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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 00:52:02 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@HebrideanHecate @GrumpyOldNurse @BILLSan345 @ForBritain I think I can date my general disappointment in people to this event. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 00:03:41 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@Chronic-Yonic Hell is empty. The devils are all here. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 23:55:22 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@HebrideanHecate @GrumpyOldNurse @BILLSan345 @ForBritain I blame Blair and his acolytes for that one. Deliberate manipulation of public emotional responses to advance political power. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 23:31:35 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@HebrideanHecate @GrumpyOldNurse @BILLSan345 @ForBritain It's how purity spirals proliferate.
Back in the feudal days, the only way to be special was to be pious. We were all down at the bottom of life's pecking order, but you could show God and your fellow man how obedient you were.
This has replaced God. Now they can show everyone how devoted they are to social justice by elevating the oppressed and denouncing the oppressor (just with shouting and posting of course). There's no upper level, so eventually they run out of people to cancel and turn on each other for not being woke enough.
But it has to be public for it to matter, which is why we get the teddies and flowers from people who have no connection with an incident, the hashtags #standwithwhatever, and all the attendant nonsense. In an attention economy, if you're not speaking up in the approved way, how will anyone know how wonderful you are? And if you're not wonderful then you must be evil and it will serve you right if you get destroyed. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 23:22:36 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@gnu2 Tik Tok Docs. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 23:22:14 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@HebrideanHecate @GrumpyOldNurse @BILLSan345 @ForBritain I have met two people (a mother and daughter) who exhibited these nasty traits. Between the two of them they nearly destroyed a local drama group with lies and slander. It was so obvious that the daughter in particular needed to be adored by everyone in the way her mother adored her, or the people who weren't paying sufficient homage were clearly out to get her and needed to be destroyed. I felt sorry for her because I think she genuinely couldn't see the world in any way except with her at the centre of it. But her victim fantasy and her mother's eagerness to believe her and deal with those who *upset* her caused so much damage.
I've also met no end of people who cling to their labels to excuse shitty behaviour, or just to make themselves feel important. Covid encouraged this, as did intersectional politics.
We live in strange times. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 23:12:18 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@GrumpyOldNurse @BILLSan345 @ForBritain You're not wrong. There has been far too much pathologising of normal life experiences. Schools often encourage it, because they love a label. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 21:45:22 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@HebrideanHecate It's obvious:
Private sector won't spend a penny it doesn't have to and will not carry any dead wood in the organisation.
Public sector - *not our money - don't care.* -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 21:42:26 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@HebrideanHecate Academe has always been like a weightlifter's jockstrap - full of bollocks. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 21:40:33 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@ForBritain Narcissism isn't about putting yourself first. A person who constantly puts the needs of others before their own (especially if these are in conflict) is either low-esteem or doing it to achieve some sort of victimhood/martyrdom status (which is also narcissistic).
A healthy self-regard to ones talents, abilities, skills, needs, wants and desires is not narcissistic.
Narcissism is about being self-obsessed and blind to the needs of anyone else so they are not even in the equation. It often comes with sociopathy and Machiavellianism which makes it especially nasty. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 21:30:18 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@HebrideanHecate Funnily enough, I watched something with her being interviewed in which she berated women who shit on other women (particularly on this issue) for woke points. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 21:27:28 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@HebrideanHecate I have mixed feelings about breakfast in schools. I've run several breakfast clubs which are just an extension of paid childcare for working parents. But the idea that school provides breakfast on the assumption that parents can't/won't do it for their own children is a nasty tentacle of the *the state is the parent now* culture.
We know that there have always been families that are negligent, but are we now to set the bar so low that we assume all families are negligent or that we treat all families as being at the lowest setting so the negligent ones don't feel bad? -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 21:20:32 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@HebrideanHecate @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain When I was at school I was in a production of Toad of Toad Hall. I was one the the rabbits in court as the jury and a weasel had also got onto the jury, pretending to be a rabbit. When questioned, the weasel loomed over us and said, "I'm a rabbit; aren't I a rabbit? Say I'm a rabbit!" And funnily enough, all the rabbits agreed that he was a rabbit.
I can't think what reminded me of this. 🤷♀️ -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 21:15:52 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain It's not his money that's being spaffed.
Now if the courts fined the people who enacted shit policies and then wasted public money, it might change.
Ah - you're the person who wasted NHS money on a spurious case. You'd better put your house on the market and file for bankruptcy. I hear that the local corner shop is hiring, but with your track record, you might struggle to get a job there as they only hire people who are honest and trustworthy. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 21:11:31 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@HebrideanHecate @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain Trade Unions have not been useful to working people for a long time. They only benefit the political activists and those with cushy jobs on the payroll.
Change my mind. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 21:10:08 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@HebrideanHecate It's not the *trans* that people have a problem with, because nobody even knows what it means.
It's the men pretending to be women when they insert themselves into female-only spaces that causes problems for women. It doesn't matter if there's one woman in there or thousands; it doesn't matter if the women there are friends or relations of them or not; it doesn't matter if the men are lovely or not; it doesn't matter if any, all or none of the women there have suffered violent or sexual trauma or not. We don't give a toss if men identify as Marxists, Llamas, feminists, grapefruit, anything at all or nothing; they're still men and they're not allowed in. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 20:57:43 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@RadicalCartoons Isn't it interesting that the people who place themselves in the elite class are often members of the *intersectional* groups that they seek to vilify in order to elevate other groups. It's almost as if they're saying *we pretend to hate people like us because it's fashionable to do so, but if we promote your nonsense then you won't cancel us and we'll look good.*
I'm not hopeful about Europe. It has a love affair with totalitarianism of all shades. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 20:44:13 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain Why am I not surprised? -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 20:02:26 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@HebrideanHecate @RadicalCartoons Alexa - please record my hate speech. Big Brother needs to know. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 20:01:01 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@HebrideanHecate @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain @RadicalCartoons It's everywhere.
Look at the revolving door of disgraced councillors, politicians, CEOs of NGOs etc. They fuck up and move on to fuck up over and over again, at high salaries.