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Cold, hard logic... maybe
@jotun-philosopher
Eccentric nerdy aro/ace/agender Autistic. JotunPhilosopher on AO3 (mainly Good Omens, with a bit of D&D) (https://archiveofourown.org/users/JotunPhilosopher). Check out my Redbubble shop (http://pridephages.redbubble.com) for cool products covered in Pride flag bacteriophages, and to support a starving artist! #SupportQueerArtists #SupportAutisticArtists No bigots, please
Pretty much everything here is also on my newly minted AO3 profile as well! :D
Metas:
What might evil!Aziraphale be like?
Crowley & 'Much Ado About Nothing'
Season 3 speculation playlist -- edited/expanded 18/02/2024
The Scarlet Pimpernel -- parallels and possibilities for S3
If you liked that, you might like this: Good Omens and World Of The Five Gods -- a lil' book rec to help keep you all going until S3!
Half meta, half ramble -- some random Goetic thoughts
Discworld/Good Omens parallels -- some minor thematic and character-related musings (mostly Aziraphale-flavoured)
How Aziraphale did the trick -- my guess/analysis of how Aziraphale pulled off the photo/leaflet switch in the dressing room scene
Celestial -- not quite fanfic, not quite meta, still fun thing from my brain
Good Omens & Steeleye Span -- a small analysis of how some of Terry Pratchett's favourite folk-rock songs match up with the events and themes of Good Omens
Buggre Alle This: The relevance of Ezekiel -- an analysis of a particularly funny bit of the novel, and just how much Pterry manages to say in one very short paragraph <3
Brother Aziraphale: some interesting parallels -- a just-for-fun meta noting some nice coincidental character parallels between Aziraphale and Brother Cadfael
Good Omens/BG3 Character Parallels -- I fell into the Baldur's Gate 3 rabbithole via its wiki and TVTropes section, and wound up noticing some unexpected coincidental parallels between the playable cast (barring Durge) and the Ineffable Husbands!
Fic prompts of varying degrees of derangedness:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
A Good Omens mini-ficlet to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the RNLI -- ok, technically a minific rather than a prompt, but take it as such if you like! :D
A silly little meme I made on a whim
Fun D&D idea for Good Omens-loving DMs! Edit 14/10/24: Suggested in-universe character bios and statblocks for Aziraphale and Crowley now available!
A narrative clothesline -- long bit of fic showing one of the scenarios (really the closest to a coherent narrative) my brain's cooked up in its wild hypothesising about S3
Fallen!Az story possibilities -- another longish fic, exploring ways the story might go in an 'Aziraphale Falls' scenario
Aziraphale's sweeties stash -- a short, fluffy piece inspired by my noticing that there's a sweet shop in S1 where half of Give Me Coffee is in S2
A Snek in Lancre -- a short little piece inspired by the idea that Crowley wouldn't dare sass Granny Weatherwax
Angelic lifeboat rescue -- a small piece, expanding on one of the possible story branches from later on in 'A narrative clothesline', in the form of an outsider-POV fic, the outsider POVs in this case being the crew of RNLI Eastbourne
Ineffable Visitation -- a short lil' crossover thing I wrote to help me process some stuff in Pokemon Legends: Z-A (contains spoilers for that game and Pokemon X and Y versions)
A spot of Whovian D&D homebrew -- not GO, o' course, but it was fun to write, so I'm putting it here anyway ^^
The Order of the Stick: thoughts on stats in 5th Edition -- a bit of D&D homebrew/analysis I thought up after finishing a good ol' OotS archive binge :D
Awhile ago when I was talking about wildland fire mitigation and how fires move through urban areas, I was struck by a visual of mitigation but make it Chutes & Ladders. It seemed like a potentially good educational aid, so I decided to make it into a poster!
I think the general movement dynamic of Chutes & Ladders does a good job of capturing the basics of how fire can move through urban areas and spread erratically, jumping and moving from one area to another while leaving some areas untouched.
I actually fell in love with this enough that I think I'm going to turn it into a full game at some point as well, with a full 100 square board. That version will have two sets of rules, one the basic Chutes & Ladders rules and then another that has points involved based on which houses you hit. Not sure when I'll get to it, but it's on my To Do list!
This version is totally playable, though! You can get the print file of this version, and a version that has a clear board, for free on my Payhip Store! The poster is 18x24" and the playable version comes with a second sheet with pieces you can cut out and play with.
Alt text for the text on the poster:
Top text: Don't play games with mitigation.
Game Rules:
Everyone select a flame piece, then each spin the spinner once. Whoever gets the highest number goes first.
All players start outside of square 1 in the bottom left corner, then move their flame the number of spaces they get on the spinner.
Winds: if your piece stops on a square at the BOTTOM of a wind gust you can ride it UP to the square where the wind gust ends, then move forward from there. Remember, wind gusts only lead UP!
Yellow Fences: If your piece stops on a square at the TOP of a yellow fence, you must move DOWN to the bottom of the fence, then move forward from there. Remember, yellow fences only lead DOWN.
You can only move along a yellow fence or wind gust if you land on a square where they start or end. If you land in the middle of one, you must keep moving forward normally.
The first player to reach square 49 wins!
Mitigation info banner: When wildfires impact neighborhoods, their movements become erratic and hard to fight. The best way to protect your home is to mitigate the danger before a fire ever arrives. For information on how, visit https://wildfirepartners.org/resources/wildfire-mitigation-basics/. Even a little mitigation can be the difference between losing your home and saving it.
Credit text: Poster created by Katy L. Wood in 2026. | www.Katy-L-Wood.com
All due respect to Tumblr staff for listening and rolling back a feature that was obviously not what people wanted. Like, doing that is actually commendable.
Kids, get yourself a partner so sweet and so good at loving you that, even in the midst of the worst nightmare you're ever going to have, and when he's not really even himself but a figment of your subconscious? He's still going to be there to reassure that you and the love the two of you have? That is the kind of well-made old book that cannot ever be completely destroyed.
Maybe a few pages get torn here and there. Maybe a little foxing happens sometimes, as it's old, and well-loved and well-read. But it's got the quality materials these cheaply-made books these days don't have. You wouldn't get this kind of performance from a modern book. This one's got a firm spine, a thick cover, hand-stitched pages, strong ink, and luxurious paper. This one is well-preserved and not difficult to mend.
This book can last the test of time.
Especially if you wrap it up in a protective dust jacket.
Aziraphale's Nightmare Clue: The Sleep-Themed Records By Aziraphale in 2.01
From our left to right: It's Been A Long Night by Antoine Balynska; an album by the band Met by Moonlight; an album called Singing in My Sleep by Izabelle McLauhglin [typo is theirs & deliberate for wordplay purposes, as all error's lol like that in Good Omens always are]; and Oslo [Our Slow] Revival's album-- a revival is an awakening. There is also that the words "night only" appear on the top shelf by the door. A few takeaways from these Clues...
Antoine Balynska: Antoine is a variant of Anthony, Crowley's first name. Balynska is a variant of Balinska/Balinsky and the like, which are rooted in the word balin, meaning-- heh-- mighty sword.
The album title of It's Been a Long Night, just as it is, is a fun Clue, especially since we see this album cover in the first moments of Aziraphale's Nightmare but the tense of the album title sounds like it's coming from the other side of the awakening. This title can also be read in the words-within-words, pun-happy Nightingales Cant as It's Bee Along Night, with the bees = angels that we heard in S2 making the album title actually just tell us what's going on: It's Aziraphale Along Night/Long Night-- it's his dream.
Singing in My Sleep: The woman on the front cover of this album is striking a pose not terribly dissimilar to the famous one of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, whose breakdown is mentioned as part of the crossword puzzle clues in S3.
Singing is chanting (the choir on the score) is canting & talking... chant/singing/cant all come from the same root words. Singing is wordplay is birdsong/Nightingales. Aziraphale is, indeed, singing in his sleep & these album covers all being in the cant is a witty bit of wordplay, since this is a story where The Song is The Clue, as the track on the score says. A lot of information is contained in a tuneful way in Good Omens.
