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That's why @brooklynmarie's point-- we aren't trapped here with them, they're trapped here with us- is so important.

They're a small bunch of weirdos in a world of weird difference, trying to enforce their weird on everyone else because all the other kinds of weird scare them.

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That's why @brooklynmarie's point-- we aren't trapped here with them, they're trapped here with us- is so important.

They're a small bunch of weirdos in a world of weird difference, trying to enforce their weird on everyone else because all the other kinds of weird scare them.

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Our weird is self-acceptance of our difference.

Their weird is a desperate yearning to eradicate anyone different from their outdated, repressive notions of normal.

Which is why our naming their weirdness-- the fact that their ideal norms aren't norms at all-- terrifies them.

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Our weird is self-acceptance of our difference.

Their weird is a desperate yearning to eradicate anyone different from their outdated, repressive notions of normal.

Which is why our naming their weirdness-- the fact that their ideal norms aren't norms at all-- terrifies them.

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Oh, you think that lib's purple hair is weird?

Well, guess what, no one dyes their hair purple in a desperate quest for comformist normal.

We're fine with our weird, whereas the far right just desperately wants to have their weird be a lauded, rewarded normal.

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Oh, you think that lib's purple hair is weird?

Well, guess what, no one dyes their hair purple in a desperate quest for comformist normal.

We're fine with our weird, whereas the far right just desperately wants to have their weird be a lauded, rewarded normal.

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And the far right is trying SO hard to "I am rubber and you are glue" us on weirdness, and it isn't working.

Not because plenty of us aren't also different from existing norms, but because we don't give a fuck.

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And the far right is trying SO hard to "I am rubber and you are glue" us on weirdness, and it isn't working.

Not because plenty of us aren't also different from existing norms, but because we don't give a fuck.

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The "weird" thing lands because more than anything what these people crave is conformity.

They abhor individual expression that might be read as "weird."

And yet it's that very desire for comformity and disgust at nonconformity that MAKES them weird.

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The "weird" thing lands because more than anything what these people crave is conformity.

They abhor individual expression that might be read as "weird."

And yet it's that very desire for comformity and disgust at nonconformity that MAKES them weird.

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It's weird to joke about corrective rape.

It's weird to want to inspect kids' genitals to enforce archaic notions of gender essentialism.

It's weird to want women trapped in abusive marriages.

They WANT these things to be the norms, but they simply aren't.

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It's weird to joke about corrective rape.

It's weird to want to inspect kids' genitals to enforce archaic notions of gender essentialism.

It's weird to want women trapped in abusive marriages.

They WANT these things to be the norms, but they simply aren't.

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What the Friedman NYT crowd misses about the "weird" thing is that it names an ugly irony of the far right.

They want SO MUCH for their regressive creepiness to be an enforcement of norms.

But the norms they violently try to enforce are outdated and gone and, well, WEIRD now

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What the Friedman NYT crowd misses about the "weird" thing is that it names an ugly irony of the far right.

They want SO MUCH for their regressive creepiness to be an enforcement of norms.

But the norms they violently try to enforce are outdated and gone and, well, WEIRD now

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One nice thing about being in Pennsylvania, I don't need to play catch-up figuring out why to hate Josh Shapiro as a VP possible

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One nice thing about being in Pennsylvania, I don't need to play catch-up figuring out why to hate Josh Shapiro as a VP possible

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But.

And I can't stress this enough:

LOL.

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But.

And I can't stress this enough:

LOL.

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Anyway I am a responsible adult so I have contacted the Communist Party recruiter and quietly explained to him that it is not appropriate to be adding my cousin to these chats.

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Anyway I am a responsible adult so I have contacted the Communist Party recruiter and quietly explained to him that it is not appropriate to be adding my cousin to these chats.

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And the range of people in these chats is spectacular.

For example, I do not know who runs social media for Al Sharpton, but somehow Al Sharpton is in one of these chats

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And the range of people in these chats is spectacular.

