{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Didn\u2019t watch the Kavanaugh hearings but I followed twitter until 10EST when I went to bed and the consensus on both left and...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/178534234883/", "html": "<p><a href=\"/post/178530965778/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Didn\u2019t watch the Kavanaugh hearings but I followed twitter until 10EST when I went to bed and the consensus on both left and right was that Ford was performing left/female-idiomatic emotion so well the Senate couldn\u2019t possibly confirm him, but by the time I woke up the left/right consensus was Kavanaugh had performed right/male-idiomatic emotion so well they were certainly going to so \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_/\u00af</p></blockquote><p>Like, twice in two years the fundamental nature and future of America \u2013 as a state, a nation, a culture \u2013 has radically shifted in a 8-hour long process where everyone assumes it\u2019s shifting leftward for the first 4 hours until it turns out it\u2019s shifting rightward, while every single public figure records their real-time reactions on social media</p>"}