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[–] 194 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

Ooh I recognize that twitter account. "Ill-informed" is an understatement.

Are women crazy for worrying that they are spotting and bleeding untimely when around vaccinated women, who are also spotting and bleeding untimely? These researchers show evidence that Mrna vaccination can transmit passively via respiration.

It was amazing to go to Belfast, which does not yet have 5G, and feel the earth, sky, air, human experience, feel the way it did in the 1970s. Calm, still, peaceful, restful, natural.

Even compared Trump to Marthin Luther King Jr once. I was in an Uber with a Virginian driver who was talking about civil rights, and said he would never never vote for a convicted felon. I pointed out that the Rev MLK Jr was a convicted felon. There was a pause.

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  • [–] 118 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    I wonder if people living in Belfast in the 1970s would have described it as calm, still, peaceful, restful or natural.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles

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  • [–] 49 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Jesus fuck. I was born and raised in Belfast, there's absolutely nothing about the experience today (out in 2019) that even remotely resembles the 70's.

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  • [–] 28 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    also the 1970s weren't some magical time for living a naturalist/naturist life. in the northern empires, lead based paint and lead based fuels were in common use. in the global south, genocidal dictators carried out brutal violence to impress whichever northern empire they were affiliated with.

    the fact that she wants to revisit the 1970s speaks to a great degree of access to privilege within capitalism, white supremacy, and even the patriarchy despite her presented gender.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    As another example, the Cuyahoga River famously caught fire in 1969. That isn't technically the 70s, but I wouldn't have gone near it anytime during that decade.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    The cuyahoga was only just declared safe to swim in last year. the bill that led to its eventual cleaning was passed in 1972. it was probably at its absolute nastiest in September of 1972.

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  • [–] 37 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Highly recommend the book “Doppelganger” by Naomi Klein where she talks about how weird it is to get confused with Naomi Wolf. A real feminist vs a playactor, just like how the right playacts science and reason by ‘doing their own research’ and playacts working class solidarity by showering the public with populist propaganda while shredding their legal protections

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  • [+] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately it's very real. The author Naomi Klein has a great book about Naomi Wolf called Doppelganger, based on the fact that people keep getting the two of them confused. Her descent into the right-wing conspiracy world is quite a thing.

    Quite funny to see someone call Belfast calm and peaceful though. I'm in it quite regularly and usually just want to get out as soon as I can.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Genuinely curious how she's a doctor.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    You don't have to be smart to be a doctor. Hell you don't even have to be well educated in any meaningful sense.

    You just have to either have enough time, money or dedication to one hyper niche field to get a piece of paper that says your a doctor.

    It's both harder then you would think and easier then you would think.

    Iv met and worked with so many people that have a doctorate that barely have a passable high school understanding of the world around them or anything at all out side of their doctorate. That I would genuinely trust a middle schooler from Mississippi more then them with just about fucking anything.

    A doctorate should never be taken at face value of someone's intelligence.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Exactly. Not an advanced degree, but my HS valedictorian was one of the dumbest people I've ever met. But she spent hours every day memorizing information she didn't understand just to be able to regurgitate it on the test.

    Our salutatorian should have been first, but he was actually smart and didn't try very hard.

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