Category: Because It’s True

Posted on

Preach, Sister!

From Lady Bunny on Instagram:

Former Dem presidential candidate Marianne Williamson on Twitter making the simple point that politicians should do things people like. Democrats campaigned on all she mentioned, yet after one year of controlling the White House, the House and the Senate, they’ve achieved none of them. It shouldn’t be necessary to point out that politicians should do what voters want to do because they (allegedly) represent us, but it is. For too many Democrats, simply bashing Trump and the GOP is considered better politics than doing what you campaigned on. Many of you will excuse Democrats’ inaction by claiming that the issue blocking Dems’ agenda is Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema. It’s not. These conservative Dems have more in common with Biden and Pelosi/Schumer than they do Bernie/AOC. Biden and Pelosi unlinked the infrastructure bill with Build Back Better social spending bill, ensuring it’s failure. And Biden was pushed by those saying he could work well with the GOP. Yet he can’t even work with Republican lites like Manchin and Sinema in his own party.

Posted on

“They Did Their Own Research”

The website SORRYANTIVAXXER.COM lists pretty exhaustively all the antivaxxers who have contracted and/or died from the Trump-Virus. At first it seems devastating (and very, very white) seeing entry after entry of people who were easily manipulated into killing themselves to own the Libs, but then comes both boredom: Another asshole bites the dust, and good riddance.

Before you come at me (@ me?) for speaking ill of the dead, I’ll remind you that I spoke ill of them when they were above ground.  I’m just going to say it: these people were selfish assholes who endangered all of us. Lining up to argue with a virus and then die from a preventable disease isn’t noble, it’s stupid. We’re better off without them infecting more people.

Do I feel bad for their families? Maybe in the short run, but these antivaxxer assholes endangered their own families, too. Their families are better off with them gone. Maybe they will get vaccinated and live to see another day.

Look, these assholes were babied, begged, and bribed  to get the free, safe, and effective vaccines and they turned it down; so that’s not tragedy, it’s a farce. And in the end it is natural selection in action. Again, we’re better off without them.

You want to tell me that they were standing on their principles, and I’ll tell you that they are now buried with their principles.

I feel a great deal of satisfaction when reading about them (as Clarence Darrow once said). I never used to be this cold and callous towards people, but these selfish, ignorant a-holes have worn down both my patience (which I never had a lot of to begin with) and my empathy. I’m bone tired, both of this never-ending pandemic and the people who are making this pandemic never-ending.

[Source, paraphrased and augmented]

Posted on

On Age and Aging

“I see the younglings post things like “are you still on tumblr at 30?” and “go take care of your kids instead of reading fics” and i just feel sad because you have a bunch of young people who are terrified of getting older.

They think age is going to change them, into something boring, something different, something grey, and i just want to tell them, reassure them, you will still be the same person.

Isn’t it wonderful?

You will love the things you love for so many years. you will find joy in the same things, decade after decade. you will feel the same inside, through all this time.

Yes, the body will change. Yes there’s more responsibilities, less time, even less energy.

But there’s no magical age where you stop enjoying that specific story, that specific game, that specific hobby.

But you know what also comes with age?

You have less fucks to give.”

I turn 50 in July. I had this HUGE list of things I had to do, that I absolutely KNEW I had to be, before I turned 30, or I was a total failure.

I didn’t do any of those things, and it didn’t matter.

I was CONVINCED that by the time I was 40, my life was basically over. All the fun stuff I liked, all the music I liked, the games I liked to play, all of it was done for some reason, and I would be a Boring Adult.

ALL OF THIS IS BULLSHIT.

I am here to tell you that when you get older, it’s fucking AWESOME. You don’t put up with anyone’s bullshit. You figure out who deserves your time and attention, and you have the fucking BEST TIME EVER with them. All the time.

I still play video games. I still go to concerts. I do everything I can to see and validate and celebrate young people when they come into my life, because I want an entire generation to know that the lies media and advertising tells you about life basically ending at 40 so you’d better buy all the shit they’re selling you is GARBAGE.

The older I get, the cooler and more awesome my life is.

I am still the same punk rock weirdo I was when I was in my 20s, I’m just wiser and more comfortable in my own skin than I was then. Getting older did not do ANY of the things I believed it would do.

If I may offer two pieces of advice on the small chance a younger person than me is reading this: take care of your core strength. When you hit middle age, your body is just weaker than it was, and it’s easier to hurt yourself. It takes longer to recover from injury, and if I could change one thing, it would be paying more attention to my physical strength.

And the only currency, the only thing the ultimately matters in our lives, is choosing to be kind. The world is a cruel place full of awful people. Don’t be one of them.

[Source]