nyaeko.bsky.social
Person with an avid interest in anime, science, video games, philosophy, and politics
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this is the weirdest discourse on this site i've seen to date, especially when food tastes good regardless of if you cover it with spices or not
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I who voted for Kamala and encouraged others to vote as well, this isn’t helping. It doesn’t build anything, it doesn’t push power anywhere. You want change? Then stop tearing each other down and figure out how to fight the people who actually hold it.
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It’s exhausting. All this back-and-forth where everyone thinks they’re the only one who’s right, the only one doing the work; like the other side is the real enemy, but they’re not. They're not even close. It's just divisive rhetoric and it weakens the entire movement every time you lean into it.
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I've seen the bitter hatred from both leftists and "liberals" (or, perhaps more accurately, centrists) and don't like it.
A similar phenomenon happened in World War II Germany, with various factions failing to unite in order to oppose the NSDAP.
All I care about is destroying fascists.
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I've seen liberals say protesting is pointless while leftists are out there risking arrest. Leftists who didn’t vote as liberals were begging them to.
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I’ve seen leftists vote for Democrats while liberals sat out. I’ve seen liberals win offices in tough districts while leftists yelled online about how they weren’t doing enough.
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What do you think about the Septimus Heap/Nicolas Flamel series? As far as I can tell their authors haven't been involved in transphobia but they also live relatively private lives anyways, from what I can tell.
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"In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C?" - They Thought They Were Free
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We always have the opportunity to stand up, to get angry, to act. Don’t just sit back. Protest, make your voice heard, call Congress, even if they’re Republican, because they’ll come for all of us. This will affect everyone, and if you stay quiet now, eventually they'll come for you.
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...people with judicial protection orders. Now they're arguing for deporting “Criminal Americans”? And after that, anyone who dares disagree with the government will be called a criminal too, worthy of being dragged off to extrajudicial prisons with no due process. That’s where this is headed.
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Last I checked, the people who tried to ban Harry Potter were the same ones now crying that she’s being silenced for anti-trans views, not the ones just saying maybe don’t buy her stuff. That’s not a ban. There’s no force of law behind it, unlike the actual conservative bans on LGBTQ+ content.
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Also, it's all performative, he filibustered after the vote, the legislation had already passed, then they confirmed more Trump nominees right after. They could revoke unanimous consent, force roll calls, actually do something, but they don’t. They just perform, then act like that’s resistance.
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5/ Who was allowed to speak to the court?
The judgment cites extensively from so-called ‘gender critical’ campaign groups and academics including Sex Matters, The LGB Alliance and The Lesbian Project.
Not a single trans person was allowed to speak before the Court.
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This is an explicit admission from the highest legal authority in the United Kingdom that gender is legally whatever the fuck power needs it to be to sell itself a story that justifies enforcement
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Fascists and authoritarians almost always co-opt counterculture movements to push their rhetoric. TERFs upset at “woke” going too far end up hand-in-hand with actual fascists who hate women, but as long as they get to feel edgy yelling about pronouns, they don’t mind handing the mic over to Nazis.
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Republicans ran a dysfunctional, broken Congress for years. It’s how they won in 2016, and that’s how they won again in 2024. It works, and every time they’ve used that power to hurt people. If Congressional Democrats actually care, they don’t have to keep giving them permission.
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They had the option to just not vote for any of Trump's nominees in the first place and yet they refuse to end unanimous consent.
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"...it was always the excesses that we wished to oppose, rather than the whole program, the whole spirit that produced the first steps, A, B, C, and D, out of which the excesses were bound to come." - They Thought They Were Free