Pro Metheus @Asus9143

I’ve met people blinded by measles and paralyzed by polio. I’ve heard the horror in a doctor’s voice as she describes the bone-breaking spasms of tetanus. I’ve seen photos of the awful gray film that coats a baby’s throat until he chokes from diphtheria. Grateful for @PeterHotez

P--n, AI gf's, VR, gaming -- all engineered to make you feel good w/o having to put in real work, so you never have to experience the friction of achieving something worthwhile, never risk failure, never hurt, never learn, never grow. We're looking at a future where most people…

Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ @InezFeltscher

5 days ago

@NewRightPoast See *this* is what I worry about with porn, not the litany of other concerns. It’s “good enough” that it fulfills desires that would otherwise drive action and self-improvement. I kind of think similarly about video games and “accomplishing something” or “adventure” - scratches…

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@moveincircles @BMcGrewvy The terrible things we do as a society to our most in need all the while righteously pronouncing that it takes a village to raise a child, just not that child and not that mother. Thank you for sharing this.

@moveincircles If you tell a gender nonconforming child they will only achieve lifetime "happiness" by sterilizing themselves and LARPing as the opposite sex, then it is likely they will become unhappy adults who attribute their dysphoria to normal secondary sex characteristics.

Saying “all care work should be paid” is like saying only sex with prostitutes should be permitted. In other words, it’s something only someone has never loved (or actually enjoyed sex) would think - let alone say.

Hot take of the day I think the world isn’t ready to admit that car guys and horse girls are actually the good guys. They chose a special interest that hurts absolutely nobody and brings them endless joy and the word hates to see it.

@kaschuta This is insightful commentary, but I suspect two things: 1) “normal” men in “normal” marriages can be trusted, and they are not adequately represented on twitter 2) left wing women are not any safer from left wing men than fake rw trad grifters.

My Q to the repeal the 19th crowd is “how do you think the 19th got passed?” Women have always wielded political power, in one way or another. Just as men cannot decouple from women in family life they cannot truly decouple from us in politics. We are stuck with each other.

Helen Roy @helen_of_roy

2 weeks ago

obviously but it’s not getting women fired up because we really give a damn about voting or muh liberal democracy…and it’s not making its advocates giggle and kick their feet because they think it’s a feasible political project “repeal the 19th” is a shorthand for both “I…

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Karl Polanyi, one of the twentieth century’s most insightful and influential socialist thinkers, passed away exactly 60 years ago. His masterpiece, The Great Transformation, remains the most powerful critique yet produced of market liberalism — the belief that societies can and…

Now I started seeing talking to people at bars, shows, simple meet-ups, etc as Opportunities to work on my social skills, rather than feeling annoyed that I didn't belong, or that these weren't my people. Even those I had little in common with had something to offer

This meant I often avoided talking to people in general. I decided to change this attitude, and started viewing interactions as Opportunities. I credit this with being one of the biggest reasons that this journey has been a success.

From here I began mapping out how to address this and did so in what I like to think of as "phases," the first of which was simply to meet people. One issue I recognized that I had was that if I didn't form a strong connection w/ someone I saw that interaction as a waste

So I started seeing my lack of social connections as barriers to the life I wanted: a community I can invest in and gain from, to learn the skills to eventually be a loving husband and father. A life spent alone is a waste.

At this point I looked around and asked myself: is this the life I want? Do I really want to continue this journey in life with few friends that I rarely see? If I want to be a husband and father someday, can I play these roles well if I cant even be a friend?

At the same time, I began addressing some family issues: specifically how being raised in a deeply neglectful environment made me hyperindividualistic which benefited me in many ways, but crippled my platonic and romantic connections.

Alright, since I said I was going to write a thread about this, here we go. Up until a few years ago I was introverted, disliked going out, was largely uncomfortable around new people, and generally grappled with social anxiety. My change was largely intentional.

light @lightxvision

a week ago

I want to hear stories of people going from shy, cold, introverted, disconnected, to warm, social, curious, open, playful, connection-oriented If this happened to you plz tell me about it

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As with many people, I came out of covid with a virtually non-existent social circle. Most of the people I knew had already left Philly after college, and covid killed what little social life I previously had.

When we reframe the collapse in family size from a crisis of childBEARING to a crisis of childREARING it becomes obvious why artificial wombs won’t fix it And also why yelling at women won’t fix it either

I’ll just point out that FDR ended the Great Depression, created Social Security, the SEC, FDIC, NLRB, TVA which brought cheap hydro power to millions, won World War II, and was re-elected bigly 3 times. But yeah, Trump was great.

TN a good example. Hard to believe, but TN used to vote Democratic. In the 80s we had 2 dem Senators. Reason why? FDR’s responded to voters who were being ripped off by energy profiteers by creating TVA, providing PUBLIC UTILITIES for all. FDR signs TVA act in 1933.