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lovely music! (also interesting video but you knew that)

what snake oil salesmen told her there’s such a thing as the “baroness of margarine” (gonna let the autocorrect spelling stand there…)

California Attorney General Rob Bonta continues to stand up and fight for trans healthcare, joining with AGs from 20 states to defend patient privacy. 🏳️‍⚧️✊

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circling back on your double click

do i want to know the context or wtf he could mean by culturally normal? because i feel like i’d really rather not

sure is

yeah except they won’t. at least not for now. because the federal prosecution system has become politicized. there’s a lot to fix.

oh a absolutely. and a violation of us domestic law, too.

Seems like Dublin's policy of not having a military has downsides.

and anyway it’s clearly against domestic law, no?

yeah but the us is not party to that …

the hague invasion act is still on the books, too

the US would have to ratify the treaty first, no?

sheesh wonder why

i should’ve said “strategically useless” rather than “irrelevant”
because things like destroying relationships with allies is strategically very relevant, just not in a useful way

the problem as i see it is that sabotaging relationships and punching down at less powerful nations does not require a unified vision or a long term plan, but pushing back on the very real and very questionable shenanigans of rival superpowers does

and i know full well US foreign policy is a mixed bag. but as the strategically relevant stuff is going down the tubes, the focus on strategically irrelevant but morally highly questionable shit is AFAICT only getting stronger.

whatever faction wrote that particular document says they want that. what they actually want and who they actually are is a mystery. you cannot currently assume that the US government speaks with a unified voice on international relations. interagency process and elite consensus are dead.

if you go by the normie definition, it already is

if you go by the “if it’s relevant it’s not left” definition popular with the most annoying people on the internet, sure

Yeah pretty much. There’s many factions in the US government, more so than usual, because the leadership is not just wrong but also weak. Some of the factions are more aligned with treaty allies than others. But the ones that are don’t consistently have the upper hand right now.

Yeah. And Turkey isn’t, mostly, but that doesn’t seem to be what they’re talking about either, oddly. They’re just racist, that doesn’t mean they’re logically coherent about it.

If anyone wants to make the CA ban on gendered signage on single stall bathrooms a real enforceable thing, that would be great. Because currently, ain’t.

My understanding is that in practice it does end up affecting new construction.

Ting plans education campaign on gender-neutral bathroom signs Bay Area Reporter

At least that’s what I remembered. The only article I can track down is this which is not as strident as I remember but anyhow, the statute is not enforceable, because making it so would’ve required extra legislative process (the “suspense file”…) www.ebar.com/story/33684

That is what Phil Ting’s press release said when he his bill passed. It does not actually accomplish that. By the time Bay Area Reporter caught on, everyone had already copied the press release and moved on.

at least california technically sort of bans that

(not really, which is phil ting’s fault)

i’m not sure exactly why i’m in an undiplomatic mood today but you’ve been warned

maybe they’ll get rid of the anti NATO plank when NATO collapses, too

not holding out hope though