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that Barack Obama did not simply hand the presidency to Mitt Romney - that he had the temerity to run an effective campaign against the man - is one of the most-cited reasons for the turn to Trump

the entire conservative ethos is Look What You Made Me Do

"Slop" as a descriptor should really be reserved for AI generated image slurry

What an absolutely pathological thing to say when the humanities subsidize the sciences and all the science funding is getting cut to the bone. Like just look at the vaccine stuff and the cancer research that’s disappearing. They hate science as much if not more than the humanities

a functional regulatory state would burn this company to the ground and revoke its ability to process a single transaction ever again

this particular strain of self loathing infects liberals too. it’s basically a combination of masculinity shame (men who think it’s gay to work an email job in the city and have a wife who likes you as a person) and class shame (people who think working a professional class job is elitist)

there are no actual reasonable conservatives in america because a political and legal culture born entirely as reactions to the new deal, racial integration, and the sexual revolution is inherently unreasonable

Itch.io mass delisting of adult games accidentally targets safe-for-work LGBTQ+ titles Itch.io's removal of adult games following payment processor pressure affected SFW LGBTQ+ titles. Developers offer games for free and use donation platforms.

Keep up your calls and complaints to payment processors because this is where the bans are going, nothing accidental about it.

There’s a common argument among republicans that we brought all this on ourselves by being awful to poor Mitt Romney.

They spent 8 years calling Obama the Kenyan Hitler Antichrist and transvestigating his wife, but we were obligated to be nice to Mitt, and since we didn’t our punishment is fascism.

Worse, it convinced the media of this.

even the ostensibly reasonable conservatives seem to genuinely believe that it is unfair (practically illegitimate) for democrats to play to win.

if democrats just would have let republicans put one criminal hatchet man on the court, republicans nearly 40 years later would not have put this criminal hatchet man on a court

Politicians should lead public opinion. Any poll-chaser is destined to lose. You don’t govern by polling.

Sometimes I think about her

and the fact that her existence is a giant “fuck you” to AI bros

so the only legislative victories of labour, the uk's "centre-left" party are thus far
1. legal to kill grandma
2. all trans people banned
3. like 65% of all adults are now technically terrorists
4. do you have a loicense to read wikipedia

Labour is functionally the Democratic party of the UK. When you seen an American trans person getting mad at Democrats over trans issues, this is what we are trying to prevent.

Labour officials consulted for American Democrats last election.

PayPal's acquiring bank has terminated Steam payment processing (except for 6 currencies), in a continued push from banking companies to censor video games.

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I never want to hear anyone tell us that film critics are "paid by the studios" ever again.

Somehow still not as embarrassing as writing a German kid who doesn't know how to say "Fuhrer."

Oh, you mean the guy who copied a Legend of Zelda recipe off of google into his historical novel??? Yeah tremendous literary value is being lost there for sure

it’s crazy how many movie studios are run by people who actively dislike movies

I have been a public transgender organizer and educator for the last 5 years. I have met and spoken with hundreds of people, and read thousands of perspectives on trans people and why so many cis people hate us and feel so threatened by our existence.

I think you're jealous of our freedom.

See, myths about gendered traits are self fulfilling prophecies.

If you tell every boy he has to not be sensitive because it isn't manly, and you ridicule or hit him if he is sensitive, you will end up with very few sensitive men, which reinforces the myth that men are inherently insensitive.

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The short answer: the Heritage Foundation have been paying influencers to discredit hormonal birth control for at least 7–8 years now

YouTube video by Jessie Gender How Fascism Erases Our History

NEW VIDEO – youtu.be/_vU5wwwkoB0

This one is about how fascism doesn’t just rewrite history—it erases it. The grief of what’s been lost. The people, the stories, the futures we’ll never get back because someone decided they didn’t belong in the record. This video is me trying to make sense of it.

More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy.

This seems kinda significant.

You know, I’m not surprised that the people who have been bringing us “alternative facts” for like a decade now are planning to share fake jobs numbers and tariffs numbers and Smithsonian museum exhibits but it does scare the shit out of me how much they’re intent on destroying our shared reality

Opinion | Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust.

I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy

I am shocked by the number of people I see who are worried about the Dept. of Education & PBS being defunded, but consider ChatGPT a “tool” and part of the “inevitable future”. I guess if tech bros told you defunding education was toothpaste thats “already out of the tube” you’d be totally on board.

Because like with Covid if you don’t have the real stats the issues don’t exist.

It’s authoritarianism 101 and an its an attempt to quell any ability to protect ourselves collectively against systemic and societal risks in any meaningful manner.