The Democratic Party has spent more effort in the past few months to shut down/censor left-wing and pro-Palestine activism than they have in the past 10 years to shut down/censor right-wing rhetoric that promotes hatred of migrants, Muslims, LGBT people, "globalists" (which basically just means imaginary Jewish conspirators), etc; never mind that the latter has lead to actual murders against all aforementioned groups. Why should we believe them when they've thoroughly proven that they're far more interested in wielding power against the left than against the Republicans they were supposedly elected to fight?
nightshade
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In the House on Tuesday morning, the Illinois Republican Mary E Miller acted as speaker pro tempore to oversee debate on the Republican antisemitism awareness bill.
As a choice, it was not without irony. Miller made headlines in 2021, when as a newly elected member of Congress she was forced to apologise after saying in a speech at the Capitol: “Hitler was right on one thing. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future.’ Our children are being propagandised.”
So basically the entire US political establishment has decided that saying "Hitler was right" and echoing conspiracy theories of Jewish Marxists corrupting the youth is just a "difference in opinion" whereas pro-Palestinian activists should be shut down without debate.
It's always funny to me when g*mers complain about a company (supposedly) changing something to appeal to "woke" customers because it's a tacit admission that the "free market capitalism" they like so much can, in effect, act as a censoring force.
They made Civ IV too political for him
Multiple major game companies have been embroiled in controversy about how a clique of white guys who would spend all of their time bullying/harassing women, PoC, and LGBT employees who were doing the actual work, and how that clique ran around unopposed for years because they were favored by (or consisted of) the higher-ups.
And yet gamers will still cry about how the latter groups receive unfair favoritism from employers.
Urban design guidelines call for new “five-minute blocks,” allowing residents to access community medical clinics, child and elder care facilities, and a range of other one-stop services within a five-minute walk
Send this to conservatives to give them heart attacks
"Hi, you must be Neslon! I can't believe you're finally here! I'm Bloom, your future teammate in the Resistance, by the way. I figured out we could spend some time together to check if we have a compatible vibe. You know, to build our dynamic duo. How does that sound to you?"
Plot twist: the character in this scene is an undercover cop and the dialogue is actually extremely realistic.
The "higher taxes but lower overall costs" talking point kind of annoys me, because basically every other highly developed nation (and a number of developing nations) provides better healthcare than the US with lower government expenditure. There's no need to raise taxes specifically for the purpose of transitioning to universal healthcare other than US healthcare companies charging grossly extortionate prices, which the government can make them stop doing, and it'd help public understanding of the situation if this was brought up more.
SpaceX quoted James Madison in The Federalist Papers: “The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands” is “the very definition of tyranny”
Somehow I don't think we should be accepting commentary on what constitutes tyranny from someone who owned slaves
I'm reminded of the statistics that say that people switching to long-distance road trips instead of flying due to the inconvenience of post-9/11 airport security has caused more car accident deaths than 9/11 itself.
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Clarifications and more questions
E can do a lot of things but it doesn't really make you "physically a woman". It can change your moods (and overall psychology if you let it) to a slight degree, your appetite/metabolism, muscle/fat growth and by extension your physical appearance
I guess that what I meant by that is that there are some major draws to HRT, but I'm scared that some of the effects might go further than what I wanted. Like, having less facial/body hair is something I want for sure, but I don't know if I'd be entirely comfortable if I had a lot of breast growth. I'd want to have a bit of an androgynous/twink-ish figure compared to an average woman. But I'm also worried that if I don't start HRT then my body will start changing in ways I don't like. I know it's an old adage, but I'm pretty young now and I feel like there are some physical qualities I like about myself that I would lose if I wait too long.
This is a legitimate concern, yeah...you might have to test the legitimacy EEOC at times. Some companies will be chill about it but you can generally sus this out in the interview process because they will act positively but a bit squirrely if they genuinely want to work with you. If they maintain the fake-nice facade all the way through they will weasel out of their responsibilities the moment you become inconvenient. That's just kind of the reality of being us.
One of the idle fantasies that I've had is to get to the point where I can pass as either male or female based on how I dress or style my hair. I would present as an effeminate guy for the next few years my work life and only dress up fem for friends. But as of right now, I don't have any to go out with IRL, and am I really going to get dressed up to stay home and play video games? IDK.
This kind of rhetoric is so common among questioning people who eventually come out that a lot of people would just start calling you an egg at this point. Society puts so much pressure on people to conform to cis-normative ideals that when you start to question them you really can't pinpoint when exactly you stopped believing in them. Some of the most binary fem-presenting transwomen out there spent their early 20s as muscle bros trying to run away from femininity. Some of us end up being gamer dorks but slightly softer. Some are EDM composers or roboticists or welders who flip off the patriarchy when it questions why they don't build their personality around gucci handbags (not that it's wrong to like tradfem stuff, but the point is we shouldn't put femininity in a box and sell it. Cis women even have many routes of expressing themselves).
IDK, I want to try clothes that look more feminine, but the kinds of clothes I like are more towards the androgynous end. I'm not sure how to describe what I like; I don't want to be too girly girl but "tomboy" and "butch" aren't quite the right way to label it either. Like, generally I just imagine long-sleeved shirts and pants, which is what I wear right now. I know that clothes made for women generally look subtly different, but at the same time I'm worried that those subtle differences will be hard to see with the way my body is now. I always get anxious about spending money and I don't want to buy stuff that I end up not liking.
The road to living authentically under capitalism is inherently risky. So, as you're aware, it's imperative that you treat each decision you make with care and respect. But to live in paralysis will not allow you to discover who you really are. We're not just talking about a costume that you wear around to put on a show for others. What we're asking here is who are you? Who is nightshade? Is it worth risking your life to become you? Is it worth risking you to continue as you are?
The part where I struggle with this idea is that I feel that under capitalism, living inauthentically is necessary to some degree anyways. I'm not really openly about my beliefs IRL; while most of the people I interact with in person aren't outright awful to be around, there's still the occasional attack helicopter joke or dumb political comment and I don't have it in me to argue about it (I know my beliefs should require me to confront people more often but I'm too much of a coward). When I speak with people I'm not friendly with, I generally feel like I'm just reading off a script to get through the conversation. Especially in the work life example; if I'm expected to pretend I don't find capitalism abhorrent for 40 hours a week anyways, is it really that much worse to pretend one more thing to avoid discrimination? I don't want to put on a show for other people all of the time, but sometimes I feel like I could put up with doing that part of the time to avoid trouble. I wish that I was more brave, but there's already so many things to worry about, and the idea of adding the pressures from being trans or being a girl on top of that seems daunting.
Saying that you're "building a bastion against the extreme right" and then immediately following up with a Christofascist dogwhistle, very cool.