alchemical girl | “most vindicated poster of our time” | liz holmes irl

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chase reads outside and eats ice cream and smokes cigarette
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elizabeth holmes took money away from rich war criminals and put it towards something that might have made the world better. what communist work have any of you ever done that can compare??
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told my psychiatrist abt my viral tweet and she immediately got worried cuz she doesn't want to see my twitter 😭 imagine being moots w ur psych what a life that would be
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chase retweeted
I kinda hate the concept of having to do something on a date like. If we can’t just chop it up on the sidewalk this isn’t gonna work
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who wants to join me for a trip on the wheel
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there really is no way to have casual sex without feeling like you’re getting exploited is there
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self loathing cigarette spiral
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flirted with a man under the smoking tree. brother didnt even ask for my insta. barely asked for my name. gen z men r truly useless
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trans girls we have got to get better at picking out names because what do you mean i went to t-girl baseball and they had who on first, what on second, and I don’t know on third.
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it is really funny how men don't understand how chaste of an activity dressing slutty is.
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i love new york. where else can you be in new york
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seeing the response to liz makes me terrified because what are they gonna say abt me if i get famous
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hope my mom learns this one day
every trans kid you deny puberty blockers to is a kid you are forcing to go through hell. we've done the studies, we know what's best for them, stop making that choice for them
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the responses to this being like “actually you don’t understand; she’s a really bad person.” do you think feminism is when Woman Good? are you fucking me ??
I set out to write a *spoiler-free* review of YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING that would still make for a worthwhile read after you’ve watched the film. This was the result (link below):
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moral ocd + also actually being self serving is so fun cuz wdym im guilty i let my friend borrow a drawing tablet because in the back of my mind i want to work with her on a book that will break me into the comic industry as a writer. like how is any of this math mathing
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Elizabeth Holmes is guilty of her fraud becoming legally fraud due to not continuing long enough— in the world of venture capital, the whole point is saying stuff like “we can make self-driving cars” & the proviso being “granted that we can continue to raise funds toward that end.” That whole world is about utilizing fraud (fictitious capital) toward scaling a speculative fiction to the degree that it “becomes real.” She’s not in some subjective sense lying, as she believes “in the idea” of that possibility being brought into reality through herself (this is the sense of herself she imposes upon herself after being raped as a freshman in college). She devotes her whole life to this idea & this is her sense of self— so what’s interesting about the film is that she does not lie, but she does lie (silently) to herself about the people around her that she has chosen to offload “pragmatic concerns” to— that enables her to be “clean” of these things, but “it’s not about the money”, moreso it’s about maintaining this absolute faith in the concept she has of her destiny in life etc. Most cult leaders believe in the fraud they commit— to preach the messianic age is to say “this will be true for everyone someday.” The problem with these types is that they enable their shields to get away with anything. She holds loyalty to the cause above her own concerns. It’s a very tragic situation— as she’s also almost definitely on the spectrum to some degree— so her whole adult life is this performance, to herself, of being self-composed & devoted to her quasi messianic mission of saving the world etc. If this belief collapses, her entire psyche would shatter into a million pieces. She is both the femme fatale & the dead girl in one person— this is what makes it such a compelling film noir. It’s beautiful that she will never give up on her quest, her faith, her belief etc— if she truly believed herself to be a fraud, she’d have taken a plea deal.
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i just started a podcast with @FaceOfMelinda01 ! listen to mean girl comic store anywhere you find podcasts. episode one out now!
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honestly kind of gross to paint a woman who was raped and groomed as some sort of liar or sociopath when she clearly created theranos as a trauma response (and motivated by Balwani). is she innocent? no, ofc not. but it feels a little weird to paint her as some villain.
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brother, i dont pass the bar, i go in.
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