That album is by Izabelle McLauhglin-- It's a bell, m'clock again. The Goblin teasmade alarm clock in their bedroom in the dream in S3; all the alarms going off throughout the dream; references to alarm clocks being, by definition, a reference to being asleep. Our first glimpse of the inside of the record shop in S2 is all about sleep-- and that was also Maggie's ending in S2. Because this is all Aziraphale's worst nightmare.
Listen, Brian Cameron, I know you meant the football/soccer team but playing for The Arsenal was actually a goal you did basically die trying to accomplish. The arsenal-- the weaponry, the guns. Playing for the euphemistic Derringer Aziraphale keeps in his bookshop... as far away from your abusive, monopolizing arse as he can there, Lucifer...
Your goal was always pretty shoddy, though. Not just because you couldn't beat Aziraphale at Candy Crush, let alone a Nightingales-themed cryptic crossword 😂-- or be smart enough to realize that he lied about the contract you've never bothered to read lol-- but even just when it comes to the literal sport part of your stated aspirations. I mean, I know precious little about football, Brian, but even I know that The Arsenal is a North London team. You were never really qualified for that one, being The Devil and all, eh?
Tumblr is rolling out a new reblog/notes system that completely disregards creators. In their new system, they're taking a twitter-style approach where reblogs will have their own notes that DO NOT contribute to the original post's notes.
Because of this, creators will no longer be able to see an accurate display of likes/reblogs/etc. This is completely altering the way feedback and responses to works are going to be received on this website.
If you come across a fan work that you enjoy, please take the extra step to go to OPs original post, and leave your comment/like/reblog there. Or go one step further and send an ask to OP directly to tell them what you liked!
I really hope Tumblr staff reverses course and reverts to the original reblog system for the sake of the large base of creators who use this site to share their works, but until then, please be considerate and make sure the creators here see/feel the love.
The Plan for Operation Second Coming Tells Us What Happens Next in Reality
So, the plan for Operation Second Coming in Aziraphale's Nightmare? The plan to avoid the awful, judgy end of the world with the smiting and the scary horses and, instead, to usher in a new era of joy unbounded and universal happiness? That plan that they told us about in the dream in S3 is the blueprint for what happens next in reality, as it all still applies-- and it's all a truly great plan. 😊 So, what did they tell us is the first thing that happens?
The first step of the plan is to wake up Jesus and get him acclimated to having a body again. Joshing Jesus, in Aziraphale's dream, was the most overt stand-in character I've ever seen in any story ever 😂-- almost a parody of one, but in an excellent way. From Crowley love to card tricks, that kid was just Aziraphale, so, we don't need literal Jesus to kick off the happier Second Coming here-- we only need Aziraphale.
Once Aziraphale is awake again and has caught his breath from realizing that was all a horrible dream, what comes next in the plan? It involved Sandalphon, yes? Sandalphon was to drive the Risen Christ directly to the United Nations. To drive, though, can mean to motivate...
Sandalphon being violent and far from trustworthy means that Aziraphale can't just go back to Heaven without causing risk to himself and Crowley. He needs to approach a little more cautiously. And Aziraphale's sandal phon(e)/fin (fish)? His metaphorical shoe/phone/fish, aka Crowley? Crowley is the driving motivation factor for doing all of this for Aziraphale, while Sandalphon's existence is a driving force behind Aziraphale doing so strategically.
So, Crowley & Sandalphon both metaphorically drive "Risen Christ" Aziraphale where? To The United Nations. Who are they?
The United Nations... located not in the metaphorical breakdown of Times Square but in Manhattan and part of the now more-visible America as a whole. Sandalphon unwittingly almost had the answer back in S1 so he is driving all of this in that way, too: You can't have a war without war. There's no war if, instead, there are nations recognizing one another as sovereign and independent and actively choosing to have one another as allies.
Nation: people of the same common ancestry, race, language, or place of birth. Metaphorically, The United Nations = the people from Crowley and Aziraphale's world who are on their side. The United Nations = meeting with allied, recognized, independent countries. Who are the other founding members of the metaphorical UN, beside Crowley and Aziraphale? Towards whom are Sandalphon and Crowley driving Aziraphale to recognize the first four founding countries as an United Nations? Obviously, Gabriel and Beelzebub. But what is the next step of the plan, from what we heard, after going to Liberace?
