What we’re seeing is Trump running down a Kubrickian hallway that just leads him right back to where he started. It’s delicious. 
If it were just one trial or set of charges he was facing, it might succeed, but the sheer plurality has his resources strained to the point of breaking like a computer forced to compute too many complex equations and thereby slowed to a crawl, left defenseless.
Well fuck. This is my district but the choice was between joe Kent and this lady. Given how nuts kent came off I still would have voted for Perez even if she didn’t hide what she really intended to vote against. She’s not getting my vote again…unless her next opponent is another election denier. This system sucks.
It’s not even a good allegory. If the topic was a destructive military event maybe it would be acceptable. But calling a law ‘death star’ is just ridiculous. You can’t just group things into good things and bad things and pick the most recognizable bad thing to represent what you want to talk about. Words have meanings and there should be a corrolation between the severity and theme of your subject and the allegory you use.
Everyone already knows how bad this is. Me complaining about a stupid law in another continent is not going to change anything. But it does piss me off when political clickbait is apparently so acceptable that I get an article about Texas attacking Austin with death star law on my feed.
I’ve never thought about it but I think I have this bias. It’s something I’ll try and think on and correct because it’s dumb.
If someone was describing their friend that posts to Instagram 20 times a day I would 100% picture a woman. If they told me it was a dude it would have bumped me a little.
It’s probably tied to that old (incorrect) thought that women talk more than men.
This article does a good job of pointing out yet another toxic gender norm that applies to men. Ironically most of the replies agree that toxic masculinity is bad, but are also reinforcing toxic masculinity because it’s “unmanly to be weak and successor to harmful gender norms”.
Men are allowed to be weak, and they’re worth helping when they fall for stupid ideas like “it’s unmanly to post a lot” or “it’s unmanly to fall for such an obviously false/toxic idea of masculinity”.
Actually I block quite a few meme instances the minute I see them. I enjoy memes only in moderation and I hate group-chat spam, most groups-chats I have to participate in, are muted.
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