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I disagree; the friend's conversation will actually make sense, and they're less likely to reference objects, people, and events that have never actually existed.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-10-20T17:47:33.247Z

It's almost like nobody in the American press knows what the phrase "Potemkin village" means.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-10-21T17:54:48.488Z

"We" is a pronoun favored by bootlickers, useful idiots, collectivists, and other sleazebags in an attempt to shift much of the blame for their collaboration with evil onto the reader and others who had nothing to do with it, or even opposed it.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-10-22T18:17:08.387Z

"But, but, I don't understand; I thought that SURELY a site owned by the most bluenosed and aggressively-censorious social media company in the world would support free speech!"It's like people have been living in a closet the past 20 years while Facebook censors dolls, art, and Roman statues.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-10-23T18:08:25.259Z

Summoning demons is its own punishment, because they think it's funny to do things like eat all the meat in your freezer, take a colossal dump in your cat's litter box, wash your reds and whites together in hot water, and sign in to your social media accounts to make really embarrassing posts.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-10-30T17:49:15.664Z

MY GOD, WHAT IS THIS THING?

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-10-31T04:34:17.538Z

One thing I will never forgive the Founders for is their ruining Halloween every leap year by scheduling presidential elections immediately after it, thus ensuring the festivities are drowned in a torrent of fecal matter.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-10-31T19:10:33.242Z

Doctor offers to help lonely guy get a girlfriend.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-02T19:05:03.939Z

Everything I read about Facebook and its subsidiaries makes me happier I never started an account on any of them.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-04T05:58:14.936Z

A principle I have tried to live my life by.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-05T18:31:08.442Z

In the future, America's bizarre and childish fixation on sentences longer than human lifetimes for "crimes" that aren't mass murder will be one of those "weird facts" that get featured in trivia compilations.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-06T18:08:53.842Z

"Leaders".

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-08T05:58:43.095Z

One might point out that there's only one way to produce goods within the US as cheaply as they can be made in Asia: slave labor in prisons. If demand for such labor increases, you can bet "authorities" who profit will ENSURE they have enough caged slaves to keep up. http://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/u…

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-08T17:35:01.323Z

I have never used a Blocklist before, but I did use this one.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-10T20:25:27.298Z

Translation: "We want mindless minions who'll sell their souls to the Machine & just follow orders, mindlessly carrying out their Master's will. If you have a fragment of a moral compass, we don't want you in our evil regime."What the young call a mask-off moment. http://www.politico.com/live-updates…

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-11T17:35:41.156Z

I don't understand why anti-Trump people are complaining that some of his picks for cabinet positions & other functionaries are incompetent; given what Trump wants to accomplish, it's a GOOD thing if those carrying out those schemes are incompetent.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-12T19:09:17.632Z

Not a single one of these articles recognize that the groundwork for this was laid by organized bipartisan hostility to women's freedom to set conditions for sex over the past 20 years. Politicians, cops, the mass media, and NGOs have long united to persecute & criminalize female sex workers.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-13T18:38:21.990Z

I'm not usually one to kink shame, but eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwww.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-14T18:24:51.379Z

 

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If everyone grew up to be what he or she wanted to be in childhood we would have a workforce made up almost entirely of firemen, ballerinas, astronauts, teachers, cowboys and nurses.  –  “Amazingly Stupid Statements

Each person has to decide whether he will go forth into the world as an active adult or just sit in the nursery with folded hands.
–  “With Folded Hands

Though every normal person has sexual feelings and every last one of us is the product of heterosexual intercourse, the American media (and to a lesser extent the British) seem to function under the premise that people having sex is something unusual and worthy of note.
–  “Standard Operating Procedure

The claims made in moral panics are usually so extreme and outrageous that in retrospect they seem wholly absurd.  –  “Dark Corners

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In a fully-developed fascist state it isn’t necessary for the government to censor the media or ensure academic cooperation via threats of repression, because those institutions are more than willing to violate every standard of professional ethics in their eagerness to assist in the dissemination of propaganda.
–  “The Phoenix Pharisees

It’s a kind of black joke among sex workers that everyone is an expert in our lives except us.
–  “Just Call Me Nobody

Haggling isn’t actually about the relative expense of a sex worker’s price; it’s a means of trying to circumvent her boundaries.  –  “Another Kind of Haggling

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If you're a woman, you better thank a whore for being able to vote. You better thank a whore for the right to own property. You better thank a whore for sexual rights. You better thank a whore if you like cosmetics or attractive clothes. You better thank a whore…

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-09-02T19:05:33.910Z

"Likes" serve no practical function for the "liked" creator whatsoever. If everyone who "liked" my content retweeted it instead, I'd have 10x as many followers and probably two or three times the monthly subscription income.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-09-03T16:56:31.984Z

