Jun 23, 2022·edited Jun 23, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso
I’m getting a vibe, or perceiving an atmosphere, or perhaps deeply connecting with an intuition if you will, that these people need to be punched in the fucking face. But I don’t come from a red state so my feelings cannot be authentic.
Also, I wasn’t aware Kyrsten Sinema had any political positions that exceeded “hahaha, PSYCH!”
"It's all too easy to feel alone in a nation where liberalism is too liberally liberal, so the editors invite you to share a breath with them while you call 911 on your Black neighbors' BBQ for the fourth time this summer."
I applaud your point, and your style of parody. But a quibble from a liberal when it comes to crime: there is a non-zero probability of being a victim in a mass shooting, which is higher in some states, and when it should be vanishingly small. You have a better chance of recovery and fewer victims from a random knifing.
Of late, I’ve been wondering just what the term liberal even means. Once I note not being an asshole (or worse) outside one’s tribe, so to speak, while still being cool with the current extractive economic system, I dunno that there’s any significant meaning to the word politically.
I can expand but I’m apparently unauthorized to do so.
Jun 23, 2022·edited Jun 24, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso
I'm all in favour of her doing exactly what she needs to do to prevent another Arpaiïc senator from taking office, I just refuse to like it.
Then again, my basic politics are 'Immanentise The Culture as soon as possible.' so I might be too {inured to}/{immured in} compromise at Square Zero, the one where I remember 'Humans.' and make a face, not least in the mirror.
(Iain M. Banks admitted that The Culture likely weren't possible with unmodified humans who hadn't been spacefaring in small groups for 10^4s of years to weed-out the worst jerks.)
I got as far as "those who are in some sense or vibe “liberal” (whatever that means)" and I was looking for someone to punch. "NEXT ISSUE: Special guest essay by Ben Shapiro on economic anxiety"
Re: names — even in my rural red area I know one woman named Crispin and many girls and women named Tristan. Naming boys after medieval occupations is bad enough, but has anybody read anything to know what gender Crispin and Tristan are? (And yes, I know, society doesn’t need rigid gender stereotypes and all that, but come on; these parents are not iconoclasts or smashing the patriarchy).
"Cahiers du Sinema." Where we afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable.
I’m getting a vibe, or perceiving an atmosphere, or perhaps deeply connecting with an intuition if you will, that these people need to be punched in the fucking face. But I don’t come from a red state so my feelings cannot be authentic.
Also, I wasn’t aware Kyrsten Sinema had any political positions that exceeded “hahaha, PSYCH!”
In other words, The New Republic meets Salon.
Totally vibing this, Roy.
"It's all too easy to feel alone in a nation where liberalism is too liberally liberal, so the editors invite you to share a breath with them while you call 911 on your Black neighbors' BBQ for the fourth time this summer."
"Crispin and Iphigenia" is the best thing ever 'cause you know there's kids
saddled with the nickname "Iffy" growing into little psychopaths at this very moment.
The tone of this is perfect. I worry about you getting stuck in a supercilious prick
persona, though. You're almost too convincing and that Abyss always stares right back.
I applaud your point, and your style of parody. But a quibble from a liberal when it comes to crime: there is a non-zero probability of being a victim in a mass shooting, which is higher in some states, and when it should be vanishingly small. You have a better chance of recovery and fewer victims from a random knifing.
OK fess up Roy! Which is the actual not-at-all-a-self-parody ‘zine that you have so magnificently deconstructed?
'As deeply as we believe anything, which to be frank isn’t much' pretty much nails it. You made my day 💕
Of late, I’ve been wondering just what the term liberal even means. Once I note not being an asshole (or worse) outside one’s tribe, so to speak, while still being cool with the current extractive economic system, I dunno that there’s any significant meaning to the word politically.
I can expand but I’m apparently unauthorized to do so.
s/Whereas our radical liberals […] friends/Whereas our radical liberal […] friends/1
…or else Our Gracious Host, like an Originalist Justice, is just correctly channelling the original author's mistake.
I'm all in favour of her doing exactly what she needs to do to prevent another Arpaiïc senator from taking office, I just refuse to like it.
Then again, my basic politics are 'Immanentise The Culture as soon as possible.' so I might be too {inured to}/{immured in} compromise at Square Zero, the one where I remember 'Humans.' and make a face, not least in the mirror.
(Iain M. Banks admitted that The Culture likely weren't possible with unmodified humans who hadn't been spacefaring in small groups for 10^4s of years to weed-out the worst jerks.)
I got as far as "those who are in some sense or vibe “liberal” (whatever that means)" and I was looking for someone to punch. "NEXT ISSUE: Special guest essay by Ben Shapiro on economic anxiety"
“but unlike you, they have a heightened sense of the importance of their own feelings”
The assassin’s blade slid in and out so smoothly that it wasn’t until hours later the target realized they’d received a mortal wound.
You didn’t thank The Atlantic for letting you reproduce their article.
Re: names — even in my rural red area I know one woman named Crispin and many girls and women named Tristan. Naming boys after medieval occupations is bad enough, but has anybody read anything to know what gender Crispin and Tristan are? (And yes, I know, society doesn’t need rigid gender stereotypes and all that, but come on; these parents are not iconoclasts or smashing the patriarchy).