"... complaint alleging that the county was using zoning enforcement to deprive Asian Americans of water." "... our fight will continue until every resident has access to adequate water to meet their daily needs.” #WATER

The thing about conservatives and others on the right is that they lie. Constantly. To you. To each other. To themselves. Professional rightwingers are lying liars who lie. Distrust outlets that try to convince you these snakes are ever sorry about anything

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This is why "waiting to see if it gets worse" is a problem. Viral replication is exponential. By the time you feel "sick enough" to go to urgent care, you may have missed the window to keep that curve small. Test fast. Treat fast. Deny the virus that AUC. www.patreon.com/posts/dealin...

Hot take, Furry is not unique in any way. We are not uniquely queer, or uniquely progressive, or uniquely sex positive, or uniquely safe for survivors. But we regularly insist we are special while sweeping all the evidence to the contrary under the rug. Anything to protect our "UwU no dwama" image.

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"What, are the Democrats supposed to just block legislation so that NOTHING gets done?!" Yeah. Yes. They should be keeping the Nazis from doing things.

me: I'm so pissed at democrats for not fighting republicans hard enough liberals: well perhaps you'd be more comfortable on republican dot republican, the republican website, eh, you old republican?

Please it’s almost the 1st. Please, please get us to our goal. I don’t even know what to say about it anymore. And even our goal amount is not going to keep us totally and completely safe and out of the weeds, but it sure as hell will help!

This past weekend we had dinner with our friend who is a Sbux union leader. She clued me into 3 things. Starbucks has not signed a contract with the workers for 4 years. Starbucks has more union violations than any other company in the US. Shareholders are demanding they settle. Keep boycotting.

eugenics and ableism remain mainstays of our present that we must understand and contend with to build a sustainable future for all.

Without racists of some form, there is no movement Right-wing.

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DNA evidence is *very* extremely conclusive. There is a problem though: even though the odds of a false match are like one in a billion, laboratory error is not. It is illegal to mention this. www.cnn.com/2024/03/09/u...

"The Israeli government, which I do not support, should never face any consequences whatsoever for its actions" was essentially the way most people talked on here from exactly Oct 7th 2023 to Jan 20th 2025.

And he has the power to hurt this time? He doesn’t doubt himself. He is fucking team terf. He will be the one with the power this time. It’s insane and grotesque and we all get to witness this horribly disfigured monster mete out his idea of justice by becoming an empty shell of himself

And finally the Chappelle show and Comedy Central debacle cut him deeper than I think he knows and he knows it cut him very deep. He hasn’t gotten over that shit in 20 fucking years. His kids are grown and he’s not over that. So someone he perceives as also trying to “control” or “cancel” him

different civil rights movements to the black civil rights movement and there is a lot to be said about the black civil rights movement getting left in the lurch by “allies” but his hatred of this trend leads him to do… the exact same thing. He has become the thing he hates through and through

He is not wrong about stuff. It’s impossible. And this goes into a third problem with him. He knows how racist America is and he is fucking furious at the gay community for achieving civil rights and more power faster than black people. He has talked regularly about the inequity of comparing

He is also aware he is a genius. And this is a big fucking problem because he thinks he therefore must be correct. He doesn’t doubt himself as possibly being wrong on this or a number of issues he just doesn’t know about. Why? Cuz he’s a genius. He regularly calls himself the GOAT.

So for transphobia, he is he just is transphobic. He doesn’t like trans people and it’s an emotional thing for him but he has legitimised it in his brain thoroughly. He knows it tho, he’s aware he doesn’t like trans people but that disgusts him so he embarrassedly has tried to justify it publicly

So it doesn’t super matter “why” but it’s something I’ve been fascinated by so fuck it I’ll share my thoughts on it. Dave Chappelle has 4 main issues: Transphobia He is aware of his genius He’s the product of a deeply racist America He’s still very bitter about the Chappelle show

The Second-Order Streisand Effect is a social phenomenon where if a party makes an effort to censor information, discussion and news about the censorship paradoxically leads to an increased awareness of Barbara Streisand, a musician whom most "Zoomers" would probably have otherwise never heard of

“I just can’t let this go because reasons” yeah we know Dave. You’re fucking pathetic

I always remember how Eddie Murphy got into trouble after delirious because of his unconscionably ignorant AIDs jokes. He joked about the gay community being angry with him about it in raw but that was it. Everyone moved on. It never defined him which I think highlights how pathetic Chapelle is

not to pull a "furry art is easy money", but I am still quite unemployed, and it turns out I can do furry art. so, I'm softly playing with the idea of taking commissions in this style, if that's something anyone would find interesting. so, uh. if that's something anyone would find interesting, hmu

Years ago, one of my journalism mentors said that three questions cut through a lot of political noise. 1) Who, or what, is being emphasized? 2) Who, or what, is being ignored? 3) Who, or what, is considered expendable? I think about those a lot.

“Insanely racist is a bit much. Anyway we should also be mad at Latinos”

So many libs have a brain disease where they can’t stop themselves from blaming brown people for everything

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The question isn’t one of fandom, friendship, or love but how people are picking up signals about their priority within what is supposed to be their electoral home with the people they’re supposed to work to have representing them.

So I think there should be some understanding around why people who’ve already been told their representatives have a tentative commitment to defending their right to be are concerned about someone like MTG being embraced. There’s more to coalition-building than simple addition.

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“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” — Maya Angelou

I personally think that when a guy like Cuban says he has an easier time talking with nazis and pedophiles on twitter than human beings on bluesky, we should believe him and draw all the obvious conclusions about his moral character and ultimate goals.

I'm old enough to remember when Johnson's electoral victory was hailed as a progressive shift that would finally start to roll back Chicago's police state. You know, all the way back in 2023.

Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience. Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense. They admitted it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Well m, he won. They won. He’s no longer useful to them. And the people that found him funny, meaningful, inspiring & thoughtful (like myself) have since moved on.

Is he still funny? Probably. He’s a master storyteller of the highest caliber. That Mark Twain award meant the world to him. But nobody cares now. His Netflix audience wasn’t real. It was co-opted by people who wanted him to continue engaging in transphobic & My Speech Is Under Attack rhetoric.

He fell into one of the worst comedian traps. He eschewed the audience that genuinely used to find him funny in favor of an audience that would simply cheer him on. That kind of audience is Death for comedians. Because it is disingenuous & inauthentic, which fucks up your Funny Barometer.

So. Dave Chappelle dropped another special. Is it funny? Poignant? IDK! Nobody’s talking about it. I think the reason is bc his role as a convenient fool for the very people whose Weird Laugh made him spirit away to Africa is done. He got the world he fought for. One in which he is irrelevant.

The recent spike on here of racist liberals venting at POC for not saving them in the election made coming across this passage of Marx’s 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte today a weird bit of kismet

I can't believe people are talking about MTG being redeemed because she went on an "I don't like pedophilia" tour. Who likes pedophilia save for Trump and a couple dozen billionaires? Disliking pedophilia isn't enough to make you a decent person. It isn't even enough to keep you out of Hell.

liberals are incapable of believing anyone else is less craven & sniveling than they are and thus they need conspiracy theories to explain why other people cares about murdered palestinian children when they didn't and still dont.

This, combined with "vice signaling" (taking pride in antisocial behavior) has given us the reign of the Stupid Asshole, something most people are against, but can only be remedied if we're not too polite to talk about it

Probably has something to do with students on college campuses trying followed by everyone collectively throwing them to the dogs

or the media just stops covering them

When will there be serious reflection as to why these people have jobs?