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Vocal, blanket doomerism is not a dignified or honorable way to move through life

Calling a healthcare company denying coverage "murder" is running really, really fast down a road nobody wants to walk to its conclusion. The conclusion, BTW, is "So long as you can build a network of causal linkages between your act or inaction and someone's death you are a murderer".

Ah yes, my dad, who AFAICT believes strong moral convictions are just a way to signal you're better than other people and manipulate them

I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

So mildly off topic and I can't get the full quote now, but since this book keeps coming up in my conversations here, I am pleased to inform you all that Doug Wilson once tried (unsuccessfully) to remix an extremely specific and memorable phrase from That Hideous Strength without attribution

I'd also note that Elon spending a million buckaroos on a canvassing operation in Wisconsin suggests that the administration also does not think bing bong elections are over.

Nate Silver is a prick, exhibit #947692068135

CODE RED, this is not a drill, get Sigmund in here stat, we have a Freudian emergency that requires immediate attention

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive