Yup, there it is. Zero morality, zero care for all the other people being hurt thanks to the racism, xenophobia, science denial, corruption, and straight up incompetent handling of major life or...
“If I was a guy, maybe I’d still be on the right,” she tells me. “It’s much easier if you’re a white guy not to feel any of this pain. There’s no one planning to disenfranchise you. It’s all upside. It’s all this big program for how you should live a better life and be surrounded by nubile women.” She believed it was human to enjoy being on top. “I don’t want to punish anyone,” she says. “But the reality is: It is stupid, it’s impractical, it has to end.”
Yup, there it is. Zero morality, zero care for all the other people being hurt thanks to the racism, xenophobia, science denial, corruption, and straight up incompetent handling of major life or death decisions on behalf of millions of people. No introspection on the idea that "being on top" might, perhaps, be a hollow and purposeless victory if it comes solely as the result of pushing others down. Not even the slightest hint of consideration that being somewhere in the middle and raising standards across the board could leave you in a better place than a life as the most important person in the toxic crater of your own making. Just a "practical" decision to leave because you personally are being harmed.
I am utterly disgusted with these people and everything they stand for, and I'm terrified of their mentality because I don't have the faintest idea how to even begin engaging with someone who's capable of making decisions with no regard to who'll be harmed as long as it isn't themself.
There’s an endless stream of conservatives who publicly changed their mind about something ONLY AFTER conservative policies negatively affected them directly. They are simply tribal people who...
There’s an endless stream of conservatives who publicly changed their mind about something ONLY AFTER conservative policies negatively affected them directly. They are simply tribal people who lack empathy and we all suffer for it.
Just a few notable examples are:
Dick Cheney’s daughter changed his mind about same sex marriage
Nancy Reagan pushing for stem cell research because of her husband’s Alzheimer’s
Meghan McCain deciding maternity leave was a good idea after she used it
I’m sure all the rest of them just keep it secret when their own beliefs bite them in the ass.
Good for "Anna" to realize what was wrong, but it's also so upsetting that even though she grew up "liberal," she decided to take a 180. As a culture we need to figure out how to move past this...
Good for "Anna" to realize what was wrong, but it's also so upsetting that even though she grew up "liberal," she decided to take a 180. As a culture we need to figure out how to move past this culturally.
It's also upsetting that she thought liberals don't have a sense of humor. The problem is that the things conservatives find funny are what they percieve as negatives of the differences around them. Punching down is never funny.
Ugh the jokes I hear from conservatives at work are so stupid. They aren't even jokes! They're just observations, a mistaken sense of being the most informed person in the room, and an inability...
Ugh the jokes I hear from conservatives at work are so stupid. They aren't even jokes! They're just observations, a mistaken sense of being the most informed person in the room, and an inability to shut their goddamn mouths for one fucking second to let other people talk. Luckily, they aren't MAGA, but they could be characterized as MAGA apologists. Totally different. Just like their rhetoric, their jokes are largely based on pre-supposing something is bad with no real explanation of why other than back-formed explanations that perhaps beg the question.
As long as I'm on a related topic, it really disappointed me recently to hear a British coworker say that she doesn't care if anyone's trans...she just doesn't want her kids to be trans and she doesn't want those people around her kids either because it's confusing to them. They'd ask questions like "mummy, why is that man a woman?"
But are confused by everything and that's how they learn. She just thinks because they're always confused, they don't need anything extra to confuse them. To me, that is, in practice, indistinguishable from "I don't want my kids to have to learn to think about the world around them.
Everyone has their preferences that they can't really control. It would be one thing to say "I don't think it's wrong; I just can't get over it feeling weird, but I would love and accept them no matter what." But she went with "I don't want my kids to be trans and I want trans people to stay away from them." Disappointing :(
"I don't want my kids to see trans people" is essentially synonymous with "I don't want trans people to exist in public" in practice, which is, of course, the opposite of not caring if anyone's...
it really disappointed me recently to hear a British coworker say that she doesn't care if anyone's trans...she just doesn't want her kids to be trans and she doesn't want those people around her kids either because it's confusing to them. They'd ask questions like "mummy, why is that man a woman?"
"I don't want my kids to see trans people" is essentially synonymous with "I don't want trans people to exist in public" in practice, which is, of course, the opposite of not caring if anyone's trans. Has anyone called your coworker out for saying stuff like this?
I did a bit but we were in the middle of a run together, so it wasn't the easiest time to do something like that. I definitely told her I don't give a fuck what other people do.
I did a bit but we were in the middle of a run together, so it wasn't the easiest time to do something like that. I definitely told her I don't give a fuck what other people do.
I can't tell if it's just a result of me getting older, but did SNL used to feel more like parody rather than "something that basically happened and it's actually funny because of how absurd it is...
