I think humour is a key part of what separates drag from just regular performance. The artist isn't afraid to make fun of themselves and just have fun.
It looks like it's gonna give the Doctor and the TARDIS a hard time this week.
Breaking News - Middle East now less religiously radical than America...
I think it's the conservative movements final stand to be selfish, retrograde minded and cruel. The majority of people now believe in empathy and doing the right thing but those who don't have doubled down on their ways.
My 2c anyway!
A short boost from tax breaks to convince rich people to move there doesn't make the place financially successful or livable. It just looks better for a bit.
Religion is mostly to blame, but I think some of those religious teachings have been integrated into institutions and secular society as well. Notions that self gratification is a treat and not a need, the perception of masturbation that it's some teenage boy temporary phase and not for women or older married men. The idea that it can't be a social activity at all, even though it's free and safer than drugs.
If you read it in Chris Parnell's voice, it all makes perfect sense.
LinkedIn is entirely populated by Leo Spaceman's.
Oh you want to talk crimes against humanity by the state? Well let's see just off the top of my head...
- Killing peaceful student protesters? Check! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
- Domestic atrocities? Got a whole category fam! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Human_rights_abuses_in_the_United_States
China has issues for sure, but let's not pretend like the United States achieved it's world power status with hugs. They sat out WW2 till they had a war machine, and now that war machine is too significant a part of it's economy and power base to let there not be war so they start them all over the place to keep the party going.
I'm glad for the summary here cause that news website is unusable on mobile.
I use this on myself like a parent - "If I do all my chores I can have some weed"
Ok, now overlay young men under 30 who are into Ben Shapiro and Andrew Tate...
Legit he's giving me major Pierce Hawthorn / Chevy Chase energy.
Taking advantage of weak environmental laws - what a good look for an EV company.
Funny cause I've been 100% behind the abortion of Mitch McConnell for years.
It feels like these protests are going to shape how the governments of the world will respond to mass unrest in the future.
Or in other words - those in charge want the common person to be disempowered, to frame a peaceful protest as an act of terrorism so they can be more aggressive in future.
Hopefully no one on either side does anything stupid.
You guys have money??
I've been working my arse off my entire adult life and have nothing to show for it but debt and long term illness.
I'm self employed and have been reducing my hours worked per day cause I found I was more effective with a good rest and without forcing myself to work those extra 1-2 hours each day. Crazy hey.
If right wingers can watch two seasons of Reacher and be fans until this moment then they're just too dumb for life.
Literally both seasons baddies were stereotypical right wing criminals.
Hey that's not fair - he invents his own narrative about reality all the time.
It feels like no matter where I turn some septuagenarian, or older, is making life miserable for myself and others. Usually these are older white Christian conservatives, obsessed with a delusional sense of reality that no longer has a basis in fact, or perhaps never did.
There is a disproportionate amount of wealth concentrated in the older generation and those who will inherit it will probably be even worse with that money than the last generation. Certainly we see evidence of that already, anyone in their 30's who has parents who help them out VS those who don't have that have radically different outcomes. For some reason those lucky enough to come from good families ascribe laziness and bad attitude to those who don't have the family support, as if they are somehow enjoying "self made success" while mummy does their laundry for them.
No generation previous needed this kind of assistance well into adulthood, but this infantilisation of working adults has happened because of the hoarding of wealth, refusing to pass on the torch in workplaces and just blocking change for the sake of stoking petty politics. Most of us will never own our own home but all the politicians want to talk about is whether it's OK to dehumanise trans people or not.
I'm 36 this year. For most of my teens I thought there'd be some kind of tipping point where the conservative boomers would fuck off or at least let the next generation step in, but that hasn't happened. Back in the 1990's you could be a girl and wear jeans and be empowered, now this is considered some kind of woke statement. As if we recently invented this idea of women and men being equal.
The faces of my two dogs, my cat and my husband are all that keep me going. Knowing they need me gives me just enough to get out of bed in the morning and start moving... but I'm struggling to do even that without having a breakdown. My husband and I have medical expenses we can't afford and are borrowing money to survive right now. I run my own business and just feel this immense pressure on my shoulders, that again is compounded by how unfair the world is right now.
Anyone got any advice for coping with this late stage capitalist hellscape?