The precedent for this was set by local politicians in the US who think they can reschedule Halloween to a more "convenient" weekend time. reason.com/2024/09/04/c…

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-09-05T17:26:44.617Z

About damned time. Lest you forget, Mel Brooks released "The Producers" only 22 years after the end of the Holocaust. Humor serves an important social & psychological function, a fact too many Americans denied for virtually the entire 2010s.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-09-09T17:11:23.844Z

Maybe this will help the morally-deficient grasp why consent can be revoked at any point.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-09-13T16:26:54.102Z

 

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I will always be grateful to QAnon cranks for making “sex trafficking” rhetoric unpalatable to anyone outside of the MAGA cult, thus causing the moral panic to implode.  Oh, we still have to put up with “sex trafficking” being used as an excuse for evil and tyranny, but at least we no longer need endure endless racist memes of black men’s hands over white girls’ mouths; parades of taped-mouth morons walking around or standing on lawns; or creepy fetishists demanding people draw red Xs on their hands, dye their hair blue, make paper airplanes, or wave origami birds in strange women’s faces.  It’s like the Drug War: still being used as excuse for State violence, but no more fried egg commercials or “classes” where cops encourage kids to rat their parents out to the Gestapo.  Still, I’d much rather see the yellow press furiously backpedaling from a hysteria they eagerly promoted for two decades, describing it with words like “unfounded” and “right-wing conspiracy theory”, than breathlessly espousing pure idiocy such as “4% of all US adolescents are ‘sex slaves’“, “It’s possible for a woman to be raped by 100 men a day without the neighbors noticing“, “300,000 13-year-olds vanish every year without the news being able to name even one“, “Women are so incompetent, they are unable to book hotel rooms or travel“, “Only a tiny minority of men pay for sex, yet it’s enough to sustain one of the world’s largest criminal industries“, and even “34 – 7 = 13“.

Thank Heaven for small mercies.

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In my movies, everybody always dies.  –  Brian Steven Smith

Surplus Women

Your “leaders” work hard to ensure this happens more often:

Brian Steven Smith…[of] South Africa…[has] been [sentenced to 226 years in prison for the]…murder[s of two Alaska native sex workers,] Kathleen Henry in 2019 and Veronica Abouchuk, either in 2018 or 2019…[Smith made] graphic videos…[of] Henry’s [murder, then drove around with her]…body in the back of his pickup for two days before dumping her body on a rural road south of Anchorage…The video never shows [his] face but his distinctive [South African] accent is heard…narrat[ing] as if to an audience and urges Henry to die as she’s repeatedly beaten and strangled in an Anchorage hotel room…Valerie Casler…who provided the images to police…stole…Smith’s [phone from the console of his] pickup when they were on…a [professional] date…[and] found…[the] video on it…[then] transferred [it] to an SD card she [gave to police]…During an eight-hour police interrogation…Smith confessed to police that he also killed Abouchuk…and shot her in the head before dumping her body north of Anchorage…police…later found a skull with a bullet wound there…

To Molest and Rape

Rapist cops often specifically target vulnerable women:

A West Palm Beach [Florida cop named]…James Bush…was arrested on July 12 [for trying to rape a woman]…after a man called [911] to evict his girlfriend.  When Bush arrived, he told the man to leave…the[n immediately] asked her if she wanted to “go upstairs and have some fun.”  He then grabbed her arm…[and dragged] her to a bedroom, [where he] tried to…oral[ly rape her, then switched tactics to]…offer…her “$2,000 to get your own place”…[she] eventually [got him to leave, but he returned with another cop]…hours later…[when] the…boyfriend called police again…The woman [then] told the [other cop] that Bush had sexually assaulted her and that she had evidence on her phone.  “Bush grabbed her phone during a struggle and deleted video, which was retrieved during the subsequent investigation”…

The Implosion Begins (#1079)

Now that the hysteria has imploded, local media are happy to attack the same fantasies they eagerly spread for two decades:

…a sting operation to nab sexual predators…was run…in May by Millersville [Tennessee] Assistant Police Chief Shawn Taylor and a colorful cast of [fellow psychopaths] he assembled…Taylor did not involve other law enforcement agencies with more experience in such operations because of his un[til-recently popular] conspiracy theories that…state officials are involved in child sex trafficking…Members of a private group posed online as minors — despite Millersville police being told by prosecutors that the sting would be legal only if [pigs] were the ones doing the [entrapment]…Taylor [claimed] investigators would be using [illegal] “pre-signed search warrants”…he…has voiced support for all sorts of bizarre…child sex trafficking [myths which were popular with reporters as long as they only demonized sex workers instead]…of…powerful…Democrats…[and] imagines that Millersville, a community of about 6,000 people just north of Nashville, is at the center of Tennessee’s drug and human trafficking operations…Two of the men were introduced to the group as “prayer warriors,” who are part of a group that believes…human trafficking i[nvolves]…”demons”…and former Navy SEAL Craig “Sawman” Sawyer…[who in 2018] took a Tucson TV crew to a camp that he [fantasiz]ed might have been used for child sex trafficking

