kalinastar.bsky.social
Pronounced Kálina.
Trans woman with autism and ADHD. I like writing and art and creativity in general. I don't like genocide. Trying to connect with people like me.
Unwilling subject of the US, but stuck here trying to make the best of it while I can.
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Narrator: but they *did* know if it was true.
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I think most of my frustration with it is that it's a structure that adds a sense of confidence and/or meaning to basically anything, no matter how shallow or ill-informed. It reminds me how we collectively tend to value confidence over correctness, and the superficial over the substantial.
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I agree, nothing fundamentally or objectively wrong with it. I have reasons I think it bothers me, but obviously it's useful and no one is automatically wrong for using it, nor for appreciating it.
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Sorry! The structure that I used in the post. I see the ambiguity. I meant "this" as self-referential, but I can see the other way to read it. Basically, with a line break between each: long sentence -> short statement -> medium sentence -> imperative statement.
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Nothing specific, just the structure. And honestly it's not like it's an objective problem, people use it because it works and catches attention. I just personally hate it and I'm venting about it. People don't actually need to stop, I'm just shouting my frustration into the digital aether.
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Don't let ChatGPT pass your law exams for you, folks.
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And what's with so many of these people acting all revolutionary? Like dude the venn diagram of people who fold over the split second they realize their highest court is illegitimate and people who overthrow dictatorships is two FULLY separate circles.
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Personally, anyone who would rather give up than stand up isn't worth my time.
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Right? What ever happened to being vaguely-problematically attracted to a devoutly-religious alien assassin who regularly relives his deeply tragic past in perfect detail and wants to save his estranged son from turning to follow the same path that he so regrets choosing for himself? Or yk whatever
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Each abuse of power is a rescission of its legitimacy.
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This is weak submissive bootlicking horse shit. Stop complying in advance. I'm glad you've correctly identified their intention to do away with democracy, but if your reflexive reaction to that is to surrender and submit, kindly shut your little doomer hole and get out of the way.
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One thing I hope people eventually catch on to in the political world is that long-term survival (for example: of democracy) requires short-term survival. "That thing could backfire on us in the future!" is not terribly relevant if without it, there is no future.
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I looked at your profile because I was confused about how this reply came from an account with such a fun name. Therapy is important as preventative care, but it could still help you. I mean this sincerely.
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Cool employer. Collaborator energy from the patient.
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Who's the "hard" left?
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OK Forbes 🙄
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To elaborate, don't yesterday's results indicate a very real possibility that Mamdani could win against Cuomo and Adams at the same time? Isn't that an outcome the Democratic establishment would want to try to avoid?
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I could use an explainer from someone with more complete knowledge of NYC politics. I feel like Cuomo would split off more of Adams' likely voters than Mamdani's right? Even with ranked choice. Does Sliwa's presence in the race matter at all here?
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Everyone! A Democrat who usually does awful things did one decent thing! Be afraid!
In seriousness, Democrats signaling even a *possible* inclination to be consistent with their "no matter who" strategy here is so, so surprising to me.
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"Sorta" in the sense that last I checked she was describing herself as a "liberal republican" who thought leftism was "naive" but she was also loud about her distrust in right-wing media specifically.
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On the rare occasions I've spoken with modern conservatives A. in-person and B. calmly... well actually it's gone mostly very badly. BUT ONE TIME it was a thing like this and I asked with genuine confusion what was wrong with literally any of it. It seemed to break the spell for her. Well, sorta.
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For the general population, my own experience is that allies stop using the term after a quick summary of the facts. So when someone working as a journalist doesn't even do very basic, housekeeping-level research into the topic, I honestly have to assume that they just don't give a shit.
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Biology doesn't consider me to be male, and biology as a field of study doesn't even investigate whether or not I'm a man.
I don't know. My reflex when reading the question was to say "allies don't write stuff like that" because people who do don't seem like allies to me.
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Biology is very clear on the fact that my hormone therapy changes many of my expressed sex characteristics from being more "male" to more "female". Biology hypothesizes that I may have been born with a "female-inclined" nervous system, as a result of hormone exposure during fetal development.
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Who knows? How do you get someone to stop pretending that an authority (biology) agrees with them when they have no interest in engaging with the reality of that authority? Biology has no classification for "man". Even "male" is a descriptive term for a cluster of expressed sex characteristics.
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I'd love it if the parent didn't intend to leave their kid the money but it happened because of some sort of procedural quirk. Like, out of paranoia, they legally invalidated all of their own signatures made before a certain date, and never re-sign their will. Or something.
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I'm not huge on financial inheritance stories usually, but that's often because they have a "rich people aren't the real problem" vibe or it's plot device that can be drawn upon to resolve otherwise-tedious obstacles to the narrative. I'd love to read something that actually does something with it.
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Possibly. Significantly more people say they intend to run as independents than actually do.
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This is really funny because I barely remember the 90s but one thing I do remember about it is that people around me were really vocal about the music, and their opinions were exactly this.
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I say "for some reason" but have since learned the reason is because brains under stress tend to adopt and hold on to beliefs that cause us to save energy short-term, as a physical survival mechanism. Belief B₀ makes you depressed -> makes you rest -> rest signals brain that belief B₀ is "correct".
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Mine came from trying to reconcile the profound effort I put into my life with the comparatively-tiny metrics of "success" that I achieved. I was at a material disadvantage, but or some reason it made more sense to my brain that there was something fundamentally and incurably wrong with me.
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I'll admit, there's a sort of profane comfort in it. When I see someone whose instinct right now is to celebrate the suffering of people in the same situation as us, but worse, a part of me begins to believe that we deserve this. That's not encouraging, but it's soothing, in a revolting sort of way.
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I think you and I might mean something different by "inference". I'm aware of the context, and I'm hyper-aware of the value of treating expressions of emotion with grace right now. I was just hoping I was misreading all of this xenophobia.