Shane D - newest member Mary Hatch Bailey fanclub

Now, in twenty minutes you're all going to go to lunch. And someone will say "Wow, Mr D was really upset. What a cuck." And people will laugh and joke and make fun of me.

But some of you heard me. And maybe you'll think about it. And decide you don't want that.

(❤️🙏 to your hubs for what he did!)

But these days that won't even get you a news cycle. No one will be impressed, just disgusted.

The only person who will care will be your yr9 teacher, who might see it on the news, and weep for all the promise and potential you threw away.

And wonder how to reach the boys they're teaching now.

Some of you might get so desperate you'll go find a gun, to got try matter to someone in real life the way guns make you "matter" in video games.

can add "one day you'll find yourself sending all your money to dropkicks like Andrew Tate in the hopes they'll like you. They don't, and never will, but they will use your money and unhappiness to buy fancy cars and clothes that they laugh at you in."

Only us tho. IDK why anyone else is liking this thread. 🤔

Must be they're just being supportive.

Also also, at the same time - I (me, personally, and only me) am clearly very stupid for persistently thinking I can out-think my anxiety, and I should feel bad about it.

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.

www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

I would simply go from 8 to 4 and save on the effort.

In a social species, "survival of the fittest" means survival of the most social.

Thank you for this thread! In Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste, she says that they aren’t voting “against their own interests,” because the racism comes before all else. Losing their health care, losing retirement—doesn’t matter as long as they can hurt Black people. Shocking but not surprising.

I will accept confessions, guilty pleas, and sincere participation in "how to stop people like me, so we know better for next time" work.

(to head off misinterpretation: I did not say _require_ confession. But if they don't wanna come clean they can use their 5th and hold their peace).

Guy. Please.

reposting with alt text because I think the choice to include homophobia and transphobia in particular here is actually very much worth drawing attention to. nuns emphatically stating that those “do not reflect the qualities of a saint” is a very clear callout of Cardinal Dolan

1. I've long contended that austerity doesn't save money. It merely transfers costs from one group (the very rich, who would otherwise pay more tax) to others. Last night was a powerful reminder of that. Before I go further, I should say I’m fine. Just a black eye, cuts & bruises, no serious harm. 🧵

"research team became tearful"

<3 <3 <3

a slightly longer version might note there's many steps between "if you won't be tolerant" and "you don't get to be tolerated".

Contracts have lots of clauses and fallback terms.

Society will do a lot with you on mid- and lower- trust terms before those last steps, if you keep pushing intolerance.

Every time ICE 'roughs up' someone is an act of political violence. Everyone still supporting them is cheering on political violence.

Then they're all going on their podcasts about how political violence is never acceptable.

No. Mass mobilization could end this in a few days. Mass enough and it could end it peacefully.

Now, that is _also_ not going to happen, with the state of US public opinion and knowledge.

But we would be much better off if we focus on how to make congress and president answer to the people.

The existence of goat cheese implies the existence of mid cheese and the existence of cringe cheese.

everybody saying political violence is never ok and scolding Jessica about violence on the left -- if you favour ICE "roughing up" people, you are 100% supporting political violence.

#Resist
WE ARE THE #Resistance

Of course. And what they're celebrating is 100% political violence, btw. In response to speech they don't like.

Which they just spent all last week saying is never ok, and demanding every Democrat condemn in all circumstances.

The right makes free speech claims to identify marks to provide political cover for their reactionary undemocratic project

and - Ezra crushed every one of these BS made up "reasons", on the pod, often directly in reply. But he did in gently gently, get along language, that Ben and his supporters won't even hear.

The defining political project of Trumpism is the promise to mobilize the coercive powers of the state and a constant threat of violent aggression to impose a reactionary orthodoxy on a changing, pluralizing society. That is the opposite of “agree to disagree.”

definite feature not bug, for them. It's the abuser intentionally ruining all their victim's other relationships and support structures.

This, but. The bigger piece of thhe problem is the "addiction uber alles" business model they've been allowed to run with.

& better historic comparison is the Opium Wars, where good little capitalists used addiction to "open up markets" by destroying lives, govts and societies, in Asia and Europe.

Printing press also kicked off the Thirty Years War. Which really sucked.

But the thing is--it doesn't HAVE to show how truly awful they are. Slavery wasn't something they themselves did--it's history--it's other people, in the past. But in wanting to suppress it, they're self-owning, by identifying with those plantation-owners. it's so dumb. So cryingly dumb.