It doesn’t matter. Nobody is going to be convinced by anything you say. The protesters won’t be especially hurt by a really good burn. You could yell gibberish into the megaphone. The important thing is that you are there, loudly showing your support for the drag queens.
I unironically love it and think it will be a cult classic in 10 years. It’s so stupidly ambitious and unapologetic. It’s beautiful too. I love how you find out in the first scene that the main character can stop time (the only one with any kind of superpower) and that turns out not to be very relevant for the rest of the movie. Fuck Chekhov’s gun, amirite. Frank stockpiled wine money for years to make exactly what he wanted to make and damnit he did. I’ll happily see it in theaters.
A few of my friends recommended Eraserhead. It felt like David Lynch was seeing what he could get away with.
White person who is part of the in-group now probably doesn’t realize they won’t always be part of the in-group. They stand to gain from the relative balance of power in society shifting more toward them while it lasts. Even if their groceries are more expensive, their opportunities more limited, their freedoms curtailed, they will benefit from a higher social status of being part of the in-group and loudly supporting the oppression of the out-group. The out-group will have even more expensive groceries, even fewer opportunities and freedoms. By comparison, the in-group is elevated. I don’t think we should pretend that fascists and the complicit are not acting in their best interest. They are, for now.
In the very long term, yes, people act against their best interests. But a poor white person stands to gain something in a more racist world. A far right dictatorship sounds inherently bad to you or me. Even if we weren’t personally affected by it at all, it would be bad. But a lot of people don’t notice or don’t care. Before society completely collapses, a straight white Christian male does stand to gain from others being oppressed.
Peoples’ values generally align with what’s in their personal best interest. Zuckerberg and Musk see the trend towards oligarchy and are happy to signal to the kingmakers that they are on the same side.
It would be bullying and misogyny.
Wash chickens lunch?
What do you mean “skill against skill”?
In my perfect world, sports wouldn’t be gendered, but would have some sort of class system like boxing weight classes. The best boxers in the world will be the heavyweights but smaller people can still compete against somebody their size. Why did boxing figure this out before basketball got height classes? I’ll never know.
Another way of interpreting your comment is dismissing differences and simply making people all compete against each other. This would obviously exclude all women from most sports so you’d have to be a pretty committed misogynist to think that was preferable to gendered sports.
That’s a crazy comparison to make. Segregation excludes people while women’s sports includes people. Many “men’s” leagues are actually just open. The only reason women don’t join is due to sociological and cultural reasons. As women integrate more into the culture, women’s leagues are less and less needed since the women who want to compete will prefer the open league. It’s an inclusive force.
Frankly, if you start by trying to include women and end up segregating based on race, I question whether you were ever working in good faith.
Exactly. I know chess has women-only events and open events. There is no men’s event. There just wouldn’t be any women if a space weren’t dedicated to women. The culture is so male dominated that it’s needed with no respect to advantage. I imagine e-sports is the same way.
Is this worth bragging about? The purpose of the Shahed is to keep air defense systems busy. They’re cheap for Russia to mass produce and expensive for Ukraine to shoot down. Russia lobs a bunch of them at cities, forcing Ukraine to divert air defenses away from the front line.
The only way to find new music you like is to occasionally listen to music you don’t like.
Is this trolling? I’ve never heard any of these fake quotes.
I’ve never been a big fragrance guy. When I found out about people like you, I decided to just go fragrance free. If it’s not a big deal to me and it gives a few people headaches to be near me, might as well just not do it. There are some tangential benefits. My deodorant irritates my armpits less now. My hair oil used to irritate my skin if it got on my forehead. Now it doesn’t.
Disagree. One of the main purposes of military training (in most, maybe all, cases) is to strip everyone of their individual autonomy.
If you’re not OK with what you’re ordered to do, you should not do it
The problem with this that soldiers are explicitly trained to not even consider their own judgement of their orders. They don’t stop, judge, then pull the trigger. They just pull the trigger. If they disobey an order, they’re court martialed. It’s the military’s justice system that then gets to decide if the order was unlawful. The system is designed to strip soldiers of their power.
If a 28yo enlists, they share some responsibility simply by knowingly joining an immoral organization. But most new recruits are in high school. They don’t know what the hell is going on.
All this to say: the leaders who have stripped young boys of their autonomy in order to have them commit horrific acts that will scar them for life in order to protect their own regime, they’re the real villains. I see the individual soldiers as victims.
Zelenskyy should offer to take the deal if Ukraine can get its nukes back from the violation of the last treaty.
That would violate the deal.
Kombucha? It will be very fizzy and tart. Some of them are sweet and some aren’t so pick one that isn’t as sweet.
give me an example of a modern uprising where the protesters used weapons to achieve their goals.
Uprising was maybe the wrong word. But off the top of my head, the Black Panthers and the IRA both used lots of weapons to achieve their goals. The Black Panthers were considered by the FBI to be the biggest threat to the US government in the 60s. They were eventually stopped with counter-intelligence, infiltration, criminalizing, and disarmament rather than military action.
You bring up good examples of uprisings that didn’t use weapons and times that uprisings were suppressed with military force. I guess I would slightly walk my original claim back. However, I still think that the people having guns is better than not. I can’t find an article, but during the 2020 BLM protests, there were plenty of armed counter protesters. The police were harassing the protesters and leaving the counter protesters alone. Lots of ink was spilled about how this showed which side the police were on. That’s probably true. But there was also some Texas BLM protests where the protesters showed up armed and the police didn’t fuck with them. They didn’t need enough firepower to win a battle. They just needed enough to deter aggression.
I mostly don’t. Maybe this isn’t the kind of answer you were interested in. I think memorable experiences are transient and are more beautiful the more fleeting they are. The more I try to immortalize some moment, the less I feel I’m able to enjoy it in the moment. There are some exceptions. I keep recipes in Google keep. Most of them I just know how to make but I might need my memory jogged for a measurement or temp setting. I also have a small notebook I use as a gym journal. “Journalling” seems like a stretch for the chicken-scratch numbers, though. It’s mostly so I know how much weight to use next time I go.