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Mostly here for TS lurking because it makes me happy how happy she can make people feel
This is my album ranking, might be very out of date though, or just my mood today. Showgirl not included for now, due to recency bias
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This is my album ranking, might be very out of date though, or just my mood today. Showgirl not included for now, due to recency bias
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Imagine saying that to literally any other target of mass harassment.
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Imagine saying that to literally any other target of mass harassment.
I don't understand them at all. This gleeful viciousness is very scary to me. Even if I thought it was a response in kind, which this isn't, and if it was the heat of the moment, I'd then be appalled at myself pretty much right away, especially if it happened as part of a swarm. They seem proud!
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I don't understand them at all. This gleeful viciousness is very scary to me. Even if I thought it was a response in kind, which this isn't, and if it was the heat of the moment, I'd then be appalled at myself pretty much right away, especially if it happened as part of a swarm. They seem proud!
Every time she releases something, I see fans and "critics" go, "wah wah it's not what I heard her promise I'm so disappointed". Why. I just don't get it. Firstly, I'm pretty sure you weren't actually listening, and b) how is that a bad thing??? That's literally why I'm staying! Wtf.
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Every time she releases something, I see fans and "critics" go, "wah wah it's not what I heard her promise I'm so disappointed". Why. I just don't get it. Firstly, I'm pretty sure you weren't actually listening, and b) how is that a bad thing??? That's literally why I'm staying! Wtf.
And Showgirl is about living in a world of performance where nothing is what it seems: the image (of love) is permanent, the object is not; endearments are insults, insults are valentines, mentorship is war, accountability is mobbing, and manufactured does not mean fake.
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
And Showgirl is about living in a world of performance where nothing is what it seems: the image (of love) is permanent, the object is not; endearments are insults, insults are valentines, mentorship is war, accountability is mobbing, and manufactured does not mean fake.
Imo TTPD is all about the pitfalls of letting your mind and your life be ruled by narrations, internalizing the tropes and story lines you're sold, of trying to write your way out of bad situations towards a happy end, only to realize, chasing your dream you never even made it out of your own head.
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Imo TTPD is all about the pitfalls of letting your mind and your life be ruled by narrations, internalizing the tropes and story lines you're sold, of trying to write your way out of bad situations towards a happy end, only to realize, chasing your dream you never even made it out of your own head.
If that happened, the discourse around it would probably be even dumber than what is happening right now, but who cares.
Because she'd make a Taylor Swift album, and everybody would be like, oh no 20y in we assumed Taylor Swift wouldn't make a Taylor Swift album and then she did, she tricked us!
Because she'd make a Taylor Swift album, and everybody would be like, oh no 20y in we assumed Taylor Swift wouldn't make a Taylor Swift album and then she did, she tricked us!
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
If that happened, the discourse around it would probably be even dumber than what is happening right now, but who cares.
Because she'd make a Taylor Swift album, and everybody would be like, oh no 20y in we assumed Taylor Swift wouldn't make a Taylor Swift album and then she did, she tricked us!
Because she'd make a Taylor Swift album, and everybody would be like, oh no 20y in we assumed Taylor Swift wouldn't make a Taylor Swift album and then she did, she tricked us!
If your town square, your place of work, was increasingly populated by nazis and bullies, would you say, "Luckily it hasn't changed me, I just learned to keep my eyes down, look away when they spew bigotry, when they torture and denigrate friends and neighbours for fun or because they fought back".
October 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If your town square, your place of work, was increasingly populated by nazis and bullies, would you say, "Luckily it hasn't changed me, I just learned to keep my eyes down, look away when they spew bigotry, when they torture and denigrate friends and neighbours for fun or because they fought back".
No they're Nazis using stereotypical lefty bios to troll people.
October 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
No they're Nazis using stereotypical lefty bios to troll people.
We are clearly way too far apart to productively hash this out. So I'll just say ok and goodbye
October 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
We are clearly way too far apart to productively hash this out. So I'll just say ok and goodbye
My first comment came before his clarification otherwise I would have included that right from the start; doesn't change though that it seems to me he lost a bit of the high ground there, from when he first came charging in guns blazing. So I didn't delete it.
