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One horrible thing about this election that I’d forgotten from last time is the endless Grapes-of-Wrath-ification of this dude’s supporters and the finger-wagging at people who won’t participate in that infantilizing bullshit. I don’t know why people think pointing out that a huge percentage of the country can’t name the VP at any given time is supposed to make more informed voters less angry and more amenable toward the people who just sold us all down the river, but newsflash: it does not lol.

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if a man ever comments “protect this one boys” or “finally a woman who gets it” on anything you post just know you’re probably wrong and you should delete it

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not "anti-woke" in that i agree with a lot of progressive beliefs and causes and have skin in the game wrt many of them but "anti-'woke'" in that i think a lot of how people go about trying to advocate for them through language policing, fallacious arguments, performative nonsense, structural whataboutism, and straight-up idpol grifting is dumb and counterproductive as hell

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Black Friday is such a joke nowadays. “Don’t miss out on 30% off” don’t piss me the fuck off. People used to hit each other over the head for a microwave that’s how low the prices were. People literally died. We used to be a country

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Carl Frederik Sørensen (Danish, 1818–1879), "Danish Ships in Rough Seas" (details), 1877

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Amber Heard, (N/A, N/A)

—Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond (2004)

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what they dont tell you about adulthood is that it’s startlingly easy to go long periods of time without having any fun at all not even a little bit. btw this causes ur brain to try to kill you with knives and hammers.

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this is from a real diary by a 13-year-old girl in 1870. teenage girls are awesome and they’ve always been that way.

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are you a Byron or Wilde apologist?

concerned citizens from 1895 are messaging me

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fuck what “radicalized” you, i wanna know what DEradicalized you. what made you believe in nuance again. what made you release the need to be morally pure and righteous. what made you realize being radicalized in any direction is not a good thing.

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sorry to keep on going about this, but honestly, when you actually think about the "jane eyre is 'not like other girls' self-insert fiction" argument, the more idiotic and frankly offensive it becomes.

like as far as i can recall, the only women in the story who jane holds in contempt or actively thinks badly of are women who were her abusers (mrs. reed, georgiana and eliza reed to a certain extent) or who are outright cold and cruel to her due to her social status (blanche ingram). she either feels warmly towards or even practically worships every woman in the story who is kind to her (miss temple, helen burns, bessie, mrs. fairfax, diana and mary rivers, rosamund oliver, etc.)

and even when we get to bertha mason, jane is definitely more sympathetic to her than not (and is absolutely more sympathetic to her than rochester is!!!)

it's true that jane feels (understandably!!!) alienated from victorian femininity in many ways, but like...she never really takes that out on other women??? in fact, it's more often the case that other women take it out on her by calling her plain, insignificant, etc. and like, idk guys if we can't criticize the constraints of victorian femininity because we risk getting into ~not like other girls~ territory or whatever, like what the fuck are we even doing??????????

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Bernie is wrong. He has always been wrong and is still wrong. The flaw in his theory is what he deems the “wealthy elite” versus what everyday Americans consider them to be. Voters don’t see all billionaires as the elites. They see college-educated liberals on the coasts, some of whom are billionaires, as elites.

Bernie-style populism didn’t land because billionaires figured out long ago they could undermine it by being socially right-wing, and the working class would forgive their wealth and privilege. That’s why this same demographic is willing to make it rain for grifters like Joel Osteen and Pat Robertson. That’s why they worship the wealthiest man on the planet like a God and consider him some real-life Tony Stark. People dismissed Donald Trump as a shameless attention-hungry New York oligarch until he called Mexicans rapists. Then he shot up to the top of the GOP primary polls. The working class didn’t think much of Elon Musk until he said “pronouns suck.” Then he became their hero. A scion of working-class Pennsylvania lost his US Senate seat last week to a hedge fund manager from Connecticut. West Virginia elected their richest man to the Senate after electing him governor – as a Democrat and later a Republican. Ohio tossed out their longtime Democratic senator, known for his strong support of labor rights, for – literally, no joke – a used-car salesman.

You can’t tell me the working class in America thinks being a billionaire alone is what makes one a “wealthy elite.” There are significant factors at play here Bernie is either oblivious to or purposely ignorant of.

In college, a professor once told me that Communism never succeeded in the United States because we are too religious and proud as a country. Religion, traditions, and culture were never widely discredited the way they were in Europe and Asia, where the clergy and nobility kept the bourgeoisie in figurative chains for centuries. The relative ease of social mobility made America unique compared to its Western counterparts. Historically, American progressivism has been focused on expanding social mobility – initially limited to only white men – to identity groups who had been denied it at the start: blacks, women, and immigrants. We have done it, with various amounts of success. While it may seem counterintuitive, Americans pride themselves in being the nation that pioneered the idea that wealth and status can be achieved through ingenuity and hard work and not just based on a lucky roll of the genetic dice, as it was in the Old World. It doesn’t mean we don’t have generational wealth in our country; we do, but since it isn’t the sole way to achieve wealth and power, we don’t care nearly as much about destroying all of it. Further, we will happily endorse it if the oligarchs and the aristocrats vow to promote and protect the social values we care about and the social hierarchy that benefits us.

It’s one of the reasons I believe Bernie could never beat Trump. If you ask working-class people what they want: an anti-immigrant, anti-intellectual billionaire or a Vermont socialist backed by kids from Harvard and UC Berkeley who hate our traditions and customs, the working class will always back the billionaire.

–Nick Rafter, "Bernie Sanders Can Take a Seat"

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girls doing better than boys in school and the rise of anti-intellectualism is not a coincidence, I fear