Leftist Logician (she/her)

I think anti-Dems really need to start accepting the fact the reason pro-Dem people act so bitchy all the time is that having to waste so much time having to convince people Yeah So That Bleeding Obvious Objectively Correct Thing? You Should Actually Fking Do It For Once is *insanely exhausting*.

Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....

Note that this person was asked "what keeps virulently transphobic Republicans out of office" and then listed a bunch of things that are extremely unlikely to actually do that. Also the whole "I am apparently MAGA, since I am fine with the greater evil winning and no non-MAGA would think that way."

I really need to put a reality check out there. If Anti-Dems can't even deal with pro-Dem people who believe in civil rights without resorting to playground bully, Antisocial Disorder, and/or Compulsive Lying Disorder shenanigans and histrionics, how the hell are they convincing the actual bigots?

TL;DR: I don't like the prospect of trying to interact with current Republicans any more than you, nor like how long things will take as I'm not getting any younger, but our path out of this is changing our culture to be more leftist, not expecting leftist dictators to somehow top-down force things.

FFS, no, dumbass, they're so sure VOTERS won't change. That we can't be trusted not to continually vote Republicans back in time and time again to wreck things outside of occasional two-year-long instances of ludicity. Dems can't magically change that. And this BS here is why they don't trust us.

Clinton tried his hardest to outright make it legal for gays to serve in the military. It was the first thing he did on becoming President, and he received enormous pushback. He absolutely spent his honeymoon good will on it. I firmly believe that DADT was the best he could do.

I'm going to say this plainly & bluntly. We were never ever Fighting Democrats. It wasn't Democrats who loved Anita Bryant people! It was Republicans. It wasn't Democrats who called us sick, twisted, morally corrupt or mentally ill. It was Republicans.

Last night when I saw this, I was a little too tired to explain why I think this is bullshit. June 3, 1993, the year Evan was born, Kansas City Missouri passed an ordinance that provided workplace protections to LGBTQ+ people. I was involved in getting that ordinance passed.

It's a pedagogical example of the saying that the exception proves the rule. I could reel off a list of several specific Dem candidates who've put their foot in it on trans rights this cycle. If you asked me the same question about R candidates/electeds it'd be "... all of them? they're all bad"

TL;DR the whole reason we have this discourse is because Dems have been very resilient on trans issues in the face of extremely dedicated and very dangerous attacks so any potential cracks in the armor throw up alarm bells everywhere the correct response is making sure the crack doesn't spread

the overwhelming majority of Democrats are very good on trans policy, especially where it matters most (healthcare access and anti-discrimination) this in turn makes any given Democrat vulnerable to right-wing attacks on trans issues *because* of how unified the party is

a counterintuitive synthesis here is that it is probably a good sign that the "impending Democratic backslide on trans rights" is constantly looming elaboration below:

on the issue, because that's how comparisons work. And it's hard not to notice that the people who question that statement never seem to have in mind a different party anywhere on Earth that is better on the issue than Democrats.

So if even 0.5% of Democratic officials are transphobic, that would still be plenty of ammunition to bombard you with "Dems are evil" messaging at full volume multiple times a week. Also: even if Dems sucked on trans issues(and they don't), that wouldn't preclude them from being the best party

Because there are 10s of thousands of Democratic electeds in the United States, and you have positioned yourself directly into a media environment that is designed to find every statement a Democrat makes that is even vaguely transphobic as soon as it happens.

the thing that makes Bester work is that he truly believes he's right and he's doing the best thing for telepaths, he genuinely means it and Koenig sold the hell out of it

I mean look at this magnificent bastard, how could you not love him every time he was on screen

Well, once again, eff this timeline. Chekov was one of my TOS faves, and Koenig was so amazing as Bester on Babylon 5 that it made you both forget he wasn't a regular and retroactively wish he'd been given more to do as Chekov. We're down to just Takei and Shatner of the main TOS folks, aren't we?

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

FWIW because I looked it up for another post, Clinton got 78% of the LGBTQ vote, slightly higher than the 76% Obama got in ‘12 & the same as Obama ‘04. The #s for Biden are all over the place, probably due to COVID, and Harris despite her supposed awfulness & under-bussing got 82-86%

in primary & general elections—was solidly behind her: 88% of black voters & 78% of LGBTQ voters—slightly *higher* than Obama got in 2012 Clinton lost because white voters, especially white voters w/o a college education, increasingly solid GOP voters going back to ‘80 if not ‘68, voted Trump

A constant refrain of Clinton’s campaign was that the Supreme Court was on the line. If by “the base” you mean white progressives, they responded by saying she was trying to blackmail them by pointing this out The actual base of the Democratic Party—the groups that most consistently turn out

HRC winning would mean a 6-3 liberal Supreme Court, a Supreme Court that doesn’t pass Skirmetti, a Supreme Court that doesn’t let Hegseth purge trans people from the military, a Supreme Court that doesn’t let Trump strip support for trans care from Medicaid & threaten states over it etc etc etc

I always feel happy when I wade into a convo and find someone else trying to bring some stats and facts all up in it. I may like pro-Dem vibes better than anti-Dem vibes, but I like facts way better than I like any type of vibe.

This headline structure is literally the joke format we use to make fun of people like this

*resigned sigh* www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfoq...

right? I think he should just vibe code his own rival store I am sure it will be a fantastic success!

I was like "who is this jacob navok guy that tim sweeney is amplifying" assuming he was some failed steam shovelware peddler whining on his own behalf but no, he's a former Square Enix executive, lol. smol bean disease continues to infect the executive class.

What's also funny about the AI gaming situation is, like, gamers have no self-esteem, yo. We regularly will complain about things we allegedly hate in games, or complain about companies we allegedly hate, then... go buy them anyway. So if we gamers *actually* won't buy a thing, that thing is *bad*.