Like yeah, these forms of institutional harm are interlinked and reinforce each other, blah de fucking blah I'm an intersectional feminist I know the fucking drill. But I am fucking tired of never, ever mattering to anyone.
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Just a queer, trans, fat, exasperated anarchist bimbo screaming into the void on whatever social media platform seems least likely to want to murder me at the moment. Also apparently older than 99% of the accounts on Bluesky haha how the fuck did that happ
Not gonna lie, kinda a little bit hoping the election results make people go "oh shit woke is back we gotta do a woke now" and hire me because I'm a trans woman. Pretty sure I've been passed over multiple times in the last 4 months for being trans, and I'll happily take the W for a change of pace.
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If someone tells you they voted republican or conservative you should basically treat them like they just admitted they like fucking kids
Not only did Susan Collins lose, but so did all of you shitty bigoted assholes who said the only person that could beat her was an abuser with a Nazi tattoo. Eat your fucking words assholes.
One really fun thing about this election is that it is going to be a perfect demonstration of two seemingly-contradictory truths about electoral politics: 1. Electoral politics will never actually solve our problems. 2. It is *essential* to fight for and exercise your right to vote.
It was like five states in seven years watching the tide turn against us desperately trying to find a safe harbor in a growing storm and I thought we finally had it but no you can throw $9,000,000 at transphobia and apparently that’s enough.
Man I just can’t believe after moving around America trying to find a tiny corner that was safe for me and my people, and then doing everything I could to make it so that we could preserve that, we still have to deal with this shit.
I don’t want unity I want consequences. Punishment. Public humiliation. I want them to be just as terrified as they made others. I want accountability. I WANT JUSTICE. fuck unity
I feel like it's kinda unfair that I have to deal with mundane crises like trying to find work and getting bills paid while a significant chunk of the country is actively trying to murder me in an ongoing genocide. Like, the genocide kinda meets the full required quota of Shit I Have To Deal With.
Okay, time to get this account banned from Bluesky. I believe we should take up arms and kill the fascists who are actively trying to get us killed and permanently establish themselves as rulers of an undemocratic, authoritarian state. I believe we should kill them *before* they succeed at this.
A march with no further threat behind it is a *parade* that may manifest into incremental acknowledgements or adjustments but will not spur an indifferent power into capitulation and meet exactly the demands being made. *Rioting* works, and moreover, that work in France is not yet done.
The message you should take from this news is that rioting is a valid tool in the protest arsenal and that you should continue to keep your ears fixed to what the autonomous, organic student rebellion is saying—not to what the government offers them, not to what orgs or social media offer you.
As most of the people consuming the news and applauding the French gov’s concessions are Americans, this “protests work” framing should be understood as a pacification tool: You have not participated and will not, and will likely wonder why protests are continuing after the concessions offered.
Rioting is, of course, a form of protest. But the rhetorical trick of “protests work” is not to pull people into understanding the function of rioting and its power, but instead to elevate marching and chanting as equal to the power of quantifiably destructive, aggressively disruptive mobilization.
Students say the concessions aren’t enough—but if you saw the news, you’d likely be inclined to be satisfied with the fact that the government made any concessions at all, and would further buy into rhetoric about “protests work” that puts marching with signs on the level of rioting and looting.
The French government has offered to invest billions into renovating schools and hiring more educators in an effort to quell continued riots led by students. This is being translated into proof that “protests work.” It is vital to understand that this concession is in response to *rioting.*
Lol welp, I am realizing that I've never been a good person, and I can never *be* a good person, and I'm always going to end up just hurting people who get close to me. Cool. Love this.
Anyone in Chicago know of a cool affinity group to go shooting with? I can't afford to go by myself anymore and I kinda miss the range, a little bit. Everyone I used to shoot with basically exclusively does competition shooting at Aurora now:/
People really need to feel “eat the rich”. Like we all say it but truly, eat the rich. They are traitors to humanity itself. The way they actively fuel the destruction of our world & society, all so they can eke out just one more ai prompt and build their fantasy immortality machines is disgusting.
There are people, even some trans people, who think that we can give up sports to appease bigots. That if we give up on sports, this all goes away. That is a lie. I have reported on this for years, and EVERY state that passed a sports ban as a moderate compromise has gone on to pass worse.
What the heck I keep choosing the +1 evil candidate over the +10 evil candidate, but somehow the total amount of evil keeps increasing? Can someone please explain why choosing the lesser evil is not making the total amount of evil in the system decrease? I am not good at math.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3w agoIt is, fundamentally, an exercise of choosing the lesser evil, over and over and over again, so that the total amount of evil in the system decreases over time. And you must keep doing it, because - since evil is easy - good is easily reversed.
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Just a general reminder that nothing is going to get better until more of us start breaking laws to make it better. Thus has it always been.
I want to see how people would react if Democrats threw literally anyone other than trans people under the bus. "I'm a democrat and I believe in the party platform, but I think we *do* need to look into the epidemic of anti-white racism."
Something that's always left me confused. The government is enacting policy that demonstrably, *objectively* results in innocent people dying unnecessarily, and is using objectively false, disprovable evidence to do so. How is this not widely seen as murderous, criminal activity?
The thing is that you can find a genre of art repulsive and distasteful, desire never to be exposed to it, and avoid associating with those who make it, and still understand that if no real people were hurt in its creation, it is not morally wrong for it to exist
sorry for not being clairvoyant about the nazi tattoo blackwater merc guy. there was simply no way to know about the nazi tattoo blackwater merc guy