This is why I’ve been writing for years that “nothing in movement conservatism makes sense except in the light of creationism.” It’s the exact same tactics, just repurposed for other causes. I share the frustration.
It is enormously frustrating to know, as an evolutionary biologist with experience from the trenches of the creationist wars on science, that nobody on Biden’s team nor CNN’s seem to be aware of the Gish Gallop, 30y after Eugenie Scott described it and years of Trump deploying it!
Bringing back this 2016 banger:
Hi! During the upheaval of your glorious revolution, I need to know what kind of healthcare you'll have in place.
People who depend on steady supplies of lifesaving medication don't suddenly stop existing during a revolution.
Kendrick Lamar teaches us that, in public debate, refuting your opponent's arguments point by point is less effective than identifying your opponent's single greatest weakness and maintaining message discipline.
You often hear about roommates in a negative light but honestly I miss living with other women from time to time.
Nothing beats asking "can you do the back?" while holding a straightener or curling iron and getting a "yeah" in response. 😭
pride was started by black trans women. pride was a riot. no cops at pride. pride was started by black trans women. pride was a riot. no cops at pride. pride was started by black trans women. pride was a riot. no cops at pride.
Meanwhile on TikTok guys like this who visited NYC for the first time last year and wore a money belt under their shirts the whole time because they bc they were afraid they’d get mugged at the Times Square M&Ms store are talkin a big game about what they’re gonna do
Two sitting justices of the Supreme Court are insurrectionists—or, most generously, married to them. Our system can do nothing about them because the people running it have insisted upon their own powerlessness. We’re not operating under a constitution; we’re trapped in a suicide pact.
RIP the Gaza aid pier. It didn't last long, it didn't accomplish anything, and it was always just a PR stunt to pull attention away from the government's support of a genocide, but at least it cost more money than the federal government spends on addiction treatment programs
I just came back home after 16 days of essentially live in aide work (except a live in would legally be required more sleep) for my parents and I am so beyond exhausted.
Erasing LGBTQIA+ books from libraries and school curricula also erases the families of many children.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there in our community. 💕🏳️🌈
Palestine has stripped all the ideological plaster of US liberal hegemony down to the studs
No commitment to international humanitarian law
No commitment to First Amendment rights
Open collaboration among elites to crack down on widely popular calls to stop a genocide
Use this moment of clarity
“They behave like a toddler who throws a screaming fit because their parent pulled them out of the way of oncoming traffic. I don’t care about the life and death issue! You pulled my arm! And I dropped my binky! I’ll be pitching an essay to the WSJ! Wahh!” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/adult-babies