If you want to read Didion and Babitz for their prose and skill, do it. Don’t do it because holding a copy somehow inscribes you as a lit-socialite in the flatteringly false-ironic framework of the It Girl as self aspirational model. We deserve a more radical aspiration.

This is America 13 year-old boy selling roses got arrested and mistreated this way. He’s not begging anyone for a dollar he’s making a dollar.. but look out the way the police treated him. They did not call for his parents.. to the police in Joe Biden America.

Whatever your cause, if you damage art or block traffic to 'draw attention' to it, you're actually hurting it, because you alienate everyone who'd been neutral up to this point.

I'm sorry @ashaddb but this is a fallacy. SL Railways are mismanaged. That's the problem. The solution is to put it under better management.

Privatising doesn't automatically guarantee better management. It'll only help to divert more money from the poor to another 1-percenter.

Frank J. Fleming The childless DO pay higher taxes

They don’t get any of the tax breaks or benefits associated with having children

The presence of personality difficulties does not free someone from responsibility for their actions. Only psychosis can do that. False empathy for the sake of avoiding criticism is collusion and enablement.

Zelex tbh people would be more tolerant of children being in public spaces if less parents assume that the general public are somehow honour bound to put up with their children's antics in silence.

Thomas Juneau

My ideal solution to this problem involves a central accountable person at the GMC that can be emailed every single time such an event happens, in every setting across the UK, with a third party (BMA?) copied in. There is at present no accountability whatsoever for this.

🇦🇺 This was the man responsible for the appalling stabbing attack in Australia:

40-year-old Joel Cauchi.

If you were on X yesterday, I'm sure this news would be a shock to you, especially considering the narrative promoted by certain accounts.

Thoughts and prayers are with all…

Nothing is more arrogant than people living in the West using our fear and suffering as props in their deluded fantasies. Disgusting and evil people.

Americans lusting for war.

Meanwhile my friends in Lebanon, Israel and Jordan are terrified that the war grows larger and they may not live.

You American sofa revolutionaries are some of the most vile humans on earth.

So uniforms are sacrosanct only when it comes to Hijab in schools?

1. In Sydney, a mother & child were stabbed by a mentally ill white man, Joel Cauchi

2. When a brave security guard, Faraz Tahir, a Muslim refugee, stepped in to save them, Cauchi killed him

3. Top British media figures blamed the deaths on Muslims

4. Their tweets are still up

Only in the UK do people deny the fact that the best and brightest become doctors. This is accepted and applauded in literally every other country on Earth, except the UK where envy and doctor-bashing is a feature of the culture at large, enabled by the socialism of the “arrrNHS”

Quantum Connections Oh yeah. He was horrific. The problem is too many Iranian exiles made money under the shah and were privileged. They have a willfull blindness about his regime.

Someone reminded me of the Shah's ridiculousness. In 1971, he had a $650 million dollar party for the 2500 year founding of Persepolis.

He invited every important dignitary. Hardly any Iranians were allowed. He served guests peacocks for dinner and imported big blocks of ice.

The state of Iran actually pays for Jewish children to attend Hebrew classes.
mondoweiss.net/2017/02/jews-i…

US urged the Shah to crackdown more and that he was too soft.