CW/TW rape I see the misogynists are attacking nicola sturgeon again Because they have nothing better to do than find a woman who hurt their fragile egos in some way and tear her down Standard abusive cishet men behaviour The fact the constantly bring up their rapist pal salmond highlights that

It's true before 1995 they were just called "PJ Harvey fans"

on this day in 1995, scientists discovered bisexuality. happy 31st birthday to all my fellow bs

Call it what it is: military forced testosterone experiments.

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The neurodivergent are folks who are not constructed to fit in this paradigm. It operates by standards & expectations we can’t meet or only with phenomenal effort you can never appreciate if you’re not us. We are society’s natural outsiders. I have ADHD like you & am mad. @shengokai.blacksky.app

Fascists are obsessed with the idea that sex is a biologically determined feature. That's why they're threatening testosterone supplementation for military men. It's not "gender affirming care," it's a government forcing people to make their bodies conform to a social construct.

Fuck the Daily Record, they campaigned to keep section 28 too.

A lot of the media owners are like this to maximise profits. It's the same reason why some companies may own pizza restaurants and manufacture ice cream. They make money on cold days and hot days.

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The government dehumanises disabled people, immigrants, and trans people ALL THE TIME. By all metrics, hatecrime is rising against all groups. This society if one of their making

A political culture where politicians and the media are not dehumanising marginalised people daily Unfortunately that's not the case, and Widdecombe fully embraced her role in that Long past due both establishments own your collective shit Civilised folk are calling out your fascism, Gaby

These people are dictating policy and law on social norms and health Theyre no different to rfk jr "Women and men are two different species"

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You kill scores of trans kids, you go to jail for their murder. You supply weapons for a genocide you go to the Hague. And so on. I want a land where justice is real and not a mechanism to keep to people in line.

So when collaborators like Hinsliff ask what kind of political culture we want, I say I want one where crimes and atrocities committed as politicians are treated as if private citizens did them...

The main reasons I don't think they should be murdered are a) I fear for the souls of those murdering them and b) in spite of it all I still believe in law. The alternative is a bloodbath. More even of a bloodbath than politicians create now...

They chose to put themselves in a position of extreme unmitigated power over the rest of us and then proved themselves to be as immoral as anyone could have predicted from their choice of career...

And they always get away with it. Because our system says there are no consequences for evil done in the political arena. Do I feel sympathy for politicians who get attacked? Not a jot.

If there was any justice in our systems he'd already be serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole. So yes, politicians are despised. It's all we have. They commit horrendous crimes, despicable atrocities...

Take Streeting. He murdered those dead trans kids as surely as if he shot them in the face in front of the world's press. And there's no way he can ever be held to account...

But here's the thing. There are no consequences. They can do literally anything once in power and there are no consequences. Oh, they might wane in political influence or lose their seat or something minor but basically nothing...

In the sense that they can do and actually do terrible things to other humans, often to thousands, millions of other humans, and they can sleep happily at night. Anyone who wants the job is already suspect...

I'm not condoning or advocating anything here, I just want that on the record. I need to get this off my chest. Politicians have power, vast, incredible amounts of power. And they are not wary of using it. They are, almost by definition I believe, sociopathic...

Funny none of these moral high ground journalists had anything to say about this eh

Funny these moral high ground journalists had nothing to say about this eh

Funny how none of these moral high ground journalists had anything to say about this eh

We do live in a bad society Guess who made it that way Politicians and the media Maybe if yous were better people, society would be better

The uk media class are extremely sheltered and protected They cause harm via moral panics and there is never any responsibility or consequences

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Very weak argument based on the assertion that people hate politicians because they don't know they're humans. The people actually dehumanised in this article are those harmed by the policies, who are a faceless abstraction. Gaby might want a political culture where they don't count, but I don't.

The one that you keep giving us, Gaby. The one that you build from inside the echo chamber of dinner parties and newspaper columns, where only politicians and your mates are real people. And of course, where the actual details of any crime don't matter. Because you don't know them. None of us do.

Widdecombe's 'views' were violence. She didn't wield a knife, but she engaged in social murder and stochastic terrorism that killed thousands & ruined the lives of countless more. I'm not glad that she's dead. But the things she did had consequences more monstrous than her own murder could ever be.

If only there were some field of study, a 'historical record' if you will, that we could consult to see how prior generations typically reacted to long-term projects of immiseration and degradation inflicted upon them by the ruling class, which we could learn from and not repeat.

"Her beliefs were anchored by an unswerving Catholic faith that made her a surprisingly enlightened proponent of rehabilitation within prisons (as a Christian she believed in redemption)" you mean Ann "why isn't that woman giving birth handcuffed to the bed?" Widdecombe? that one?

If politicians do not want to be dehumanised, "the first step towards justifying their elimination” as you say, then they should perhaps not dehumanise others.

"Dehumanising politicians is the first step towards justifying their elimination" Rewrite: Dehumanising trans people, disabled people and immigrants is the first step towards justifying their elimination.

Can we stop pretending ann was nice or good... Or that her views were the fault of her religion, rather than just her views. She went out of her way to change her religion because the church she belonged to was too progressive... We need better people in politics.

What's wrong with Britain that it produces people as hateful as Ann Widdecombe? (rhetorical)

so they can dehumanise us as much as they want but if we call them tory scum it's the first step on the road to perdition?

Well Widdicombe is proof of the saying “Do unto others etc so forth”. You dont get a free pass on your shithousery when you die. In fact the opposite. What you do in life echoes after. Two things can be true. The circumstances of her death were abhorrent. She was a piece of shit.

is the racism and homophobia of ann widdecombe the sort of political culture that @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social wants?

Well, we had an answer for you and you decided you wanted this one instead.

Trans people are banned from everything and can barely name their oppressors lest they are monstered by the media and in parliament. Never mind the threat of jail for not disclosing being trans before a sexual encounter or even for saying some shit. It's surreal being trans in the UK right now.

The notion that criticising a politician is dehumanising them is so back-to-front. Holding someone to account "humanises" them because it asks them to behave in the manner that decent humans should.

an example of the dehumanisation that @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social and co engage in. they say ‘transgender ideology’ or ‘gender ideology’ when they simply mean ‘transgender PEOPLE’. you see it’s not bigotry when they refer to us as an ‘ideology’. they’re calling for the eradication of a ‘belief’. 🙄

This is far more dehumanising, offensive and threatening than anything I've seen posted about Ann Widdecombe, but because it's targeting us it can be printed in a national paper without punishment.

FIRST THOUGHT OF THE DAY… A lack of self-reflection is why so many cis-het white males think that they have got to the positions they have in life on merit… When in fact they got there by a system, designed and built by, and for them.

I love that we have such an entitled class of people who demand deference to them at all times, any such objection to their power or criticism of the positions they hold, must be viewed as fundamentally criminal.