Knowing him he’ll probably allow them to get on that “Gold Card” track without the money as a show of “combating the horrible racial injustice” in South Africa.

Every accusation is a confession after all. So it would be very on brand for them to fast track granting these people status that allows them to vote so now they’ll be the ones with the “millions of illegals voting” for them.

I think I get what it’s saying? It’s saying that while your phone isn’t directly listening to your conversations in any meaningful way they collect crazy amounts of other data on basically everyone and can piece it together in such a way that they can make some scary accurate guesses as to the kind of ads to serve you based on what their systems have gathered your interests are and where/with whom you spend your time.

I’m not entirely sure. They didn’t really seem to present much more than speculation on it.

Funny how the cries of censorship always seem to come from people who don’t actually care about the topic and just want to be edgy debate perverts for the sake of it. Heaven forbid a group of trans people have a space where we don’t have to justify our existence.

It’s like the Old Man Yaoi version of Thanos trying to court Death by killing half of all life in the universe.

I made this for the halibut. I wanted something I cod use to beat the carp out of my anemones. Now I’m shrimp-ly bream-ing with excitement. I would have made it bigger but I don’t have the mussels for it. Whale, I suppose I should fin-ish up here. I’ve seem to have o-fish-ally worn out my welcome.

The creator of this hammer, probably. Idk

I remembered myself hearing about some interview where she said something similar. Went looking for it and found a Vanity Fair interview from 2006 where she says:

I slept with some nerd. I hope it was George. I took too many drugs to remember.

When asked about how she got cast in Star Wars back in the day. So not enough to say she got directly extorted sex for the role, or just happened to be sleeping around and whoever she slept with went “Damn, she’d be great in this movie.”

I always assumed it was more about the conveyors and such your bag goes through before even getting to those folks. Heavier bags mean more wear and tear and maintenance on those machines.

Honestly, it’s probably a little bit of both along with just deterring some cohort of people from bringing too much stuff because they don’t want to pay the fees.

And hell it seems like those 3 things all come back to raging sexual insecurity. Their misogyny always seems to come back to them not getting the amount of sex they feel they deserve. A ton of their racism reads like bad interracial cuckold porn. Their transphobia always sounds like they’re terrified that they’re gonna finally get a woman home only to find out she’s got a 12-inch trouser snake and is into pegging or some other psychotic shit.

It feels so weird to say. Like why does it always seem to come back to these chucklefucks not getting enough sloppy toppy and deciding to do a fascism about it?

Or is this person known in the mysogisphere // a right wing extremist?

Whoops, tautology.

More seriously, this is one of the more prominent general right wing Twitter personalities. So absolute raging misogynist but being a MAGA Dick Rider is his big thing.

One of my personal favorites is to refer them to the response in Arkell v. Pressdram (1971)

Then they should be educated out of those ignorant views, not have their rights restricted. What are you gonna do when some wannabe fascist decides that “basic voting condition” means believing that trans people don’t exist, that climate change is a hoax, and that the ultra-wealthy shouldn’t pay any taxes actually?

The right to vote shouldn’t be restricted in any way. If you have legal restrictions then all it takes is bad actors expanding those categories and sorry, you just failed the critical thinking test because you think that climate change is real and life doesn’t begin at conception. Better get ready for your shift at Amazon, serf.

Media literacy and such should just be part of the education everyone gets.

Don’t ya just hate it when people make their harmful kink both their entire personality, and a problem for your fundamental rights? It feels weird to say it. But that’s basically what this performative Christian schtick is for people like this. They get off in it so now it’s all of our problem.

I’m aware of what Solidarity is. I can also just link things, try “Aesthetic Activism.”

It makes you and a handful of people feel better that you’re using “inoffensive terms” in your “funny meme” and that’s it. I’m glad it makes some people feel better. But is that all your “solidarity” amounts to? Changing a word in a meme that it’s entirely possible the only people complaining about are being performatively outraged to rep their own “anti-ableism activism” bona fides?

Again I’ll reiterate. If you feel that the existence of myself and my children is something so icky that it is only allowed to be talked about in very precise, sanitized, inoffensive terms, how is that meaningfully better than the ableist who just calls us a bunch of r-slurs and leaves? How is your “solidarity” meaningfully different from just saying “Oh yeah, there’s something wrong with them. But you can’t say it that way?”

It was only supposed to be a little instability Donald! Give us a little dip that we could use to buy up another chunk of the pie. NOT BLOW UP THE ENTIRE FOUNDATION OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE DONALD!

• The Cato Institute, probably?

I think so. I looked up the definition quickly to be sure, and:

shamelessly immoral or debauched. wildly extravagant or wasteful.

I know they wouldn’t think so obviously. But a lot of that seems to fit pretty well I think the whole goal of “force whatever woman I can to be my own personal Bang Maid subject to all my whims,” kinda qualifies.

Friend, you acting like this is something icky that we shouldn’t talk about is stigma. I’m not trying to police your speech. I am trying to get you to think more about why you are policing yours and whether or not it is actually helping.

Without that, your “act of solidarity” is just blind aesthetics and does nothing to actually address the stigma that disabled people like myself and my kids face. Treating us like something unpleasant that is only allowed to be talked about in very specific approved terminology is literally stigmatizing us.

I’m not trying to say you are. Nor am I trying to attack you for wanting to change the words you use to avoid hurting people. Not wanting to hurt people is a good thing. The point is that the words themselves aren’t the problem. The actual stigma that fuels ableism is. As I said there was a time when what we now know as the r-slur was the attempt to destigmatize those kinds of mental disabilities. In time it’s entirely likely that some or all of today’s inclusive language might be seen as too derogatory and something different will take its place.

There will always be bad actors who seek to misuse that desire to not hurt others. Whether that’s the person willfully twisting the language that tries to destigmatize into something that hurts, or someone being performatively offended by someone not using the exact correct terminology and implying their own moral superiority.

The point is that at a certain point policing language does nothing to combat ableism. Relabeling a thing on its own tends to do very little to lessen the stigma of that thing.

It appears to be called Takopi from the manga Takopi’s Original Sin. I see a book for it and the first things I notice are the tagline “Time travel can’t heal all wounds,” and that it’s listed in the dystopian, horror, and sci-fi lists. Okay yeah I feel like I’ve got a pretty good grasp of what goes on here.

Being entirely oblivious mostly. I make shonen anime protagonists and lesbian stereotypes look like love gurus by comparison. I am so dense my sexuality actually collapsed into a black hole and that’s why I’m asexual.

I missed my wife trying no less than 6 times in one day to get me to come to bed with her. A little while later I noticed her go to the bedroom and thought “Oh sweet, she hasn’t gone to sleep yet. Maybe I can get some snuggles.” I was then delivered an ultimatum. I either get fucking, or fucking get. I blue-screened so hard I apparently just closed the door and left. I don’t actually remember what happened in that moment. That’s how hard my brain broke.

Luckily when she eventually was done and came out to tell me it was safe she was laughing her ass off. Apparently my look of utter confusion and bewilderment was something to behold.