What other countries does Aziraphale think their four United Nations should recognize and ask to join them, per this plan?
The next step of the plan was that once Jesus had arrived at the United Nations-- so, once Aziraphale and Crowley had gone to Gabriel and Beelzebub and made a safer group, group of the four of them-- that Jesus would be met at The United Nations by a pair of other angels that Aziraphale suspects the group of the four of them can trust and would be wise to let in:
Michael and Uriel.
The plan is to go to Gabriel and Beelzebub first, and then talking to them about cautiously opening the door to others, beginning with Michael and Uriel. You can't have a war without war and they can maybe avoid that war if they open up the bookshop and make it a real embassy. The plan is stop hiding and lying how they live by coming out to this carefully selected group and agreeing to recognize one another as independent people with the rights to choose how they wish to live.
The plan is to find Jesus, in the sense of being kind to one another and helping each other find the book of life. But who else does Aziraphale think they should bring in near the start here, if the group agrees? What other country should be asked to join The United Nations? Who are Michael and Uriel perhaps going to bring with them to meet Jesus at The UN, according to Aziraphale's plan? The cup of tea...
Muriel. Aziraphale knows who he wants to train to take over the bookshop. Three archangels and Muriel joining Aziraphale on Earth would shift the balance of power in Heaven away from The Metatron and over to them, and also protect Crowley and Beelzebub from Lucifer. It's a bloodless coup of Heaven and Hell.
With Beelzebub's input and the group's approval, the door can also open in time to the demons they think can be brought to their side. Aziraphale's dream showed him a few he thinks they should talk to Beelzebub about becoming allied nations in the future: Furfur, Dagon, Shax, and Eric. Please hold, your soul is important to us...
With Gabriel's help, Aziraphale knows he can make a world where it's safer for him and Crowley to live openly together, and bringing Muriel into the fold gives them options down the road for who can take over the bookshop, giving Aziraphale the freedom to have a new adventure.
If he calls Gabriel and starts The United Nations, Aziraphale knows that he can one day soon be a married, retired bookseller, and working, professional conjurer and magician. He and Crowley can have all the joy unbounded they want and be free to make their own life more openly together. They can make a place for all of them, where they're safer and have more freedom and choices.
Maybe the war still happens, maybe it doesn't, but it likely won't, and Aziraphale will have fulfilled his sense of obligation to do something to change things while also realizing that he cannot do that alone. He needs to hire some assistant booksellers.
The plan is to go to Gabriel and then have him help assemble the initial group to whom Aziraphale will speak. He'll persuade the colonies to align for independence-- thematically: give me liberty/coffee or give me death. I remember when all the morning stars sang together and all the angels of god shouted for joy. And it will work. Aziraphale knows it will. Because the Earth is a Libra and the largest thing around. These people are all just lonely and miserable and they just want someone to talk to and a way out of the drudgery of their lives. It's going to be messy and irritating and wonderful-- all very, very human.
The United Nations are establishing a headquarters in the bookshop and it likely won't always be smooth or perfect but they'll have a shared, common charter. They'll all be setting up a path for any angel or demon who wishes to leave-- making a new model for them to follow and providing them with guidance and resources and elaborate bread and cheese for while they're writing their own books of life. They'll all have some friends and more control over their own lives. And what will happens when they do that? Our end that is a new beginning:
Joy unbounded, peace on Earth, and all that good stuff.
i am so so gently asking abled storytellers to try this little exercise: consider that maybe the main character doesn't miraculously get through traumatic event number 8277 with minor injuries. maybe they don't make a full, narratively-convenient recovery. there are tangible, long-term effects on their health. they are disabled. there are lots of ways to be disabled, and you can pick whatever makes the most sense. the point is that because they're the main character, they have to stay at the heart of the narrative. what happens to your story after that? just for the sake of this exercise, you're not allowed to have them spiral into helpless depression, or collapse under self-loathing, or turn their story into a quest for a cure or an uplifting recovery narrative. think it through instead. how can you tell this story with the character's disability? what needs to change? are there any reasons why these changes can't happen?
at the end of it, you might change nothing. but I think this is worth doing, because sometimes you'll find that the reason you didn't want your character to have a limp, or lose a limb or sense, or have some kind of SFF-appropriate fantasy disability is because of internalised biases. those are worth challenging & i truly believe that creators miss out on richer stories when they view disability either as a fate worse than death or as nothing more than a catalyst for tragedy.
