I am obviously not the first to say this, but the reason I fucking hate liberals is because the absolute worst thing to them is to take a fucking stand. They think the high point of being a great human being is wringing your hands about how fucking complicated everything is.
I get the kid discourse but I mean also parents are constantly like wow you just can’t understand anything about life until you give birth and hold that baby and then let it watch YouTube for the rest of its life I’m so sorry you’ll never feel that
I went on a double date once and Jake Tapper was in the other couple - he was so dumb I thought everything he said was a joke I kept saying wait are you serious … wait are you making a joke? He was maybe 27? 28? And seemed 9.
I can’t stand Jimmy Kimmel. I was interviewing Hugh Hefner once and he got confused and was like wait who are you again? And Jimmy Kimmel said “her … she’s no one” to kiss up to him
Total asshole
I’m freaked out at how scary it is to speak out against Israel’s occupation/genocide of Palestine & how many people I know aren’t doing it because they’re afraid of losing friends/ jobs/family or being called anti semites, which is a lie.
Do it anyway. Show up. Be counted.
@RaxKingIsDead
My exes dad called my dad to tell him I was a bad person and my dad said ok and hung up on him and went back to watching basketball without a change in heart rate
I am more in solidarity w parents than I ever have been and covid really woke me up about parenting esp but not exclusively how it falls on women … but so many families are just little cults and they make this clear …
I definitely do not care what Jimmy Kimmel or for that matter Hugh Hefner think of me, but I was just trying to work and I will never forget what a fucking asshole he was
I think it’s funny when you’re staying w someone who has a dog and they’re like “the dog only likes me” and then they go out and the dog is like “hey how’s it going? I would be perfectly happy to switch my allegiance to you at any time.”
If you do not know that what you are watching is a genocide on the Palestinian people and if you don’t think it was planned you are an idiot and I don’t want to know you or talk to you
I’m listening to
@blowbackpod
and it’s pretty fucking good
You might not think you want to listen to a podcast about war in Afghanistan or maybe you do think you want to … at any rate you really do.
I cannot believe all the people that smoke or eat weed to relax… Or to sleep… Weed just makes me want to crouch in a corner and beg for God to make me not high again. I’m not against it at all. It’s just that’s how it works on me.
I read this article twice very slowly to make sure I understood it and wow, holy shit. I worked at a gay weekly in Philadelphia at my first news job and we never would’ve printed something with the kind of shoddy proof the nyt rape story had
This is literally the only argument for being a Marxist
I “enjoy” actually understanding what’s going on. It’s kind of nice.
The everyone finding you annoying thing is tough but it’s a small price to pay for the understanding
@brouillettese
This has reminded me that I often think that if I didn't have a marxist analysis of how society operates I'd totally melt down completely.
most writers have three—MAYBE four or five, at most—good personal essays in them. any more than that and you're just throwing out 2,000-word diary entries. identify your 3-5 and ration them out with care
I’ve always been obsessed with how Americans associate maturity with an acceptance of American- sponsored violence. The Columbia events inspired me to finally write about it, solidarity with those students ❤️
I definitely believe 💯 believe poor ppl everywhere suffer first and worst in climate situation - anyone who doesn’t is high - but I also think the way that this has been presented has been as a true thing presented to make wealthier populations feel safer
The standards department at the nyt killed one of my articles once after I’d gone thru multiple drafts over months had to beg for a tiny kill fee … and my article was thoroughly researched and much lower stakes and they were so arrogant about their “Standards”
People who put their bodies on the line for human liberation are such fucking heroes. I am personally really terrified of doing things like this and I wish that I wasn’t but I do not let my fear try to tell me that it is wrong. It is really kind of the only thing that matters.
Over the years, several people have tried to make me feel guilty for not liking Brené Brown having never read a goddamn word, but only seen a picture- well yesterday I read something she wrote about Palestine and she and everyone who still likes her can go fuck themselves.
I took a freelance assignment and then started to try doing it and it was impossible and I told them that I couldn’t do it and I feel bad but if you can’t do something you can’t do it it wasn’t that I didn’t have time it was that I literally could not write it
I really wish that I could just stay in touch with may be the 40 or so people on Twitter that I really like and just quit Twitter but I can’t like send 40 people an email being like hey how’s it going
Like yes conflicted concert ticket holder weird but a podcast host once asked me to defend owning a house and trying to make an income bc I’m a communist and I was like uh ma’am have you ever spoken to anyone ever or maybe looked out the window once
I worked at a watch magazine for a while and now every time I see a watch advertisement I’m like wow I can’t believe they still have watches now that I don’t work at that magazine anymore
Am I the only person that watches succession and afterwards is like well that was entertaining and then doesn’t really think about it until the following week?
As a person who writes mostly abt bullshit I’ve found it increasingly hard as the years go by but I may be at the end of it now for real what is there to say other than I am so sick of the way the world is now
Unsubscribed to the New York Times after I don’t know how many years of reading it, and although I was reading it critically for many years, I gotta say not reading it kicks fucking ass
@ANNELAMOTT
Welcome to the club. You, me, all the women who step out of line. And yet we are bestsellers on the NYT list. Ignore it. Looking forward to talking soon.
I really hate it that people can’t admit how afraid they are to do stuff like shut down a bridge and so they pretend that civility is some sort of actual virtue. Shut the fuck up. You know you’re lying to yourself so you don’t have to admit you’re afraid.
The very public genocide in Palestine is making the children of colonizers all around the world freak the fuck out and wonder who the fuck they even are and how they live and they can face it or they can deny it … this is the time
This is why America is so sick. Americans actually believe everything is about them. It’s insane. Imagine thinking that reading the same news articles abt a genocide so you could get along well with your partner was anything other than a sign of a deeply diseased mind.
Imagine if the way you found out your pet could talk was you were walking around the house singing “you and I can both get jobs finally see what it means to be living” and your dog was like no I’m absolutely not getting a job
I cannot believe that I am just a white genx masshole who grew up in an npr stronghold and wanted for nothing and went to a fake ass country club college and i figured out cops are pigs and non violence is a cia plot and so many ppl are still such bootlickers
I am really really positive thousands of people have already said this, but maybe the point of their being so many Nazi movies is to convince people that Nazis only wear Nazi uniforms
I am feeling for all of my comrades out there who had to cut themselves off from friends or family over the course of their lifetime… I always thought that I could kind of balance politics with dealing with certain people, but it is become obvious this is not true. It hurts.
Americans treat basic history like it is esoterica and improbable ridiculous fascist myths are seen as reality and those who believe the former are naive those who believe the latter are mature/deserving of capital
I am horrified by US’s gigantically evil support of Israel in killing Palestinians and we have to just keep plugging away there is no respite from it and no way to relieve their suffering and patriots surround us both eager and passive
“When people come to visit us we have to tell them that the shower is disgusting and even then they cannot manage to remember not to look crestfallen when they see it.”
@sarahlovescali
on her ugly bathroom for our series, Home Improvements.
I know that the idea that educating people will stop terrible things from happening isn’t true but man is it fucking insanity making the fucking garbage Americans believe about Israel and Palestine Jesus Christ people know nothing and are so angry defending their idiocy
Anyone who complains about climate change is supposed to remember other people have it worse ok sure fine true but is that the most important thing to remember or is it more important to remember oil companies are killing us all