🏴 Fuck fascism 🏴 Moreover, we’re still being sued by The Satanic Temple in King County superior court. TST is now also suing Newsweek and a TikToker.
[ID: original tweet image is a trolley problem where the Democratic rail has only a Palestinian flag on the tracks but the Republic rail has a Palestinian flag on plus many other flags: Mexico, transgender pride, feminism, Ukraine, gay pride, Black Lives Matter, Pakistan(?), and a pride flag striped yellow, white, pink, and black with a purple circle in the middle /ID]
People who act like voting Democratic solves or even improves most these problems problems are asking you to ignore how much worse things like “border control” and “women’s reproductive rights” have gotten despite record voting for Democrats, and national popular vote victories for Democratic presidential candidates in seven out of eight elections going back more than 30 years.
Vote or don’t vote, but stop acting like the problem is people not believing strongly enough in the efficacy of electoralism when the problem is liberals believing too strongly in it, akin to magic, at the expense of everything else. Meanwhile reactionaries are under no such illusions.
Iran’s rhetoric in response to Israel’s invasion of Gaza has been fiery, but until now, the Islamic Republic — which considers Israel an interloper in Muslim lands — has been content to let affiliated groups, like Hezbollah in Lebanon and militias in Iraq and Syria, fight those battles. Hezbollah and Israel frequently trade fire over the southern Lebanese border, which has killed at least 66 Lebanese civilians and approximately nine Israeli civilians, and Iraqi and Syrian militia groups have attacked US installations in both those countries over 150 times in the past six months in response to the US’s continued military support for Israel.
Early on in the war, the US sent warships to the region to discourage further escalation.
Yemen’s Houthi rebel group has also targeted ships in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait of the Red Sea, claiming to target vessels in retaliation for the Israeli military’s destruction of Gaza and killing of more than 33,000 Palestinians. (Though, as my colleague Joshua Keating has reported, the attacks also serve a number of the Houthis’ other interests.)
Then, on April 1, Israel launched an attack on Iran’s embassy in Damascus, Syria, killing multiple IRGC Quds Force commanders, who manage operations for Iran-aligned forces around the region. Embassies are considered to be inviolable, and serious attacks on such premises are rare.
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“The Iranians concluded that the risk of not responding outweighed the risk of responding,” Vaez said. Hardliners within the government — the leadership’s last remaining sector of support — had publicly criticized the lack of response to multiple assassinations and escalatory actions attributed to Israel.
In 1988, Iran struck a US warship with a single mine, and the US responded with Operation Praying Mantis. In 2024, Iran launched 110 ballistic missiles at Israel, and the US expect Israel to remain silent...
I posted about Palestine on social media for years with zero interaction. No one wanted to talk about it and it has always seemed too far removed for americans to give a shit about.
So again I just want to remind people, it's never been like this before (in the us). This movement has always been here, but they can no longer bury it.
The fact that protests and boycotts have been sustained for going-on 6months, that's not nothing. This should be evidence to you that we can sustain the momentum, we must, and use this momentum for radical changes within ourselves, our habits, and our education.
i hate to be that guy, but the idea that gender, sex, and sexuality are ontologically pure concepts that can be rigidly defined if we simply police our language enough (our english language, because of course) is—i cannot stress this enough—a total waste of time. you may as well spend your afternoons teaching a brick how to swim
People are always asking and debating about if you should suggest that gnc men might be trans women and it's a whole thing but there's an easy solution:
Don't worry about if they're gnc or anything. Just suggest that all cis men should transition, no matter how feminine or masculine they are.
"They shouldn't socially transition until after 25"
So trans people magically aren't adults at 18 like cis people!?!?!????
[sarcasm] Wow yeah that sounds good and like something a normal government would say. Hope this isn't a dangerous precedent that will be used to repeal rights from other minority groups
was really mad that the couches in the lobby at my work got removed :( then I remembered that most days I open there's someone sleeping on them, meaning someone reported that to housekeeping and their "solution" was to remove the couches entirely?? I was pissed about it, then noticed this sign today
the removal of comfort in public spaces to 'deter' homeless people impacts everyone
not nearly enough people are fuming about the cass review. do you understand the eventual implications? trans people in the uk will be considered children up until the age of 25, and denied HRT/surgery/even basic measures like legal name change and social transition. all owing to a biased and largely unscientific study. you know what “treatment” for gender dysphoria is recommended by the review instead? conversion therapy.
this will kill people and they know it, because they prefer us dead and out of sight. the government, the NHS and even the opposition have made this clear again and again. a twenty-five year old can have sex, get married have children, join the military, earn a living, be halfway up the corporate ladder or highly successful in their chosen career field by that age, but they can’t transition under NHS rules. this is a death sentence for trans teenagers and they are going ahead with it. it’s trans genocide, same as across the pond.
i’m so afraid for my trans siblings and our futures. i’m so scared for myself. what are we to do if not even the party that is supposed to be on the “left” gives a shit about our safety and mental health as long as they get voted in? labour have become tories with a red coat of paint. it all feels hopeless
in the USA, "Urgent Care" is for your "sit in the waiting room and suffer for up to eight hours till they get to you, but if you pass out on the floor, they need to call an ambulance" problems
whereas "Emergency Care" is for your "sit in the waiting room and suffer up to eight hours till they get to you, but if you pass out on the floor, they just put you in a gurney" problems
I was watching The Autopsy of Jane Doe. Let's play a game. If a coroner approached me with this symbol, what would I tell him?
