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YouTube video by HappyDuckk Sandie Shaw - (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me - HQ

What are your plans for the day, Gaia?
— I’m just going to watch this one video of Sandie Shaw over and over.

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the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

pink balloons - YouTube

hi if you want to listen to a d.c. band who makes music about the resilience of our city’s queer community against fascism,

may i introduce you to “pink balloons” by ekko astral

Hell yes, so good!

I think if you run the only domestic abuse shelter for queer people and you reject the trans woman and tell her to call the men's shelter you should krill yourself

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This is fascism.

We’ve heard your case, considered it, and nonetheless chosen to become better people, be creative, and even help lots of children grow up with more love and stability in their lives —just in other ways. “Don’t be a coercive weirdo about our choices” is all we’re asking.

Have a more normal one 👋

That’s great (and for the record I’m fine!). I’m still goin to argue that your solutions to my (nonexistent) problems are misguided and your allies are fucking fash

Personally I’ve spent my entire adult life working to ensure children and adolescents have healthcare, opportunities for creativity, and an introduction to the possibility that a better world is possible. I didn’t need to have kids to feel passionate about that work

Nobody said it was.

We’re saying “not having children is also good” and you keep acting like that’s going to fuck up your retirement

You ever wonder why you’re siding with those folks?

Id also point out that the most rabid pro-natalists in our current society are the people who want to:

* abolish social security and welfare programs
* overturn environmental protections and market regulations
* resurrect child labor
* deprive women and trans folks of their bodily autonomy

Oh you don’t get sarcasm? Apologies. I was making fun of your poor argument not agreeing

So the only answer to a poorly performing economy is to feed it more kids, huh. You keep coming back to this abomination of a point, Jim.

As currently constituted it relies on constant economic growth under capitalism. Your case relies on that too

Oh so it’s just tautology all the way down huh? Gosh the scales have truly fallen

So?

Choosing not to have children, by choice or circumstance, is also a “basic part of human life.” And privileging reproduction for the purpose of feeding one’s offspring to an inequitable and rapacious economic system is pretty fucked.

But you do you, Jim

god why are men so annoying. “we need to talk about male loneliness”, “we need male role models”, “I would have gone down the manosphere pipeline if I was a teen now” you are all useless

Do you have any idea how sad this tantrum reads? The fucking lol appended when we all know you aren’t laughing but steaming about being laughed at. The state of you my man

Fighting for a world NOW where women are widely seen as more than sex toys, incubators, and domestic slaves will create the conditions to address the misogyny pipeline much more efficiently than wasting time in the middle of that fight trying to lead them by their dicks away from existing patriarchy

It literally isn't! That's what you're missing and what's so infuriating about this every time it comes up. They aren't a special magic class that we *need* to wage the fight for a better world. Their problems are far down the list of those that need solving. In this historical moment, especially.

You didn’t make any

The conversation has been fucking had. Repeatedly even.

We’re angry because these droopy pantsed mfers want to keep re-having it until they feel seen or whatever the fuck it is they need

Very well put.

The problem with this whole discussion is that it proceeds from the spurious assumption that dogshit men who don't view women as fully human are nonetheless peculiarly valuable to the fight for a better world. And they simply aren't.

It's just a shitty position, my dude, any way you dress it up. And it's infuriating that in the midst of a literal fight against fascist state power that ya'll think we should drop everything spend time treating it as if it is valid or relevant.

Because their terms are fucking garbage and don't deserve to be engaged, period. They can fix their fucking hearts or die