Alright, let's play out the fantasy: rednecks with assault rifles show up at a Pride event, the left wing gun clubs come out to meet them. What happens next. 🧵
First off, everyone with kids or half a brain runs to their car and gets the hell out of there. A few daring souls stay to film the extremely tense situation developing as the two groups share more and more heated insults, but for all intents and purposes the event is over.
Jun 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
We don't really know how Wakanda's economy is organized. It's implied that the vibranium money pays for social services, like Norway and oil.
They really don't explain how Wakanda manages to sell vibranium while keeping its existence secret. No one ever asks where it comes from and if they can mine some themselves.
Jun 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Watching Obi-Wan even though it legitimizes the prequels.
I'm glad they're doing a recap so we can remember how stupid those movies are. Yoda decides Vader would never look for his son at brother's place.
The end of Wilson's term when he was a vegetable and his wife was the president.
May 8, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I can't believe Democrats wasted all that time analyzing Nancy Pelosi's freezer like it was the Zapruder film oh no wait that was the psychopathic cool kids On Here.
Every minute spent trying to figure out if Pete Buttigieg was a CIA agent because he had a job and visited Africa could have been spent about the realities of a post-Roe world, but that was cringe winemom stuff.
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