October 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
My first comment came before his clarification otherwise I would have included that right from the start; doesn't change though that it seems to me he lost a bit of the high ground there, from when he first came charging in guns blazing. So I didn't delete it.
He came in hot, went on at length about how if there's blowback due to bad faith readings of ambiguous posts from potential allies, then that's on you, probably something you engineered to self-victimize, whether you clarify things or not. And the quoted post made it feel a little hypocritical imo.
October 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
He came in hot, went on at length about how if there's blowback due to bad faith readings of ambiguous posts from potential allies, then that's on you, probably something you engineered to self-victimize, whether you clarify things or not. And the quoted post made it feel a little hypocritical imo.
But for context when asked about it he clarified that he was really just describing what some other people might think, not him though
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some, maybe. I think there are also people who genuinely don't like to see the effective, powerful, meaningful civil rights movement reduced to a numeric counting of attendance at marches, or compared to performative, ineffective events led by white feminists. Can you acknowledge that reality?
October 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
But for context when asked about it he clarified that he was really just describing what some other people might think, not him though
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Also rescinding the thank you.
October 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Also rescinding the thank you.
I feel like it's very hard to take anything you say here about not being dismissive or insulting to potential allies seriously right after you said what you said about the no king protests
October 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I feel like it's very hard to take anything you say here about not being dismissive or insulting to potential allies seriously right after you said what you said about the no king protests
Sorry but I feel bad about this now and so I want to be clear: I didn't actually mean it when I said maybe. Ok would have been better.
October 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Sorry but I feel bad about this now and so I want to be clear: I didn't actually mean it when I said maybe. Ok would have been better.
I don't think that's true. Here's what I think might have happened:
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Maybe the disconnect comes from thinking that the comparison between no kings and the civil rights movement was the main thrust of Will's original post when it was actually a reply to a "we should bomb a walmart instead" post, and the movement was just mentioned to make the point about size stick.
October 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I don't think that's true. Here's what I think might have happened:
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Maybe. Thanks for asking me what I meant! Helped me understand my own thoughts better.
October 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Maybe. Thanks for asking me what I meant! Helped me understand my own thoughts better.
feeling absurdly proud and hopeful for the future of mankind right now
October 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
feeling absurdly proud and hopeful for the future of mankind right now
Maybe the disconnect comes from thinking that the comparison between no kings and the civil rights movement was the main thrust of Will's original post when it was actually a reply to a "we should bomb a walmart instead" post, and the movement was just mentioned to make the point about size stick.
October 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Maybe the disconnect comes from thinking that the comparison between no kings and the civil rights movement was the main thrust of Will's original post when it was actually a reply to a "we should bomb a walmart instead" post, and the movement was just mentioned to make the point about size stick.
Imo both are reasonable interpretations of that first post. One makes sense for someone with Will's background and goals and is supported by everything he's said since, the other, not so much. Insisting that it must be the second one and then judging him accordingly seems bad faith to me.
October 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Imo both are reasonable interpretations of that first post. One makes sense for someone with Will's background and goals and is supported by everything he's said since, the other, not so much. Insisting that it must be the second one and then judging him accordingly seems bad faith to me.
I already gave my interpretation. Again: I don't think he meant, higher than that movement on this scale, but rather, if you're wondering where it will end up on that scale, consider that it's already larger than this movement which was very noteworthy indeed. So let's not pre-emptivly discount it.
October 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I already gave my interpretation. Again: I don't think he meant, higher than that movement on this scale, but rather, if you're wondering where it will end up on that scale, consider that it's already larger than this movement which was very noteworthy indeed. So let's not pre-emptivly discount it.
I mean if you feel like Will has a tendency to back away from a mess or tiptoe around sensitive subjects then we live in two very different realities.
But sure that does happen. Anyway. Let's both move on?
But sure that does happen. Anyway. Let's both move on?
October 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I mean if you feel like Will has a tendency to back away from a mess or tiptoe around sensitive subjects then we live in two very different realities.
But sure that does happen. Anyway. Let's both move on?
But sure that does happen. Anyway. Let's both move on?