i didn't know that pat robertson's father was a senator.
....just like george hw bush's.
mmmmmhhmmmm.
it's especially curious, given just how similar hw looked to his father, prescott.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absalom_Willis_Robertson
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
i want to be clear that this is why i got off of facebook.
yes, i found the hive mindset to be a little bit scary. and, while i think that the premise that the russians are all over facebook is in truth a lie that the cia paid rachel maddow a lot of money to propagate, i do think there are legitimate concerns about local governments eavesdropping on their own citizens. that feinstein report disappeared about the same time that the russian narrative hit.
but, the real reason i had to get off is just that the site sucks. it's slow, it's buggy, it's impossible to navigate...
yes, i found the hive mindset to be a little bit scary. and, while i think that the premise that the russians are all over facebook is in truth a lie that the cia paid rachel maddow a lot of money to propagate, i do think there are legitimate concerns about local governments eavesdropping on their own citizens. that feinstein report disappeared about the same time that the russian narrative hit.
but, the real reason i had to get off is just that the site sucks. it's slow, it's buggy, it's impossible to navigate...
again: this is just embarrassing.
we're essentially legislating child abuse. and, all of these parents that want to keep their children ignorant and sheltered until they end up pregnant and/or diseased because they didn't know any better should be ashamed of themselves. i may even support a policy that bans adults from welfare if they didn't get sex ed when they were kids: send the bill to the fucking mosque.
what's next? a waiver for science class?
public education is paramount. and, as parents, you should not have the right to control what your child learns at school - that should be a collective decision, and should be shaped by experts, because a big part of what public education is is about undoing the nonsense that is being taught at home.
i'm not even angry. i'm distraught. i'm grieving. rip, ontario.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-new-sex-ed-curriculum-1.5254327
we're essentially legislating child abuse. and, all of these parents that want to keep their children ignorant and sheltered until they end up pregnant and/or diseased because they didn't know any better should be ashamed of themselves. i may even support a policy that bans adults from welfare if they didn't get sex ed when they were kids: send the bill to the fucking mosque.
what's next? a waiver for science class?
public education is paramount. and, as parents, you should not have the right to control what your child learns at school - that should be a collective decision, and should be shaped by experts, because a big part of what public education is is about undoing the nonsense that is being taught at home.
i'm not even angry. i'm distraught. i'm grieving. rip, ontario.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-new-sex-ed-curriculum-1.5254327
please.
polling is clear that canadians view this as the biggest electoral issue on the table. and, the reason he's going to lose the balance of power, if he doesn't lose outright, is that he has consistently refused to take real, tangible actions to reduce emissions.
the only loser, here, is justin trudeau.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wherry-book-trudeau-climate-change-election-1.5243737
polling is clear that canadians view this as the biggest electoral issue on the table. and, the reason he's going to lose the balance of power, if he doesn't lose outright, is that he has consistently refused to take real, tangible actions to reduce emissions.
the only loser, here, is justin trudeau.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wherry-book-trudeau-climate-change-election-1.5243737
are you confused by this?
there's a reason that most drag queens identify as gay men, and don't have the slightest interest in transitioning. the routine is a way for them to carry out their male desires for control. so, the whole thing is a misnomer; it's not really about men impersonating women, so much as it's about men being men. it's a male thing through and through.
the transgendered side tends to avoid all of that kind of stuff.
there's a reason that most drag queens identify as gay men, and don't have the slightest interest in transitioning. the routine is a way for them to carry out their male desires for control. so, the whole thing is a misnomer; it's not really about men impersonating women, so much as it's about men being men. it's a male thing through and through.
the transgendered side tends to avoid all of that kind of stuff.
no, it's actually not that i have some kind of problem with nudity. almost nobody in this world has seen me naked, and there's almost nothing anybody could do to convince me to undress for them, but i would feel comfortable enough in a nudist colony, or on a nude beach or something, so long as they were matter of fact about it.
and, burlesque actually involves very little nudity, from what i understand about it. it's not about taking your clothes off, it's about keeping them on...
what actually bugs me about burlesque and stripping and other things of the sort is that it's about controlling people. i don't enjoy being manipulated like that, nor do i have any desire to manipulate others in that way. and, i'm not able to see past the basic monetary exchange and erect something exciting about it; i don't fantasize about being taken advantage of, and i'm not naive enough to suspend disbelief and forget it. even if there's not actual money involved, it's still about control, and it's consequently still gross. and, i don't think there's a way to really sanitize it and make it fun without removing it from the public arena.
some people are going to talk about female empowerment, but i think this is taking the wrong approach to equality. i mean, it's easy to understand why a capitalist society would want to focus more on empowering women than it does on emasculating men, sure. but, when your end point is the abolition of all hierarchy and exploitation, this is actually kind of a massive step backwards. two wrongs don't make a right, sort of thing.
like i say: i'm not going to go out and protest it or anything, but i don't want to be anywhere near it.
and, burlesque actually involves very little nudity, from what i understand about it. it's not about taking your clothes off, it's about keeping them on...
what actually bugs me about burlesque and stripping and other things of the sort is that it's about controlling people. i don't enjoy being manipulated like that, nor do i have any desire to manipulate others in that way. and, i'm not able to see past the basic monetary exchange and erect something exciting about it; i don't fantasize about being taken advantage of, and i'm not naive enough to suspend disbelief and forget it. even if there's not actual money involved, it's still about control, and it's consequently still gross. and, i don't think there's a way to really sanitize it and make it fun without removing it from the public arena.
some people are going to talk about female empowerment, but i think this is taking the wrong approach to equality. i mean, it's easy to understand why a capitalist society would want to focus more on empowering women than it does on emasculating men, sure. but, when your end point is the abolition of all hierarchy and exploitation, this is actually kind of a massive step backwards. two wrongs don't make a right, sort of thing.
like i say: i'm not going to go out and protest it or anything, but i don't want to be anywhere near it.
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