Marcia J
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@JoanneMason11 @SPimpernel22 Praying that Joanne will soon be feeling better.
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Harvey Marcelin is a male serial murderer of women. He has murdered three women over the course of his life. He is a man.
In 2022, the New York Times honored his gender identity by referring to him as "she" and "her," soon after he was arrested for beheading and dismembering the third woman of the three women he has murdered in his life.
Marcelin no longer calls himself a woman in 2026, so the New York Times now refers to him as "an elderly man."
Marcelin was always a man.
He was a man when he was born.
He was a man when he murdered his girlfriend in 1963. He was a man when he was released from prison in 1984. He was a man when he murdered another woman that lived with him in 1986.
He was a man when he began pretending to be a woman while in prison. He was a man because pretending to be something you are not does not make you into the thing you are pretending to be.
He was a man, and a serial murderer of women, in 2022 when he was granted access to a woman's shelter over the concerns of women who were terrified by the prospect of having to share living quarters with a male serial murderer of women.
He was a man whom an employee of the women's shelter tried to deny access to the shelter.
He was a man for whom the shelter overrode the judgment of that employee and punished her, in order to comply with New York City Human Rights Law, which forbids any woman from drawing a boundary between herself and any man who says that he is a woman, and grants a right to any man who says he is a woman to violate sex-based boundaries.
He was a man who had a "human right" that the state of New York protected to enter private spaces reserved for the protection of women.
He was a man when he beheaded and dismembered yet another woman weeks later.
He was a man when he appeared for trial two days ago acknowledging that he is now a man, a fact that was always true.
He was a man when the New York Times honored his gender identity in 2022 by calling him a woman.
He was a man when he said he was a woman. He was a man when he acknowledged the fact that he is a man.


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I'm just wondering where all the vapors were when Democratic-majority Pennsylvania state Supreme Court issued at the end of February 2018 a new congressional district map that would go into effect weeks later in May of that year? It marked the first time a state court threw out federal congressional boundaries and was literally drawn by the Democrat majority Pennsylvania Supreme Court heavily favoring Democrats.
Steve Guest@SteveGuest
“We are in the depths of hell” Abby Philip has an EPIC meltdown on CNN NewsNight in the wake of the Virginia Supreme Court ruling that the Democrats’ gerrymandering was unconstitutional. “America's redistricting battles just became a full-fledged war. Democrats are vowing to go all in tonight after a consequential setback in Virginia. The state Supreme Court striking down the new congressional map that favors Democrats… for black voters in particular in the South they're looking to lose pretty much most if not all of their representation.”
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My vocabulary is less "obscure" and "high flown" than it is the case that the vocabulary of the average American is embarrassingly bad. And recently so. Yes, I have a larger vocabulary than most people, and always have had.
Yes. I was that bookworm/literary kid. Yes, I know lots of words, and use lots of words, that aren't in the most common circulation.
But stop. A great deal of my vocabulary would not have been considered "arcane" *even just 15 years ago*. I've watched this happen.
The words and associated concepts-including actual history, European folktales, foundational Western works of literature and plays-that Americans don't know today is astounding.
I'm talking about references that *any literate person, no college degree required* would have known 15 to 20 years ago. No, it's not that "the information is obsolete/it's just time marching on." It's NOT that.
That phenomenon exists, but this is not that. This is a profound cliff drop in literacy, and cultural literacy, that happened almost overnight with Millennials and Gen Z.
I didn't get "more arcane" recently. The population got signficantly more ignorant recently, and noticeably, and faster than we've ever seen in prior generations.
Hell--I'm watching fully grown adults react to seeing a word I use that they don't know exactly the way kids in 4th grade did when they picked on the bookworm kid.
That's embarrassing. You're THIRTY and instead of wanting to know what "Habsburg" refers to, you respond with "lol what does that EVEN mean ur so cringe."
I'm not the one who's "cringe."
-J
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@miles_commodore Agreed. Traffic laws and enforcement should be about safety, not about raising revenue.
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@itsme_urstruly "The heavens declare the glory of God;
And the firmament shows His handiwork.
Day unto day utters speech,
And night unto night reveals knowledge.
There is no speech nor language
Where their voice is not heard."
Psalm 19:1-3
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@the_book_land Ah! the old standby query ...
'There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.'
And it's that 'almost' that does it — the book is much-partly abt how he comes NOT to deserve it and to live beyond it.
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Excluding the Bible, what are your favourite opening lines of a book (of any kind)?




Mocking Jay@AmbivalentRants
Tolstoy tearing it apart with the greatest opening line in all of literature.
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@liebeskindred Haven't seen this before, but I looked it up on Amazon, and now I want one.
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