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I've been thinking a lot about how I really hate the implication that AI skeptics are luddites because most of the AI skeptics I know are relatively tech savvy while the biggest AI champions I know can barely use email

I love it when assholes beg for grace and compassion from the very people whose abuse and discrimination they champion. It's really cool and normal and not at all enraging.

Gareth Sheridan

Some cis people might think John Boyne's opinion sounds reasonable. He says that trans women's rights should come second to cis women's rights when they conflict.

The problem is the "conflict" with cis women's rights is that a small number of cis women hate trans women and don't want to see them.

COMFORT & FEAR OF CONFLICT This page explores our cultural assumption  that I or we (or the ones in formal and informal power) have a right to comfort, which means we cannot tolerate conflict, particularly open conflict. This.....

I've been spending a lot of time thinking about how "right to comfort" is a tenet of white supremacy. Someone's comfort should not supersede someone else's rights. This includes the right to exist in public.

www.whitesupremacyculture.info/comfort--fea...

My Chemical Friendship

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The Christian mlm scheme.

Sometimes I wonder if my fundie upbringing was really as culty as I've built it up to be in my head.

And then I remember the lyrics to literally any song from my childhood. Definitely culty.

I played that, and my cat started looking around for the source of the meows lol

Tony Soprano’s mom

what is a Labubu

My kid willingly listens to history books/podcasts and so I’ve been educating them about the rise of Fox News, the culture it created, its roots in McCarthyism, and how it’s all on steroids now. They are shameless, so you can’t win by being “reasonable” is what I’m trying to impart.

Not to mention, I am incredibly hesitant to give the government the power to control my car speed, because I cannot imagine a situation where they would not hand it over to the police and I do not trust the police.

The phrase “ parents have a legitimate concern about integration of races in schools and as a party, we haven’t done a very good job of listening to those concerns.” would shock and offend I would hope. A similar statement about trans kids should also shock and offend.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

mamdani: we should improve society somewhat cuomo: yet i am a hypocrite sex pest! curious!

cuomo's campaign strategy, from what i can tell

All kinds of cis people act all kinds of ways and never once does anyone say "Oh, this cis person isn't representing cis people well, they're not to make others more likely to treat cis people with respect."

The reason trans advocacy exists is because trans people aren't just people in your eyes.

Blue sky post: There are a few accounts on here that are definitely trans people and whose actions probably make it harder to get people to treat trans people with respect & dignity.

The problem is that no trans person's behavior should reflect poorly (or well) on any of the rest of us. That's what prejudice is - to prejudge people based on their group.

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Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

$1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%...

"That's just how it is."

Jokes on them I’m trans AND ugly

there are so many open layups and somehow dems can’t make them. republicans are literally pulling cancer treatment from children and they can’t message on that??? like what the fuck are we doing here

Ok this is actually hilarious

The reason UBI, wealth taxes and social security is relentlessly attacked by billionaires, millionaires and the media is that the first two think that money exists for them and them alone and nobody else deserves access to money for leisure or, increasingly, for living.

Genuinely, even capitalists should be against this bullshit bc I have no fucking clue how many cumulative weeks of work transphobia has cost me, just from having to take time off or being distracted at work due to anxiety.

Mamdani is going to sweep this guy by double digits

it is not about sports. it has never been about sports. it is about banning trans people from public life entirely AT BEST, and at worst, forcing them into situations that will endanger their lives. this is why we don't play along with the "just asking questions" sports bullshit

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

At the start of the year I saw a creator on tiktok who invited people to very specifically imagine a day 20 years from now where things are good, they are safe and happy and have what they need. I found it really profound. This is different than what you mean here but I think about that often.

My biggest concern about Trump is that he kills our ability to dream.

Trump, tech, news outlets like NYT they collude to limit our ideas of what's possible

As cynical as I feel constantly, I practice imagining a better world because I want to have a goal to work towards