Chetzemoka

You know that’s not true

Oh I thought it was just a couple random people getting squicky about trans ladies using the ladies room? So you admit that it’s an organized effort. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone move their goalposts in the wrong direction before lmao

Outlawing gender affirming medical care has zero impact on sports, you willful liar. No, the truth is that the people behind this movement are targeting trans people because they’re the most convenient vulnerable group to rally hateful bigots around right now. Gay people are acceptable, the dog caught the car on the abortion “debate,” and they need a new boogeyman to leverage to whip votes

There only being that one playbook is the exact reason why I have a patch on my backpack that reads: “Evil is boring”

Having your literal survival threatened has a way of focusing the attention. We’re already reaching the point where people can’t afford the bread and circuses.

He followed Glenn Greenwald down the “I feel like people don’t respect my leftism enough, so I’m gonna join the alt-right” path

The secret ingredient is ✨🌈 misogyny ✨🌈

Stop lying. The massive, coordinated effort to outlaw gender affirming medical care is so much more than “a couple people feel squicky about trans ladies using the ladies room.”

benefits and protections generally reserved for females

Omfg, please leave right now

Lol 10-20 years. AGI is a fantasy.

You have to wonder if we aren’t just confirming what the Great Filter is. There may not be any space faring civilizations.

He’s not 100% wrong about the H1B being indentured servitude. By many accounts, the only employees Twitter was able to retain were those here on H1B, which doesn’t allow them to change employers without renewing their visa status. A good friend of mine was stuck in a bad employment situation because she was here on H1B. Employers definitely exploit that visa status, pretending that paying the visa processing fees gives them the right to abuse the employee.

But heaven forbid we just reform it to give the H1B visa holder greater employment rights and more freedom to switch jobs easily. Never forget that “meritocracy” is always code for rich. Those who can afford the best schools, the best tutors, who have the best social connections to achieve in their careers. A “meritocratic” system absolutely would not be more fair.

No, you’re actually wrong on this account. Grooming is definitionally the emotional manipulation that is performed specifically in order to get away with sexually abusing a child. One example of this kind of grooming involves doing illicit non-sexual activities with a child in order to seem like a “fun adult” who “let’s them get away with bad things” and to get the child to practice “keeping this our secret” so that when the direct sexual abuse starts, the child is already in the habit of hiding illicit activity from other adults.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_grooming

So this is a nonfiction work about the author’s actual experiences as a teenager? Yeah we really need to stop pretending teenagers are innocent little flowers who never encounter stuff like this (that they often don’t understand and have no one to talk to about)

That’s a nice looking Nebelung you got there. They’re such beautiful cats

A statement like this should get you instantly booted out of Congress

They can buy themselves a few years at best without a functioning supply chain. We all depend on society, no matter how much they like to deny it

They think they do. No amount of money will protect a person from the collapse of a civilization. Never has, never will. Their plans are very much predicated on the assumption that markets will somehow magically continue to function after the general populace has lost all faith in them

When one single individual who isn’t the executive can obstruct the entire system like Tubbs and Turtle, it’s time to burn the system and start over

Dude, you’re the first person to get the reference!

Taki, beratna. Be well.

The deluge of information is definitely a problem, and it’s a problem that is exploited by bad actors (see: “firehose of falsehood” tactic explicitly endorsed by Russian intelligence that was used to great effect by Trump during his time as president)

I think A solution for the time being (perhaps not THE solution ultimately, but for now) is to adhere to quality evidence based whenever possible, which is something we definitely can review for ourselves. Vet and re-vet individual sources to determine which ones we can trust. And beyond that, go with a consensus. There will always be that one expert who disagrees with the majority on any issue no matter what, but if the general consensus is in a certain direction, then that’s the way we should try to go

No individual human being has infinite time to dedicate to sifting through every insane conspiracy theory and terrible political theory that has ever been thunk. We, as a species, need to decide what we should and should not spend our limited time engaging with. Sometimes, that means listening to experts who have taken the time to study the subject in more detail than we will ever have time in our lives, and trusting their word on the matter.

For example, no one feels like they have to waste public time refuting the existence of aether (yet, anyway, though I’m sure the flat earthers will get around to it.) For another example, smart people who study history for a living identify several of key characteristics common to fascist political parties that look suuuuuper familiar to anyone looking at the modern day Republican party in the US.

We do not have infinite resources. Infinite time, infinite brain power, infinite public discourse. Just as it is widely recognized that it’s fine to limit discussions of pro-anorexia groups for the public good, so too is it fine to limit the reach of harmful ideas like vaccine conspiracy theories, Neo-nazi recruitment of young people, whether or not people with this characteristic or that characteristic have equal rights and deserve life and freedom, climate change “debate”…

And some “ideas” that might not seem that harmful on their face should be suppressed when it is clear they are being deliberately used to lead people down paths toward much more harmful ideas for the profit of grifters. (Like Qanon and the Alt-Right YouTube pipeline)

It is ok for us to moderate what is said in public. We have always done this because it is necessary to a functioning, healthy society.