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Watching the Patreon early release of the Second Sphinx Debunked video. About half an hour in Milo goes on a serious, comprehensive, righteous rant about how a lot of conspiracy garbage is designed to distract us from the state of our fucked up world.

I work in voting rights in Texas. Our state has one of the most blatantly, unapologetically authoritarian governments in the country, and a lot of it has been a blueprint for the federal actions we are seeing now. The same people have been running the place for thirty years but they constantly lie that everything wrong with your life is the fault of trans black gay immigrant drag antifa.

Any time a public figure goes on what is clearly an off-the-cuff, heartfelt rant about how fucked up our current world is in the middle of a mostly unrelated topic, they get a lot of shit for not staying in their lane. But I celebrate it. It’s important. And it’s relevant.

Seems very appropriate to watch on the Fourth of July.

Robert and Joe both used the word “misogynistic“ toward the end of the episode.

I really hate this word. I am on a one-woman crusade to end its usage.

This isn’t one of those “it’s not a real word“ arguments. The word’s been in use since 1821 according to my venerable ancestors at Merriam-Webster. It’s a word. It’s just a dumb one.

My objection is that the more suffixes you put on a word, the further you distance it from the original and diminish its meaning.

The -ist at the end of misogynist is already doing the heavy lifting of saying that it is related to misogyny.

Misogyny is the hatred of or prejudice against women. It’s a noun.

Misogynist is both a noun (a person who hates or is prejudiced against women) and an adjective (being related to hatred or prejudice against women).

Misogynistic is unnecessary. You’re taking a noun (misogynist) and making it an adjective by adding -ic when a perfectly good adjective already exists in misogynist.

The same rules apply to racist in that it is both a noun (that guy is a racist) and an adjective (insert “that’s racist” kid meme here) but we don’t say racistic.

What you’re doing when you stick -ic at the end of misogynist is saying it’s related to being related to misogyny, and that’s just silly.

English is already seven languages in a trench coat; we don’t need to make it more ridiculous.

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