Elizabeth Bruenig

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@lesaboteur87 I am referring to interpersonal relationships, body image, personality, things of that nature. I am not saying that if you’re poor you should accept your fate and starve — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@RTeebo you are fucking insane — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

you can do real numbers on this site by saying like “don’t worry be happy? great more defeatist talk promulgated by capital to avert meaningful climate policy. sorry for wanting to live to see 2040.” it’s incredible — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

in the very thread multiple people asked whether my very common observation about personal contentment actually referred to welfare policy, a subject I write at length about for a living, and each time I clarified that no, I obviously was not — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@tcollier7 🧠 — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

let my man start a new life!!!!!!! https://t.co/u5miQad4xu — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

first arc is a christmasy romance, then it becomes a christmasy drama, then a christmasy mystery, then a christmasy detective procedural, then a christmasy thriller, then a christmasy horror, etc. kind of like too many cooks but christmas, — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

i got an idea for a hallmark christmas movie thing. i think they should do one where it's one long movie that runs all season, but switches focus arc to arc on different characters all in one universe -- critically, though, moving between genres as it changes focus — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@hmmmmmmmmmmmn i'm referring to matters of individual achievement and attainment, not social justice — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@oldcrowfanclub equality is good prima facie — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@sunnyjim4 your face, your body, your personality, your house, your status, your kids, all the other insane shit people drive themselves nuts trying to improve and refine, it's all there — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@tcleveland4real well i don't mean to imply that i invented it or anything — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

a solid 80% of happiness is making the conscious choice to quit comparing and simply love what you have — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@acvandervoort the problem with the hotdog is they need to serve it in more increments — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

in a restaurant when you order the soup and they bring a bowl and there's just some debris in it and then they bring a little vessel and pour the soup over, that's how you know you're dealing with some serious high-level soup, not some amateur bullshit — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@Debforsure second one — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@NickAllmaier yes — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@AustinKittyBlue @theholyf00l ok. it will always make me sad when people aren't socialists. but that's life, we've all got to deal with all sorts of different people in this world. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@AustinKittyBlue @theholyf00l you think it might be time to move on? — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@AustinKittyBlue @theholyf00l yes but you talk to me! it's one thing to ignore someone when they'e not saying anything to you; it's another when they're continually speaking to you. you spend a lot of time trying to force me to do stuff, but -- why? what's in this for you? — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@AustinKittyBlue @theholyf00l it's a numbers issue. there aren't enough men to staff all of these enormous companies (and factories, supply chains, retail locations, etc) at the levels and lengths of time needed to generate the profit capital has become accustomed to. they're not going to scale back by 50%. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@AustinKittyBlue @theholyf00l i guess for me the question remains: if you dislike me so much, why don't you just block me and move on? i'm one of hundreds of writers, thousands of accounts on here. you could forget i exist so easily — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@AustinKittyBlue @theholyf00l now, capital can do all sorts of other horrible things and does so all the time -- this is why i'm a socialist! — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@AustinKittyBlue @theholyf00l this is where metaphors confuse and scare people. in fact, the large scale employment of millions and millions of people critical to global production would be really difficult to instantly scale back, and ruling interest (i.e. capital) has any desire to see that happen. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@AustinKittyBlue @theholyf00l i.e., if what feminists of the 70s meant to do was make it possible for women to just be people in the world, then that's what i'm doing, just being a person in the world. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@AustinKittyBlue @theholyf00l i have repeatedly said i am not special. it's possible that the gains of prior generations of feminists have made concrete differences, and i've been the beneficiary of that. but when doors have been opened, you go through them -- you don't keep beating on them. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@AustinKittyBlue @theholyf00l it is still not the most important thing to me. i'm not going to let people who have a problem with me choose what part of me is the most important, most meaningful part. i get to choose that. and i will rise over whatever they throw out there. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@AustinKittyBlue @theholyf00l i rose above everyone who had a problem with my being a girl. i won debate tournaments, i won UIL state in essay writing as a junior. i got the grades. for people who thought i was stupid, my being a girl was the most important thing. but it was not the most important thing to me — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@AustinKittyBlue @CaioAlmendra https://t.co/bjuoAOlz2Q — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@AustinKittyBlue @theholyf00l i mean you are also living in 2021, we're equally privileged in having not been born during the early enlightenment — PolitiTweet.org