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"Struggling to understand standard social cues" can be genuine for neurodivergent people, but it can also be code for authority's annoyance that we don't just go along with expectation and actually ask, "Why are we still doing this pointless custom because a few dead assholes said it forever ago?"

I haven’t seen a lot of cis people I usually see pushing for calls, etc. doing so about these rules provisions, which would devastate trans people nationally. Calls need to be made to all electeds and a firm stance taken ASAP, with ten times the fervor of the Kimmel/D+ event

Wow, how weird they'd pull a show with that premise, is what I'd say if this clearly isn't being done to appease a blatantly white supremacist US government.

May I suggest payment processors and their bullshit puritanical crusades?

We came to this platform because we were promised better than sucking up to fascists, racists and conservatives, not for you to just disregard that the moment yall felt you might have gotten a bit more popular in the mainstream. Trust us the moment a new platform shows up we'll leave.

Anti-trans sentiment, censorship of NSFW work, anti-SW moderation and legislation, anti-choice initiatives, and so many things all have a common root in a genuinely horrific conservative belief: Your own body does not, and cannot, belong to you; it belongs to them and their god.

Gently: instead of whatabouting the Kimmel thing, you can use the win to motivate people who are new to collective action. Don’t punish behavior you want to see, especially if you want to see more of it.

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

I remember growing up with adults saying "Yeah, life ain't fair." which is technically true because the world is an unfair chaos. But looking back at how many of them were using it as a cruel excuse to just keep making everything *more* unfair than it had to be, it says a lot about how we got here.

Most tiring thing about this speedrun full fascist takeover of the US is every single entity that should be pushing back constantly folding like a cheap card table. It should have taken a lot longer to reach this point, but Dems, journalists, universities, on and on, just kept giving up each step.

"But rich people create jobs!" No, they don't and never have. Rich people are job destroyers. They are literally running successful companies into the ground on purpose through private equity to harvest everything short-term. Jobs are always created by product demand from a thriving middle class.

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

The authoritarian regime as it wipes itself with the Constitution of the US: "Technically, we didn't outlaw anyone's speech. We just told our oligarch friends, who we allowed to buy all the media outlets, that this list of people and topics not be allowed on any of the networks we own through them."

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

If any political group is willing to sacrifice LGBTQIA folks to get ahead they will sacrifice anyone, and I will not support them.

Michigan, call your reps. Everyone also needs to be on the lookout for when some whackjob religious ninny in your state introduces a garbage bill like this. These bills are almost always copy-paste atrocities handed out by religious psychopath PACs to multiple state legislators under their thumb.

Seriously, has there ever been anyone that is more obviously a snake demon of some kind in a rushed skin suit than Stephen Miller is? I've said for years that there needs to be a content warning before any network puts his cold, dead eyes on camera due to the black pools of endless hate behind them.

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.” Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it. Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.

The right: "How dare you call us Nazis! We're going to crack down on anyone who calls us Nazis, spread blood libel about their communities, and try to round them up into the camps that we initially built for torturing and deporting any immigrants that we felt had the wrong genetic origin!"

Where are Democrats during all of this? Democrats should be defending people who have gotten fired for telling the truth about Charlie Kirk. Their failure shows they still don’t understand why they have been losing elections.

Love English etymology like this. And I can't help my brain going: "Mark me, for I am a harbinger of DOOM! ... Now, the doom coming has a huge party, lots of consultants and such, so we're renting a lot of rooms here. Do you think I could work out a group rate or possibly a few hotels in the area?"

it is not civil when an evil person says evil things in a calm tone of voice. conversely, it is not uncivil when a good person uses curse words to denounce evil things at the top of their voice. it is evil to pretend not to understand this.

Important to remember that without the backing of shadowy billionaires that amassed impossible, inexhaustible funds due to Reagan/Thatcher tax plans and then used those funds to bankroll the destruction of human decency, these right-wing celebrities would have just been crazies that people ignored.

"Sources tell me" is the right-wing adult (ha, ha, none of those people are actually adult) equivalent of, "I heard it from Julie's cousin's best friend Stacy, who swears she saw it, but she goes to a different school."

I'm seeing other places report that the entirety of the source for these claims is Steven Crowder quoting "a friend at the ATF". There is no universe where this should be considered a reliable source or story.

It's absolutely disgusting seeing Democrats do the lofty equivalent of, "He just a uwu smol bean who just wanted to talk." over a well-funded Nazi that literally advocated for taking rights from and/or murdering all the people I care about. You can condemn violence without lionizing a monster.

If you are in a place to do so, please help us artists out by making a call to a payment processor. I made a couple calls early on, but it's gotten to a point where my entirely livelihood is at risk if any of my accounts get taken down and Its no longer safe to do so.

Reminder: Denying access to healthcare is political violence. Trying to scrub LGBTQ people from all media/classes is political violence. Attacking immigrants based on skin-color profiling is political violence. Sending jackbooted thugs into cities to intimidate the citizens is political violence.

THIS! This is the kind of narrative that democrats should push for right now. Not just say "violence is bad, m'kay?" But expose how the ramp up in political violence in the USA has been a DIRECT CONSEQUENCE of Trump's rhetoric. He's normalized being violent to opponents.

This. We need a tax code that ensures that the worst, most unscrupulous people in the world have no chance to build up an inexhaustible war chest of funds they use to destroy the good things in our world for their own gain. Y'know, like billionaires and megachurches have done for the last 40 years.

I'm still convinced that the endless narcissistic marketing that Boomers received in their youth to grow the post-Boom US economy led to them subconsciously feeling like the immortal pinnacle generation. And then other generations came along, Boomers aged, and felt unfairly robbed by everyone after.

"2013" if I can impart anything to younger folks, it's how the ubiquitous animosity towards millenials was crazy- it was constant, like a joke everyone kept making. Like whatever jokes there are about gen z, it was ten fold back then, you couldn't escape it. I wonder a lot about how much that did

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The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

I don't know how people don't get how SERIOUS it is that banks are deciding that we can no longer purchase anything even REMOTELY NSFW That means NO sex toys, NO horny figurines NO suggestive art, NO more furry content NO Baldur's Gate 3, NO pride flags NO fucking condoms NOTHING N O T H I N G

The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.

I'm not convinced Trump is fully aware of everything going on around him. To be fair, I felt that way about Biden, too. Maybe we should be governed by people who have an investment in our future cuz they'll be around for it, too.

How a lot of us kind of expected that presser to go after the delays:

Trump and Dr. Oz want AI to decide which Medicare patients get care—and they're giving AI companies a profit-incentive to deny coverage. Everything about this is sick and wrong. Tell Congress to intervene NOW:

Dem Strategists in Star Wars: "See, Luke, if you really want to lead people, you gotta try and get that storm trooper and Imperial officer vote. Admit that the Empire does have some good policies, maybe go on Moff Tarkin's Podcast and talk about how Alderaan was actually a cesspool of crime."

Back at this time, people understood just what a miracle these vaccines were. They had watched friends/family/neighbors be crippled for life or die by ravaging diseases. Later Andrew Wakefield starts a scam that quickly escapes containment and now real stooges are bringing those diseases back.

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

Death by a thousand cuts. These censorious paypros and bills in committee will eat away at our ability to provide for ourselves. This is a sure outcome if we give up, but if we keep yelling we give ourselves another possibility