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Despite the fact that my Twitter feed often consists of taking shots at the appalling state of the world, I am not a morose or despairing person.
I’m a joyous cynic and a gladsome naysayer.
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KeepCalmAndDrawl ☦️
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KeepCalmAndDrawl ☦️
@FormerlyFormer
Biscuits, potroast, fond hugs, and sundry aphorisms in bio.
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Inversion of the sexes simply does not work. Weaker men does not create strong women - it creates useless women becoming almost childlike in their attempts to remain “feminine.” The only path to strong women is strong men. Want strong women? Make your men strong, so that their women also feel free to be strong.
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@acrimonyand The line between masculine and feminine is never a static list of behaviors, of detailed do’s and don’ts. It is ever and always the INTERPLAY between the sexes. Am I distinctly female **in comparison** to my particular man. Not in comparison to every other woman in the world.
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You really need to hunt and fish because it settles down a woman’s restless cavegirl brain because you’re fulfilling your prime directive
rover@roving_brah
People always say about hunting/fishing “oh I bet you feel like such a big man killing poor defenseless animals” honestly no bro the animals are smarter than me 90% of the time it actually makes me feel like a retard
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Rural ladies can also be a bit more assertive/tomboyish without coming off unattractively masculine **because** more of the men engage in very masculine behaviors. My theory is that we are driven to keep some distinction between the sexes in order to attract one another. In rural environments this is very easy. In modern urban and upper class environments, where natural and bodily distinctions are less of an everyday thing, is where you get more of the kind of odd overly-stylized and caricatured “femininity” Rural ladies simply don’t need to go all frittery and limp and useless in order to feel girlish next to their men.
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I suspect a large reason that feminism is weak in rural areas has to do with the ubiquitousness of it as a hobby in the male population
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@MTabarrok @eigenrobot Modern westerners have great difficulty thinking outside of a solely individualist frame. Even those of us aware it exists have to make an effort to not impose it as THE lens for all things. Life is much messier than either the purely individual or the purely collective tho.
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I'm interested in this debate
On the one hand I agree that advantages given to children that are the result of e.g the parents working very hard are not well described as "luck"
But on the other hand there are big differences in outcomes within the group of hard-working parents depending on whether they live in East Africa vs East America.
It's hard to ascribe the cause of these differences to anyone, and they are almost never attributable to anyone's family.
So what do you call these differences?
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john rawls and his consequences have been a disaster for the human race
taoki@justalexoki
this is an argument i will never get. "it's deserved" i didn't do shit to get born here. it's not deserved. it's luck. and most people are unlucky as hell
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@_QuickFang I don’t care either, but even IF you grant them the premise the stuff is environmentally bad, the tiny effect this would have overall is not worth bothering over.
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@FormerlyFormer Agreed.
I fired the old one and the new one off side by side in front of the pharmacist and he agreed the new one went half as far.
We can't all lug spacers around at work and I do not care about the NHS's imaginary carbon footprint.
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Over 10 yrs ago my asthma inhaler went generic and became cheap. But the govt said the propellant was bad for the environment, mandated a new type, and I was back to buying branded for $$$$. Recently that new type went generic as well. Cheap again! Yay! Except now the govt says this propellant is *also* unsafe, and will be banning it, forcing everyone to buy a (patented of course) newer more expensive type yet again. Funny how the timing works that drugs become “unsafe/environmentally bad” juuuust as the pharmaceutical patents run out. Very curious, that.
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It’s quite revealing that your assumption is that having standards about not being on welfare, not committing criminal acts etc will drastically change the ethnic makeup of which immigrants get to stay.
Why do you assume these standards will be an unreachable bar for some but not others? I didn’t assume that. YOU did, you nasty bigot.
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Excited to announce that my 83-page ASSIMILATION Act has been introduced.
Months of labor were undertaken by my staff, @SenTuberville and myself in order to GUT the Hart-Celler Act of 1965, as well as scrap provisions of the Immigration Act of the 1990s.
The goal of this bill is simple: end replacement migration and ensure American cultural cohesion.
This bill will end the H-1B scam, ensure migrants NEVER become a public charge, and make America look like America again. FYI, net immigration immediately decreases by 85% under this bill.
Some other things it does:
• National Interest Standard
• Stringent Character Tests
• Mandatory E-Verify
• Ends Chain Migration
• Ends Diversity Lottery
• GUTS Birthright Citizenship
• WAY Tougher Asylum Standards
• Stronger Public Charge Rules
• 10 Year Citizenship Requirement
• English & American Civics PROFICIENCY
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Yes. I don’t care how many studies they do claiming it delivers exactly the same amount of active med. In real life use, the old propellant got that stuff into my lungs in a way the new simply doesn’t. I end up doing extra puffs to get some relief. And frankly, even IF they are correct that the propellant was marginally environmentally harmful, I do not believe that the asthmatics of the world taking tiny puffs on inhalers were releasing gobs of the stuff into the atmosphere.
