That’s basically what was historically done with pigs in large parts of Eurasia, but they also eat meat and bone

I really like More Perfect Union on YouTube. It’s definitely more journalism than news, so you get investigations into what’s going on.

Building up a good emergency savings fund. When things break I don’t even have to think about if I can afford to fix or replace them. I may have to make decisions on how nice of a version I can have, but I never have to worry I won’t have a car or may have to take a quick loan. Financial worries have become “how long can I be unemployed without issue” or “can I upgrade this thing” or “what’s our budget for a car/apartment/house”.

Please don’t cost me my rights

Like ultimately I can stand with them if they worship the Jesus who welcomed eunuchs and prostitutes, and there’s something positive if they can see the good in socially progressive issues. Otherwise, if they’re just going to say “fuck the queers and women, but not the poor and immigrants” I’d rather they change the republican party.

Yepppp

Yeah that may be a sign of trauma. It’s a symptom I have

The means are an attempt at my belief in rehabilitation and forgiveness when possible. Her past conduct is reprehensible, and also I don’t believe we should be saying that it’s not worth bothering trying to change.

I’m unlikely to ever like her, but fucking hell I’m sick and tired of this pervasive idea that people can never change for the better and even if they do they’re still evil. It’s carceral bullshit.

She hasn’t demonstrated change yet, just announced her intentions, whether true or not. It’s worth keeping an eye out and seeing if she actually does change. I’m never going to forget who she has been for the past several years, but just as I believe a murderer should be given the opportunity to become a better person I’ll give her the room to do the same or not. It’s not like I have any power over her whatsoever.

Yeah, if they were to offer broad programs of welcoming queer refugees from places like Iraq, Russia, and Uganda it would seriously endear me to them. Like, it would make me vocally pro China at least on this one issue.

When in actuality we’re intertwined with each other. If China were to become a bastion of queer liberation they’d likely get international vocal support from the queer community. Trans people are a lot more likely to be pro Thailand than the average westerner for this reason.

deleted by creator

Yeah, the apologies are the first step, if she follows through and changes we can decide wgat to do. But as it stands stepping back will at the very least reduce the heat she gets because she only gets it because she’s actively been picking fights

I think it needs to be replaced immediately with something less exploitative a skilled persons visa that’s closer to a green card and requires multiple companies or a union to request skills then a government agency checks if those skills are actually in higher demand then capacity and issues reasonable length visas that merely require regular employment in a certain industry and become a reasonable speed onramp to green card status. Or something similar.

The reality is getting rid of skilled labor visas entirely is shooting ourselves in the foot in a way that reminds me of how much of the Manhattan project’s scientists came from axis nations. What we have now is hurting the visa holders and the labor they compete with, but we really do benefit from being able to bring in the exceptional.

They’re already building a concentration camp for the mentally ill. Fascism feels like it’s one after another but it’s syncretic oppression. The pro police killing without consequences, the surveillance, the jackbooted thugs arresting immigrants and sending them to a torture camp, the concentration camp for holding the mentally ill and homeless as they’re forced to do labor, the demands for increasing executions including for crimes that have traditionally not been executable offenses, the claiming trans people and drag performers are pedophiles, demonizung their opponents and treating protest as terrorism and rioting… That’s a mishmash of things the right has been doing for the past decade on and off, here and there, drastically accelerating in the past year. But once they have a tool they aren’t afraid to use it on others or expand its use. That’s how SWAT techniques began being used every day on people who may have filled out immigration paperwork a bit wrong.

In nazi Germany the concentration camps were originally created for criminals and political prisoners, jews were to be sent to walled ghettos and deported. Death camps were made for sex criminals such as trans people (they had declared trans people all to be sex criminals). Who they targeted was irrelevant, the goal was always to attack whomever they could use to justify further expansion of party and personal power. Often going above and beyond to impress those above them in the party.

Eventually, yes they will come for you, whoever you are, but by the time they start targeting random groups like Catholic priests, they’ll have already built the full industrial process of oppression.

Yeah the internet conspiracy community has created powerful outlets for undiagnosed and anti treatment schizophrenics. Gangstalking is the one that made it really click for me how much of a problem it is.

If I said that they’d call me a delusional [slur] and say I should be locked up.

But this idea originates in one of the most batshit academic texts of the late 20th century: “The Transsexual Empire” by Janice Raymond (former advisor to the US Congress on trans issues). In it among her claims are basically that amab people are better at everything than afab people including being attractive and desirable women. She also believes this to be a problem and proposes more or less the total elimination of trans people from the public sphere. It’s not a fun crazy book, it’s a “I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole of hate and will attempt to bring others with me” book.

Like yeah some trans women are really hot, and modeling often prioritizes bodies that have traits we’re more likely to have like prominent faces, abnormal tallness, and an anorexic shape. But firstly, that’s fashion modeling that prefers that body type, and second historically you’ve had to have gone stealth to a degree that’s nearly impossible these days to get one of those jobs while trans.

These people are really uncomfortable with the reality that some trans people look cis (and some cis people routinely get mistaken for trans) and have entered a level of delusion that I honestly struggle to comprehend.

Last I’d heard they were a small faction of right wing conspiracists, who hadn’t even gained much traction in the heyday of qanon, but 53,000 members in one Facebook group is concerning. It getting to the point a fox news host is calling an actor from the office a trans man is concerning as well. The right wing war on consensus reality is unfortunately succeeding quite well.

“‘Of course almost all models, especially agent models and Victoria secret models are mostly [trans women],’ one wrote."

The Transexual Empire and its consequences have been an unmitigated disaster for the human species.

Just another victim of a school shooting. It makes sense you wouldn’t remember him, there have been so many

It’s been that way for years. Like, on one hand I get it, I was involved in communities that got regular trolls and I understand the value of making a safe space. On the other hand this is the “anti safe space, fuck your feelings” ideology and it’s the most locked down public subreddit I’ve seen.

This is a category of sex work. There is sex work in which adults choose that it’s labor they’d prefer to participate in, I support that sex work. Then there’s a long spectrum that ends in places like this. You can’t criminalize this stuff away. When minors are so desperate they’re selling sex you need to look at the material root causes

There are recordings of an interview with a historian in which Sylvia Rivera talks about how she got into sex work as a child. It’s heartbreaking and infuriating and more than anything it’s a condemnation of the circumstances in which she lived.

I really wish teachers understood that the correct response to that is “yes, but that’s something you’ll be learning later, for now we’re going to not deal with that.” That’s how my Jr high math teacher dealt with me forgetting algebra and attempting to invent calculus because the rate of change seemed the easiest solution to the problem.

That said, I’ve met education students. You’ve got some bright people who really love kids or teaching, but you’ve got plenty of people who never really understood stem subjects. It was a revelation to learn that yeah a lot of grade school teachers don’t get math.