I can't tell if it's just a result of me getting older, but did SNL used to feel more like parody rather than "something that basically happened and it's actually funny because of how absurd it is that it's true"? Or is it really a product of modern times where current events just feel like parody as a baseline? ಥ_ಥ
You are not alone, and that feeling is evergreen. The version from the past that speaks to me the most is this quote from Tom Lehrer, a onetime satirical songwriter, on why he quit making music:...
current events just feel like parody as a baseline
You are not alone, and that feeling is evergreen. The version from the past that speaks to me the most is this quote from Tom Lehrer, a onetime satirical songwriter, on why he quit making music:
"...political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."
That was over 50 years ago. But everything old is new again.
I don't think it's like that today. Topical content is simply more likely to become viral.
I can't tell if it's just a result of me getting older, but did SNL used to feel more like parody rather than "something that basically happened and it's actually funny because of how absurd it is that it's true"?
I don't think it's like that today. Topical content is simply more likely to become viral.
Hmm maybe. Sort of related but for a while there were a bunch of comedy movies which didn’t really have jokes. They mostly just referred to other things. An example of this kind of joke is the...
Hmm maybe.
Sort of related but for a while there were a bunch of comedy movies which didn’t really have jokes. They mostly just referred to other things. An example of this kind of joke is the scene in one of the Wayne’s world movies where they reference the grey poupon commercial. But there were whole movies like Scary Movie which only have reference humor.
Yup, there it is. Zero morality, zero care for all the other people being hurt thanks to the racism, xenophobia, science denial, corruption, and straight up incompetent handling of major life or death decisions on behalf of millions of people. No introspection on the idea that "being on top" might, perhaps, be a hollow and purposeless victory if it comes solely as the result of pushing others down. Not even the slightest hint of consideration that being somewhere in the middle and raising standards across the board could leave you in a better place than a life as the most important person in the toxic crater of your own making. Just a "practical" decision to leave because you personally are being harmed.
I am utterly disgusted with these people and everything they stand for, and I'm terrified of their mentality because I don't have the faintest idea how to even begin engaging with someone who's capable of making decisions with no regard to who'll be harmed as long as it isn't themself.
There’s an endless stream of conservatives who publicly changed their mind about something ONLY AFTER conservative policies negatively affected them directly. They are simply tribal people who lack empathy and we all suffer for it.
Just a few notable examples are:
I’m sure all the rest of them just keep it secret when their own beliefs bite them in the ass.
Good for "Anna" to realize what was wrong, but it's also so upsetting that even though she grew up "liberal," she decided to take a 180. As a culture we need to figure out how to move past this culturally.
It's also upsetting that she thought liberals don't have a sense of humor. The problem is that the things conservatives find funny are what they percieve as negatives of the differences around them. Punching down is never funny.
Ugh the jokes I hear from conservatives at work are so stupid. They aren't even jokes! They're just observations, a mistaken sense of being the most informed person in the room, and an inability to shut their goddamn mouths for one fucking second to let other people talk. Luckily, they aren't MAGA, but they could be characterized as MAGA apologists. Totally different. Just like their rhetoric, their jokes are largely based on pre-supposing something is bad with no real explanation of why other than back-formed explanations that perhaps beg the question.
As long as I'm on a related topic, it really disappointed me recently to hear a British coworker say that she doesn't care if anyone's trans...she just doesn't want her kids to be trans and she doesn't want those people around her kids either because it's confusing to them. They'd ask questions like "mummy, why is that man a woman?"
But are confused by everything and that's how they learn. She just thinks because they're always confused, they don't need anything extra to confuse them. To me, that is, in practice, indistinguishable from "I don't want my kids to have to learn to think about the world around them.
Everyone has their preferences that they can't really control. It would be one thing to say "I don't think it's wrong; I just can't get over it feeling weird, but I would love and accept them no matter what." But she went with "I don't want my kids to be trans and I want trans people to stay away from them." Disappointing :(
"I don't want my kids to see trans people" is essentially synonymous with "I don't want trans people to exist in public" in practice, which is, of course, the opposite of not caring if anyone's trans. Has anyone called your coworker out for saying stuff like this?
I did a bit but we were in the middle of a run together, so it wasn't the easiest time to do something like that. I definitely told her I don't give a fuck what other people do.
Mom Confession - SNL. Kinda relevant and funny too.
I can't tell if it's just a result of me getting older, but did SNL used to feel more like parody rather than "something that basically happened and it's actually funny because of how absurd it is that it's true"? Or is it really a product of modern times where current events just feel like parody as a baseline? ಥ_ಥ
You are not alone, and that feeling is evergreen. The version from the past that speaks to me the most is this quote from Tom Lehrer, a onetime satirical songwriter, on why he quit making music:
That was over 50 years ago. But everything old is new again.
I don't think it's like that today. Topical content is simply more likely to become viral.
Hmm maybe.
Sort of related but for a while there were a bunch of comedy movies which didn’t really have jokes. They mostly just referred to other things. An example of this kind of joke is the scene in one of the Wayne’s world movies where they reference the grey poupon commercial. But there were whole movies like Scary Movie which only have reference humor.
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