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@FormerlyFormer I'm having to buy mine privately now.
The ones the NHS will give me have half the amount of propellant in them which is stupid for a reliever pump.
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The gift for *indirect* influence, like all gifts, can be used as a blessing or a curse. Used badly it becomes mere selfish manipulation. Used well it becomes a needed interjection of the feminine fluid perspective into the world, to balance an excess of the male tendency to *structure* to the point of rigidity.
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Being hung up on public “representation” blinds women to the greatest power we actually possess: that of influence over our chosen men.
It’s odd how we all conspiracy-theory postulate about the shadowy figures *behind* our public figures, and how they’re the ones “really” running things and whispering in ears the correct course. But we totally discount that it is precisely THAT sort of power, not the public-face sort, that women have wielded for centuries. 😆
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World: *continues to function as normal*
Woman: “Why am I not the center of attention?”
Gita Gopinath@GitaGopinath
A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and not one woman at the table.
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I always remind new moms that humans have been raising babies just fine for millennia. Will taking a deep breath, relaxing, and trusting your gut maybe lead to some mistakes? Sure, probably. But imo far fewer mistakes than wrapping yourself into a pretzel over every new theory of childrearing and obsessing over “Am I doing it right?’
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sorry, the "still face" experiment, which I'm pretty sure only captures that the baby knows Mom and gets weirded out by how she acts under laboratory conditions
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new tweet genre where I de-influence everyone from the weird neurotic emotional-contortion version of parenting that seems to snipe new moms who probably have postpartum OCD
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There is great joy, (and much growth for HER) in supportively sticking out a season of a husband’s weakness despite her fear - and seeing him regain his footing and vigor and spark her admiration once again. It’s a dangerous time, but also (if you get past it) the forging of an UNBREAKABLE bond that both feel deeply. But you have to be “I ain’t going anywhere, period” in mindset to accomplish that great treasure.
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@FormerlyFormer @FloridaThales Also, in prior eras, a wife might not feel exactly thrilled upon discovering her husband's vulnerability. But she was stuck with him.
So instead of getting the ick and leaving, she'd stand by him. Him being weak would wreck her life, so she'd maybe try to help strengthen him.
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Never open up to a woman this way. She doesn't want to know and it will serve no purpose. The best case is she doesn't care. The worst case is below.
Deal with your trauma yourself, lift some iron, take some pills, confess to a priest - I don't know - but never do this.
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It would behoove many, who like to discourse over what is/isn’t legal, to familiarize themselves with the laws in their particular locale. Too many talk as if “the police” have some nationalized rulebook - when in reality the laws vary from state to state. Not on the bigger stuff that SCOTUS has ruled on, but in particulars, yes.
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"show me your ID" is not a lawful order in NH.
I am Jack’s Rage@ImJacksRage
"I will obey all lawful orders" apparently doesn't include providing your ID 🙄
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We are an impatient generation. We want rules that *always* work in *every* stage of life - not a natural process of many decades. We are in a hurry to access the “one true thing that WORKS” rather than committing ourselves to the often joyful but frequently painful process of growth. We have little capacity to WAIT. We want a complete download now of wisdom, not the trickle of insight at odd moments over years - which is how it comes.
KeepCalmAndDrawl ☦️@FormerlyFormer
Moderns don’t wish to hear this, because we have the mental timescale of gnats, but: Yes, it is possible (and even helpful) for a man to show weakness with a woman. The problem is that it takes a loooooong time and much prior bonding and proving of himself for that to be the case. Two years dating is not enough. You move toward that over decades. Eventually, a man may end up literally frail and being physically cared for by that wife. But by then it doesn’t scare or repel her. Moderns want to rush what takes many many years to build.
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Passive aggressive guilt-trippy nonsense always annoys the heck out of me. Facebook is even worse for it. “I’m waiting to see who reposts this lost puppy story so I can judge who CARES and who is a horrible human being.”
Well, call me horrible then, bcz not playing that game despite really liking puppies.
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If you start your post with “Nobody reads my posts but,” I’m not reading your post.
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Way back in my day (yes, I know, I’m a lame old boomer) every kid had to take both Shop and Home Economics. It was required. Both sexes exited high school at least knowing how to run a band saw, drill a straight hole, adjust an adjustable wrench, sew a basic seam, devise a meal plan, cook a few things.
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proposal: we strip every NH school library of books like "Genderqueer" and replace them with the Gingery Metal Shop series
follow on proposal: mandatory shop class where you leave at the end of the year with your own lathe, shaper, etc
travis4nh@travis4nh
under communism, owning this book is a crime
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