So, the freakout on the right today was a panic that The Man was coming for your gas stoves because the avocado green of your best-loved steak-cooking appliance wasn't green enough for the uncanny valley of our future dystopia. Or something like that.
This is a thing that isn't happening. Jack-booted Bidenistas are not going to confiscate people's kitchen appliances. What the whole entire heck?
But no, there was much ado:
Turn on all the burners. Don't turn them off. Leave them going as an eternal flame for all the things they took from you. Your guns. Your Bibles, Hot teachers who didn't have temporary hair colors and piercings. Breast milk cheese. Um, Burgers with real meat. Movies where white dudes are the only good guys and are definitely virile and like, getting it. Make a shrine. Put up drapes around your gas stove, which is totally all burners going at once. Rip out that carbon monoxide detector. It's a green new deal fink. Gather the children in to see your spectacle and make them take deep breaths of freedom.
Now you're really cooking with gas, friends. Look! I'm shedding real tears! You win!
UPDATE: I guess it could be stupider, like if right wing world got riled up over whether the M&Ms were sexy enough, and not obese feminist candies or whatevs. Or, like, if Dr. Suess got unironically cancelled for wokeness after conservatives got all pompous about how woke was censorship over actually--Dr. Suess. No really. Totally a serious political movement and not a bunch of slackjaws trying to figure out where the cool kids table is.
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We (2 adults) have a tiny NYC gas stove. We rented for year, then bought the place, so a new kitchen is in our future. I will get another (better) gas stove for the same reason I have All Clad - I am obsessed with getting even heat when I cook, which is all the time.
But if you are seduced by induction, who am I to judge? Just don't overcook the omelet.
Catturd's tweet must be the equivalent of rolling coal?
IDIOTS!
The brilliant thing about being performative on Twitter is that, unlike actually rolling coal, a person(a) can just allege they are running their gas stove for no reason, when internet sleuths have determined that one's apartment most likely does have an electric range after all. Actual coal rollers at least have an unnecessarily big truck kitted out to be annoying to the neighbors. Social media signifying requires nothing at all. I'm not sure how many IRL people have smashed their Keurigs, or whether Nick Adams really goes to Hooters at all hours. Thye seem to live in a world where it's important to say so for the benefit of triggering libs in front of the rest of the tribe.
Which I view sort of in anthropological interest but like...I wouldn't call it triggering? It's more like, who is this for and be more normal.
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