eigenvogel.bsky.social
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Where it gets awkward is when you're told you're doing it wrong if you're trans and not a communist.
It's especially odd since communist counties have absolutely awful human rights records when it comes to LGBTQ people.
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Yeah, it's great that everyone's premiums will go up to pay security guards now. That seems like a real win.
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It's working for me so far.
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Yeah. It'd be like me going out and murdering the CEOs of every health insurer I had from 2005-2014 because therapists kept giving me the wrong mental health diagnosis. There's a massive category error involved.
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People are also imputing a lot of post hoc noble motives onto Luigi when it seems like his real motive was personal spite over his back surgery not going well.
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Luigi didn't even kill him because if that. He killed him because he personally thought his back surgery was botched. People are post hoc applying their own noble motives to what was mostly an act of spite.
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Imagine the death toll if we actually had single payer and Trump was now in charge of who got care.
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On the other hand once they started killing they didn't seem too sure where to stop. What's your proposed income level cutoff for justified killings in the US?
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We also need people to get past this attitude that if their issue isn't a candidate's ONLY issue then their support isn't genuine. I think that played into this. I heard people say "but she won't give full-throated support!" as if volume is a proxy for seriousness.
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I think having a speaker at the DNC tell people not to vote for Democrats would have been a pretty bad idea.
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Been saying this for years. If you withhold your vote politicians conclude it's not gettable.
You know what's really worked well for the right? Saying, "I voted for you, now you owe me."
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I'm not sure they were well-meaning in any logical sense. I think they didn't like Harris's "vibes" and then retroactively justified that feeling. This happens a lot to female candidates.
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Oh, so now Musk is a public official? A few days ago they said he wasn't.
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Election after election proves the public doesn't want truth, they want comfortable lies and conspiracy theories.
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The question I ask is "would Republicans have blamed Biden for this?" If so, I blame Trump now.
We need to stop trying to win by being nicer than the Republicans. It doesn't work. It's never worked.
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I'm late GenX and I don't recognize it. I wasn't even allowed to use the word "sucks" or say "don't you dare." We were discouraged from the r-word but "gay" as an insult was still vaguely OK.
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It's also worth noting that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made gender self-ID on passports official policy during the Obama administration, so it's hard to say she was anti-LGBTQ at the time.
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The mythology of St. Sanders has reached the point where the real Bernie Sanders can't live up to it.
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And Bernie Sanders said he was against Vermont legalizing gay marriage in 2006...a lot of politicians had journeys before they got to their current positions. There's nothing inherently insincere about that.
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If everyone is trans no one is trans. In that case I guess we need a new word for people who actually transition.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "the closet." It used to be the point of transition was to, well, transition to your target gender and live as it. Whether you told anyone or not was up to you, but declaring yourself trans as a cool social identity and then never actually transitioning wasn't a thing.
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They didn't used to. Back when being trans was a quiet thing people addressed with their therapists and doctors, not a trendy label half of social media slapped on their profiles, we had the right to correct identifying documents in nearly all states. Now we've lost 30 years of progress in 1 month.
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For an AFAB trans femme, that means they "have" to use the women's bathroom -- the bathroom they wanted to anyway. For an AMAB trans woman, it means they want to force her to use the men's room. That's not the same struggle at all.
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You don't see how it hurts the argument for, say, bathroom inclusion of we make it clear literally anyone can apply the trans label and it has no meaning? It plays right into the hands of people who make jokes about identifying as a woman just long enough to peep in the locker room.
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To my mind the problem is it makes the whole thing seem trivial and trendy. It undermines the seriousness of trans identity if someone who is otherwise cis can just claim or unclaim it for coolness points like it's a fursona or something. If that's all it is the argument for legal rights gets weaker
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My experience with dealerships is not great. I think it's because I drive an older car so they just see every repair as a lost sale.
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Now it's "manscaping," which is acceptable because it sounds like yard work, which is male-coded.
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The line "Wistfully waiting for the world to “end” like it’s a bad movie is just another form of suicidal ideation, a safer version that won’t cause your friends to stage an intervention" is a hell of an observation. It's behavior I used to think was limited to Evangelicals hoping for the rapture.
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Yup. He's their leader in some ways.
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He's part of the anti-pharma-left to far-right pipeline.
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I feel like it takes way too much digging into the article to discover he said that at an event when he was running for President in July, not (as far as I know) as a proposal in his current position.
Not that it isn't still disturbing, but I think that context is important.
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Honestly, after watching Jill Stein for a while I'm not convinced there's any daylight between the Green Party and the Republicans anymore.
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I saw leftists saying Kamala needed to lose to teach Democrats a lesson, or that Trump winning would be good because he'd be so awful people would rise up and overthrow capitalism. Both of which essentially are the same thing, and both of which show a lack of caring about others' suffering.
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I think a bigger problem is that landlords don't see this as something that they can charge a premium for, so they won't supply it. I've also heard of condo boards blocking charger installs because of perceived fire risk.
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All the worst opinions I see about US politics come from the UK and Canada. They seem to see the US as a place where they can cosplay being revolutionaries.
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As long as the Democrats have to take attacks from not just Republicans but also purity ponies on the left, they'll be fighting at a disadvantage.
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Most likely all it would do is give the Republicans a larger margin in the House. We need those people in their seats, not in jail.
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That's fair, publications can change. I don't mean to be all "you're a bad person for subscribing."
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I actually only created an account originally so I could see what some of my friends were posting, but then it got its hooks into me and I started commenting. My relationship with social media is always primarily about FOMO.
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I'm considering this a vote in favor of my general feeling that maybe I just shouldn't be on social media anymore. It doesn't show my best side.
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I got blocked, this is not a discussion she wants to have. It was just a "the thing you like is an evil influence and you should feel bad" hot take I guess.
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I've never been to a movie theater where shouting things was a thing, but I've heard it's a thing in Black culture so I may just be sheltered there.
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Twitch is a gamer site, though. A slice of online culture where yelling ethnic slurs over people on mic is considered cool. I'm not sure you can blame a 30 year old cable TV show for that.
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The irony is this post is itself part of the Internet's obsession with scolding everyone about how "your fave is problematic."