Fascism is a cult of the leader, who promises national restoration in the face of supposed humiliation by ethnic or religious minorities, liberals, feminists, immigrants, and homosexuals. The fascist leader claims the nation has been humiliated and its masculinity threatened by these forces. It must regain its former glory and often its former territory with violence. He offers himself as the only one who can restore it.
The judge is the tree hiding the forest
Blaming the judge in the Rittenhouse case is yet another trick to distract people away from the real problem: a criminal system built to allow brazen crimes proudly committed to go unpunished, when committed by a certain type of person.
It’s true that the judge did everything by the book because that’s what you do with killers like Rittenhouse. The question is: why isn’t it the case for everyone?
The judge was accused of not treating Rittenhouse with the same unfairness others are treated. The real problem is that millions of people are rotting in prison because their judge was not fair to begin with and it’s considered normal.
Blurred classes
These days, you just can’t tell the difference between the aristocracy and the lower class. In that they are all unemployable, make virtually no tax contribution, have a taste for Burberry and shotguns, and don’t need to consider if they can afford another child.
Henning Wehn
They said “No no no”
Every boomer: Have you seen your rent?! You should buy!
Next boomer: Yeah! Paying back a mortgage will be much cheaper.
Boomer at the back: I agree. You’re being daft not to invest properly.
Boomer at the bank: A loan?! Fuck you!
I’m renting.
Not all of them
It is true that not all men are misogynistic but if we took away all men, we would not be having this conversation.
It works for “not all white people are racists”, “not all straight people are homophobic”…
Dilema
How big needs a crumb be to become a biscuit?
Jayde Adams
Home economics
At school, I did a lot of home economics. It’s economics but for girls. We learn how to bake a cake and cover a black eye.
Harriet Kemsley
Car-crash underwear
They are the kind of underwear women are supposed to be wearing in case of a car crash so when they are laying on the table in A&E, it’s not the grey ones with what looks like custard on them.
Jo Brand
On purpose
It’s one thing to misunderstand something.
But it’s a whole other thing to go out of your way to misunderstand.
Reginald D. Hunter
Get learnt.
To someone who was trying to argue his anti-vax stance with their reading scientific articles, I replied:
“You don’t read a scientific article like you read a newspaper.
The average person has no idea how to read a scientific article.
Unless you are trained, it will not teach you anything.
It’s a minefield of scientific metalanguage and idiosyncrasies.”
Apparently, that was “offensive” and “elitist”. They said I was purposefully using words they wouldn’t understand to prove my point.
Yes, I did. Because, no, it was not elitist. It was true.
I spent about a decade of my life going to university to learn how to read and write research papers in History, Linguistics and Pedagogy. More than 10 years to learn how to navigate the information and understand it. And even with that knowledge, I can’t read what my uncle write in Genetics.
Giving the highway code to child with no explanation whatsoever will not help them become good a driver. It takes time, it takes first training, it takes vulgarisation, it takes humility in the face of ignorance. And your feelings towards my pointing out your lack of training in that field is irrelevant.
We are not “elites”, we have spent years training in the art and you did not.
Deal with it. Or get learnt.
Unfathomable Feathers 