Okay but Armpits Esquire has the kind of whimsy I love best.

I just watched a woman in emergency management give a class in a room with busted A/C while she was experiencing a menopause hot flash that had her hair soaked with sweat.

Sick to death of arguments that because women have feelings, they can’t be as or more capable. She might have sweat on every surface of her body, but that woman has ice in her veins.

This was my instinct with that submarine fiasco. Calls a man he’s never seen or talked to a pedophile? First thing? Gotta be a reason that word was in his mind.

My favorite move there when someone points out thing that contradict is to say, “Yes. That’s what you were told.” Imply there’s something mysterious to uncover about why those facts don’t gel.

Alternatively: “I’m giving you the real history. That’s not what your character knows to be true!”

This needs to go to flippanarchy.

There’s always a feat for that!

My gut also says zombie Stalin.

This is why I love lemmy.

I get all angry on someone’s comment, and someone else has already made my point, and better. We’re even doing mutual aid in comments!

This has killed my spirit a little.

I really really really don’t want them to amend. I really, really don’t.

But I’m about… ninety percent certain that if I see an Obama versus Trump election, I’ll need whoever breaks the news to me to be recording, because the mad laughter that erupts from me will soon be as ubiquitous as the Wilhelm scream.

“What sound shall we use here to signify pure insanity?” “Ah, yes, queue up the flicker laughter.”

I thought I was taking crazy pills. I grew up Catholic and the sentence gave me such a weird creeped-out feeling.

This is cultural uncanny valley.

I’ll have you know that is Jim the Vampire!

I want regular pasteurized milk so I can make clotted cream. But I’d rather have ultra high pasteurized and not have to worry about shit like that.

I have terrible news for you. At least in my part of America, the only milk you can buy is ultra high pasteurized.

Of course, that’s what they’ve been doing until now. Let’s see what happens without the FDA on it.

This response vexes me because while Uncle Barry here is certainly an example, what these people are forgetting (and what this thing about Uncle Barry glosses over) is that until the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the fights from the 70s onward, if a family in the US had a child with an IQ of under 70, they were often shipped off to an institution.

Deinstitutionialization didn’t really begin to gain steam until relatively recently in our collective history- here in Tennessee we still had one of these facilities open until the nineties. These people didn’t believe there were people with severe mental disabilities, because our society hid them away!

Look up Clover Bottom. But don’t, because it’s horrifying. I’ve met people who lived there their entire lives. What was done to them was disgusting.

It is awful what was done to them. But it’s awful that people with a greater severity of condition, a greater need for care, are often glossed over in these comment sections. It feels like they’re made invisible in these conversations just like they were in those institutions! And I’m terrified that assholes like RFK Jr will disappear them for real!

Here’s a link to the song “Pet” by A Perfect Circle.

Don’t know why your comment made me want to add this.

Every time some liberal recommends peaceful protest, I yell that MLK Jr. couldn’t have got where he got without Malcolm X, that Stonewall was a riot, and if someone takes away my right to vote, I’m going to behave in the way that got my foremothers the right to vote!

Don’t do my boy Gastly like that! Ghosts are the best!

I work with a lot of veterans and the thing that breaks my heart is how many of them really bought into the lie. They really think they sacrificed years of their lives, some of them went through hell, all for the people of their country. And when or if they realize that they were used, it can break them.

Many, not all obviously, but many of them are victims of this self-same system of oppression. Taking it out on them is exactly what the people who pull their strings want from us.

No war but class war.

I’ve got fucking norovirus.

I wish we had a vaccine for that!