Irma hits Florida, Ann Coulter does her nails: Today in Tweets

Stay safe, all, glad to hear people are coping.

Having been on an antipsychotic (Quetiapine, off-label use for anxiety), I don’t feel Ron Perlman’s response to Coulter was cool, really – she’s awful, not mentally ill.

It is baffling that the rightwingers are so insistent on climate change denial that they’re acting like this over the hurricanes. It’s a hurricane, they know what those are, and since they love to say the climate changes all the time and that it’s no biggie, surely it shouldn’t be a problem to simply acknowledge how big Irma is?

Good news pidgeon. )) Hope your power back soon. Here nothing bad, some trees and parts of hotel damaged. Worse damage is my hangover ?

@boo

“…and then one of them said “or its climate change! Global warming!” and they all started laughing like it was the best joke of all time.” …”Why are right wingers immune to good comedy??”

Oh I don’t know, I personally find this to be *really* funny in a dark and depressing sort of way.

Unmindful Moron: “You liberals blame everything on global warming. I bet you’d even blame global warming for Hurricane Irma being a powerful hurricane! But not me! I’m too smart to believe in lies spread for someone else’s financial gain!”

Rational Person: “… … … … … … …” “No, no, you’re actually right. I just saw a documentary on the History Channel that proved lazy alien mermaids using private email servers while sniffing chemtrails were to blame for Irma.”

Unmindful Moron: “Knew it!”

Off-topic, but I’m always interested in how to break the pipeline from “edgy youth” to walking, talking alt-Righter and this article from the Independent is one of the best distillations I’ve seen of why that particular demographic is so vulnerable to it: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/alt-right-neo-nazi-donald-trump-hitler-memes-pepe-the-frog-ubermensch-based-stickman-a7938911.html

It actually had me reflecting on something… I haven’t really seen any “memeified” language used in any of the social justice circles I inhabit. Sure, there are some common touchstones in terminology that can be esoteric, chiefly “patriarchy” or something like “rape culture”, but these are not meant to stymie or confuse those outside the in-group. A layman can look these up and find nominal definitions for them, definitions meant to spur additional learning for those unfamiliar with them. But everything these alt-right clowns do is just come up with newer and sillier shibboleths to signal to their brethren that they’re “in on the joke” (which is also a shibboleth which translates to being either indifferent or actively antagonistic to those who are seeking social justice the most). It’s like there’s a constant march to add a new dog-whistle to the collection. “Oh shit, the normies are on to Pepe! How about the okay sign? Or milk? Or Groucho Marx glasses? Oh wait, too culturally Marxist!”

It’s very telling just how much work it takes to fashion these shibboleths of theirs and just how much they have to rely on subterfuge. To the typical South Park-reared teenager, I can see why smug detachment combined with silly cartoon frogs can be so appealing, but wading into those waters is hazardous unless something is there to ground you and remind you that there is a broader world where people get hurt by stuff like this.

Just an observation and an article I wanted to share.

I’ve noticed a few tweets from people who were more willing to believe the Deep State was using HAARP and Chemtrails to create hurricanes and destabilize Trump than believe billions of tonnes of additional atmospheric CO2 might have adverse effects on the environment.

Dimmy! You’re an others! <3 hee

I'm glad you're okay, and that you were spared the Wrath of Irma!

I am so glad that our Floridian Mammotheers are okay!

Milo says he lost his house to Irma.

He didn’t.

http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/celebrities/article172687231.html