Two big flags: That's a woven textile, and those are Roman letters. Most surviving Roman spells were written on stone or metal stele. Roman characters on papyrus practically screams North Africa, 1st-4th century AD.
Given, there is no textile on earth that could survive the stomach acid like this, so I'm assuming something supernatural is happening.
So north Africa, 1-4th century AD. That specific type of circle is clearly remineacent of Solomoic magic. The thing is. Solomonic seals were usually produced in an Egyptian milieu. Authentic North african magical characters usually have little loops on the end, because they're trying to imitate the ankh. Or they look noticably Greek.
Whats interesting to me, is that the symbol inside the circle is more Greek-Pythagorean than Egyptian. It's got that square capped with triangles. That's a neoplatonist sacred geometry thing.
Also, I have the movie paused, but I would bet money those numerals on the edges are supposed to correspond to bible verses. I would bet money one of them is supposed to be EX 22:18.
Which, if that's true, would mean that this isn't 1-4th century, but more like a post-golden-dawn reprint from the 1850s.
Official prediction: This bitch is supposed to be an 1850s American frontier witch. The prop designers get extra points if they want me to think she was part of the Salem witch trials, or some other sensational event like that.
Wow, just noticed yet another instance of a trans women who appears to have had her account nuked for making a post about tumblr's obviously broken and biased moderation system, and the offending post appears to have been scrubbed from the site (I went looking for my reblog from less than a week ago and it's just gone).
Tumblr staff can not have it both ways. You cannot say the blatant instances of anti-trans hate speech and harassment, much of which does get reported, are abhorrent but technically not in violation of the terms of service under the excuse of "free speech" when you are at the same time deleting accounts for merely criticizing how you run this place!
At the risk of having my own account scrubbed I gotta say, that is some stunning hypocrisy. Also, I think the previous sentence demonstrates that this has a chilling effect! The way the TOS is being unevenly applied and the utter lack of clarity on how these decisions get made, makes the rest of us feel afraid to speak up. None of us know where exactly the lines are and it kinda seems like they're drawn and enforced according to staff's arbitrary whims!
The consideration we give an abuser's soul neurochemistry seems like it should be very far down the list of things we consider or address.
“Psychopath/sociopath” similarly seems to be a term without much utility beyond pejorative. It means “a bad person, a monster, mentally ill (pejorative).” A lack of empathy, in particular, is pathologized and blamed as an individual moral failing just in different terms.
Except you don’t need empathy to treat people around you well, and the reverse is also true — look no further than how you notice so many self-described “empaths” and how they act toward others. Feeling is a selfish experience; you are what you do repeatedly.
Is "antisocial personality disorder" a predictive term? Or, again, is that not just a pejorative used to describe and explain certain people who are antisocial in particular ways, especially ways that make them function poorly in society based on their position in it toward others given those others' position in it?
People with hierarchical power in society do tend to view themselves as owing nothing to people around around (beneath) them and caring nothing about how their actions impact most others. The powerful act toward those over which they have power in ways that might be described as “mentally ill” if they did the same thing toward peers.
That is, a feudal prince can do unprovoked violence to a commoner without worry of consequences, but if it’s to a major lord, there may start to be grumblings of revolution. But also: slavers toward enslaved people, bosses toward employees, landlords toward renters, even cishet men toward girlfriends versus toward other men.
Basically, when you don’t see someone else as fully a person, you can do all sorts of things to them and not feel any guilt about it. Possibly even feel good about it. Most of the atrocities throughout time have been committed by neurotypical people, after all, and power dynamics predict and explain much more than anything genetic, medical, or neurological.
When we work to remove the power dynamics that allow one group of people to be placed over another and do them harm, there probably still will be some people who have specific things about them that make them more prone to violence or manipulating others or lashing out. But! in that world their capacity to hurt people will be far less, it will be far less likely to be justified or be enabled, and the hurtful people themselves will also likely have many more social incentives not to behave that way than just "we will smash you if we catch you" suggesting they should smash people if they can't get caught — or should smash people that are excluded from protected.
Holding people accountable for abuse shouldn't mean thinking about them like they are ontologically evil, in those terms or any other.
Your parents are not "narcissists". They're typical authoritarian assholes who treat you like their property because society allows them to.
Your ex boyfriend is not a "narcissist". He's a typical misogynistic douchebag who treats women like shit because society allows him to.
Your boss is not a "narcissist". They're a typical classist dipshit who thinks workers' entire purpose in life is to generate profit because society allows them to.
And even if they happen to be a "narcissist", that's not what gave them the power to get away with abuse.
So stop blaming mental illness and start blaming society's normalization of abuse. Stop acting like someone has to have a mental illness in order to do something cruel when ordinary people have been doing atrocious things since forever.
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