Remember that in Trump's first term Republicans rewrote the tax code, offen by hand, literally in the margins of the bill, to give themselves & their donors more freebies & giveaways, and nobody ever thought that was worth looking at, but social benefits had to go right away

Notably the sky didnt fall and the government didnt go broke when it was paying for a lot of programs to reduce poverty & private debt and people were a little better off. So obviously, under no pressure to do so, Democrats did away with all of it ASAP

Yeah, what happened was in fact that the Democrats IMMEDIATELY rolled back all of those covid-era programs in the middle of massive inflation, and tried to reduce wage growth BUT NOT price increases to lower inflation, and they did not even look twice at massive Trump-GOP tax cuts for the rich

Sure I support trans rights. Wait, focus on those as a priority? What the fuck? Are you some kind of psy op?

of course bluesky is a bubble. i want MORE of a bubble. I am subjected to right wingers asinine caterwauling on 99% of the rest of the internet. they have nothing more to say to me

Imagine a bisexual single father trying to meet someone special at the grocery store, but they're all instacart drivers and do not have time to speak to him. When he reads his daughter's letter to Santa it says, "please bwing my daddy a new partner." That's the world we live in now. He's crying.

For a certain kind of cis white liberal, allyship with trans people means spamming the same 5 copy pasted "I voted for Kamala because I like trans people :)" text walls while spreading images of our posts to their cis friends who immediately smear us. Cos you know, they care about our safety :)

The words of a guy who really wants to be a slumlord

Wow this communism thing must be really great if it means punishing bad landlords and helping people. Thanks, I'll look into it and teach all my friends about it!

I just think we can care about every genocide, every oppression, every marginalization, happening anywhere in the world, all at the same time. And I think we should.

the main thing that unites centrist liberals on a spiritual level, even moreso than their belief in trickle down economics, is an overpowering desire to have sex with the trolley problem

:) I've voted straight blue my entire life, but you keep punching that strawman.

me, about to list every point of view in all of human history:

I like this site and I think people who have a really hard time here are kind of babies. Sometimes I get yelled at on here and some of those times people don’t have a point, but who cares? If anything, I should evangelize for this site more as the last place on the internet I still learn stuff.

this place is far from perfect but you gotta be smoking an surreal amount of penis if you think this place is as bad as twitter. personally i really enjoy not being subjected to horrid stuff tailor made to to make me mad multiple times a day

Every single one of these mini think pieces has been the exact same grievance: why can't I harangue you, my captive audience, with my awful takes and expect my precisely desired level of engagement?

my favorite thing about bluesky is how libs and racist conservatives alike use the block feature to erase nuanced conversation that hurts their arguments EVERY HOUR to the point LGBT+ folks feel the need to screengrab every convo but they're never talking about themselves when whining about bubbles

It’s a laugh riot how these chodes insist people need to occasionally see Nazi shit because otherwise people would live in a bubble, but if I suggest they and everyone else also be made to see occasional transgender content or socialist theory, I get called names.

We haven't had to fire any shots so it's not obvious but a blockade of this magnitude would generally be considered an act of war. We did not do this in the 1962 missile crisis, we allowed ships not carrying weapons to proceed to Cuba

"People are allowed to disagree with me (which I define as "being angry" because I am a baby with paper skin) and that's worse than twitter"

I haven't read one angry response to this attention seeking behavior post. People are simply telling you why they disagree with you. This is why people don't want to engage with you, because you most likely create false narratives and gaslight people excessively.

I originally came here so I wouldn't be shadowbanned for saying "cisgender." Every week or so ever since, someone has made the case that I abandoned free speech and democracy for doing so.

I think turning off replies is a larger sign of wanting to be in a bubble, Corey.

PSA: this user @a-fleck-on-a-speck blocked me specifically because I pointed out he's talking like this because he's lonely and no one else will talk to him unless he's needlessly belligerent to trans people

Magic: The Gathering Arena developers are petitioning to unionize, and Wizards of the Coast has responded by sending employees ominous letters urging them not to. https://kotaku.com/wizards-of-the-coast-begs-staff-think-twice-unionize-2000698346

The most sacred bond two women who would otherwise cross the street to avoid each other can share: their children being friends for some reason

reblogging my special man for the folks who aren't up at 5am like vampires

gay awakening 😳💦 (old comic from 2023!)

Stilts McPrickley: 9 feet tall, can't talk, has the intelligence of a particularly smart dog.

i want evil sex with bad people

really enjoying this random character I made for tonights Troika! one-shot: Stilts McPrickley, a murder cacti golem who's body is 90% a trenchcoat and stilts.

Us youngin's were just concerned about how keeping weed illegal needlessly criminalizes whole swathes of people but now that you mentioned the ~sTeNcH~ I guess we all have egg on our faces! Sorry to inconvenience you, Linda.

‘The Powerpuff Girls’ creator Craig McCracken has posted a touching tribute to Tom Kane along with an illustration of Professor Utonium and Mr. Harriman: “I grew up without a dad, so it was important to me that the girls had the best one I could give them and that was Tom.”

they're censoring me

too soon

Genuinely so disgusting that still days later we are dealing with "trans women are too manly" rhetoric spread by a fucking cis man. The nerve to as a cis person Voice Expectations for the transition of total strangers, the Gall to chastise women for not performing womanhood to your satisfaction

i lost my mind when i saw that chuck schumer posted about the UAP file release but nothing about the supreme court gutting the voting rights act the same day

i still don’t know what to do about it and goddamn has it ever gotten worse over the last few years. it got so bad so fast.

R.I.P. JUNIPER BLESSING.

if you run any kind of water down your drain u die. this is known as The Law of Pipes

it’s incredibly obvious that our identities are NOT shields, given that we’re in the midst of a trans genocide, we are actively targeted BECAUSE of our identities. but of course they can’t say what they really thinking without looking like the bigots they are so they lie about us

Suddenly cis guys get to make Expectations of what "work" trans women should do in transition huh.

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