Too Stupid for Words category archive
Twits on Twitter 0
Someone should tell SFGate’s Eric Ting that it’s futile to try to to make sense out of stupid.
A TikTok Blockbuster 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
Facebook Frolics 0
We are a society of stupid.
We will believe stuff we read on a computer screen, but, if the same stuff came in the mail, we wouldn’t even open the envelope.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
Conspiracy theories fly through the inner tubes about the current outbreak of avian flu in the Midwest.
The Marjorie Taylor Greene New Deal 0
Aside:
Farron missed the undercurrent. Let’s decode the code.
When right-wingers attack “welfare,” they are invoking the spirit and racist imagery of Ronald Reagan’s “welfare queen.” The word “welfare” has become yet another racist dog whistle.
The Nation of Me-Me-Me 0
In this age of influencers, an “influencer” shows us, once again, that “social” media isn’t.
Afterthought:
I fear that Look at meeeee! is not a sound cornerstone upon to rest a society.
But it seems to be the one we are choosing.
When Stirring the Pot Means Slipping the Mickey 0
I have been to Florida many times for both business and pleasure. True, it’s been a couple of decades since my last visit, but, I swear, it seemed to be, as my old doctor used to say, “within normal limits” back then.
Toxic Noxious Masculinity
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Rebecca Watson skewers (you will pardon the expression) Tucker Carlson’s great balls of fire.
We are a society of stupid.
Maskless Marauders 0
It’s been a while since I last read the Declaration of Independence, but, to the best of my recollection, nowhere in it did the Founders argue that persons have an inalienable right to “life, liberty, and the perpetuation of a pestilence.”