The fourth episode of a popular computer game series will have a female protagonist and the reaction from interpersonally spavined freaks demonstrates why I am a gamer but not a Gamer
Wife: So you went to the party all by yourself?
Me: Yes
Wife: And you stayed three whole hours?
Me: Yes
Wife: Even though I wasn’t there to make you stay?
Me: Yes
Wife: And now you don’t want to talk to other people until?
Me: March-ish
Me: Dr. Salk your vaccine will save so many children!
Salk: Well thank God
Me: Of course they will grow up
Salk: Well I hope so
Me: And get old
Salk: I guess?
Me: And eventually vote for lunatics who will try to stop your vaccine
Salk: what now
Me: And leave NATO
Salk: shit
Look, like I said most of the “wheee we love dead CEOs” stuff is performative and Super Online. I doubt it accomplishes anything. But the hand-wringing about it is overdone. It’s like the OJ Simpson verdict. I don’t agree with it, I don’t think it’s productive, but I understand why it happened.
Privileged people generally experience the system as biased against and as singling them out for abuse, because they cannot imagine that’s just how the system treats people.
RE:
Everyone’s mad that Trump has appointed almost all billionaires but you have to understand that billionaires are a good choice because they are immune to the temptations created by things like empathy or recognizing other people as autonomous human beings rather than objects
The answer to “Biden has violated a norm by pardoning Hunter” isn’t “no he hasn’t violated that norm” or “it’s justified to violate that norm” but “BULLSHIT that’s a norm.” In fact, political pardons have been offered by both Republicans and Democrats.
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