M. Velez
M. Velez
@thunderstick.bsky.social
Working Man, Part-Time Podcaster, Possibly The Mysterious Masked Hero ThunderStick

http://www.tobecontinuedafanboypodcast.com/
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a little boy is running down a sidewalk with a dude video behind him
ALT: a little boy is running down a sidewalk with a dude video behind him
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December 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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(butterfly voice) get a load of henry hill over here
December 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Nah... Outside of the money all that has happened is a fairly humiliating take down.

Like, the imagery alone that has come out cooks Paul in ways we probably can't even understand yet.
December 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
After a full decade that dog needs to not only not hunt, it needs to be taken somewhere to be humanely euthanized.
December 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The same Hollywood they claim is part and parcel of the massaging of public opinion.

People get so squishy and then wonder why no one ELSE is standing up?

If ya'll wanna be the leaders the Democrats aren't THEN DO THAT.

Instead I gotta hear ever more sob stories about MAGAs being manipulated.
December 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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That’s what these ‘debates’ are really about: framing old fashioned oppression as some kind of high-brow concern for women’s happiness.

You know what makes us happy? Bank accounts. Voting rights. The ability to leave a bad marriage and not have a miscarriage kill us.
December 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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That’s why conservatives are pouring millions intro trad-wife bullshit and birth control disinformation. They need young women to believe the erosion of their rights is a good thing, actually!

It’s not enough to oppress women—they want us ^grateful* for it. (We’re so much prettier when we smile.)
December 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Across the country, women are dying of sepsis, losing organs, being arrested for miscarriages, and used as brain-dead incubators.

Corpses have more rights than women living under abortion bans.

What better moment to run a full court cultural press about how freedom isn’t that great anyway?
December 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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None of this is “good faith political debate,” and it’s not a coincidence that all these outlets are suddenly interested in the same “discussion” at the same time.

Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
December 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.

Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
December 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I also declined Diary of a CEO’s invitation to have a “balanced and insightful discussion” about whether feminism “delivered on its promise of liberation for women.”

They ended up titling it, “Has modern feminism betrayed the very women it promised to empower?”

open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
Enough of 'Just Asking Questions'
Platforming extremists is killing democracy—and women
open.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Because it’s not just Bari Weiss’ CBS asking this question—in the last few months, I’ve been approached by half a dozen different shows looking to ‘debate’ the same topic.

I even got a request from NPR-distributed “Open to Debate” to see if I’d weigh in on “Has Feminism Hurt Women?”

NPR!
December 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM