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@Jack_Luminous A maker.

Everyone is a what.

@JillFilipovic He'd continue to wear the helmet? Even after dismounting and parking the bike?

This is a PSA to all the Bike Dads: There are tons of comments on the below photo about how the guy in the bike helmet and reflective vest looks mentally infirm and I’d just like to say that this is basically what my cyclist dad regularly wore to my sports games and school events except add more spandex. Do not do this to your child, she’ll still be getting flashbacks at 40.

@majorsynack @JoeLongBalls Cyclists typically take the helmet off when not riding, yes?

@JoeLongBalls That's a cyclist dawg not a mentally handicapped person 💀

nothing else crossed your mind when trying to online shame the guy wearing a helmet and a hivis vest in a library?

@XiJinpingThot69 @pourfairelevide These are inter-proletarian conflicts. They need inter-proletarian solutions, like a posse.

@Mattconno @pourfairelevide They're aligned with the bourgeois class, not the proletarian class. The insular culture is a consequence of this. The monopoly on violence is good.

Smoking on the train is rude and bad, and unfortunately a very common thing in Philly, but maybe let’s all think for a second about getting the cops involved?

@ryan_smith_40 @dopestroke76 @mindyisser Deputised mobs?

@dopestroke76 @mindyisser It’s a people with young kids trying to take public transit cares crime. I’m sorry I don’t think it’s on me to pull my toddler to another car while carrying a stroller because some prick wants to smoke. Someone has to do something, still haven’t heard a better answer than police

YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE PHILADELPHIA POLICE DEPARTMENT THEY ARE EVIL

@XiJinpingThot69 @pourfairelevide What do you think the problem with cops is?

@Mattconno @pourfairelevide I don't think that's the problem with cops.

@XiJinpingThot69 @pourfairelevide I thought the problem with cops was that they have a monopoly on force and an insular culture that sets them apart from wider society. We need to democratise force to promote pro-social behaviour.

@Mattconno @pourfairelevide Idiotic, but at least more intelligible than the average police/prison abolitionist proposal!

@XiJinpingThot69 @pourfairelevide Creating a custom where people who do those things can be legally mobbed, restrained and spanked raw by all the able bodied adults in the vicinity. Mob participants get legal immunity, insurance and a small monetary reward. Recipients of the spanking are reported on.

@pourfairelevide I'm not sure that the solution to these problems is more cops. But then, what's the alternative right now? That's not clear.

@domfishy @kaitduffy Do you work from home and have no significant other?

@kaitduffy It’s me. I am that psycho. I am human, I crave social interactions.

Everyone always complains about not having friends as an adult but nobody talks about the fucking psycho people that want to hangout 4x a week

@nazzobetweeting *MADE* to stop.

it’s not right-wing to say people should not be smoking inside public transit train cars and those doing so should be told to stop

@dmanthecaptain @rafaellmpl @JohnnyCallicutt They put this one out a while ago. Had the complete dailies 1943-1946 and i think there were a couple more like it.

@rafaellmpl @JohnnyCallicutt There are a handful of Trade paperbacks but I haven’t found anything that endeavors to collect as much material as possible in several volumes, which might explain why most of this account seems sourced from newspapers rather than collected editions.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 26,1947

@beastacabra @TheCatholicEngr Waiting is the easiest thing in the world to do when you have the distraction rectangle in your pocket with countless movies, shows, music, games, books, articles and strangers opinions to keep you entertained at any time.

@TheCatholicEngr Waiting is physically painful but I think it's on tbe individual sometimes to be able to distract/entertain themselves for a few minutes. Kind of similar to a child in a restaurant, except with more knowledge to accompany the accountability.

I have this friend in my life who claims to suffer from "time blindness" We were getting ready in the same hotel room and I told her to be ready by 9:30am. (We didn't really need to leave till 9:40am). With great difficulty they got ready by 9:30am. And I was like, "Cool, I'm almost done". And she had to wait for me. The fit she threw when she learned she had to "wait" was insane. I was shocked. She reacted as if I was asking her to stick her hand in molten lava. "Waiting" to her was painful. And yet she doesn't give two shits when she makes other people wait for her. I don't understand it.

