Basically, the thing to understand why there are so many Tradcath converts in educated conservative circles is that there is intense demand there for a form of right-wing Christianity less embarrassing and low status than fundamentalist Evangelicalism.

I do believe in seraphic politeness, but it's not seraphic nor polite to minorities to let fascists bully them. Contrary to contemporary wisdom, you actually CAN defeat fascism with the power of love; love for humanity so overwhelming you'll obliterate fascism to protect those it threatens.

If you wannabe my lover, you gotta plant subtle hints throughout a sprawling subterranean architecture which used to house many different barely understood activities, but now only house the refuse and regret of Its creation

A lot of people have pointed out how contradictory this seems in light of so many anti-trans actors seeking to use autism as a reason to gatekeep healthcare, but it makes sense when you view psychiatry as a disciplinary structure tbh.

Digestion is an extant form of Transubstantiation

If you visit Istambul, look up at the walls of Ottoman-era mosques, madrasahs, tombs or other buildings. You might find "kuş sarayları" (bird palaces), gorgeous stone bird houses in the shape of elaborate mansions. These were mainly built between the 16th to 19th centuries, to show kindness to birds

Luca Signorelli, 'Four demons inspecting a book' (1500-1503)

Smart move from Levitz to pull out the classic "no you" defense Fortunately, most Democrats are committed to "progressive values," even if it means occupying territory, destroying economies, bombing civilians, arming genocide, running concentration camps, killing journalists... Whatever it takes

Thinking about the witch hunts, where everything's made up and the points don't matter, where anyone with a personal stake was then burned at that stake

Hell YES this is dignity of risk and it's a way trans liberation goes hand in hand with disability liberation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dignity...

A good faith "conservativism of love" teaches us to be cautious, intentional, and sustainable In practice, we see a conservatism of fear, which fixates on insecurity and seeks power to control it, motivated by short term libidinal satisfaction which reaffirms power regardless of its outcomes

This kind of antifeminism is a socialism of fools, wherein working class resentment at exploitative elites is diverted into anger at feminized phantasms, like “HR.”

Our constitution is designed with loopholes in the safety net to allow slavery, America's original sin, and elites today still use those same loopholes to exploit the vulnerable. We need a new constitutional convention to guarantee our rights - not just vague access to "voting power"

All these right wingers who converted to Catholicism in adulthood were just shopping around for an ideology that justified their pre-existing instincts and prejudices. If you convince them that Catholicism means peace and charity they'll just drop it and keep shopping.

It's tangential, but one thing I notice about this argument is that it treats migrants' alleged use of documents of dubious provenance as independent proof that the facts represented in those documents are untrue. In my experience, that is not the case

Any project that seeks restorative justice must foster and support that restoration MTG is not "cured" or "forgiven" but Omar is right to credit and encourage her movement towards justice as a model for others: it is a necessary moment in the transformation of our enemies into allies

The Democratic Party has a generational pipeline and participation problem, and a 26-year-old running her first campaign did more to address it than the entire party infrastructure. For context: Abughazaleh ranked second only to AOC on new donors under 30 brought in by House candidates.

The thing where voters don't believe republican policies could be as evil as they are apparently extends to the republicans actually in charge of the government just mindlessly implementing them

Sure, yeah, true. However. When Democrats make it a non-issue, it looks like they're fine with the politics of Trump and the effect his crimes have on the lives of people. Dems need to make impeachment a small first step in a massive reorientation project. They've tried to ignore it for 10 years.

Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

Temporality, security, and consumer confidence play an important role here that isn't captured by Median Income & CPI data. The conversion from the material economy we measure to the libidinal economy we experience is mediated by psychosocial factors that politicians refuse to interrogate.

I think the main issue with retraining has actually been too small a scale: limiting the scope to specific jobs and industries and circumstances makes retraining a dehumanizing process of being managed, rather than an opportunity to pursue better jobs. No one is responsible for its success.

Oh yeah, a link for that might help. www.patreon.com/posts/155382...

Impeach Democratic party leaders too idgaf

I was sympathetic to Trump 2016 voters bc he represented a break from a failed establishment and for all his contradictory commitments you could read whatever agenda suited you. But, as seen by everyone paying attention, his only real commitment is to himself, his only power is breaking things

they accuse the left of making genocide a litmus test while making Hasan Piker theirs and we're supposed to take them seriously because losing every swing state somehow makes you the only viable party or something

TradCath Converts as a whole do not love the religion or the institution and do not submit themselves to a higher power - They use the notion of a higher power and a long-standing institution to legitimize the patriarchal and self-victimizing beliefs that they feel entitles them to their own power

The virgin Free Press: "Does Israel have a right to exist as a Jewish state?" The Chad Abdul el Sayed: "What do you mean by a Jewish state?" *crickets* Abdul el Sayed: "If you can't define the question, I'm not gonna answer it."

Reactionaries narrowly define prejudices to require some specific & essential hatred that relies on unknowable intent, so they can project whatever amount of bigotry justifies their vibes Antisemitism becomes less about treating Jewish people as less than human and more about whether Bari likes you

god willing it was the oracle of delphi that told him that first line

It is extremely insulting that I still occasionally get told political beliefs like police abolition are "too risky to be associated with" but the republican party is out here trying to end all life on planet earth and that's an acceptable position within the Overton Window.

The time to handcuff themselves to the White House was months ago, but I'm happy for them to start now. If their votes are powerless, let them try something else.

Biological sex does not mean "the thing we assume you are based on your genitals observed at birth." It's mostly a misnomer, but insofar as it describes anything real at all, it's a collection of biological attributes, many of which can be changed with HRT. It's neither binary nor immutable.

A tricky thing about cognitive dissonance is that the justifications we hold onto are often "true," but we only apply them in a comfortably limited scope. It's very uncomfortable to address the same truth in a broader scope: the Democratic Party is also existentially threatening!

i believe in redemption, grace, restorative justice and second chances. but nobody is entitled to wealth, fame, or mass adoration—and if a path back to all that even exists for louis c.k., it ran in the opposite direction from putting on a tie and doing “trigger the libs” bits in saudi arabia

Anti-Trans bigotry is such a strong force because Trans people represent a movement towards bodily autonomy that would violate everything the fascists hold dear. The fascists don't want anyone to get to make choices about their bodies. Trans healthcare is a slap in the face to patriarchal control.

It's International Asexuality Day so reminder that everyone feels sexual attraction in their own way and that can include not at all. It doesn't mean they're broken or wrong, it just makes them another point in the broad spectrum of how to be human. And they are ALWAYS welcome as the A in LGBTQIA+.

The transferential potential when you enact your own implicit identification with the analysand...

the therapist said i'm perfect normal and regular btw

Idk Democrats might do better if their conventional wisdom was to try to get new voters instead of spending all their money on a) people already committed to voting for them and b) people already committed to voting against them

I’ve decided that instead of panicking I’m Going to do other things occasionally !

Since we're getting Freudpilled here we must consider the oedipal implications of this metaphor: the patriarch, becoming intolerable, will inevitably be overthrown by means of a new social contract. We will commemorate the end of his impotent tyranny by feasting upon his memory (smoked pork)

One of the tricky parts about quantifying qualitative data is that the depth of meaning being expressed is flattened when captured. We all know that answering "I'm doing okay" can mean anything from "nothing to worry about" to "I can deal" to "I'm in an active crisis but don't want to admit it"

This is my trans agenda

ok

Same as it ever was

This is a legitimately great idea. Turn every ICE concentration camp into a museum of their crimes and the people who fought against them.