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You can say hoped, it’s okay.

I do love the idea of just referring to the entire cabinet of our current regime as russian businessmen.

Roger Meyers, Sr., the gentle genius behind Itchy & Scratchy loved and cared about almost all the peoples of the world

Identity too! That’s like the most important one I think. A lot of our worst behavior is in service of these completely made up identities which none-the-less help us secure access to resources.

I heard someone talking about how a lot of our rituals are these imaginary actions we take to reify these imaginary but vital institutions like identities and nation states.

I think that’s how human brains be. We’re already notoriously bad at correctly accounting for low-risk events (eg the lottery). Plus being constantly aware of the full myriad of threats we face would probably be debilitating.

If you haven’t had or seen a kind of accident your brain probably sees no compelling reason to account for it. My partner was lax about flu shots until she started working at a funeral home and saw how many people of all ages die of the flu. Now it’s a threat she has the awareness to accurately account for.

All republicans are asking media companies to do is to promote their hate speech and censor and name anyone who disagrees with them. Just normal, sensible media policy that any fascist regime would implement.

What’s this? The homophobic incel neo-nazi who streamed his gay porn and then claimed it was mossad is denying something?

The time for being “against political violence” as a general concept is long passed.

One side has violence against anyone but themselves as their only policy. Fascism doesn’t surrender to reasoned argument, law or elections.

It’s impossible to be against violence and say anything good about that two bit hateful grifter.

This is just an ad for obvious bullshit. Forbes may as well be running articles about how ozempic is done because of this one weird trick a local veteran discovered.

Choosing the source then the destination is the correct order. The money moves from X to Y, of course you should choose X first and then Y. Destination then source feels inherently wrong to me too

Note that he acknowledges his decision is “not popular” - seems like opposing genocide is still a minority position in Israeli society. That doesn’t bode well for the Palestinians that Israel hasn’t killed yet.

I’m guessing it’ll be more like the dot com bubble in the 90s - too much too soon but it’s not going away.

Immortality has been the dream of autocrats for millennia. As soon as we see centralized oppressive regimes, we see leaders obsessed with immortality and their afterlife.

Death is the final equality and we’ll always see the most bloated parasitic elites trying to skirt their responsibility to die like it was their fair share of the tax burden.

“Accused” is being used as a euphemism for “caught on camera”.

He complained to the restaurant that the ice cream had been drugged, so they checked the camera and saw him doing it.

Immoral and stupid, a truly republican plan.

I very much agree that copyright is a tool to protect the wealth of the rich.

But I think the idea of restricting access to knowledge in order to benefit a select few predates capitalism. The ancient Chinese state iron and salt monopoly is the first example that comes to mind, some Greek mystery cults probably count too, even if we don’t think of that knowledge as beneficial now.

I’d guess it’s a common feature of strongly elite-dominated societies, of which capitalism is just the current model.

John Bolton is a staunch imperialist who should’ve been in jail for his role in bush era war crimes and corruption. He collaborated with the first trump regime then had the gall to complain that their actions may not have been entirely above-board.

If he ends up in jail for running afoul of his ideological proteges it would be as close to poetic justice as we get under fascism.

Your link is just to this post, but after searching I believe you’re talking about Lia Thomas. That’s a single example so not necessarily representative.

"FACT: Trans athletes do not have an unfair advantage in sports.”

• https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/four-myths-about-trans-athletes-debunked

"After one year of hormone therapy, trans women performed better in sports than cis women. After two years, their performance was largely equalized.”

• https://www.dw.com/en/do-trans-women-have-an-unfair-athletic-advantage/a-58583988

“…finding that trans women athletes are at a relative disadvantage in many key physical areas relating to athletic ability… than their cisgender counterparts.”

• https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/olympic-trans-women-ioc-study-rcna148437

Yep, the “fairness” argument is a transparent figleaf for intentional persecution.

My understanding is that there is absolutely no evidence that trans women have an advantage. Once hormone therapy has been going for a while performance shows no statistical difference from women assigned female at birth. I was listening to a report on the radio just yesterday.

Additionally the number of trans athletes is incredibly small.

I’ve heard that the greatest correlation with Olympic medal tally is the amount of state funding for sports and sport sciences. If we’re going to asterisk any records, it should probably be for everyone from wealthy countries.

Came here to post this exact comment!