If abusing women and girls, revenge porn, and date-rape are issues in South Carolina politics, this is an unqualified good thing. Sexual control of women in the household has been a core issue for reactionaries as long as there have been reactionaries. Before 1980, it was legal in all 50 to rape your wife. Diversity is strength. Even in MAGA.

There is no market solution to capitalism. Something, something, tools of the master.

Breaking the “rules” of masculinity.

Many years ago I worked for a medical company. A coworker (Boomer dude) and I were demonstrating a lift mechanism when I made the joke: last time I got in a harness, there was a safe word.

The joke killed, but my coworker was mad for weeks because in the joke, I implied we were going to have sex.

“Gods eye” view is a common idiom for a third person perspective. That’s probably what they’re referencing.

Let’s go on record defending murderers and rapists instead of focusing on citizen children being deported.

“Cannot speak for my intentions” is gas-lighting. Of course mind reading isn’t a thing, but It’s perfectly reasonable to infer intention from action. If not, serious crimes like murder would be impossible to prove.

There are people in by life that have difficulty telling the difference between something that can’t be known with precision, and something so mysterious that any explanation is as good as any other. Some people are vulnerable to this kind of thinking.

Thank you for your service

Why, after everything, do people still believe that conservatives and normies would demand a stop to unconstitutional shenanigans “if they only knew…”.

They know, or they don’t care, or both.

Are we seeking validation through the press? Because that’s all they’ve left to offer.

I think it’s been a minute since Lindbergh was anybody’s hero. However, before anyone defends him as a “product of his time”, antisemitism and racism may have been more socially acceptable, but everyone knew, or should have known it was wrong.

There was never any time in history where “nobody knew” oppression was wrong. The oppressed always know, but nobody listens to them for some reason. And the oppressors imply knowledge of their wickedness when they spend so much effort making cringe arguments that it’s a virtue instead.

What we should highlight is the fact that being a bigot cost Lindbergh, not just his legacy. It made him foolish enough to swallow bad-faith bullshit and get on the bandwagon with a circus of pigs. Racism makes fools of smart people.

Trump thinks pennies are useless because he wasn’t allowed to use them in a strip club.

Food Network, Tick Tock, and Youtube have turned everyone into gatekeeping snobs. Tell your friend that Carl Sagan said that it doesn’t count as “made from scratch” unless the first step in the recipe is “create the universe”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIVB3DdRgqU 2:10

I love Elon Bad posts, but I think it’s worthwhile to examine why Elon bad in this case.

Like many reactionaries, Elon’s business philosophy is pure tech-bro-libertarianism. And like all libertarians, he’s stuck in the neoliberal mindset of less regulation (don’t scrutinize) and more efficiency (let me be cheap), in order to create the safe space that industrialists need to extract, er create.

He’s literally said things like (paraphrasing)

When I see a specification for three bolts I ask: why can’t we do it with two?

His transparent reasoning is that if he’s allowed to cut corners, he’ll save money today and consequences can be dealt with when they arise.

He’s following the software model of release a minimally viable product and patch it later. Only instead of user frustration at being beta testers, you fucking die maybe.

The intake of a jet engine can kill birds a dozen at a time. The exhaust can drive them extinct. A turret would be just showing off.

Don’t forget the computer revolution.

You know how you can right click on a doc and select copy or save? That used to be two whole jobs.

At first, I assumed that the IDF had ROE that allowed them to attack a vehicle or position regardless of hostage presence. But NO, they were targeting the hostages!

This is stunning. I’m going to have to think on this.

EDIT: I don’t want to think on this anymore. This isn’t triggering, it’s a goddamn info-hazard.

IIRC during the third Crusade, the Christians slaughtered 60,000 Jewish people before they even got out of Germany. The beef goes way back.

Some people will say the origin is Christ’s death. But even reading that story it’s clear that Europeans and Israelites weren’t on good terms then either.

It’s hard to find a “cause” for a belief that isn’t rational.

Many people, including myself, reject Marxism because it’s a metanarritive just like Christianity.

Metanarritive just means one big story to explain history. Christians believe all of history is just a struggle between God and the Devil for souls, Marxism its a struggle for political power between haves and have nots. Metanarritive isn’t satisfied with explaining the past either, it also predicts the future. I can’t be the first to notice Marxists awaiting the revolution looks a lot like Christians awaiting rapture.

Rent-seeking middlemen. This is the pinnacle of capitalism. Taking revenue while providing nothing is maximum efficiency. You can tell because it raises prices invisibly for everyone.

This is just a baby version of how credit card companies have placed a 1%-5% sales tax on the global economy. You might say “at least the CC companies provide a service”, but that tax get’s added no matter if your using a CC or not.

Regardless of the effectiveness of ABA, this is not a clinical position being taken by UHC, it’s a strategic plan that labels autistic children as a burden to their shareholders, an endeavors to shed this burden. It’s exactly this kind of ghoulish logic that have normies cheering the murder of insurance executives.

People are waking up to the reality that for-profit health insurance is a parasitic scheme to collect premiums and deny care. The people who profit from this system, the ones who design, and improve upon it, are morally bankrupt and an active threat to the health and well being of most Americans.

I don’t call for them to die like Osama Bin Laden, I call for them to live like him, afraid and in hiding.