We don't do anything to stop climate change because it makes people who are already rich a lot of money.
That's it. That's the only reason.
We don't do anything to stop climate change because it makes people who are already rich a lot of money.
That's it. That's the only reason.
Far too many white center-left people seem to think there's a common ground to be had with white conservatives-fascists that won't affect their personal rights and privileges. Because they're white. But the right actually has no interest in sparing you either. You have to suffer under their regime, too. Not as much as some people. But your life will not be the same. You will not be able to enjoy the things you do now. And if you don't comply, you may not have much of a life at all.
I'll accept not having my existence banned in the meantime, though, I guess.
If that's not asking too much.
What I want is a left that's happy to fight the culture war and the class war and drive all of these billionaires and theocrats and their sycophants into the sea once and for all.
The Democratic impulse to capitulate and beg for forgiveness and unity whenever anything bad happens to a Republican is really something, especially for marginalized people who can't even get the time of day from these people.
Are these protesters "antisemitic," too? 🤔
Upon finding out 99% of NYU protesters were indeed students, Republican Councilwoman Vickie Paladino decided they all have to die.
It feels like Democrats should stop helping these people in their war on students and higher education?
It's great Biden decided to die on the hill of supporting genocide during a do or die election against Trump.
I guess Zionism matters more to him than everything else.
The FCC fined multiple multi-billion dollar companies a total of $200 million for illegally sharing customer location data.
Yippee. I'm sure that'll teach them.
And I guess what all of this has revealed is the brokenness of our political culture and government, the corruption, and the extent of the apathy and contempt they have for ordinary people.
At every point in this system, there are veto points for preventing progress. But corruption and authoritarianism breeze right on through.
It's really reassuring having repeated confirmation that the ruling class and their courtiers in the media are mostly a bunch of unprincipled sociopaths who can't understand doing anything except for money and power.
It's no wonder why America is a country where homes and healthcare are unaffordable and basic rights get peeled away from us on a daily basis when even our heroic defenders of the liberal democratic order seem more concerned with backing fascists and lining their own pockets.
And if you don't like it, they'll sic the riot cops on you.
NASA recovered a space probe's 47-year-old computer with about as much memory as my old Commodore 64 over a distance of 15 billion miles so it can (hopefully) continue to do science work, and it reminds me of how much ingenuity used to go into computers back when the assumption was you couldn't consume the water and electricity of a small nation just to power Ask Jeeves.
I have to admit, the biggest thing I never expected about the world was the number of people who don't want to make things better.
It would be helpful if people at least considered in the abstract what the US response would be to a country that massacred civilians, destroyed cities, bombed hospitals, blocked humanitarian aid, attacked UN groups, and shot starving people trying to get food if that country wasn't named Israel.
It won't matter to dedicated anti-trans activists but the history of trans healthcare is something I wish more cis people understood.
None of the science is particularly novel or experimental. Trans people were obtaining hormones and surgery decades ago, since the early 20th century, at least, and the techniques have been steadily perfected, tested, and proven to be safe.
The medical establishment agrees this care is valid and necessary, outcomes are generally good, and regret rates are considerably lower than for many other medical procedures which are now considered routine, some of which are actually much more recent.
There have been an increased number of people transitioning under the new, more relaxed system and as adults via informed consent, but that doesn't imply anything other than there was a pent up demand not being met.
Regret and detransition have been vanishingly rare under this system, now under attack, even among minors. Most people who detransition do so because of financial problems or social pressure, not because they're not trans, and go on to transition later in life.
The old system was barbaric. It was severely and punitively restrictive. It was misogynist, racist, and homophobic, with male doctors judging your validity based on how much they wanted to fuck you.
It was also essentially out of reach of anyone not independently wealthy.
The standards of care were relaxed BECAUSE of the failures and abuses of that heavy-handed gatekeeping system, which was designed to prevent as many people from transitioning as possible.
Anyway, I bring this up on a regular basis because the arguments made by anti-trans activists are lies and based on fake or faulty "science" designed to provide them with talking points.
It's all bullshit. The goal is not to protect anyone but to shove trans people back in the closet, kill us, and prevent us from publicly existing at all.
We've seen this movie before. We know what happens.
I wish cis people would learn it, too.
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