Forwarded from Lacan's Whore House
“OK, now let’s have some fun. Let’s talk about sex. Let’s talk about women. Freud said he didn’t know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to. What do they want to talk about? They want to talk about everything.
What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish people wouldn’t get so mad at them.
Why are so many people getting divorced today? It’s because most of us don’t have extended families anymore. It used to be that when a man and a woman got married, the bride got a lot more people to talk to about everything. The groom got a lot more pals to tell dumb jokes to.
A few Americans, but very few, still have extended families. The Navajos. The Kennedys.
But most of us, if we get married nowadays, are just one more person for the other person. The groom gets one more pal, but it’s a woman. The woman gets one more person to talk to about everything, but it’s a man.
When a couple has an argument, they may think it’s about money or power or sex, or how to raise the kids, or whatever. What they’re really saying to each other, though, without realizing it, is this:
“You are not enough people!”
I met a man in Nigeria one time, an Ibo who has six hundred relatives he knew quite well. His wife had just had a baby, the best possible news in any extended family.
They were going to take it to meet all its relatives, Ibos of all ages and sizes and shapes. It would even meet other babies, cousins not much older than it was. Everybody who was big enough and steady enough was going to get to hold it, cuddle it, gurgle to it, and say how pretty it was, or handsome.”
Wouldn't you have loved to be that baby?
Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish people wouldn’t get so mad at them.
Why are so many people getting divorced today? It’s because most of us don’t have extended families anymore. It used to be that when a man and a woman got married, the bride got a lot more people to talk to about everything. The groom got a lot more pals to tell dumb jokes to.
A few Americans, but very few, still have extended families. The Navajos. The Kennedys.
But most of us, if we get married nowadays, are just one more person for the other person. The groom gets one more pal, but it’s a woman. The woman gets one more person to talk to about everything, but it’s a man.
When a couple has an argument, they may think it’s about money or power or sex, or how to raise the kids, or whatever. What they’re really saying to each other, though, without realizing it, is this:
“You are not enough people!”
I met a man in Nigeria one time, an Ibo who has six hundred relatives he knew quite well. His wife had just had a baby, the best possible news in any extended family.
They were going to take it to meet all its relatives, Ibos of all ages and sizes and shapes. It would even meet other babies, cousins not much older than it was. Everybody who was big enough and steady enough was going to get to hold it, cuddle it, gurgle to it, and say how pretty it was, or handsome.”
Wouldn't you have loved to be that baby?
Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
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Forwarded from CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
Filter Blockades
A Tactic from the Twin Cities to Fight ICE and Defend Your Neighborhood
https://crimethinc.com/filterblockades
Filter blockades are a simple and effective way to resist the occupation of our communities. All you need is a few determined friends or neighbors and some widely available materials. The goal is to slow traffic, without fully blocking it, in order to identify potential ICE vehicles. The more filter blockades, the more effective the strategy becomes.
Here, we present a guide to maintaining filter blockades, share accounts from filter blockades in the Twin Cities this past week, and conclude with a broader look at the history and potential of the model.
A Tactic from the Twin Cities to Fight ICE and Defend Your Neighborhood
https://crimethinc.com/filterblockades
Filter blockades are a simple and effective way to resist the occupation of our communities. All you need is a few determined friends or neighbors and some widely available materials. The goal is to slow traffic, without fully blocking it, in order to identify potential ICE vehicles. The more filter blockades, the more effective the strategy becomes.
Here, we present a guide to maintaining filter blockades, share accounts from filter blockades in the Twin Cities this past week, and conclude with a broader look at the history and potential of the model.
Since, I've been thinking about it again, how is the Skyrim Civil War broadly seen in leftist spaces? Something I've wondered about for a while
Which side you on?
Anonymous Poll
23%
Skyrim is for the Nords!
36%
For the Empire!
41%
Don't know/haven't played/impartial/results
For those of you who DON'T know, the Empire is crumbling at the hands of their nearest rival, the Aldmeri Dominion. After a war, they make a peace treaty with the Empire banning the worship of a beloved God, and specifically the God of humans (most of the remaining Empire is human).
The Empire goes along, and a guy by the name of Ullfric starts a rebellion called the Stormcloaks (represented by option 1). It's a nationalist uprising against the Empire, with the Nords (the traditional inhabitants of Skyrim) at the forefront, something which leads to the persecution of the various minority groups.
Complicating this, it's also revealed that Ullfric has been kept alive this long by the Aldmeri Dominion's equivalent of the CIA with the sole intent of possibly provoking (the now ongoing) civil war.
The Empire goes along, and a guy by the name of Ullfric starts a rebellion called the Stormcloaks (represented by option 1). It's a nationalist uprising against the Empire, with the Nords (the traditional inhabitants of Skyrim) at the forefront, something which leads to the persecution of the various minority groups.
Complicating this, it's also revealed that Ullfric has been kept alive this long by the Aldmeri Dominion's equivalent of the CIA with the sole intent of possibly provoking (the now ongoing) civil war.
Oh, before someone points it out, yes. Ullfric Stormcloak does have strong parallels to Osama Bin Laden lol, it's weird how that wasn't brought up more
Forwarded from FUCK LAWNS (🦌 SovereignCervine 🦌 Is overwhelmed)
Erininthemorning
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
As much as I love encouraging people to engage with media that challenges them, there's much more serious things to worry about rn, even in that general field of discourse