So I guess I’m back...
Apparently there was a glitch in the system that caused my secondary blog to get messaging, and when I tried to delete it it took out my whole account.
And now my backup blog has been deleted.
Happy 2023
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So I guess I’m back...
Apparently there was a glitch in the system that caused my secondary blog to get messaging, and when I tried to delete it it took out my whole account.
And now my backup blog has been deleted.
Happy 2023
The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.
Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.
So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.
Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.
oh shit
As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.
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ok. i’m out of patient, i’m out of nice, i’m out of energy to cultivate a coalition of the basically sensible and decent even if i have to take continual little personal hits doing it, i’ll get all of that back online real soon, but tonight i want the piece of shit the american nazis put in charge of health hung, drawn and quartered. i want the jaggedly torn chunks of his corpse mounted on spikes in public and left to rot slowly over the course of what given the weather will be many weeks. i want there to be a national day of shame commemorating the occasion every year afterward, on which we remember the disgusting, foul, evil thing we let happen in the united fucking states of fucking america and chant “never again” about it
the tweet below is a lie
it is the 180 degree opposite of the truth
to the extent that it is believed—which will be substantial because the u.s. is in a massive wave of antiscience anti-intellectual grievance populism on top of a global postcovid epidemic of virulent antivaxx brainworms—it will lead directly to deaths
those deaths will involve a degree of suffering i cannot fully convey here safely. advanced cervical cancer is very bad
and he’s doing this for money
he has a financial interest in the litigation against Merck. he had it before taking public office and he still has it. he is rolling back a 24 karat best-of-humanity-hall-of-fame epochal, transformational, lifesaving scientific advance for the grift, and he needs to be absolutely trojan war levels of shamekilled and corpseshamed
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i really wish more people talked about moral ocd bc i truly think that its its own special brand of hell
The Shirley Exception
a lot of people will also suddenly claim there must be an exception for their relative/child/spouse/etc. empathy dependent on relation not on humans just because they’re humans fuels this. oh yeah, and also, if you have money, you can buy the exception. naturally.
[ID: Tweets by Alexandra Erin (@AlexandraErin) as follows:
The Shirley Exception is a bit of mental sleight of hand that allows people to support a policy they profess to disagree with. It's called the Shirley Exception because… well, I mean, surely there must be exceptions, right?
Let's imagine that in response to suspicions about overbroad use of service animal rules, a city somewhere decides to just swing the pendulum 100% in the other direction. Restaurants, public accommodations, etc., no longer have to recognize any service animals.
And in the aftermath of the change, existing rules about where animals may and may not go apply full force.
A lot of people would back the change because Obviously Some People Take Advantage. (Positing that someone, somewhere is taking advantage is a great way to get the masses on your side in our politics, sadly.)
Now if you point out the existence of a blind person or an epileptic person who has a service dog for everyday navigation of life or for life-saving purposes, the Good People who just don't want anyone to take advantage will tell you:
"No one's talking about legitimate cases."
And if you point out that the rule that they're backing would affect what they call "legitimate cases", the response will be:
"But surely there will be an exception."
If you back up an anti-abortion activist to the point where they actually have to grapple with a case where the parent would 100% die delivering a 100% non-viable fetus, you'll get the same answers: "No one is talking about those cases." and "But surely there will be exceptions."
All of those studies of people in Trump Country USA who were shocked, shocked, that the kind man next door who is a good father and a great neighbor and a real part of the community was dragged away by ICE?
They all thought that surely he'd be an exception.
If you point out that the laws/policies they're talking about don't offer such exceptions and in some cases explicitly forbid them, if you say "So let's put those exceptions in writing."… well, then you're back to Surely People Will Take Advantage.
See, the people who are sure that Surely There Will Be Exceptions are very comfortable with the idea of justice being decided on a case-by-case basis. They've always had teachers, bosses, bureaucrats, even traffic cops giving them some slack for reasons of compassion and logic.
I mean, if Officer Smalltown von Cul-De-Sac could give them a warning when they were caught with recreational amounts of pot as kids because it was harmless and they Had Futures, then Surely there must be similar exceptions for everyone?
That post about "I never thought the leopards would eat my face, sobbed woman who voted for Face-Eating Leopards Party" is very true, and it goes farther than personal immunity to a very generalized and broad Just World Fallacy.
Surely, they think, surely the leopards will know to only eat the right faces, the faces that need eating, and leave alone all the faces that don't deserve that.
But if we try to lay out rules to protect faces from being eaten by leopards, people will take advantage. Best to keep it simple and count on decency and reason to rule the day.
So moderate conservatives, what we might call "everyday conservatives", the ones who don't wear MAGA hats or tea party costumes and think that Mr. Trump fella should maybe stay off of Twitter, they will vote for candidates and policies that they don't actually agree with…
…because in their mind the exact law being prescribed is just a tool in the chest, an option on the table, which they expect to be wielded fairly and judiciously. Surely no one would do anything so unreasonable as actually enforcing it as written! Not when that would be bad!
And then they are confused, shocked, and even insulted when people hold them accountable for their support of the monstrous policy.
"I didn't vote for leopards to eat your face! I just thought we needed some face-eating leopards generally. Surely you can't blame me for that!"
The old "Defense of Marriage" laws are another textbook example of this.
Many of them included language that expressly forbade giving similar benefits (like hospital visitation) to same-sex relationships.
Yet the people who voted for them, in many cases, wanted it to be known that No One Is Talking About Stopping You From Visiting Your Loved One In The Hospital. And Surely There Will Be An Exception.
The Shirley Exception is how people who are only mundanely monstrous, moderately monstrous, wind up supporting policies that are completely monstrous.
And when they do, they always want credit for their good intentions towards those they see as deserving, not the outcomes.
I'm describing a phenomenon here and I don't have a solution to its existence. While convincing people that laws that don't specify exceptions functionally don't have them might work sometimes on (ironically) a case-by-case basis, what is really needed is a broader shift.
People need to get used to thinking about the harm policies will do as a real part of the policy, not a hypothetical that Reasonable People of Good Will Can Surely Work Around.
Maybe the tack of saying, "If it was your life on the line, wouldn't you want that to be in writing?" would work. I don't know. Like I said, I don't have a solution here. This is just a thing that happens.
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I had a conversation with one of these Shirley exception people who tried to call her fucked up worldview "optimistic."
"Well I voted for him because I believe he must mean well and want what's best for us, because I'm an optimist who believes that people are fundamentally good and everything will turn out okay."
YOU GAMBLED WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES.
That's not optimism. That's irresponsibility.
BLEAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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My mom just sent me this picture of my dog…I guess we got a lot of snow, then
update:
Great update
[After shoveling the driveway for hours] Snow should be illegal [remembers I'm against the carceral state] We should restructure society so that snow doesn't happen [remembers we are actually doing that and it's very bad and also why this snowfall was so bad] Uh-oh
when you see your own post on someone else’s blog but it still makes you laugh a little bit
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