I just read another good Atlantic article, "Kamala Harris and the Rise of Neobitherism," by Adam Serwer. I got it via a gift link on Bluesky, so the paywall hell described by the last Atlantic article I linked would be in effect for any direct link, but you should be able to find it.
Anyway, an excerpt [CW for various racisms, slavery, rape]:
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omg your last tag made me realize higgins is like the cassandra of tl. saying jane wasn't good for beard! suggesting it might be time to let ted go! he was the only one who voted to bring jamie back! him calling out rebecca in s1! if everyone would just listen to higgins, everyones life would have been so much better
Higgins is so underrated I love that man with my whole soul. and add to the list his advice to Keeley that made her feel confident enough to leave Richmond <3 he's always speaking facts!!
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There's a certain type of person who's like . . . "Well, atheists/skeptics are joyless close-minded assholes. I mean, OBVIOUSLY religion/superstition isn't LITERALLY real, only an IDIOT would think anyone was taking it LITERALLY, you only believe that people mean what they say because you're only familiar with Christianity, everyone ELSE is using religion as some kind of extended metaphor for humanity or just believing in things for funsies"
And it's like . . . a) that's frankly more insulting than anything I was probably saying and b) if you also don't believe something is literally true why are you getting so mad that I am saying that something is not literally true
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I just finished season 1 of TMA and i thought it would be fun to make a list of things i've figured out/ i suspect based on other people's comments... so here we go. [Vague TMA spoilers i guess]
Okay let's get the obvious thing out of the way first: I know about the fears thing. I can list maybe 8 of them, i think there are 14 in total?
One of them is using Jon or something. Kinda bummed that it's apparently really named "the Eye"... I thought it would be called "the Beholding", which sounds much cooler imo.
My current theory is that we as the listeners will turn out to be the ones... consuming the statements??? Does that make sense?
Jon and Martin are gay for each other, of course. Sure hope the homophobic vase doesn't come for them...
There will be an apocalypse??? I mean, of course crazy shit has to happen in season 5. My guess is that they're gonna end up burning the whole archive.
*insert that conspiracy theory meme* everything is connected
At one point someone will be murdered with a pipe... lol.
"Hello Jon, apologies for..." something something. No idea of the context.
Elias can't be trusted.
Jon's mental health will apparently only be deteriorating from this point on. Poor guy. But he seems to be fine once he gets all those eyes around him... I'm pretty sure he turns into an avatar but i'm trying to sound dumb lol
There will be more sad and tragic stuff. I'm not ready for it.
Someone will eat a tv?? Or was it a computer?
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actually the insides of a girl look like this!
and it's pretty awesome really. i think it's cool that women are creatures who are real and have guts and viscera inside of them and they sweat and bleed and eat and breathe and all sorts of things that real animals and thus real people do.
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man, part of me really wants to type out a whole rant about this shit but I feel like if I do there won't really be a central point and it will just be a bunch of disjointed rambling. so all I'll say is I'm so fucking tired of svt being under a giant corporation. like regardless of opinion about pledis by itself/pre-hybe, at least then we a) knew what we were dealing with and b) had /some/ collective power as fans to influence the company (ex. getting closer MV and svt ring as merch incidents)
all the hybe acquisition did was add 10 more layers of politics onto everything. for every one thing you could argue hybe improved or fixed, there's like 100 other pieces of bullshit that got introduced directly or indirectly. and it's not even a situation of hybe trying to sabotage svt or whatever like some ppl try to fearmonger about, it's literally all just capitalism and trying to please shareholders and make a profit and I'm so fucking tired of it
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