This analogy works perfectly, also in the sense that Uber with its focus on cars on demand managed to steer attention and money away from things like public transit and bike safety
Hey, alongside contacting your representatives, this seems like another thing worth putting a bit of your time into and sharing around. If we could get "reputational risk" taken off the table, even in this current climate, that could create a chilling effect on these kinds of policies
"Hey look how fucked up this situation is. We can still get wildly horny about it- but lets not call it what it isn't" vs "This hetslop is super normal and totally not kinky at all. (describing trapped relationship/abuse)". Seeing slurs get downvoted on comments around them warms our heart.
My discord circles have been losing their minds over this one and pinging me over it and im just over here like... "Okay but "vampire milk fountain" did some wild shit to me ***eight years ago***. Of course I saw this!"
Kouji comes in two flavors: the fluffiest thing you've ever read (often Yuri); or "the most horrible thing a manosphere chud could ever conceive of- being woman." (Somehow can be either the most horrific identity-death or the most fluffy too)
This, I think, is a big factor.
When denounced from the left online, the target has no choice but to declare their own victimhood and move right, insisting that one bears no responsibility for that, the left made them.
But if someone doesn’t react that way… Then maybe it’s a choice.
really one of the strangest media cycles in history, where mainstream media actively hid the fact that the columbine killers were popular upper class preppy kids with full on neo-nazi ideologies and instead pretended they were victims of bullying
If you're doing callout posts about artists creating fictional taboo content, you may not consider yourself a fascist, but you are one. You are their stupid tool at the bare minimum. The good news is you can stop doing that at any time
I really want to push back on the idea that people who flee the state where they live because of anti-trans laws are privileged because they were able to leave these are fucking refugees they are internally displaced people I have seen some of the most broke people
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
I… actually never created a paper trail of my transition legally for this reason. I had a gut feeling governments may discriminate against us that way
''Ermmm it's unprofessional to talk about ''politics'', you'll lose followers!''
Oh shit my bad, here let me say this instead-
Fuck ICE
Fuck MAGA
Free Palestine
Trans rights
Black lives matter
I could give two fucks if people unfollow, i'm not here to surround myself by bigots.
Of all the things I could be locked up for, if it winds up for being owning a copy of 'My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness' I will be completely unrepentant.
I know this is like, “eww squick” it wouldn’t hurt me, but this basically bans the first episode of Game of Thrones, a significant amount of Greek mythology, and every open fanfiction website on the planet. And I wouldn’t trust an authoritarian govt with “nuance” about what is art and what is porn.
Are you like... AI scraping posts to try and hawk a book or something? Who are you lol
Pink Floyd's Surround Urself With Transgender Furries is my favorite album.
if steam is asking developers to put in an AI-generated content disclosure, i should be able to filter those "games" out of searches because trudging through next fest demos is miserable now
What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion
every high profile anti trans critic has an origin story that goes "years ago someone asked me to respect trans people and instead I chose to go insane"
These people never grapple with the reality that the right not only outspends trans people 20:1 but they also control social media algorithms and many legacy media institutions.
They never ask the questions why public opinion changed and why certain issues are so central to the debate.
Had to have *the talk* with another supervisor at one of my last workplaces because he asked me (mysteriously knowledgeable about the recently come out girl in our section)
"So are they a futa or a trap" just... Right up in the middle of the workday. Shits tiring lol
I need 'feminist' retellings to stop doing that specific thing where the narrator says stuff like 'in the world of men they say [x y z misogynistic things] about me but actually [girlboss things]', unless the twist is really good and fresh like 'actually King Arthur was always a woman' or some shit.
Like this. "You must strategically abandon the specific issues that the right has rendered toxic & focus on others."
But then ... why wouldn't the right just be able to do the same thing on those other issues?
"Can I get a queer fiction anthology with no body horror, no non-consensual sex, and no straight up pornography?"
"Hey Tony, gimme a queer fiction anthology with nuttin"
A Dem that runs as pro trans gets a SIXTY ONE POINT BUMP WITH DEM VOTERS and a NINE POINT BUMP WITH INDIES over ones that go silent.
The failure to get this is a prior beliefs/incentives problem but it's also a research problem. The current establishment's understanding of voters is utterly cooked.
Please, if you’re able, help my girlfriend have a safe and comfortable bottom surgery recovery :>
