Trans voter to @aoc.bsky.social: Trans people in America feel like they've been abandoned by the Democratic Party, that we are a losing issue, that it's not worth defending us. What do you say to that?
AOC:
In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.
speaking of japan's evil prime minister she had like a 60-80% approval rating last year lmao and it of course immediately started cratering the second she implemented all the policies she said she was gonna do all along. the lesson is in all countries globally have the same median voter brain
I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending.
You know ai is the future because every time a popular creator gets caught using it they have to make big dramatic statements and beg their viewers for forgiveness
The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.
"Imagine if biden said that" hey maybe I want neither fucking candidate I'm forced to vote for every fucking four years to be a brainrotted doddering fossil dementia blinking as they amble around a stage. Maybe just once our president could be a 42 year old with an agricultural degree. Worth a shot.
This is the answer of course to "but what about developers?" whining whenever there's a call to boycott a game or a publisher:
The devs get fucked over one way or another
fuck the court and fuck every "it sucks but we gotta cave on sports, people have legitimate concerns, they'll definitely leave trans people alone after this" shithead on the way there
It's funny because centrist democrats are making a big vocal ado about mobilizing against their leftist opponents but also they're centrist democrats so all they're gonna do is get fleeced by a think tank to tell them something like "make more shortform videos"
It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.
Playing on their turf never ever wins, not morally, not politically. Here's a response: "this is a wedge issue targeting kids, getting into their doctors' decisions. Next, they'll come for your hysterectomy, your vasectomy. And it's because they can't talk about the economy." Say Fuck You back
Talarico saying he's against "gender reassignment surgery for minors" to lots of nodding and impressed gestures from the Barro/Yglesias crowd and a lot of the politics press is, I think, a great example of how much the well has been poisoned on trans healthcare
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Seeing the way people have been talking about TADC and Backrooms has convinced me that “lore” is the enemy in storytelling right now, people demand you focus on needless worldbuilding and not just tell a meaningful story with themes and symbols you can apply to life itself.
many others have said it but the account-wide "adult content" label being applied to anyone at all completely undermines the "adult content is labeled and you can filter it out" feature the website had. Losing the text of a post prevents anyone from discerning if they want to click "show" or not.
It's really funny how this websites whole deal when it started was "Welcome. This isn't twitter. We're a beautiful community of unique individuals and our platform is all about finding your niche" and then the staff spent the last few years targeting Palestinians, Trans people, and nsfw workers.
Hey @support.bsky.team, the new changes regarding hiding text posts from NSFW creators are extremely annoying. You are more or less forcing me to either adjust my settings so I see all NSFW or manually click every text post from my less-than-SFW friends. This makes the site less accessible.