people get away with a LOT by trying to frame themselves as committing violence as an act of self defense can you genuinely, truly, and accurately argue that real harm is being caused? it's not harmful to let someone, say, observe hannukah just because you're a christian

that's the idea of the fascist project, too! "everyone needs to look x way, believe y way, and deliberately clothe them in our specific aesthetics. any lack of compliance is proof we are Under Attack and that justifies our ability to go on the offensive" cue a bunch of right wing terrorism

like, that's the problem with collective shout, right? and mumsnet. that's their entire thought process behind claiming "gender ideology" they have an ideology, which is "everyone should forced to be exactly one kind of cis" and they see people not complying with their demands as an attack

there are right wingers who think that gay people existing is 'forcing' themselves on 'everyone else' (where 'everyone else' is defined as an imagined baseline of the entire populace as christian by default), which is bullshit. you're not under attack because some people are different than you.

learn to handle simple and basic disagreements. you need to live in a world where things you don't like exist, and you need to live in a world where your own existence is not ubiquitous you share this planet with other people. learn to share.

there is no war on christmas, it's just that people who need everything to be about jesus all the time are really mad that you said "happy holidays" instead of "merry christmas" but the christians will tell you they're the most persecuted minority in the world over that.

and the amount of people who viewed me not liking a character in a video game that they liked led to them thinking they were justified in telling me, for weeks, to kill myself

it's not an attack on you that someone doesn't want to have to be forced to practice your religion by putting the ten commandments in a courtroom. you're just forcing your shit on other people. don't do that.

you're not in a protected class because someone doesn't like something you do

I saw a post a while back that talked about how repressed kids leaving religion don't always grapple with the moralistic framework that the religion imbued them with, so they end up performing the same behaviors but with a new text to back them up and yeah. yeah. i see that a lot.

Yes, giving money to a person who spends their money trying to invent new forms of genocide every day is definitely bad. No, people being glad a character you liked died is not bad. Get a grip. Stop being a weirdo about this.

No, being upset that the artist of a show drew a ship your friends in the fandom dislike is not in fact bad because of 'power dynamics' or whatever. You sound like an ultra-conservative southern baptist trying to claim oppression because you can't force people to read the bible.

Growing up in a deeply religious environment, I have a very strong aversion to people who attempt to moralize everything they like or dislike. There's a difference between "don't buy this because the author donates money to orphan burning machine development" and "fandom proxy war"

Chuck Schumer rejecting out of hand the one point of leverage he has, the one that was actually working really well last year until he caved, is the most Chuck Schumer he can be. spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/...

@schumer.senate.gov, you need to resign. You clearly are incapable of meeting them money.

Good for Reuters for changing their headline. Pressure works. Grok did not do this. Elon Musk did.

Reminder that when Scott Adams dies very soon we're going to have to deal with another wave of nazi fucks trying to get people fired and suspended from sites and shit. I'm not exactly saying "watch what you say," but what you're saying will be watched so plan accordingly.

I understand that the goal is to focus their messaging on Affordability and all but I am tired of the twelve dimensional chess framing the president is a bunch of evil fireflies beeping in a jar, he doesn’t distract from things so much as it’s a different firefly’s turn he wants oil, kidnap maduro

I feel like trump could start a nuclear war and some people would say, "oh it's a distraction from the epstein files" as we all turned to ash.

like, more than one thing can be important. it's not all a distraction from something else.

invading venezuela is not a distraction from the epstein files. he invaded another country, violated international law, murdered dozens of people. that is important in itself; people who care about that aren't being "distracted." 1

Seeing the media immediately treating the attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of Maduro as an unquestioned normal state of affairs within minutes of it made me feel exactly how I felt in 2003 haaa

Uh there 100% was domestic repression under Bush/Cheney

"Why don't you just ignore them/block them/etc" why don't the Stancils of the world just block people and post more stupid shit about charts instead of developing a Ideological Enemies list and demanding the bluesky mods do a purge on them? Why is the onus on everyone else to put up with this shit?

