Another weird and frustrating phenomenon when you get sucked into an argument with conservative types (something I usually try to avoid bothering with anymore) is that there’s this very narrow set of people they’re convinced are key figures, even “leaders” on any given topic. Talk about climate change and they bring up Al Gore. Talk about women’s rights and they bring up Anita Sarkeesian.
To this day I have NO IDEA what any of those people have ever said on those topics, and in most cases, I never even heard of them outside of conservative complaints and memes. I would never know the name Anita Sarkeesian if she wasn’t one random blogger out of thousands that an obscure niche of people went positively ballistic over. I’ve never heard of anyone accepting the existence of global warming just because non-scientist Al Gore said to.
If I tell them this they never believe it. They’re completely convinced that the beliefs they hate actually revolve around some random youtubers or B-list politicians they randomly elevated into their own bugbears and the idea that the people they fight hardest against actually have barely any influence or fame outside their own subculture seems almost impossible for them to accept.
George Soros.
I always see people saying George Soros pays people like me to protest (I wish), or buses people to vote on battleground states, some way or another he has us under our thrall.
I don’t even know who the fuck George Soros IS
I don’t even feel bothered to Google him and find out- he’s utterly irrelevant to my life. But apparently all liberals are on his payroll somehow.
I, too, never heard of George Soros before just recently.
They could make up absolutely any name in these arguments and it would have just as much meaning to me. “You’re only pro-vaccine because you’re shilling for Jiminy Ferpendoodle!!!”
I’ve heard this referred to as the central fallacy of the authoritarian mindset: It’s not that authoritarians don’t care about facts, it’s that facts aren’t real until they are confirmed by an Authority. Of course no liberal believed in Global Warming until Al Gore said so! Why would they believe it, until Someone In Charge said it? And moreover, if you can prove That Person Isn’t Really An Authority, the facts will change! See also:
- Why Creationists are obsessed with disproving Darwin – not his theory, but the man himself. As if casting doubt on Darwin-a-dude-born-in-eighteen-fucking-oh-nine-for-chrissake-’s personal beliefs will somehow completely disprove the ensuing two centuries of scientific research.
- Why various idiot politicians try to legislate away Global Climate Change, as if making laws against the ocean will stop it from rising.
I’m sure you could add on ten thousand bullet points but it’s Saturday and I don’t wanna do the research when I could be cleaning my kitchen and playing Minecraft.
Al Gore was the only major politician talking about global warming 15 years ago, but they haven’t updated their talking points. They also point to Al Sharpton as some kind of currently relevant leader, because again, their talking points haven’t been updated in decades.
The Soros obsession is basically just anti-semitism. He’s probably the biggest Democratic mega-donor, but he’s hardly the only one. The tropes surrounding him are nakedly anti-semitic. It can barely be called a dogwhistle at this point.
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Johnny Cash’s first wife was black. Totally erased in the movie.
the Man In Black was not having your racist bullshit, and his children won’t let you piss on his grave.
I just
He’s the Man in Black. He was a vocal proponent of prison reform and prison rights. Half of his catalog is social justice. Why do you think he toured PRISONS it wasn’t just Folsom!
Johnny Cash was Punk As Fuck
Man In Black by Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash always wore black clothes, and he wrote this song to help explain why: “I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, but is there because he’s a victim of the times.”
Johnny Cash literally wore his protest.
what the actual fuck
Men don’t know women can pee
ive been sitting on the toilet for 20 minutes trying to piss but the pee keeps getting lost in my confusing Woman Body
Do you know what this means, though? Not only did some cis man write that and think it made sense, but not a single person with a vulva was involved in the editing of this book before it went to publication (or they simply weren’t listened to).
Having diversity in your creative team makes for better media!
How does any man who lives with a woman not know that we pee faster than they do?
I think this is yet another case of men projecting something onto women that they feel themselves. Penis envy was Freud imagining that women were profoundly unhappy with clitorises instead of penises because men are obsessed with the size of their penis and he couldn’t imagine a man being happy with a tiny penis, so how could a woman be happy without one?
In this case, men are liable to get swollen prostates that interfere with the ability to pee, and also, a man who is hard finds it biologically difficult to pee. (Not impossible, I guess, or piss kink wouldn’t be possible, but very difficult.) There’s no common equivalent for women… being aroused doesn’t make it harder for us to pee, and we don’t have prostates.
I mean, this is one of the few biological advantages of female equipment. Our shorter urethras make us more prone to UTIs. But we are less likely to have trouble peeing. (I’ve also observed that we are less likely to be constipated… I don’t know whether this is because of biology, diet, or the fact that we have to sit on the toilet multiple times a day, so we have no motivation to hold our poop. Men have to make a special poop trip, and if you hold your poop when you need to poop, you get constipated, and busy men might not want to take time for the poop session. Women were sitting down to pee anyway, so might as well poop.)
I suspect this writer is a guy who assumed that all the time his wife spends in the bathroom is because she is trying to pee, because she has to spend a lot of time putting on makeup and doing hygiene to impress him without him knowing she’s doing it because he’s just that much of a jerk. Like that poor woman on Real Housewives of New Jersey or whatever who brags about the fact that her husband has never, ever seen her go to the bathroom to poop, like she hides it from him to create the illusion that women don’t poo. Really, lady? He’s that fucking insecure that he needs to believe you’re not human to love you? But for some reason we put up with this shit from guys and don’t kick their asses to the curb like we ought to.
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