May the Bridges We Burn Light Our Way Home

idk like. even modern secular liberal societies display such a common penchant for using innocuous feature of religion as an excuse to harass and legally punish the other that an instinct to carve out protections for religious practices seems indisputably useful? otherwise you get situations like France's "muslim women can lose their jobs for wearing hats, even ones required to do said job," nominally coming from a place of secularism and no state religion and feminism and in fact just an excuse to harass muslim women.

The other thing is, religious liberty frequently protects choices and behaviors over which people are willing to defy the state at great personal cost.

There's something similar with a bunch of special rules and carve-outs for labor unions, which also organized to defy the state at great personal cost.

Compare the literal treaties the United States has with multiple tribes of Native Americans and the special rights and privileges that Native Americans have (eg. superior fathers’ rights in family law, exceptions to laws regulating gambling), which the keeping of impacts the trustworthiness of other treaties real and potential.

It occurs to me that most folks who have “socialist/communist/leftist/eat the rich” attitudes in the United States would immediately change their tune if they had 1950s style socioeconomic prosperity and hope.

This is absolutely true, but in ways points to a deeper failure.

Time was Big Capital would actually say this out loud:

I think the issue(that ironically this post is also exhibiting) is that communists have convinced a significant number of people that

I just wanna emphasize the point that OP made that virtually everyone just wants a comfortable, stable life for themselves and future generations.

@robin-hood-for-freedom both you and @brazenautomaton see the word “communist” appearing anywhere without a vehement condemnation as a trigger for “rage against the commies and blovate about how capitalism is The Best and also the best offer available” and it’s a bit… neither of you is quite full piss on the poor reading comprehension and boot licking, but your mad-on against communism and your permanent boosterism for “capitalism” make you both incapable of seeing past labels and looking at reality and the changes and real problems that people face.

It occurs to me that most folks who have “socialist/communist/leftist/eat the rich” attitudes in the United States would immediately change their tune if they had 1950s style socioeconomic prosperity and hope.

This is absolutely true, but in ways points to a deeper failure.

Time was Big Capital would actually say this out loud:

I think the issue(that ironically this post is also exhibiting) is that communists have convinced a significant number of people that

Without getting too deep into the weeds on this, because random people arguing about the economy never changed anything: there’s an issue with this particular piece of libertarian orthodoxy. The types of regulations that prevent monopolies and encourage economic competition are also strongly opposed by libertarians.

Also seems like an attempt to warn teens about the dangers of breathplay/choking that assumes it’s a vile right wing male impulse is not going to be as effective as it could be in the reality of many women literally asking for it.

You’re right to be concerned ceausescue. It’s not just bad writing, it’s a brutal phenomenon.

as an English teacher, I can attest that it is a heck of a thing to come across ["unalived"] in a student’s essay and explain, “This isn’t social media⁠—you can use the word ‘killed’”, only for the student to express discomfort with that (!), having internalized from the censorship algorithms that writing “killed” crosses a line.  I’ve also seen late Zoomers be shocked to find the word “regarded” in a reading assignment, because apparently that has become a euphemism on social media for a Word That Must Not Be Written (which itself started out as a euphemism)

...none of the above

The focus is the logistics more than the exact item, and I mentioned both toast and gas station breakfast sandwiches explicitly.

hey everyone, just curious:

I block every bot/spam account I see, and that’s 99% of my blocks. For the rest, a repeated demonstration of both hostility/intentional unpleasantness and a lack of saying anything interesting or any other positive characteristics. Being libelous to others in my notes is weighed heavily: I can choose to tolerate nastiness against myself, but nastiness against others is more offensive to me.

So because my day at the salon was absolute garbage 7 hour shift for exactly 2 hair cuts garbage I am halfway through the book. I have some criticism. I will list them below no spoilers

I decided to DNF What Fury Brings due to a lack of physical reality/research on basic things before the nipple clamps and seeing this, I feel I made the right choice.

are you retarded? It's a blind idiot translation from Japanese categories.

John Singer Sargent, ‘Gassed’ and ‘Six Studies for Gassed’ (1918)

In Gassed there is little suffering. Or rather, what suffering there is is outweighed by the painting’s compassion. In spite of the vomiting figure the scene has almost nothing in common with Owen’s vision of the gas victim whose blood comes ‘gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs’. What Sargent has depicted, instead, is the solace of the blind: the comfort of putting your trust in someone, of being safely led.