For example, I do not know who runs social media for Al Sharpton, but somehow Al Sharpton is in one of these chats

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Interspersed with gifs about things that happen in the month of July

Interspersed with moments where he uses the video call function to blow up the phone of every single person in the mass chats

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Interspersed with gifs about things that happen in the month of July

Interspersed with moments where he uses the video call function to blow up the phone of every single person in the mass chats

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So now the Communist Party recruiter keeps making these mass group chats with all his distant acquaintances to send Communist recruitment propaganda to, but he can't get a word in edgewise because every group chat INSTANTLY becomes my cousin's two accounts saying "hi" back and forth to each other

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So now the Communist Party recruiter keeps making these mass group chats with all his distant acquaintances to send Communist recruitment propaganda to, but he can't get a word in edgewise because every group chat INSTANTLY becomes my cousin's two accounts saying "hi" back and forth to each other

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ANYWAY.

Either the Communist recruiter went through my Facebook friends and cold call-friended my distant cousin, or vice versa. On BOTH accounts.

And as he is wont to do, the Communist Party recruiter put my distant cousin in a bunch of Communist Party recruitment chats.

To my cousin's ABSOLUTE DELIGHT.

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ANYWAY.

Either the Communist recruiter went through my Facebook friends and cold call-friended my distant cousin, or vice versa. On BOTH accounts.

And as he is wont to do, the Communist Party recruiter put my distant cousin in a bunch of Communist Party recruitment chats.

To my cousin's ABSOLUTE DELIGHT.

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He uses it so much that, after a misunderstanding with Facebook management resulted in thr shut down his original account, he went and got a new account. But then the original was restored, so he uses both to send messages, now.

LOTS of messages. (Which, again, are very sweet and I enjoy!)

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He uses it so much that, after a misunderstanding with Facebook management resulted in thr shut down his original account, he went and got a new account. But then the original was restored, so he uses both to send messages, now.

LOTS of messages. (Which, again, are very sweet and I enjoy!)

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He uses it to video chat with me, he uses it to video chat with my kids. He uses it to send endless "hi"s and "hello"s, sends me probably 100 seasonally-themed gifs a week. He and my toddler use it to practice sign language together (he's hearing-impaired).

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He uses it to video chat with me, he uses it to video chat with my kids. He uses it to send endless "hi"s and "hello"s, sends me probably 100 seasonally-themed gifs a week. He and my toddler use it to practice sign language together (he's hearing-impaired).

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Anyway, another character in my Facebook life is a distant cousin with an intellectual disability who is one of the sweetest and friendliest people I've ever met. He LOVES Facebook Messenger.

LOVES it.

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Anyway, another character in my Facebook life is a distant cousin with an intellectual disability who is one of the sweetest and friendliest people I've ever met. He LOVES Facebook Messenger.

LOVES it.

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There is some INCREDIBLE chaos happening in my Facebook Messenger right now.

There is a member of the local Communist Party who is kind of legendary for his aggressive recruitment tactics on Facebook, which tend to involve mass friend-adding & then creating big Facebook group chats to promote his stuff.

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There is some INCREDIBLE chaos happening in my Facebook Messenger right now.

There is a member of the local Communist Party who is kind of legendary for his aggressive recruitment tactics on Facebook, which tend to involve mass friend-adding & then creating big Facebook group chats to promote his stuff.

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Parenting is so weird because on the one hand we live in a time of unprecedented late capitalist turmoil and political violence that is curdling into manifest horror, and on the other hand my first serious conversation of the day was about how cat litter is not in fact a delicious snack

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Parenting is so weird because on the one hand we live in a time of unprecedented late capitalist turmoil and political violence that is curdling into manifest horror, and on the other hand my first serious conversation of the day was about how cat litter is not in fact a delicious snack

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Team MAGA is going to try its damnedest to use this moment to effectively criminalize telling the truth about the mortal threat that Trump poses to this country, and anyone with a meaningful platform right now needs to push back against that suggestion.

Aggressively.

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Team MAGA is going to try its damnedest to use this moment to effectively criminalize telling the truth about the mortal threat that Trump poses to this country, and anyone with a meaningful platform right now needs to push back against that suggestion.

Aggressively.