I BELIEVE SUE SNELL

The thing that may yet make Jon Ossoff President but will at least always delight me, is that he plays off his Jimmy Olson Nice Boy good looks when he references the gross sex shit that most respectable politicians feel like you absolutely cannot say outloud. Like having a fresh-faced baby Atticus Finch in shirt-sleeves look you right in the eye and tell you that the President is fucking his nurse.

On the topic of goats, and also on of topic of formerly center left people getting twitter brain rot and believing in “Islamo-leftism”: I am reminded of our commune’s 6/6/06 party which got spread around for a while as having been a satanic animal sacrifice led by queerphobes who either recruited conservative Muslim men to help oppress queers OR tricked innocent Muslims into participating in a satanic ritual. The source of the rumor was this one lady who ended up so seriously behind on her $75 month rent that people were slightly snippy to her at house meetings and also we had like 3 stank-ass adult male goats and absolutely no one offered a better option than taking them down the street to the halal slaughterhouse and having a 666 themed goat bbq, the smart decision made by one of the people who was most snippy and who did, several years later and for unrelated reasons, end up convicted of federal terrorism charges.

The (actual) Doctrine and Teachings of Mark Hoffman are that while it’s true that anyone can theoretically be a victim of a scam, the most effective scam artists are most effective when targeting corrupt institutions with lots of money to invest in covering up their corruption. The more corrupt the institution the more attractive a target it makes.

One thing I really appreciate in science fiction is when characters are wrong about their own social customs and especially when they are wrong about gender. For example, in both the Lilith’s Brood books and the Murderbot books, we encounter a character who uses ‘it’ pronouns and insists that it does not fit in with human gender but that character is objectively a man even if the nature of his manhood has no connection to human biology. So Murderbot feels emasculated when it is given a penis because only girl robots have penises but it is super clear that those clear category of bot exists and Murderbot is a description of the masculine kind. In the Liliths Brood books humans keep insisting it’s gay for men to have sex with ooloi and the ooloi keep trying to “explain” that in their special non-human gender structure the ooloi is not your “husband” just because it has full legal, social and even medical coveture over its partners and they take its name and identity. This is the good sci fi shit that understands what is/isn’t fake about gender!