@Catsinspace420 @sabsplaything @shadowscloak @dilrhubarb Disrespect is in the eye of the beholder. Morals should be universal and not subject to individual judgement. QED feeling disrespected is not evidence of moral transgression.

@sabsplaything @shadowscloak @dilrhubarb Do you not find disrespect immoral?

I'm so tired of lateness being viewed as a moral failing. I've been shamed for it my whole life because it's framed as "disrespect" (and no, it hasn't helped me be more punctual) and if I lost out on a major life opportunity because of it I don't think I could have ever recovered

@pessimisticfsn @pwhlesbian Doesn't matter. The Author is dead.

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@VariousRegards @liana_1_1 Goomba fallacy

Society: "There's no such thing as mental illness, the whole industry is a lie and a scam." Also Society: "I can't believe how all these mentally ill people are negatively impacting everyone's day."

It’s crazy how one random person can negatively impact so many other people’s lives

@Z0GB0T @normalcreature9 They could've cast a fat girl.

@normalcreature9 Carrie could not have been cast more perfectly

@saraaluvscats @normalcreature9 Because people find religious nuts off-putting. But besides that, in the book she's chubby. It makes more sense.

@normalcreature9 she’s soo beautiful to me. first time i ever saw her was in carrie, and i immediately didn’t understand why anyone would be cruel to a girl that pretty, especially when she’s dressed up for the prom

@secularwakanada @SardineTruther @abcnews Hey, those stats are at least little hopepilling. Certainly better than the zeitgeist would have you believe.

@SardineTruther 7% vs 21% @abcnews #womenontop

There's a very uncomfortable truth in Australia that is left out or outright ignored by folks like Hannah Ferguson in that 'manosphere' content isn't so much resonant with your more affluent inner-city & suburban boys outside of a somewhat facetious appreciation for looksmaxxers like Clavicular and Androgenic, who are appreciated as subcultural meme generators. SNEAKO, a far larger and more 'traditionally toxic' manosphere figure is currently on tour in Western Sydney and is being received with great fanfare. Caro, had she spent a moment in the public school system she is a huge proponent of, would be able to clearly see the divide in content consumption by social class if she had bothered to look deeper in to this topic rather than take the standard latter-third-to-fourth wave stance that earns you attention within traditional Australian centrist-to-centre-left media. Either could earn a truly earned spot at the 'Festival of Dangerous Ideas' if they explored the above further!

@SAAS1972N @dwazagul @HiddenYorkshire I don't believe in extra judicial killings either. Just don't defend good ideas (right to due process) with bullshit.

@SAAS1972N @dwazagul @HiddenYorkshire That was not the part I was contesting. "I agree that George shouldn't be Judge, Jury and Executioner" Only the idea that anyone has a RIGHT to a friend.

I've just read Of Mice and Men for the first time since high school and I'm going to be very woke for a moment because my reading of it has changed quite significantly since then. Yes, Lennie is just big and friendly and doesn't know his own strength and wouldn't hurt a fly etc etc but the whole plot - and audience sympathy - hinges on a physically intimidating, mentally disabled man repeatedly grabbing and holding onto women's clothes. Yes, we know he doesn't mean anything by it, he just wants to touch the purty clothing; but the women don't know that, and the audience is conditioned to sympathise with Lennie and not the women who are terrified by him. Curley's Wife doesn't even get a name, and she's a whore with red lipstick anyway. And it's not an isolated incident. Lennie did it at Weeds, which is what got him and George kicked out of there, and he did again to Curley's Wife. Now imagine that you're one of the women suddenly cornered by a hulking creature of a man who grabs you and doesn't let go and tells you how he loves your red dress, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. That's terrifying. That is where my locus of sympathy sits. Of Mice and Men is a complex book, but I find myself increasingly uncomfortable with the way the audience is conditioned to sympathise and associate with Lennie.