Emerald Zeea

If you do not do what you can to keep Republicans out of power right now, and you actively tell other people not to vote either, you are killing transgender Americans. While I say there's no wrong way to be transgender, pulling a Milo Y and empowering the people who want you dead is an exception.

(Being trans means you likely know more about trans medicine and trans politics than average. But that's not the same as each of us being an infallible genius on how legislation and social change works any more than it means each of us can expertly perform gender-affirming surgery.)

If you do not do what you can to keep Republicans out of power right now, and you actively tell other people not to vote either, you are killing transgender Americans. While I say there's no wrong way to be transgender, pulling a Milo Y and empowering the people who want you dead is an exception.

tl;dr: Any trans person telling you not to vote for Talarico etc is doing the equivalent of talking about how they're refusing treatment for life-threatening illnesses and eating ivermectin instead. Maybe they believe it, but they're hurting themselves and anyone foolish enough to do the same.

If you do not do what you can to keep Republicans out of power right now, and you actively tell other people not to vote either, you are killing transgender Americans. While I say there's no wrong way to be transgender, pulling a Milo Y and empowering the people who want you dead is an exception.

People who care about transgender people are not going to vote against our rights because JK Rowling asks them to do it, but they absolutely might because they're told to do it by particularly foolish loudmouths who are true believers in a literally suicidal strategy that has never worked, ever.

If you do not do what you can to keep Republicans out of power right now, and you actively tell other people not to vote either, you are killing transgender Americans. While I say there's no wrong way to be transgender, pulling a Milo Y and empowering the people who want you dead is an exception.

Early infighting between anti-fascist factions is pretty common. Quite a few of them have still managed to form successful coalitions and win. If anti-Trump folks are going to squabble and infight, now is probably the absolute best time. Better to get it worked out as soon as possible.

Centrists have their own flaws. I'm not going to list them because, y'know, plank in my own eye. And for the sake of my blood pressure, too. And both of those broad factions have ten zillion subfactions. But I do hope we can get things worked out.

Early infighting between anti-fascist factions is pretty common. Quite a few of them have still managed to form successful coalitions and win. If anti-Trump folks are going to squabble and infight, now is probably the absolute best time. Better to get it worked out as soon as possible.

My best source of hope, though, is that randos on social media don't generally reflect political reality. Because seriously, there's a few seriously counterproductive folks in every faction and a lot of them post on Bluesky, and it's really depressing.

Early infighting between anti-fascist factions is pretty common. Quite a few of them have still managed to form successful coalitions and win. If anti-Trump folks are going to squabble and infight, now is probably the absolute best time. Better to get it worked out as soon as possible.

At this point, I'm just angry that people as stupid as Trump and Noem have the ability to go through life not understanding how stupid they are. If there were any justice in the world, they'd be put in a room and told how stupid they were 24/7 until it finally sunk into their stupid heads.

Every day, these people come out, shit in their pants, and nod smugly at how impressed they assume everyone else is. I'll admit it. I'm jealous of their utter obliviousness to their own staggering inadequacies. I wish I had that sheer degree of unearned confidence and self-satisfaction.

At this point, I'm just angry that people as stupid as Trump and Noem have the ability to go through life not understanding how stupid they are. If there were any justice in the world, they'd be put in a room and told how stupid they were 24/7 until it finally sunk into their stupid heads.

I really want to talk about non-political stuff more, but whenever I get talking about tabletop RPGs, I just babble endlessly. So, anyway, I'm playing the Ys series video games for the first time since I played Ys 3 on the SNES. Beat the 1-2 remakes, playing 3 remake, have Origins to play later.

Genuinely baffled about why pundits on both sides are upset about the Qatar plane and taking a stand after ignoring dozens of other blatant acts of corruption. Like, why? What the hell? Crypto scams, selling Tesla on the White House lawn, etc, was fine with them. But this stupid plane matters?

Like, it's obviously blatant corruption and a threat to national security, but it probably doesn't even rank in the top 100 for either of those categories when it comes to thinks Trump has done just this month.