Malachite Tigerbunny

Quote-reposting so I can pin someone else's post.

#今月作ったプラモ晒そうぜ #gunpla #メガミデバイス

Trans people have consistently been a disproportionately large part of the Democratic Party's volunteer corps. You're sacrificing canvassers, the most impactful thing a campaign can do, for a statistically insignificant number of poached Republican votes.

It is in a lot of ways just an abdication of responsibility, of taking a role in forming the political environment. It's the fundamental problem of shallow popularism; you assume you're just a powerless actor reacting to the "preferences" of the "median voter", which is a loser's way of thinking.

Because it really is the behavior of people who don't even perceive the *existence* of a movement, who treat politics like it's just their little personal little league game to win or lose. It's wrecker shit, fundamentally. Insecure, pathetic behavior.

What these politicians are doing when they put out dumb transphobic ads or say dumb transphobic things on stage is that they're weakening the movement either out of personal bigotry or out of doing incorrect electoral math, and they really should get shit for it.

There's a constant low-level discussion on English-language bluesky about the electoral consequences of transphobic rhetoric from left-liberals but I think it's honestly worse than "they might not vote for you", it's more like, you're cutting yourself off from political labor and talent.

And so I have to ask, where would we be in some parallel world where the socialism and liberty party, or the worker's party, had this particular brain worm and worried about the ~*~optics~*~ of campaigning with her, of letting her be the incredibly effective leader that she is?

Erika was incredibly important to the whole campaign and just in general, both as an organizer and in Congress all year working to push forward the recently-passed amendment that will end the practice of making people work more than 40hrs/5 days a week.

the contrast between seeing US democrats fall over themselves to embrace idiot transphobia all year and tonight seeing footage of the president embracing my (trans) congresswoman, Erika Hilton, at the election night party

It is also, obviously, ethically grotesque, just a fucking evil thing to do, which is perhaps something we ought to start caring about with regards to elected officials.

It is, ultimately, damaging your ability to accomplish things long term or to win elections long term because you assume that you can't change the framing of the conversation even though changing the framing is a tool that's right there for you to grasp. It's incompetence. Malpractice.

Malpractice is the correct word here. It's not just "a bad move" or "a mistake." This is catastrophic willful negligence at their LITERAL ONE JOB.

MAGA is racist: Justified outrage MAGA is corrupt: Justified outrage MAGA is tacky: Outrage that seems superficial but I'll take it MAGA is transphobic with the help of 3 specific Democrats: "Hold on now, we have to have nuance" Brought to you by the Congressional Conflict Averse Caucus

I dreamt that the Team Rocket guy I was fighting punched me in the stomach so hard that it made my stove top hat pop off my head. I turned to Pikachu and shouted, “Pikachu, use Lightning Fuck!” Pikachu then screamed PIKKAAAA! (which is Pikachu speak for Lightning Fuck). Then I woke up.

We're reaching levels of juicelessness that scientists said were impossible.

I support banning biological Black toddlers from youth sports if it’s an issue of fairness and safety.

Well played

Current mood

#InvaderZim #GazMembrane #DibMembrane

I never thought to check and most people probably wouldn't have thought to take not of it... Is Germaine Greer on the Epstein list? She seems like she would have gotten along well with Ghislaine.

My general explanation for this tendency is a mix of unwillingness to criticize Democrats because of a tendency to view blame as assigning Ontological Evil status, an unwillingness due to "just feels wrong," and an unwillingness due to fear of getting demonized by their fellow moral-panickers.

I a just old enough to remember what the aftermath of 9/11 was like, and even then a member of the Bush administration saying something this Islamophobic would have been unthinkable. Sure they still thought these things but getting rid of the norms that kept them from saying it has been awful.

There can never be another "water under the bridge" administration ever again, and part of that is going to involve shaming everyone on board with this one - voters included - as the disgusting pig racists they are

Make Gutter Racism Disqualifying Again

I am by no means a smart man, but “Running for president to avoid imprisonment” should really be removed as a viable plan.

50501 strongly condemns the transphobic policy positions espoused in Josh Turek’s campaign ad. We’re calling on @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social to stand with the trans community & attack the real threat to the safety of women & girls: the Trump administration’s cover-up of the Epstein trafficking ring.

This is what I was talking about Friday. Elon has near-single-handedly entangled anti-trans culture war with Epstein and expensive diesel with his flood of empty attack ads. Standing for trans people is now part of the brand of anyone who seriously wants to drive out the corrupt pedophile rapists.

Something I spoke about before was how transphobia is often an expression of misogyny, it gives people who hate women an outlet and sets trans women up as a class of women it's socially okay to be misogynistic towards, while also providing an ideological justification for that misogyny.

God forbid a trans gal going through Puberty Two gets a little chuuni with it