like, okay, consent does literally just mean agree. which is what enables this little rhetorical trick. because there’s all this cultural emphasis on sexual consent, which is just expressed as consent, a lot of phrases whose intended meanings are “rape is bad” can be taken literally to mean “i should get to agree to everything that happens in my vicinity.”
for an example, “i didn’t agree to seeing you wear that shirt” is straightforwardly a fucking insane thing for someone to say, but people regularly make use of this trick to make the (functionally identical) statement “i didn’t consent to seeing that”
Strongly recommend that people familiarize themselves with the white supremacist concept of “right to comfort” because of how scarily that concept aligns with this behavior
THIS is where the logic comes from that drives misogynistic control of what women wear, how fat people exist in public, how disabled people exist in public, miscontrues kink-related fashion as the same as sex itself, and prevents people breastfeeding their children in clean environments.
Its interesting what demographics are effected most negatively by this huh
Private Equity Firm bought Joann’s and sucked it dry for their profit.
The same scam that killed J. Crew, Sears, Toys R Us and Kmart.
Is this really what our country is about ? Rich assholes take out a loan against the company they want to buy, to buy it. (How is that legal ?!!) Steal all the profits from the company for years, starving it to death. Then declare bankruptcy on the loan they took out to buy the company in the first place, leaving the company they “bought” bankrupt.
No consequences for the Equity Firm. Not them. Just 19,000 employees out of work and millions of shares rendered worthless. The Equity Firm walks away with hundreds of millions, to go do it again to someone else.
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Musk is mimicking this strategy against the U.S. government, and it looks like it’s working.
It’s so funny how the game store used to sell games the music store used to sell music and hot topic used to sell goffic accessories but now they all stock the same anime backpacks and novelty fnaf soap of whatever
David Frum On Zelensky: “I think he just shames them. He just shames them. Every time JD Vance looks at Zelensky, he sees a better man. And he hates it because at some level, if you’re a JD Vance you have to know what you are.”
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