men will be told some crazy shit about a transfem and swallow that wholeheartedly and uncritically before thinking someone might be lying to them about the transfem. yeah i do quite hate men sometimes

Discord and Bluesky can't choose to just ignore the law, but to act like companies like Discord and Bluesky don't both have vastly more resources and political power than the average activist, and that they aren't also deeply entrenched in the capitalist systems that build these laws is naive.

Decorum is about whose lives matter to the state and who's don't Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I'll specifically add my thoughts to this, so there's no confusion. Lindsey Graham was a terrible person who used his political power for evil. We should absolutely call that out. But don't be homophobic about it. We can criticize his hypocrisy without the punchline being, "Ha ha he was gay."

This is why the Philosophy Tube episode on conversion therapy in Britain was so carefully worded and went through lawyers first! It’s difficult to educate the public on topics that rich and powerful groups do not want people to know about

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

Saddened to hear my good friend the Finger Taker has passed away. I never agreed with him about amputating people's fingers in his dungeon, but I'll always remember the collegial good times, and most of all his great sense of humor. What laughs we had. Condolences to Ginny and his whole family.

He wanted people like me (and many other marginalized groups!) dead. He had the power to make that happen and was actively working to realize that outcome. Anyone mourning his death is *at best* whitewashing his disgusting legacy or at worst actively complicit in his evil.

that sorta is the disconnect though. i think about politics as something that has life and death effects on millions. i think it would be nice if the people actually empowered to enact those decisions treated it with the requisite moral seriousness, rather than a game they play with 'colleagues'

i hope the more people shit on the dead, the living people will realize that their legacy will be the same if they don't fix their hearts before they die

"human beings have short lives. if we are cruel, everyone will curse us during our life, and mock us when we die." the odyssey 19.330-32 (tr. wilson)

What people don’t know about the powerful guy who spent every public moment actively working to make the world Worse is that sometimes he was funny in closed-door meetings,

i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious

When abusive assholes die and people say we shouldn’t celebrate it, that baffles me, dying is literally the best thing some of these fuckers ever did and we aren’t supposed to give them props? wtf in my opinion.

My lasting image of Lindsey Graham will always be when he theatrically declared “Count me out. Enough is enough!” after January 6th — and then got back in with Trump more than ever before for Trump 2.0

By the way, if I see any of you making fun of him dying in any way that insinuates he was gay and died because he was gay, I will read you to filth. Homophobes don't have to be gay to be horrible people.

Could we say a man with no interior, no moral center, no drive except power, a shell one atom thick, ever lived? He was a balloon and suddenly deflated.

The thing about Democratic Senators praising their pal Lindsey is that they knew him *worse* than you and I did, and i never met the man. For 30+ years I considered Graham a malevolent force in the world. When they were surprised by their golf buddy’s support for evil, I was not.

Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.

Rule of three, no monkey's paw Rule of three, no monkey's paw

Look at my opposition party, dawg, I'm gonna die in a camp

counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them

BREAKING: Lindsey Graham’s sudden death reveals everyone’s wake-up time on Sundays.

He's spiraling because this is the first time he's been unable to get everyone (voluntarily or forcibly) to accept his fake version of reality. He can't make Iran do anything and he can't make anyone believe the strait is safe to cross when their lives depend on it

"Don't speak ill" There has never been a person murdered by cops or ICE who did *not* immediately get 5000 "Actually, he wasn't a saint. She disobeyed orders. Really, they attacked first by virtue of existing." -thinkpieces written in condemnation, NOBODY in power believes this trash themselves.

I hope by "sudden illness," they mean "explosive diarrhea that his administration stopped monitoring so they could give billionaires a few more bucks," because that would not only be poetic, but satisfying to visualize how this pestilent bag of obsequious shit emptied itself to death.

I promise you don't need to make any gay jokes in the happy wake of Lindsey Graham's demise, it's enough to know he died alone and unloved, screaming atop a toilet bowl with the knowledge his dream of a war with Iran was finally fulfilled only to see America be defeated by Iran

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Every one of these lawsuits prove that the school was right to do so because the minute the parents found out, they ran to a far right legal org to sue to eliminate the rights of trans kids. I can't imagine what this kid is going through.

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

“If this can happen to an American member of Congress, imagine what life is like for Palestinians who have no smartphones, no security, and no national platform.”

Rule Of Threes! RULE OF THREES!! RULE OF THREES!!!!!!!!!

Indeed. We are not forcing upon Graham the memory of him being a villain, a coward, and a malignant presence in the country; that was the legacy he chose again and again. He earned our contempt, as has everyone else on his path.

This is a problem with the scientist pretending to be a dispassionate observer. They begin by explaining dimorphism and anisogamy, fine, and later go on to argue that this criterion of size is essential for understanding complex human parenting behavior. This rests on a massive pool of assumptions.

“I don’t celebrate death” okay well skill issue

But when someone cruel and hateful who has built a legacy of harm and making things worse for everyone else dies, we're browbeaten into not speaking to that legacy, cowed into niceties. If all you can manage to say about some disgusting bigot is not to speak of that legacy, that's just as damning.

Not speaking ill of the dead is the greatest crock of shit, and you know why? Nobody has to invoke it whenever someone beloved died, you'll hear outpourings from fans about how authors touched their lives, people reminiscence about their favourite actors' best roles, a celebration of their lives...

to people who are shocked at gooseworx being banned off of tumblr, this is part a years long campaign of tumblr banning transfems off the site en-masse. being successful and famous does not protect you from transmisogynist site moderation. this is alongside protecting the stalkers of transfems.

Lindsey Graham has died. He is being remembered for the way he lived . If you do not wish to be mocked when dying , do not make your dying the only way vulnerable people can find peace

the way "queer infighting" gets tactically deployed whenever trans women get a little too mouthy is really unsubtle and i lose a lot of respect for anyone i hear uttering the phrase

Lindsey Graham isn't alive to see your posts celebrating his death but the other sycophantic homophobic war hawks you know will. Think about how this will affect them before you post and then post it anyway.

well okay so the english won against the norwegians but in only a few days theyll have to face the french. anyway thats quite enough about September 25th 1066, lets look at some football news

This is now an Erling Haaland fangirl account. Sorry, I don't make the rules, I just work here. Ali: "Are you a boy or a girl?" Haaland: "my dad is a boy and my mom is a girl so i'm mixed xx 💋

i don’t know why we have to fucking constantly have this conversation. rape is not an abstract concept. it is the intentional harm of another human being. this is not a plot line on a tv show you fucking watch. how craven are you.

A reminder that this is also significant because he’s the president of the DGA

“We have to show that we are tough on immigration, serious about deficits and that we aren’t left wing extremists on lgbtq, race, and crime issues” No we fucking don’t. Bill Clinton’s Democratic Party is dead. And we are better off for it. It was maybe the right thing for 1992 but that is the past

Not the use of the word "detained" here to make it appear as though the settlers have some legal capacity to be doing this. If i ran up on a US Rep with a rifle and prevented them from leaving it would be, correctly, described as kidnapping; and doing so with political ends would be terrorism.

guess you guys shouldn't have worked so hard to put him in office and to continually downplay the insidiousness of his actions while patting yourselves on the backs for how fair and balanced you are huh