If you have baby bunnies in your yard where you let your dogs loose, you can put a laundry basket over the nest while your dogs are outside! Mama normally feeds her kids at dawn and dusk, so you won't be preventing her from accessing her babies. Don't move a nest!! mama is stupid!
Crowley Of The Day: I feel like I’ve only been gone for two days yet the last time I posted was nearly a week ago… oopsies. In my defense, I’ve been really busy and I kept forgetting. Just please don’t ask me what I’ve been doing because my memory is nonexistent…
OKAY STRAP IN because this is one of the WILDEST stories in aviation history.
In 1990, a British Airways BAC One-Eleven, captained by Tim Lancaster and co-piloted by Alastair Atchison, was cruising at 17,000 feet.
Around 15 minutes after take-off, flight attendant Nigel Ogden entered the cockpit to bring the pilots something to drink. One second everything was fine. The next second, the pilot's side window blew out from the force of the pressurized cockpit. Even though he was strapped in, the force of the explosive decompression ripped the captain out of his chair and pulled him though the window.
The flight attendant immediately leapt forward and grasped the captain's belt. The force was so strong - due to the plane's speed - the captain slipped and was pulled almost entirely out of the plane, but the flight attendant caught his leg. The captain laid on the roof, then the side of the fuselage (the above image is an inaccurate recreation - the side window was smashed) and the flight attendant's entire arm was soon outside of the plane, gripping him.
(Recreation from the show Mayday at the point of decompression)
At the same time, the event caused the autopilot to disengage, and the captain's body hitting the flight controls caused the plane to enter into a deep dive. The throttle was set to full power and could not be accessed due to debris, meaning the plane was descending rapidly. The co-pilot, experiencing hypoxia, fought to control the plane's dive while allowing it to continue descending to a level the passengers/crew could breathe at. He attempted to contact air traffic control, but the wind made communication impossible, so he broadcast a mayday signal. Finally, he was able to re-engage the autopilot and level the plane out at a breathable altitude.
Soon, the flight attendant's entire arm was burned from wind shear and frostbite, and his grip began to slip. The other attendants entered the cabin to see what was wrong and took over holding the captain's body. Seeing the blood covering the windows from the captain's severe wind sheer burns and frostbite, the attendants and co-pilot knew he was dead. However, they could not let his body go because it could smash into the wing, horz stabilizer, or engine, and bring the plane down.
For 30+ minutes the co-pilot flew a jet plane with an OPEN WINDOW and his co-worker's body hanging along the side of the plane. Finally, clearance to land from ATC came across over the sound of the wind and the flight attendants were able to dislodge the captain's ankles from the flight controls without letting him go. The co-pilot successfully landed the plane.
(tw below for blood)
(Taken same day as the incident)
BUT HERE'S THE KICKER: when they reached the ground and evacuated, they realized THE CAPTAIN WAS NOT DEAD.
He SURVIVED being outside the fuselage of a jet airplane traveling 550mph at 17,000 feet. His only injuries were extensive - but mostly superficial - frostbite and windshear burns, bruising, fractures in his hand, and shock. He has since stated that he remembers the event and was conscious for much of the time he was outside of the fuselage. The only other injury was the flight attendant's frostbitten/windshorn arm. Captain Tim Lancaster returned to flying five months later.
(Captain Tim Lancaster in bed several weeks after the incident, with flight attendant Ogden (+ Ogden's wife) above him and co-pilot Alastair Atchison to the far left, along with the two other flight attendants)
Why did this occur? Because the plane had received maintenance the day before, and the maintenance supervisor did not check he was using the correct screws in re-installing the windscreen.
(Recreation)
So yeah: you can apparently survive clinging to the side of a jet airliner traveling 500+mph at 17,000 feet.
Wow! Didn't expect this many likes for an aviation post.
