If you aren’t following Sips on Twitter, here’s a reminder of why you should be.
Never forget.
No—really, please never forget that the Republican presidential nominee in 2008 airquoted women’s health in a debate, and dismissed it as an unreasonable concern when discussing your reproductive rights.
I had obviously been an Obama supporter before that point in the campaign, but that moment was the point at which I was like, oh, FUCK no. You are NOT going to be my President.
An important and related point: this attitude is a load-bearing pillar within the Republican Party.
Being fact-checked is not very fun. Good fact-checkers have a preternatural inclination toward pedantry, and sometimes will address you in a prosecutorial tone. That is their job and the adversarial tone is even more important than the actual facts they correct. In my experience, seeing your name on the cover of a magazine will take you far in the journey toward believing your own bullshit. It is human to do so, and fact-checkers serve as a valuable check to prevent writers from lapsing into the kind of arrogant laziness which breeds plagiarism and the manufacture of facts. The fact-checker (and the copy-editor too actually) is a dam against you embarrassing yourself, or worse, being so arrogant that don’t even realize you’ve embarrassed yourself. Put differently, a culture of fact-checking, of honesty, is as important as the actual fact-checking.
alright, ~~giveaway time~~
i’m giving away four of these assholes! four winners! yeay
guidelines:
- one reblog and one like per person
- no multiple accounts
- i don’t care if you reblog it on a giveaway account instead of your main one
- make sure you have your parents’ permission to receive packages from internet strangers if that might be an issue
- i’ll send them wherever
- EDIT: giveaway’s over on the 27th
