This is extremely true and I continue to think that some part of it is deep, semi-conscious shame & embarrassment. If he's an absolute moron, what does it say about us that we let him get this far? They're stuck in the bluff with him.
Oh fer sure, no plastic sheets for me thx. Not even permanent press poly-blend. 100% cotton for me or GTFO with any of that other nonsense.
No small part of that fiction is how adults shielded them from the messy complexities and horrors of the real world.
Whatever world they thought they were living in as a child didn't even exist *at the time they were living in it*.
Heck, 200 is fantastic if you want lightweight, breathable sheets that won't stifle you in the summer.
Foxy as always. 😉
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He did say in the vid he was driving a gov't issued vehicle with an E-plate.
In which case we might well infer the cops thought a Black man driving a City vehicle must have stolen it. 😑
Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.
"The strongman is strong, in other words, because of the law of transitivity. If you accept at a certain point that he is stronger than you, then you are accepting that you are weaker than him … You must serve his strength and, if confronted directly by it, accept ritual humiliation."
Surely nothing bad has ever happened when a critical mass of the population feel that their future has been ripped out from under them and that the only thing they have to look forward to is the steady erosion of their standard of living. Surely that always turns out fine.
Paraphrasing from memory what one Black gentleman interviewed on the street said about Target dropping DEI, "Walmart just openly hates people in general. But I'll take that over being two-faced, pretending to be my friend until the instant that starts looking inconvenient."
I've had an abscessed tooth & (separately) a kidney stone. I'm not sure which pain was worse. The kidney stone felt like I'd been shot through the back with an arrow, which was still in me. So you can imagine what the tooth was like.
"Hey, if we implement end-times prophecy as a checklist of action-items to tick off, God will just have to to follow through with the rest, yeah? I'm sure He'll look kindly on us forcing His hand like that..."
*imagines Hagueseth fervently praying for Armageddon whilst tapping his foot impatiently*
One would also think that God might not look kindly upon treating His end-time prophecies as a checklist of action-items to be ticked off in order to force His hand on-demand.
*imagines Hagueseth praying for Armageddon whilst tapping his foot impatiently*
MORE OF THIS PLEASE. Someone must have a backbone out there #anthropic #AI
"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." ~MacBeth
"Compared with last week’s White House tantrum, when he threw all toys and decorum out of the pram, this was Trump showing self-restraint worthy of a child refusing a second ice-cream."
😂 Great recap. We could use more like this over here.
A true public service #surveillance #meta #nearbyglasses
Lying implies he's connected enough to reality to know the truth, to care enough about it to hide it, & to think & decide from that knowledge. But no, his only reality is whatever he can get away with & convince others to accept. Worse than a mere liar, he's a Bullshit Artist.
Commented elsewhere on this gem by quoting John Berger's pre-feminist insight from On Looking.
One of the many digits on the "cycles of history" odometer rolling over all at once lately
Turns out Renee Good wasn't the first citizen shot & killed by ICE. In light of this emerging news, she might not even be the second. How many others might there have been, whom we just haven't found out about yet?
Here’s the 60 Minutes report on “white genocide” in South Africa. It demonstrates it’s a lie, shows what’s really happening, debunks the specific claims made by Trump and ends with an Afrikaner saying it’s racist for the US to welcome his people rather than genuine refugees from around the world.
"So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? … As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone."
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?
Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards
My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
We may pay less in taxes, but overall we pay more and get less, which we don't notice because we're too distracted getting nickel'n'dimed to death. (literally)
This one hits hard.