Just a note that I was wrong - it was the front pilot's windscreen, not the side-window! I'm used to looking at Boeing windows with different positions :)
If y'all want the full story & more analysis of what exactly went wrong, Mayday: Air Investigations did a pretty decent special on the incident. It's free on YouTube here (and here on dailymotion if you're outside the US).
The ‘maintenance supervisor did not check the bolts’ is technically correct but ignores the amount of stuff that had to go wrong for that to happen.
1: the supervisor was the one doing the bolts (I think there was a staffing issue) and so did not have to check the work that he did
2: the window was not on the list of vital components that need to be checked by someone else even if the supervisor does it.
3: the parts store where he had to go to get the bolts was badly lit and had bolts in the wrong drawers.
4: the wrong bolts and the right bolts are almost indistinguishable by sight.
5: the correct tool to put the screws in was not available so they had to do some lite bodging to get the screws in. By this I mean it was still a torque wrench and they checked it released at the right point but the correct socket did not stay in place or something like that.
6: any slight differences between the right bolts and the wrong bolts were hidden because of the tool they were using (which would have worked perfectly if they were using the right bolts).
If one of those things had not happened then the plane would have had the right bolts when it took off.
^ absolutely critical edition and a great example of what’s known in risk analysis as the Swiss Cheese Model.
From Wikipedia:
“The Swiss cheese model of accident causation illustrates that, although many layers of defense lie between hazards and accidents, there are flaws in each layer that, if aligned, can allow the accident to occur. In this diagram, three hazard vectors are stopped by the defenses, but one passes through where the "holes" are lined up.”
Accidents in complex systems are very rarely one person’s fault and my original post indeed oversimplified the incident for the sake of telling a straightforward story. This was not the case of one bad maintenance worker; this was a systematic failure. The holes lined up and a tragedy nearly occurred because profit (short staffing, poor maintenance facilities, poor training and tools) was prioritized over safety at several layers. Any additional degree of safety would have prevented this from occurring.
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)
I found his bio on societyofpresidentialdescendants.org and it was so delightful I had to copy paste the whole thing:
“Ulysses Grant Dietz grew up in Syracuse, New York, where his Leave it to Beaver life was enlivened by his fascination with vampires, from Bela Lugosi to Barnabas Collins. He studied French at Yale (BA, 1977), and was trained to be a museum curator in the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (MA, 1980). A decorative arts curator at the Newark Museum for thirty-seven years before he retired, Ulysses has never stopped writing for the sheer pleasure of it. Aside from books on Victorian furniture, art pottery, studio ceramics, jewelry, and the White House, Ulysses created the character of Desmond Beckwith in 1988 as his personal response to Anne Rice’s landmark novels. Alyson Books released his first novel, Desmond, in 1998. Vampire in Suburbia, the sequel, appeared in 2012. His most recent novel, Cliffhanger, was released by JMS Books in December 2020.
“Ulysses lives in suburban New Jersey with his husband of 45 years. They have two grown children, adopted in 1996.
“Ulysses is a great-great grandson of Ulysses S. Grant. His late mother, Julia, was the President’s last living great-grandchild; youngest daughter of Ulysses S. Grant III, and granddaughter of the president’s eldest son, Frederick. Every year on April 27 he gives a speech at Grant’s Tomb in New York City. He is also on the board of the U.S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum at Mississippi State University.”
“With his husband of 45 years.” You kids don’t know ... they got together before AIDS, at the peak of the Gay Glam Life. They stayed together as their generation died around them, and made through it to the point where they could marry and have a legal family. He looks like a chipper preppie who never had a serious thought or care in the world, but it took *incredible* determination, commitment, and also luck to get here.
having now read the first of this man's vampire books, you can absolutely tell that he cares a lot about historical furniture because oh my god he really wanted to tell us about all the historical furniture in this vampire's house. material culture as foreplay. seduction via theses about chairs
Karp’s message is loud and clear: My technology will take political capital away from one of your greatest enemies—liberal women with degrees—and give one of your favorite demographics to patronize—working-class men—more political power to transfer to you. He’s aligning his technology with both GOP political strategy and the larger male-centered culture war that the right has been waging for the better part of a decade now. And how exactly would his technology only hurt Democrat women?
An uncomfortable read. Might be wise not to skip it.
