Women hold up half the sky

I feel bad for the women who must endure this dating pool but I also feel sorry for young men who are insecure about dating. This is the kind of advice our culture gives them.

I grew up in a house in the forest four kilometres outside of a small village. I had the same experience that many others have of rural communities as intolerant. My parents were artsy intellectual types who didn’t have that much money and that made me the weird kid in school, which was ten very lonely years. That sucked.

Being far from convenient services also sucked somewhat but I was a kid and I was used to it so it didn’t bother me.

What didn’t suck was that I had this huge forest I could roam around in. There was fresh air and no traffic. If I wanted to swim I could walk ten minutes down to the beach. I often miss that and being this close to nature.

I moved away to study and have lived in cities every since. Once in a while I toy with the idea of moving to the country, of getting an old farmhouse and have lots of space. But then I realise how much I like the convenience of living in the city, how I love my 15 minute commute and my easy access to groceries, healthcare and other services.

I’m probably never moving back to the countryside but I do o like going there once in a while.

Only as a “gotcha” to derail discourse on queer rights, women’s rights etc.

This is like refusing to accept your paycheck because of the possibility that you might get robbed.

I suspect that they are mad at the women with exotic hair colours exactly because they are also thirsting over them.

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They have a military budget of a gazillion dollars! How the fuck can they run out of money for war?!

I’m annoyed with Matador. There’s no doubt that it is very well made and very well written. Lise Nørgaard was a very capable writer. But on the other hand her reactionary politics really show, and she gives a completely distorted view of the occupation years.

Lauritz is depicted as charming but also as a naive selfish asshole whose kid almost drowned because he is too communist. When the Nazis gives the government the excuse to ban the communist party and jail leading communists he escapes because he is warned by the friendly old cop. That was far from the typical experience for victims of anti-communist persecution and gives a completely false impression of the willingly collaborationist role played by the police in the purge of Danish communists, replacing actual history with a rose-tinted fairy tale about communities sticking together to get everyone safe through the war.

Once Lauritz escapes he flees to Sweden and is not seen until after liberation. Meanwhile, the sympathetic centrist doctor and the cultured credit union manager leads a local resistance cell, getting in gunfights with the Nazis. Again, a completely distorted view of what the resistance was actually like. In reality, communists made up the bulk of the resistance and many communists who escaped from police and concentration camps stayed in Denmark to do underground activities. Meanwhile, the comfortable sensible upper middle class that Nørgaard was so openly enamoured with were among the demographics that made the least contributions to the resistance.

You could say that this is a fictional story and that the way the war is described is, if not representative then at least not completely inplausible. But there is a problem. Matador was and is still very popular and to many people the show has become the definitive version of what the 1930’s and 1940’s were like. It has shaped public perception of the occupation much more than any history book could ever have done.

Usurers and debt collectors deserve the pit.

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They are literally doing the 99% Hitler bit

There were military installations in the WTC, it was a legitimate target.

Also, fuck those blue-tinted headlights. Every single time you think there’s an emergency vehicle around until you realise that it is just some asshole who thinks white headlights are not fancy enough for him.

Oh fuck. My partner was almost killed by those once.

I have never understood how people could mourn a person who they have never met and who has never done anything for them.

I can kind of understand paradoxical relationships to artists or authors or streamers, at least they do something for you. But royals don’t even do that, the best case scenario is that they keep out of public scandal and spend their life cutting ribbons, smiling and doing small-talk with local dignitaries.

Why are people so emotional over this?

To be fair they do have a shaman.

No Public Holiday For Norwegians

Norwegians hoping that the death of the enigmatic mountain kingdom’s octogenarian supreme leader, king Harald, might at least give them an unexpected day off are going to be disappointed.

The Norwegian regime has decreed a period of national mourning but has made it explicitly clear that there will be no surprise public holiday. However, schools and employers are advisedto allow students and employees to watch the state funeral on TV “if possible”.

Although no explicit demands are made of citizens and no activities has been formally banned, the regime is pressuring the public to observe the mourning period by recommending rituals demonstrating deference to the Cult of personality surrounding the deceased supreme leader — such as the wearing of black armbands, the display of portraits or the performance of nationalist music — to be performed in businesses and at public events. The regime is also asking for a cessation of noisy activities during the state funeral.

The Norwegian football association has already bowed to regime pressure and cancelled matches this weekend.

The state funeral is expected to cause massive disturbance of traffic and public transit in Oslo.

Where’s Greenland?

Just copy paste the text if you want to quote a tweet. We shouldn’t be linking to a nazi child porn site.