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Hey man, ahead of this heatwave I'm gonna go ahead and rip the veil off of something for you:

The reason American Southerners have the luxury of saying that 90 ain't that bad and it's not unbearable until it's 100 is 1) prolonged exposure to high temperatures over multiple decades 2) our mindset for these living conditions.

You don't have number 1, and you can't just acquire it, so I need you to adopt number 2 immediately. How do you live like a Southerner in the heat?

Don't be a hero.

Stay inside. Buy a box fan, put it next to a bucket of ice, and wrap your arms around it like a lover. Do not leave the shade under any circumstances. If a dude makes fun of you for getting out of the sun, don't get mad, just think of a funnier insult to call him while you flip him off and go stand under a tree.

Southerners love nothing more than to exaggerate and lie to each other. Like I think we got off on the wrong foot when you walked in on us saying things like "It was only 110, I didn't even take my damn jacket off" when really, last week it was 95 at 10 PM and we were on the bed buck nekkid in front of the fan moaning incoherently and praying to die. So yeah, we can take extreme heat. We also want you to think we can take ludicrous heat. You must learn to talk shit and then be a hypocrite and a coward in your actions, because this will serve you best.

It sounds like I am joking but I cannot express to you how much I am not. Do not fuck with Mother Nature, because that bitch will kill you. Take every opportunity to lower your body temperature and drink water, because that is what all of us in hot climates are doing all the time, and that is why we are not dead, even when it seems like we should be.

(And yeah, we do go through like two and a half ugly weeks in April every year where everyone wants to absolutely just goddamn drop dead because none of us have our heat tolerance back, but we must go to work anyway, which must be a crime. And yes, when it gets below 70 we really all do short circuit and cover ourselves in seven jackets, except for Shorts Guy.)

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what gives the lie to “silence is complicity” or its cousin “silence is violence” is that people are silent about tens, hundreds, thousands of atrocities happening right at this moment because they do not know they are happening/there is simply not enough time in the day to condemn all the evil in the world.

do you think the people saying “silence is complicity” really believe what they are saying, which implicates them too, or do they feel entitled to a stranger’s take? is it a way to build coalition or bully people? is it, at best, a poorly thought out phrase (and there are many such cases!) or is it lying through teeth?

does anyone really believe that saying the right words absolves you? that that’s all there is to it and nothing more?

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Don't get me wrong, I'm not sad cuomo lost. What I am upset about is that once again people voted based on ~vibes~, marketing, and unrealistic promises, rather than on experience, policies, and track records. Like Adrienne Adams and Brad Lander were right there.

Also, as a new yorker mamdani's win means I'm going to have to hear about the mayoral election until november at least. Best of luck to the guy, he's not gonna have an easy time dealing with the republican media machine. It'll be interesting, to say the least, seeing if he can get more support from Black, Jewish, lower income voters while still maintaining the leftish appeal with the DSA. It's not as easy or fun pointing fingers at "the establishment" once you become part of it yourself and have to deal with the nightmare that is NYC bureaucracy.

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some days I feel like I live in an alternate reality from goyim but then I tell myself that my intergenerational trauma is making me delusional

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somewhere out there right now is a kid with curly hair being raised by people who have wavy hair at best and those people are giving them 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner and telling them to dry brush it. and that kid is gonna spend all of middle school and high school hating their hair and moping over the flat iron. they're being told right now that if they don't dry-brush their curl pattern into oblivion every morning it means they're unkempt and gross even though they naturally have the kind of ringlets that a thousand bridezillas would commit horrible murders for every june. it's happening right now it's an absolute epidemic and a tragedy every time

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I think the federalizing of desired outcomes really started with the Tea Party congressional flip in 2010, where legislative expectation was neutralized and continued for the remainder of Obama’s presidency, and so a lot of progressives and leftists got used to policy by executive order and policy by judicial decision and figured it could continue, which warped expectations as to what could be done by the President, and which helped encourage a disinterest in state and local action and involvement, and it only metastasized under Trump because Trump seemed to be able to have so much power and authority (partly because he had a Congress where the majority agreed with him for part of his Presidency, partly because he was able to undo a lot of shit by executive order because said shit was established or expanded by executive order which is why you DON’T WANT GOVERNMENT BY EXECUTIVE ORDER, and partly because Republicans are fundamentally a destructive entity and it’s easier to destroy rather than create or establish) and which led to a weird idea that this is the new normal.

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Tell my why in the tags/reblogs

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we can't even get a basic "all men structurally benefit from a misogynist society" to pass on this website without a bunch of queer men shooting themselves into a panic cause they get too uncomfortable about the idea of being culpable to self reflect. "feminist" website

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My mother sent me a “I’m not dead in the air strike please tell your grandparents” message today so sorry if I don’t think American’s WWIII draft jokes are in good taste

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A tankie responded to one of my Ukraine posts saying that they would care about Ukraine if “they weren’t run by Nazis” so I looked at their page; they were constantly using antisemitic slurs. Make no mistake, tankies love Nazis, they’re just a bunch of performative fucks who don’t care about humanity.

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Why are you using chatgpt to get through college. Why are you spending so much time and money on something just to be functionally illiterate and have zero new skills at the end of it all. Literally shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to waste thirty grand you can always just buy a sportscar.

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Every once in a while I think about how the Swiss have the cachet of “good chocolate” and Italy and France have the “good coffee” and well I don’t even really have the energy to get mad about it anymore

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📢📢📢

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today I used the phrase "breasting boobily" in casual real life conversation and everyone was shocked asking how I came up with that and I had to explain it. ive been at the devil's sacrament so long that I forgot he wasn't god

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Ngl some of you are way too comfortable spreading Russian propaganda about Ukraine to have reliable takes on any international conflict.

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Was just informed that "any sufficiently deep enthusiasm is indistinguishable from academic rigor" and hoo boy we are really in a crisis of anti-intellectualism.

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I love a woman with a loud ass laugh. I love a cackle. I love a guffaw. Love when a bitch laughs so hard it scares the dog. Be unapologetic in your joy.