I mean!!!!

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

Likewise I actually don’t appreciate when otherwise anti cosmetic surgery people make a special little carve out for ffs “I don’t think we should alter the human form, unless you were Born Wrong, in which case it’s only natural you should be Fixed”

This is why the trans sports stuff lands much more than the other trans panics, because Brayleigh is losing her basketball scholarship to the 6’3 girl over MY DEAD BODY

girl help they're on reddit saying chappell roan's look last night perpetuates the male gaze

you know, Charlie Kirk has been awfully quiet since the new Epstein files dropped

From: J <[email protected]> To: Ikari, Gendo <[email protected]> Re: Re: Re: wife

"basic feminist aspirations would require a radical overhaul of society and the worldwide reactionary backlash is driven in large part by the gains of feminism in the last 60 years"

the causality is messy but female subjugation as a consequence of physical strength and the vulnerability of gestation is arguably the first class relationship and that getting undermined by technology in the 20th century is a much bigger deal than basically everyone realizes

“Politics keeps replaying the 70s because we have yet to figure out how to politically accommodate the medical advances of the 60s (birth control, hormonal treatments)

No. No. Absolutely fuck off. I refuse to accept this. Salience tuned too high! Salience tuned TOO HIGH!

I've had this same thought, and I think taking the next step in society is going to require a more aggressive stance towards fighting scams, and zero-sum money chases more generally.

It's socially unacceptable to point out on this site that a huge amount of mutual aid requests that get circulated are outright scams.

I think we're living in a period of extreme social distrust of the government coming across the political spectrum and part of that is manifesting as displacing that social trust into appealing scams and schemes.

Watching this with the sound off and Christ how much meth has she been smoking.

What do you mean you see a lot of visualisations of one year of a person's online dating? No you don't, that would be mad.

Anyway, sometimes there can be one single event that brings down a government. It's usually because they do something so cruel that the population, no matter their previous beliefs, simply will not stand for it. What that has to do with the US right now, I'll guess we'll have to see.

Apologies for yet another Irish Revolution comparison: the Irish population was very much opposed to the Easter Rising in 1916 because downtown Dublin was destroyed for, seemingly, no purpose. Until the British executed James Connolly as he was dying of gangrene. He was strapped to a chair and shot.

my gut tells me american politics are about to shift radically within the next few days, as this rubicon crossing event occurs with both sides heading toward snowstorm-induced isolation and online algorithms

Also from a purely military perspective, an armed insurgency is a fucking dumb idea in a pretty culturally homogenous, infrastructurally developed and (in macro terms) high employment country. Nowhere to hide, no major source of recruits.

personally i don't like rolling the dice on an honest to god Amerimaidan, but i don't know how much choice in the matter we will get

Which is gonna be the first outlet to run a profile about how women won't keep an open mind about dating ICE agents

It is committing a nationalist fallacy to say “this is what America is.” America has no objective definition. It is, as Benedict Anderson says, an imagined community and *we* get to decide what defines it. It should be clear why we should want to define it by its highest ideals.

Crash (1996) but it’s the guy shitting himself and discovering abdl

this is also the name of a fic i wrote

>looking for a new man >ask Feeld if the man is a pervert or a gooner >it doesnt understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is pervert and what is gooner >it laughs and says “it’s a good man” >message him >hes a gooner

The single and explicit message of the 2024 election was that Americans were more interested in the promise of cheap and easy treats than democracy or the rule of law This lesson has shaped the current state of the Democratic Party and it is why you are now mad at them

a year ago i wrote a story that went viral over here about how republicans could create a de facto national care ban for trans medicine to stop it, democrats would have to hold the line in funding talks, and staff in congress told me they were unsure if they would today, they stopped it

HUGE NEWS for trans people: We have the latest minibus, including the bill to fund the Department of Health and Human Services and it looks like there are no restrictions on gender-affirming care for transgender people. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...

good news: foreign relations can radically change in relatively short periods of time. mortal enemies to close allies in a matter of a few years, that sort of thing. bad news: foreign relations can radically change in relatively short periods of time...

Unironically this would be greatest advancement for queer people since Obergefell

I joked about nostalgia being the most right-wing emotion a few months ago, but once you notice it it really becomes impossible to ignore.

the degree to which the mainstream press is just plainly terrified of ta-nehisi coates' moral clarity makes this basically proven imo

They're putting protein in the water that turns the frickin frogs jacked.

I wanna point out Walsh is an Irish American who describes herself as pro IRA Not Sinn Fein, the IRA. 20 years after the latter decommissioned their weapons. Another in a long line of clueless northeastern yanks supporting violence in a foreign country they claim as theirs but don’t understand

Someone recently told me “I want to love my dad and brother but they’re sick around the heart”. We’re too quick to put a positive spin on these stories, to make them about finding and gloss over the losing. The queer community in cities like Seattle is built upon thousands of individual tragedies

I wish it was acknowledged more that queer people moving to cities in the US is essentially an internal refugee crisis and not just like, the natural order of things

a big problem here is the way every scrap of a claim about Democrats supposedly selling out gets hyped and inflated, and then even when it turns out to be untrue people remember it as having happened, or as having almost happened. Builds bad mental models.

hand to god this is a real thing

blood in the water

This follows the news that the minibus spending bill has no restrictions on gender-affirming care either. It looks like Democrats dug their heels in on this one and won. bsky.app/profile/eric...

God, Red Roses for Me is such a great album Every Celtic punk band since, including the Pogues, has spent their entire career trying to recapture it

Successful boycotts need smaller targets than half the Fortune 50

When NIMBYs say that California is full and their cities can’t accommodate more housing, they are saying that queer people trying to get out of red states are on their own.

I was thinking today that the USA doesn't patrol itself like England patrols itself. It patrols itself like the Black and Tans patrolled Ireland.

I'm trying to be very careful with my words here, because I do not want that future. An honest-to-god domestic insurgency - the thing they claim exists and seem dead set on willing into existence - would be horrible, wrenchingly awful.

And at some point, people will decide that if the law doesn't protect us - or the mothers among us - it doesn't protect ICE agents either and the things people throw at them will stop being insults and snowballs. And then we will be in a much darker place, as a country.

Whoever coined "Male to male transgender" was cooking