he’s gonna get outed as a sex pest, isn’t he

I didn't follow her on Twitter so I didn't know about a bunch of the other shit, but the moment I stopped following her was in the video about her being "cancelled" when she said " I just thought having Buck Angel do a voice would be funny. I didn't know everyone would get so mad"

Evergreen

I very badly want this, and I think it's further proof that a lot of the good stuff we abandoned in the last decade or two because shiny is making a clear comeback. Print is back, obviously, but also physical buttons, going to concerts without recording, and maybe even having a real-life girlfriend.

party seniority regularly blows off members like julian castro and ed markey, for fuck's sake. for what reason are we to believe that behind the scenes dem behavior is radically different than their front facing behavior? because it'd make people feel better? that seems to be it.

there's a difference between a deep, abiding rage at injustice and just being angry all the time, at random people when organizing against state violence it's really a matter of safety to cultivate an inner circle of people who are, for the most part, steady and have what it takes to stay engaged

being consistently most vitriolic loud angry person on social media is not a credit to your leftist credentials it just makes people not want to organize with you the most radical leftists i have the privilege to call comrades are some of the kindest people. knowing who to be angry at is important

"maybe if I am persuasive enough I can talk my way out of this ticket" energy.

"hah look this law is stupid" is identical to "this law is clearly meant to be selectively enforced against its targets with plausible deniability" It is shameful and embarrassing for liberals to not understand this.

People trying to play gotcha games with stupid laws, fundamentally do not understand the purpose of laws being stupid, and show they can't be trusted by those the laws are clearly meant to be enforced against.

The unpredictability is key. When the law is stupid enough, badly written and ambiguous enough, you can never be sure when it's going to step on your neck. Even if today it didn't get you, maybe tomorrow it will. A stupid enough law acts as stochastic terrorism.

The goal of anti trans laws is similarly not to be good law, but stupid law. Contradictory, confusing, badly written nonsense that guarantees selective *and* unpredictable enforcement.

The whole point was that they were nonsense, badly written stupid nonsense. The purpose of those laws and tests, was to be stupid. This allowed them to be selectively enforced against people the lawmakers didn't view as people.

Only a worthless white moderate would be able to look at a voting literacy test and chuckle about how confusing it is, get a load of these idiots, heh they couldn't even pass it I bet, etc

A good example of why the law is fake, and why trying to gotcha its hypocrisy and stupidity is futile, are voting literacy tests. The whole point was that it allowed selective enforcement, the shittiness and internal contradiction was a *feature* not a bug. allthatsinteresting.com/voting-liter...

its like all very amusingly dumb. it really must be money and chatgpt literally destroying brains. its worse than lead by like a lot

A lot of people will think these jackasses are being hypocritical, being ivy league grads and claiming to not be elites. Thinking the richest man on earth is their ally against the elites, etc. The dipshit supporters of these guys don't think this: they see it as infiltrating the elites.

I’d be more worried about the Orientalism of people who use viziers all the time. Like how people refuse to call our wealthy “oligarchs” because that’s what we call Russians.

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Location filters. In Mexico? Piss yellow filter. Eastern Europe? Blue filter so high it's about like old 60s day-for-night. Medieval? Maximum Desaturation, no colors allowed!

Democrats need to grow a f*cking spine. No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment. Impeach. Convict. Remove.

I know we all say “this is the stupidest timeline” a lot but seriously this is the stupidest timeline

good grief

American imperialism collapsing because the ruling oligarch wants to keep all the hollowed out participation trophies for himself is so goddamn funny.

Slightly more normal but still Sicko Coded is Cavalry Girls. A tactical mech shooter about guarding a door against waves of robots that gradually unfurls new features/concepts until you're juggling your crew's emotional states while performing strategic tax evasion BIG Kickstarter-funded DLC coming

Can we just stop and put this into perspective: Our Scandinavian allies put out joint statements today condemning the United States, and Denmark went as far as explicitly threatening military action while hinting at a potential invocation of Article 5. That’s genuinely fucking insane.