The Honest Courtesan

It has become abundantly clear that when internet denizens write "capitalist", what they *actually* mean is "fascist" or "corporatist", a political system in which society is run by a triad of political, corporate, and military/paramilitary interests, each reinforcing the others.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 19, 2024

I met my oldest friend when we were 4. I met one of my closest friends in 1984, and I've been living with my best friend since 1998. https://t.co/Eb0T1yYq5K

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 21, 2024

I'll start paying attention to these when they actually incorporate as sovereign nations with territory, a government, a constitution, etc. https://t.co/hhPxAt5cht

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 22, 2024

Self-ownership means each individual, not the State, determines what to do with their own body. There is no specific "right" to get high, but there *is* a right to be free from the State's trying to stop anyone from doing so. https://t.co/FccvPaSAH2

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 23, 2024

That frustrating period wherein you keep seeing variant spellings of a word you've already muted, before you catch them all.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 24, 2024

I've been trying to figure out what those lyrics mean since the song came out. I just read them again, and still no luck. Specifically, what or where is "the tropic of Sir Galahad"?

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 26, 2024

I'm sure there will be plenty of work for all those mechanical sienists, teahers, pohets, and warlords in Mouska-ears. And plenty for real humans too, for employers who actually want competence. https://t.co/xTtOJfPywi

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 28, 2024

Not make any money that day. https://t.co/gacgFEzBYK

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 29, 2024

The alien crew member has no special powers. https://t.co/LS6UQP19FX

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 30, 2024

A giant voracious alien slug that consumes everything in its reach and produces only foul-smelling slime.

Kinda like a Hutt from "Star Wars", only less charismatic. https://t.co/fqfUPJeIHd

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 1, 2024

I'd go even further: journalism that *doesn't* at least occasionally offend the government isn't real journalism. https://t.co/GOsJB3TfeY

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 2, 2024

As with any other group, half of scientists are stupider than the average scientist. https://t.co/LbbGykTizm

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 3, 2024

Marriage is a contract.

Our society does not allow people under 18 to enter into legal contracts, EXCEPT marriage.

This is a legal contradiction which should have been eliminated decades ago. https://t.co/ZAZAw8zEsv

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 6, 2024

Today in artificial stupidity: https://t.co/u71OuKKtaC

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 7, 2024

Exactly. The twist must be *part* of the plot, not an optional extension. The twist must needs be planned from the beginning, not used like a Habitrail extension merely to fill up an episode count. As a writer of many a twisty story, I can tell you that I *start* with the twist.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 9, 2024

Classic #DoctorWho was a serial produced by the BBC from 1963-1989.

NewWho was an episodic show produced by the BBC from 2005-2021 (slowly trailing off after 2018).

We clearly need a new name for this new version; given the new owners, I'm calling it "Disney Who".

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 10, 2024

Speaking of word usage: in a Constitutional republic founded on the principle of limited government powers, allowing State actors to do basically whatever they like without the wronged citizen having any means of redress is not "conservative" by any stretch of the imagination.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 12, 2024

I'm painfully fascinated by people laboring under the delusion that their 21st century authoritarian repression is morally superior to old-fashioned 20th century authoritarian repression because the excuses used to justify modern repression are based in 19th century ideas.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 13, 2024

LAWMAKER pic.twitter.com/Mhf6MjyP6Y

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 14, 2024

Comment on the reader comment: they could have sex if they wanted to in 2020 as well; bureaucratic rules are not laws of nature, however much lawheads might want them to be. https://t.co/7SwckO0A1A

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 15, 2024

Y'all never worried about what was in those things BEFORE… https://t.co/jslh7rm0U6

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 16, 2024

Does ANYbody really believe that all over the world, people "approach" cops with weapons openly displayed? Don't badge-lickers ever question why on earth anybody who wasn't both completely deranged and actually hallucinating would do such an obviously self-destructive thing?

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 17, 2024

And this is just the total of the court judgments; it does not count the costs of all the robberies, victims' medical & legal bills, uncompensated property damage, spurious "overtime", spurious court proceedings, or mass incarceration, nor the incalculable emotional costs. https://t.co/98ch6Ez8nU

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 18, 2024

A) ignorance
B) stupidity
C) gullibility
D) all of the above https://t.co/HFz30IgNl1

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 22, 2024

Snake Mama approves. https://t.co/CHACOT921R

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 22, 2024