One thing I don't think is honest is that the reactionary centrists who prescribe this always ascribe it as a necessary concession to *other* people—the huddled masses, the heartland, the bigots and rubes of the American electorate who cannot be persuaded—and not a matter of their own preferences.

The dick sucking factory is in crisis. The tariffs have made dicks twice as expensive to import. All the best dick suckers want a "living wage" nowadays and have quit to start cottage industry penis stimulation businesses. Congress promised a bailout but it went to the ass eating lobbies instead.

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Whatever we do when this is over, it better (politically) make General Sherman look like Mr. Rogers.

still believe this

THE MEME IS REAL

All these Just For Men beard nazis sitting on their phones then running like dinky dog catchers after the nearest brown person. Like just any non-white person in the vicinity is their target and I can’t believe Dems aren’t saying fuck this we’re shutting down the government.

the history will continue until morale improves

these bills are quite strong individually but as a group they’d combine to make california so much safer for trans people of all ages, cis californians who follow me please take a literal minute of your day to call Newsom and demand he not leave us to the wolves (bill numbers are in linked post)

Newsom fans, especially in CA: time to show your guy the way forward! (also non-fans but I know YOU’VE got this…)

When I look at what the Republican Party wants to take from trans people there is no line they won't cross--my speech, my privacy, my body. When I look at the Democratic Party I see no line they're willing to draw.

so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!

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reject modernity embrace tradition

"Trump wants to make your healthcare expensive because he would rather no one have healthcare than trans people have healthcare" is an easy slam dunk and a direct contradiction to the idea Trump cares about all people vs just "they/them", it's actually the opposite--he will hurt everyone to hurt us.

i DEEPLY hate the term. it's patronizing, it's a stupid euphemism, it plays into the transphobic notion that cis people are humoring us, it's epistemological oppression to avoid saying the word trans, 90% of the shit cis people do isn't called "gender affirming", etc it's fucking trans healthcare.

sponsored the state's youth gender affirming care ban

men: if you want a ‘traditional’ woman, do it yourself

there are almost twice as many trans people in the world as there are canadians so i propose instead of tormenting trans people 24/7 we focus all that energy on the hockeyheads in their fortress of ice

Absolutely spot on - and also completely in line with their essential purity/taboo ideas of sex. Tale as old as time: this kind of sex is dirty, but I want it, therefore the dirt 'belongs' to the object of desire, who can be sectioned off and disposed of as contaminated, while I remain clean.

there's no contradiction between "hating trans people" and "wanting to fuck trans people". have you guys heard what men think of women

The CDC tried to remove remote work as an accommodation for disabled people. Working from home is a game changer when you’re chronically ill. It allows people to remain in the workforce who otherwise wouldn’t be able to. Big thanks to the unions who fought this, the CDC caved from the pressure

we need even more sex in movies. and it should be about straight women pegging men then looking directly at the camera and saying "im happy single and fucking for fun, the patriarchy is my bitch" as the dude shoots ropes across her bedsheets

"'unskilled Labour' is a capitalist myth to justify poverty wages" ok explain keir starmer then

Again, this is a broad coalition of people across the ideological spectrum whose top concern is making sure everyone rues and laments the “Woke Times” forever. It’s very much akin to the myths around “Negro misrule” in Reconstruction, which justified Jim Crow.

do I have any NYC friends on here? I’ll be in the city for about a week next month and I’m down to hang/rave/rock climb/get drinks/lez out. DM me if we’re mutuals! 😘

the problem is that LLMs can't say "i don't know" because they don't even know what they *do* know. they don't know anything. they're an elaborate form of autocomplete. for it to have the self-awareness to say "i don't know" to a query, it would have to be a completely different technology

"type of person who is Different isn't allowed because they're Unpleasant" is a fucking kids' cartoon plotline, it cannot get more on-the-nose than this

remember how politicians and journos just lied and lied and lied about trans healthcare and created the space for doubt by talking constantly about the need for clarity as if the science weren’t settled already

do I have any NYC friends on here? I’ll be in the city for about a week next month and I’m down to hang/rave/rock climb/get drinks/lez out. DM me if we’re mutuals! 😘

I truly believe that all sentient beings have the yuri-nature, all people can embody the yurisattva and escape the cycle of suffering that comes from men existing, all you need to do is become girl and then kiss girl

This is absolutely true. If the NYT covered this the way they covered trans care, you all would finally understand what dangerous shit their trans care coverage has been.

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lmao. see, people hate on "defund the police" because both political parties dragged it, but they still support what it actually means

they believe that women are commodities and trans women are counterfeit women. it’s just pure misogyny. they do not think women are people, and plenty of feminists are fully on board with this logic

Even down to how they exploit the changes in diagnostic criteria to suggest there's some "contagion" or "epidemic." What those changes actually point to is a move away from a model of suppression to a model of acceptance, and that's what actually terrifies them

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

...knowing Jəsse's the author (& that gender-affirming care practitioners are well aware of his biases & tactics) utterly changes the meaning of the last paragraph. without attribution, it makes it sound like the authors are suspiciously dodging the question. in actuality they know he's a bad actor!

It's not hard to speak this way about trans rights. Just lean hard into the patriotism element: trans people represent the American ideal of self-determination and freedom of expression through their courageous and dogged fight to be who they are

You look at every culture that's ever existed and the running theme is everyone pretty much just wants to play/dance to music, make art, eat stewed meat wrapped in flat bread, and tell stories about the shapes we find in the stars. Somehow we turned that into wars and overtime and profit margins.

ok we got to the hotel and i’m finally watching cable news coverage of today’s events and how utterly divorced these bubbles have become from the way normal people see them how completely lost they’ve become in their troughs of money and attention irrelevancy looks like this

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Daft Post-Punk

you guys

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Hello darkness you dumb bitch

ruthlessly mocking anyone using chatGPT within 15 feet of me get that profane slop shit out of my sight