alexis

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

This contradiction making the Gender Recognition Act unworkable places the UK in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.

At some point the courts will have to stop ducking that question.

Back before the GC movement had really gotten going 1 in 3 employers surveyed were very happy to say they would deliberately discriminate against a prospective trans employee and that was back when it was clearly illegal.

www.crosslandsolicitors.com/site/hr-hub/...

I have friends being threatened by their workplaces over the use of toilets they've been using for years without problem.

one of the most sure-fire signs that someone is on team anti-trans (even if they don't explicitly state their own position) is when they go out of their way to defend ppl who misgender & express irrational anger toward trans folks. they give *them* the benefit of doubt, but not us

I don't know what I'd do if I visited someone and they had a crystal Shrek in a display case.

Random dose of truth

I love that there's basically flat 50/50 odds that Toby is shitposting, or that he's somehow had some major role in the production of Toy Story 5 after shitposting about it for ages.

Prime example of why there is no safe level of exposure to X propaganda, no matter how immune you think you are.

One day you're a highly intelligent, influential political leader. The next you're sharing content from an Infowars conspiracy theorist to your millions of followers.

Get off that site.

gwen stefani??

first they came for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and I said nothing, but i did laugh quite a lot

A man is having his fingerprints taken with the caption “PRINTS ANDREW”

I tell people that if you fly first class, you are still a filthy peasant. The plutocrats don’t even go to the same airport terminal.

oh you're rich, are you 'I go boating' rich or are you 'my superyacht has a second yacht with a submarine and security detail and 4 jetskis and 2 helicopters and shadows my primary yacht at all times' rich

I am very annoyed that people think 'rich' means 'that guy has a mercedes and takes a vacation to italy once a year' and not 'that guy has more money than 40% of the world combined and can decide to start or stop wars based on his personal prejudices'

the sums involved are incomprehensible

The central premise of my master’s dissertation was that tech law and policy are currently driven by not one but two apocalyptic eschatologies - this, and Christian Nationalism - both of which want to destroy everything that exists to bring on their respective Raptures. We are all in their way.

"Hey Google, what is fascism?"

it's true that trans people don't deserve to be rhetorical cudgels by republicans but also we don't deserve to be empty platitudes. we don't want validation and affirmation, we want healthcare, freedom from violence, freedom to be in public spaces, freedom.

one company trying to release 12 games each designed to monopolise 100% of all players' time was definitely An Interesting Choice

doodlemancy @doodlemancy on cohost (rip): "the script at this point is just company: we're going to do something really extremely bad for our customers and possibly even people who aren't our customers. we think this is good an enormous, furious internet mob: we hate this company: we'd like to clarify our intentions. just to be clear: we're doing the same thing but we'd like you to hate it a little less now"

“I said something probably shitty, got confronted about it by one person, and decided to destroy that person’s entire demographic.”

It’s literally the old saying about how women fear getting murdered while men fear being laughed at.

Sodha says there is no public support for that, but there in fact is, and she knows that because she's done considerable work towards manufacturing that support.

extremely shy David Bowie would like to offer you an orange

Now this is the kinda discourse I can get behind!

If you're looking for minorities that don't integrate, are hostile to our values and are wrecking the country...

For any non-Brits watching this, it is absolutely inconceivable that members of the establishment face consequences, get arrested etc, unless it is so nakedly corrupt and illegal that it threatens the whole rotten edifice.

the whole range of the political spectrum, from nazis to nazi enablers!

it's so funny to try to legitimize a moronic argument by claiming that it is supported by a growing movement of diverse thinkers and then you list the people who belong to that movement and every single one is stupid and/or racist

I get what the guy is saying - that this phenomenon is a thing almost all people feel on some level - but I get cagey whenever we see a phenomenon and say "this is not political, it's just human." yes, it is human, but the distribution is not equal, and it concentrates along political lines.

I sign off on this except I wanna clarify one thing: this is not "human nature," this is specifically how authoritarians feel. like, in the Bob Altemeyer, "high right-wing authoritarian score" sense: the desire to be "the norm" is an authoritarian impulse not everyone feels equally.