Follow Your Bliss (ROTW #2)

Beware of men who “volunteer” to be in positions of authority over your kids:

A [Michigan church volunteer named]…Jonathan Russell is facing 10 charges [of child molestation]…Russell [targeted] children he…was [given authority over as] a volunteer youth organizer for the [First Baptist] church [of Bridgeport].  In March…he…was arraigned in Crawford County on three similar charges…[and] previously was convicted in North Carolina in 2016 on charges that he spanked [children] without their parents’ permission…

I Spy (#1398) 

If “official” thugs can obtain your data without a warrant, so can unofficial ones:

The call and text message records of tens of millions of AT&T cellphone customers in mid-to-late 2022 were exposed in a massive data breach…the telecom company…blamed [on] an “illegal download”…the compromised data includes the telephone numbers of “nearly all” of its cellular customers and the customers of wireless providers that use its network between May 1, 2022 and October 31, 2022….[and] every number AT&T customers called or texted – including customers of other wireless networks – the number of times they interacted and the call duration…customer names were not exposed…however…publicly available tools can [easily] link names with specific phone numbers…AT&T…learned [about the breach] on April 19 [of this year, but]…the US Department of Justice…de[mand]ed in May and in June that [the company] delay…public disclosure…

Any information which exists can be misused by corporations or demanded by cops; the only way to stop that privacy invasion is not to collect the information in the first place.

I Spy (#1415)

Cops and politicians should never have been allowed to insert themselves into any doctor-patient relationship, but that ship sailed long ago:

 J.D. Vance…Trump’s pick for vice presidential nominee, pressured federal regulators last June to kill a privacy rule that prevents police from accessing the medical records of people seeking reproductive services…The rule was designed to prevent [cops] in anti-abortion states from using private records to hunt down and prosecute people who cross state lines in search of abortion services.  If the Trump-Vance ticket wins this year’s presidential election, the new administration could rescind the rule…

When Ambulance-Chasers Run the Hospitals (#1450)

Politicians increasingly use nuisance lawsuits to circumvent the Constitution:

…NGL…seems like a fairly standard social media offering, allowing users to post questions or prompts and receive anonymous responses.  Now, the Federal Trade Commission…has ordered [it] to ban users under age 18…[claiming that it] “unfairly” marketed the app to minors…[while barfing out the magic censorship-justifying buzzwords] “cyberbullying and harassment”…To settle the lawsuit, the agency is not only making NGL pay $5 million, it’s also requiring the app to ban those under age 18 from using it…[which] is effectively a backdoor way to accomplish what Congress has been failing to mandate legislatively and what courts have been rejecting when state [politician]s do it…the FTC does not seem to be requiring NGL to check IDs…[yet,] but…it doesn’t seem like a long shot from here to either a) punishing the company further if kids lie about their ages, thereby necessitating the use of ID checks or other age verification schemes by NGL, and/or b) requiring more invasive age verification schemes in future orders to social media companies…

 

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Under criminalization…the foxes are set to guard the henhouse, and nobody notices or cares how many chickens they satisfy their appetites upon.  –  “In Charge of the Henhouse

 

The love and friendship between two people is an organic thing which has to be taken for what it is; any attempt to rebuild it into something else is as doomed to failure as a scheme to turn one animal into another by cutting it apart and putting it back together in a different shape.
–  “A Living Thing

This is the level of critical thinking I’d expect from someone who still believes in the Easter Bunny.
–  “The War Goes On (#736)

There is no such thing as changelessness; there are only differing rates of change.  –  “Eternity

Women who are mature enough to accept “open” relationships do not go around calling their husbands “pathetic”, “unattractive” and “needy” for having a sex drive in their forties.  And asking a selfish, judgy, sexually-immature woman for an open relationship is going to be about as productive as throwing a stick of dynamite into a cesspool.  –  “Bad Advice

I guarantee you a divorce will set you back more than a few hundred bucks once or twice a month.  –  “Cheapskate

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Though it may look to y’all as though I’m back in the saddle again after an eight-year absence, in truth I never actually left it.  –  “Back in the Saddle

For some reason, when perfectly ordinary sex workers…use a perfectly ordinary technology or product, it becomes a story.
–  “Perfectly Ordinary

This is like something a kindergartener would think of, not an actual design to help people fashioned by sane adults.  –  “Paint by Numbers (#734)

Cops and prosecutors have become so used to courts sucking their dicks and reporters licking their boots that they seem to have developed a pathological level of overconfidence in their own lies and depredations.  –  “Loose Cannons

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