Forever Chased in the Underworld

Born to be shitposter, forced to be a humanrightsposter.

This is eminently reasonable, extremely well-argued, and essential reading. Erin is correct about all of this, and it is doubly urgent given what we've seen in the UK. 2026 is the time to correct the Dems about this. 2028 may be too late.

Wait why is it "everypony" and "nopony," but "yourself?"

I feel like a comparative analysis between Kirk/Spock and Janeway /Seven would be illuminating.

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

trans people are already compromising in this election by simply asking that our existing rights not be on the chopping block what dems are doing now is deciding whether they actually need to negotiate with us at all so telling us to vote to keep a spot in the tent is pretty fucking condescending

In the run up to this election I saw constant posts from Brazilians begging people in America and elsewhere to raise awareness of the fascist threat they were facing. The people were asking for a counterweight to billionaire interference! Anyways fuck Yglesias, etc.

GET IT GET IT

It’s times like these (spooky season), that makes me wish Bette Midler wasn’t a TERF

In the light of the "discourse" of Erin's "alarmism" -- is this "alarmist?" Or is it factual? I think it is the later, of course, and I think that any reporting short of this is missing the mark.

Legit believe that it's harder to do this kind of activism now because everyone is poorer. Society desperately needs working class people with strong social safety nets who can risk being publicly angry about shit without seeing their quality of life depreciate.

Look. Not to play into the "elitist" allegations but... I live in the fashion capital. When I travel people call my schlubby ass stylish.

Hooooo what a therapy session. Channelling my tears into empathy-posting about #HelluvaBoss, like a normal Fuji

This rules

The trans panic around dating a trans woman only to find out she was "born a man" is reminiscent of men who say they only want virgins. Unable to engage with women as human beings with pre-existing lives, they reduce them to sexual commodities.

for my birthday on 10/31, i am turning 35 years old. for my birthday on 10/31, i want to pay my rent for my birthday on 10/31, i want to remain housed for my birthday on 10/31, i don't wanna be homeless

This is the least surprising graph I have seen all year. It is also why I don't give to dems (even the ones I like), and why, sadly, I no longer sign petitions.

If you have a 206, 425 or 360 phone number look up a zip code in Washington district 1 and call Delbene's office at (425) 485-0085 and tell them what you think.

Great thread, absolutely spot-on.

They need to frame these and put them in the Guggenheim

And landlords wonder why we all hate them

Democrats—post screenshots of your officially lodged complaints to the DCCC and I will still vote for your candidates come Nov 3rd. I wanna see 100 comments or who knows how I’ll vote.

Harry Potter and the Metrics That Won't Pay For The Skydance Merger

Obviously we are a siblinghood of underground street dogs banding together in secret covens only thr cool kids have access too. /j We are elitjst becwuse we exclude bigots or something?

This is accurate.

#Piranesi

I think “giving your friends psychic damage” is really a subset of “sharing things we’re both interested in,” but “gross edition.”

which way western tran

Look, the Democratic Party, like most contemporary political parties, is absolutely captured by robber barons, and is riddled with bigotry. We all know this to be true. There can be good cases for voting for them, but any good-faith argument needs to start from what we know to be true: they suuuck

THIS. Especially for Jewish Americans who are not Orthodox and not over 60. Again, there's polling! I'm not just making it up! (I do see it in my extended family, though.)

"It's not misgendering, it's misogyny!"

"Everything I don't like is socialism" remains undefeated. (Here with its cousin, "everything I like is facts.")

WaThe Ching old movies is great b/c they’ll mention “dolls” and you can pretend they’re referring to trannies.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

It's okay to want to medically transition and, if you have the access and you have the ability, you are 100% allowed to do it.

This is, unironically, a libertarian take. The idea that we cannot hold powerful men accountable, that people can just decide to all opt out of systems of control, is the kind of navel-gazing, faux-righteous energy you see from guys who move to Latam trying to set up crypto fiefdoms.