Will Shetterly's Blog, page 12
August 24, 2020
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2019: I sometimes feel stupid for not figuring out until I was an adult that dancers are athletes and dance is a sport. But then I remember there are adults who still haven't figured it out.
2017: Superhero fans laugh at the idea glasses would hide your identity, but accept the idea a domino mask would.
Formal education tends to be indoctrination, and the educated tend to continue
2017: Superhero fans laugh at the idea glasses would hide your identity, but accept the idea a domino mask would.
Formal education tends to be indoctrination, and the educated tend to continue
August 22, 2020
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2019: For all my life, I've watched the rich do nothing serious about pollution. I'm beginning to suspect they want a disastrous form of climate change to get rid of as many of us as possible. They know they have the resources to survive and we do not.
Left identitarians insist identity issues are leftist. If they are right, the Log Cabin Republicans have always been to the left of neoliberal
Left identitarians insist identity issues are leftist. If they are right, the Log Cabin Republicans have always been to the left of neoliberal
August 20, 2020
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2019: Leftists, if you want the national news to notice an event, announce it's being held by the alt-right.
Bonus: More leftists will come to protest an alt-right event than to support a leftist event.
2018: It would be interesting to visit the universe where only white people appropriate culture.
Bonus: More leftists will come to protest an alt-right event than to support a leftist event.
2018: It would be interesting to visit the universe where only white people appropriate culture.
August 17, 2020
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2019: People who blame old people or white people are invested in not blaming rich people or capitalism.
2017: Conformists have shallow friendships.
Centrist: the middle part of a donut.
If space aliens are aware of Earth, our TV convinced them we must be avoided. Now our social media is convincing them we must be eradicated.
2017: Conformists have shallow friendships.
Centrist: the middle part of a donut.
If space aliens are aware of Earth, our TV convinced them we must be avoided. Now our social media is convincing them we must be eradicated.
August 16, 2020
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2019: Tonight's movie: The Shootist. John Wayne plays a gunfighter dying of cancer. His best performance. Astonishing supporting cast if you know westerns. Very fine performance by Lauren Bacall. It's a shame they couldn't have filmed it in black and white.
The most striking thing about Antifa is their claim to be using the tactics of 1930s antifascists without noticing that those tactics not
The most striking thing about Antifa is their claim to be using the tactics of 1930s antifascists without noticing that those tactics not
August 8, 2020
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2019: Some people think For A Few Dollars More is better than A Fistful of Dollars, but I'm not one. It's more stylish, but the story is slight. I would call it a director's movie, and not as a compliment.
How can anyone believe mass killers are sane and not be a misanthrope?
2018: The job of neoliberal Democrats is to make sure the lesser evil is no lesser than necessary.
The hardest
How can anyone believe mass killers are sane and not be a misanthrope?
2018: The job of neoliberal Democrats is to make sure the lesser evil is no lesser than necessary.
The hardest
August 6, 2020
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2019: Class privilege doesn't mean your life hasn't been hard. It means that wealth isn't one of the things making it harder.
How capitalists lie with facts: When they don't want something like MedicareForAll, they talk about what it'll cost instead of what it'll save. When they want something like a war, they talk about the need instead of who will profit.
2017: By identitarian logic, the only
How capitalists lie with facts: When they don't want something like MedicareForAll, they talk about what it'll cost instead of what it'll save. When they want something like a war, they talk about the need instead of who will profit.
2017: By identitarian logic, the only
August 5, 2020
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2019: If you want a pretentious name for bullshit jobs, use Sisyphean jobs. Sisyphus was not condemned to an impossible job—he was condemned to an unending, meaningless one.
I've long been frustrated by the way Americans use one word, class, to describe both social and economic class. I just learned that Max Weber used status for the first and class for the second. I should adopt that.
Old
I've long been frustrated by the way Americans use one word, class, to describe both social and economic class. I just learned that Max Weber used status for the first and class for the second. I should adopt that.
Old
August 4, 2020
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2019: Just rewatched The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. It's not a perfect movie—I'd love to see someone like the Coen Bros remake it—but it is a great movie because it asks questions that don't have easy answers.
The First and Second Amendments are very different. The First has no context for the rights it covers. The Second does: "well-regulated militias".
That means we have the right to be
The First and Second Amendments are very different. The First has no context for the rights it covers. The Second does: "well-regulated militias".
That means we have the right to be
August 3, 2020
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2019: If the US had Basic Income, the only beggars would be non-citizens. As a universalist, I wish that wasn’t so, but I see no way around it. Xenophobes and nationalists should like that.
2018: Neoliberalism: the ideology that dare not speak its name.
I'm constantly surprised by atheists who assume all religious people are as literal-minded as they are.
2017: Young people today are safer
2018: Neoliberalism: the ideology that dare not speak its name.
I'm constantly surprised by atheists who assume all religious people are as literal-minded as they are.
2017: Young people today are safer
