mildly surprised this is still up

"its not bigotry if I just say that [vaguely defined subset] of [marginalized group] are terrible" yes, yes it is and you know that

that is in fact blatantly transphobic lmao

"Black people should just leave the South!" is the same as "Trans people should just leave red states!" is the same as "Palestinians should just move to Egypt or Jordan!" is the same as "Lebanese people shouldn't live near Israel's border!"

US internal trans refugee crisis cons: rapidly increasing threat of mass persecution, erosion or outright stripping of personhood, disruption of life, poverty from moving costs, displacement of families, endless communal trauma, decreasing number of safe areas, etc pros: yay my friends live closer

Now we are in the Flight from Reality, fire everyone for a fantasy of automation, personal belief bubbles, an explosion of con men and fantastical schemes and investors who have grown bored of material reality and 4% return and demand the impossible. Only good can happen.

There were all sorts of dangerous critters lurking around in Gen X days. There was the Man with the Hook for A Hand, the Woman Who Put Razorblades in Candy Apples, the Clown Statue That Was a Murderer (he would call you in your own home while the babysitter was over).

Dems have a genuine problem with Arabs and Muslims that they have not really fixed or even tried to address

Maybe I am just forever going to be bitter and paranoid about it but the way we are treated by ostensibly liberal people even in 2026 is genuinely disgusting so I don't put anything past anyone. Apparently some in NJ are already trying to say Hamawy is affiliated with Omar Abdel-Rahman

the only good thing you can say about any of this is that there are clearly like seventeen individual insane agendas and they literally can't do all of them

"trans women are naturally aggressive because they are biological men clinging to male privilege" please keep telling me about how y'all aren't transmisogynistic

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He's had a weird obsession with trans stuff since he got backlash in 2007 from LGBTQ groups over his decision to try to push an LGB-only nondiscrimination bill (that would have been vetoed by GWB anyway). He popped back up in 2014 to continue complaining about it. I wrote about it at the time:

a nice thing about ten years ago is everyone knew there was a type of guy who had the right opinions on abortion, women's equality, etc. but was still a misogynist in practice. whereas today people will say "my emotional support poster has good politics, these minorities are delusional about him"

Evan, this thread is really unfair; they also really don't like Black people

multiple people trying to debunk this with "I have personally witnessed these people interact with the transes irl and they didn't try to murder any so there"

More bad writing than I can name has to have a concrete, tangible reason that prejudice against a species or race exists. The Quarians made an AI, condemn the lot. The Krogans are violent. The Gleepglorps stole me nan fifty thousand years ago and now we all call them nannickers. It's absurd.

An Israeli report, based on an Israeli investigation, published while Israel commits a genocide against the very people is accuses. Der Stürmer, eat your heart out.

they are simply operating on a logic where any mass or collective criticism = dogpile, and anything, now matter how intentionally inflammatory and targeted, said by one of their circle of protagonists (that is, prominent cis men) = not a dogpile, by definition, and never can be moderated like one

and in the event that some individual trans or black (or both) person (like link, cassie, etc) sticks out from the crowd enough to be perceived by the mods as the "face" of the faceless mob... ban hammer, boom we're faceless again. ALL criticism we attempt is *definitionally* "a dogpile."

only "faceless mobs" like the peons and plebeians can be categorized as "dogpiles." pencil, singal, and their friends are "non-dogpilers" by default because they are not faceless mobs. the fact that they have tens of thousands of fans whom they can mobilize against targets is simply pretended away

guys are like pencil and singal (and their pr0st@sia buddies( are individuals (and respectable cis men), whereas "trans people as a whole" are a "faceless mob." an individual isn't capable of personally being an entire dogpile (and purposefully inciting dogpiles by your fans is plausibly deniable)

it makes more sense if you understand that the mods here see "collective, decentralized criticism" (ironically) as "dogpiling," but a single high-profile bad faith actor intentionally inciting mass harassment by siccing their 100k followers on individual <1k follower trans women as "free speech"

i propose the mod team be replaced with a Poster's Council

Always, ALWAYS listen to John Waters.

I really have to emphasise this part again.

those who benefit from systems of oppression are blind to the violence on their behalf. when indigenous folk partially blockaded a landfill in order to conduct a search for the bodies of their cousins, white folk got really loud about how the sacrosanctity of the social contract was being violated.

I know it's tempting to be cynical and thing they're all consciously transphobic, but I think what's even more depressing and scary is the cis people who consciously are accepting of us and therefore refuse to reflect on the ways they might be unconsciously replicating transphobia against us.

this is what gets me: it goes back to seeing us as "deceivers" and that we're hallucinating all of the oppression we're facing. which would only make sense to someone who is a transphobe that thinks we're just LARPing out here or something

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around 2023, then 2024, I was pointing out that when you can just drop full on pandemic control because it's political expedient in the very short term, and then immediately pivot to signing off on an overt genocide, there's no red line because there's actually no ethos other than personal comfort.

Even the accusation that “trans people use their identity as a shield” can only be made from a perspective hostile to the mere existence of trans people. It is a POV that sees us as perpetual bad actors, “trying to get away with something.” It is incapable or unwilling to see us as individuals.

I dunno guys is this not obviously really, really bad? Does this not give y’all pause about the long-term utility of this website?

What we have instead is the head of Bluesky trust and safety saying something that I find indistinguishable from “and then they tried to play the trans card, but I shut that shit down.” Like…

Y’all this is just anti-woke.

imagine the dream of mixed-use urban costco leave your apartment, down the elevator, 35 steps to a $1.50 hot dog combo

i had to draw the line today when “identity” was deemed to be a shield people are “hiding behind” to “harass” this person because excuse me but doesn’t that sound exactly like the people that seek to silence and harm queer, BIPOC, trans, disabled communities

i use my platform here to raise an incredible amount of money for communities i care about i hate that i feel compelled to put that environment i’ve cultivated at risk to say that I feel increasingly less safe to speak my mind on this website

in an era where many of us are living under a fascism regime that governs through fear, this feels especially dangerous no matter how much fancy vocabulary and justification this behavior is couched in, in the end, it’s the same behavior—community boundaries are enforced through fear.

incredibly weird behavior for this website to allow one member of their team to singularly decide that any/all criticism of them is harassment to the level of a bannable TOS violation it cultivates an environment where no one is able to criticize bluesky and that makes everyone less safe

fun to watch increasingly respectable accounts chiming in to criticize the mods

Look what Signal did was legal... but just barely

the idea of actually banning "dogpiling" on a microblogging site is hilariously unworkable. not really an issue though since its obviously going to be used selectively against various undesirables

Case in point: this is not antisemitism or Nazism stemming from being Palestinian. This only comes from interacting with american neo nazi culture and adopting their beliefs.

just want to point out that this tweep obviously, desperately wants to be the next pundit to internet fight his way to national prominence but he can't do it without your help. can we just nip this in the bud for once

its genuinely fucking insane that cassie hasn’t been unbanned yet

this is open to every american to comment on, and it only has 220 total comments! if we want to stop this we need a LOT more please share and encourage your cis friends to do the same, we need you!