The number of women whose lives were ruined by sex work is dwarfed into utter insignificance by the number of women whose lives were ruined by unwanted pregnancies.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 24, 2023
"Misleading" is such a nice way to say "lying outrageously to cover up their own crimes". https://t.co/ZbjkZIMZNI
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 24, 2023
I don't think I've ever muted anyone on here for being a humorless, pompous scold before. But there' a first time for everything.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 26, 2023
This is rhetorical sleight of hand. There's no such thing as a "prostituted woman"; it's an imaginary construct based in the fantasy that sex workers are passive, vegetable-like entities. Since there ARE no such creatures, talking to none is talking to all.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 27, 2023
One of the most important principles of existing in a world full of violent authoritarians and their pet snitches is, "Never give anybody any personal information that they do not absolutely need".
Most sex workers understand why this is important; I wish the rest of y'all did.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 28, 2023
Politicians and bureaucrats are ALWAYS in favor of more laws, rules and "regulations" about every single aspect of human existence, so THEIR preferences are not arguments in favor of ANYthing. It would be like trying to advertise a food product by proclaiming that dogs like it.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 28, 2023
Catastrophist authoritarians love saying "planet" when they actually mean "human society", and "universe" when they actually mean "this one tiny planet".
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 1, 2023
Don't ever say Cassandra McNeill never warned y'all. https://t.co/9XQiw9VR7b
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 2, 2023
I first encountered coconut milk when I was about 5; it was obvious to me even then that it got the name from its appearance and had nothing to do with dairy.
But I guess most politicians aren't as bright as I was at 5. https://t.co/llcXds1xFU
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 3, 2023
Make cops carry individual insurance, and pay for it themselves. When a cop has too many suits to be insurable, he can no longer work as a cop. This may be the only way to stop the carnage, considering politicians are too spineless to fix it themselves. https://t.co/WszZaYpkMU
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 4, 2023
Another person arguing that big, tall, fat, or wealthy people should have more votes than small, short, skinny, or poor ones. https://t.co/XJ90ZE6597
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 5, 2023
I beg to differ about it not being healthy; it saved my sanity, my health, and very possibly my life, far more effectively than any prescription drug could've, for a fraction of the cost, and fully under MY control rather than some doctor's. And I'm far from alone.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 8, 2023
This is your regular reminder that infantilizing young adults as "children" does not actually help them, and if anything makes them MORE vulnerable to whatever it is you're claiming you want to protect them from.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 9, 2023
Gotta say I'm amused by the sudden realization by both reporters and social media denizens that politicians lie, constantly and egregiously. Now if they can just grok that this is neither new nor novel nor limited to politicians of only one party, we might actually get somewhere.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 10, 2023
I have never and will never understand the childlike faith people put in "restraining orders". But then, perhaps because I've played D&D for over 40 years, I *know* magic is just make-believe.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 11, 2023
I wish people would stop using this backward phrasing invented by journalists.
It's "1/50 as fast", not "50 times slower". Slowness is a lack of speed, just like cold is a lack of heat. That's why your car has a "speedometer" not a "slowometer". https://t.co/bXJ7JXFc7r
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 11, 2023
Many years ago, Robert Heinlein proposed a Constitutional amendment requiring all laws to be written in plain English comprehensible to average high-school graduates. https://t.co/ov9M5Nz5yp
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 11, 2023
Every time one of these "feminist" prohibitionists opines, she demonstrates that she not only fails to comprehend that is a wide variety of clients who want all sorts of different experiences, but also that she has absolutely not the faintest clue what any of them is like.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 13, 2023
CSPI has nothing to do with science; it’s an authoritarian organization dedicated to promoting the latest nutritional pseudoscience. These are the same people who once said that raw poppy seeds are "contaminated" with opium (which comes from, you guessed it, poppy seeds). https://t.co/l8fneOWKfu
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 15, 2023
Oh yes, statism is just another religion. The gods have been replaced by parties and agendas, and the prayers go by other names. But the adherents are still expected to mindlessly regurgitate dogma, and heretics and infidels are punished as ruthlessly as ever.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 16, 2023
The problem with "progressive" types & "parental rights" types BOTH is that they view young adults as "children" & children as objects, to be managed & programmed by state or family. Neither gives a damn about the young people themselves; they're just quibbling about ownership.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 17, 2023
One of the stupidest things about modern culture wars is that, when
culture warriors' opponents CLEARLY STATE what's bothering them, the warriors deny it and say, "No, your problem is REALLY 'x' motivation from our dogma about you" rather than using the knowledge.— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 19, 2023
Why do prohibitionists make ridiculously-obvious statements like "people only do work if they feel the money is worth their time" and then pretend it's somehow a "gotcha"?
Puritanism blinds people. https://t.co/6xSPPZFTXC
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 20, 2023
I mean really; this is the online equivalent of taking your dick out at a party and wriggling it around while pretending it's talking, as though it were a puppet. Only the online behavior is more sophomoric.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 22, 2023