I guess it's time for a real pinned thread uwu
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The fun thing about posting mean jokes about Elon Musk on Twitter is you know there's a startlingly huge chance he is actually going to read it and it will hurt his feelings.
So like it looks like Elon honestly did buy Twitter thinking he could stop people from making fun of him on Twitter and that's just so fucking sad and funny.
Guys.
It's actually really funny that Elon Musk bought Twitter.
This dude became the richest guy on the planet in the space of like 18 months and then threw it all away on a whim seemingly because his girlfriend broke up with him and he was in a place.
Part of the reason why North Carolina gave up its bathroom ban back in the day is because Obama has the Department of Education threaten to withhold federal funding from the schools if trans students couldn't pee in them. Biden hasn't done anything because he doesn't want to.
cis libs who don't know how govt works shouldn't be allowed to community note trans ppl. biden 100% has the authority to enforce federal nondiscrimination protections in healthcare and education in FL - he just hasn't. it's my job to know this and i'm very good at my job
Remember when the CIA released documents that were like "Yo we've had some guys doing astral projection but we're pretty sure they found some scary monsters in there so we told them to stop".
They're something a lot of people quite literally NEED to function in the world, but they aren't fully covered by most healthcare schema. Even if you have Medicaid, the help available to help you get a simple corrective device to help you SEE is minimal.
And then, the industry is dominated by a single central player (Luxottica, look it up) who gouges prices like mad. Society has exactly zero infrastructure in place to quickly replace your glasses should they become broken. It's just a nightmare all around.
This is like the simplest kind of corrective equipment. Now imagine you need a prosthesis or a power chair or a cochlear implant or something– something that isn't needed by like fully a third of the population if not more. You think those issues get better? No, of course not.
Glasses, at first, seem like an easy and obvious fix. Something almost everyone will need eventually, and something a significant percentage of people need most of their lives. This should be simple right? Not so, Don Ho.
Like I can post mean shit about the Sackler Family or the Wilks Brothers or even other celebrity billionaires like Gates and Bezos all day long but they will never read it and if by some chance they did it would mean nothing to them. Elon is a soft target.
Ableism is so casually baked into our society that I did a casual ableism while trying to talk about it! It's been bugging me all night I said "corrective devices" and not "assistive devices".
"Guys I'm in charge now you can't make fun of me anymore I said. Guyyyyyyssss I spent $44 billion dollars you really can't make fun of me anymore. Guuuuuuyyyyyyyyyyyyysssssss"
Like, him buying Twitter was clearly a joke he was making that got out of hand and truly the funniest result is that it tanked Tesla stock– making him no longer the richest man in the world– and now he STILL has to buy it for way way more money than it's worth. This is hilarious.
And him having difficulty securing outside financing and Twitter demanding cash instead of assets means he has almost certainly spent a significant portion of his remaining wealth on buying a platform he kind of hates and definitely never really wanted in the first place.
The CIA was like "Hey we're pretty sure the astral plane is real and we're also pretty sure there's monsters there that we– the most powerful arm of the most powerful military-intellegence operation on the planet– don't know how to deal with" and only schizophrenics cared.
Elon just straight out admitting to the fact that he bought Twitter to hurt trans women because he blames trans Twitter for stealing his son should honestly be such bigger news framed like completely differently.
Except what actually happened is he signed a joke contract to buy that shitty Jeep but then someone told him "Um. Joke contracts aren't, like, a thing." So, he's spent the past past nine months trying to find a way out, but now he's gotta buy the broken Jeep.
The media is already setting up a false victory narrative to try to quell the unrest.
Breonna Taylor's murderers still walk free. Tony McDade's killer is merely on administrative leave. They are smearing David McAtee after his death and his killers walk free.
Like I thought it was sad and funny when I thought it was because of a simple midlife crisis or a stupid joke gone wrong or even to hurt Chelsea Manning for stealing his girlfriend but nah it really really was to suspend people making fun of him and that's just too sad.
Nobody needs to change their names to make fun of you, Mr. Musk. Don't know how a worm like you got a barrel chest like that. Are those ass hairs on your head, Elon, or just the world's most expensive toupeé? See? It's easy. You're a walking farce, a sad little joke.
Between Detroit: Become Human and Cyberpunk 2077 so many trans people are going to become game devs out of pure spite just to make a cool transhumanist technofuture video game.
Holy cats I took a nap and this blew up. Why don't you consider helping out with my new glasses as my current pair has its right lens held together with packing tape:
So, do you think we're ever going to– as a community– reckon with the fact that one of the most consistent and effective tactics for KF was weaponizing purity culture in queer spaces to have the trans community attack anyone they didn't like?
Don't tell me trans people need to have therapy to get hormones until you can prove to me that they can go see that therapist for free within a month. Otherwise, fuck off.
Informed Consent now. Informed Consent forever.
How did so many anarchists get so propaganda poisoned that we are trying to disavow an act of protest we all agree with in favor of maintaining an air of civility.
"Real anarchists would never vandalize Pelosi's house *like that*!!"
@ambermlayne
"Speak up if you can't hear me" makes about as much sense as "raise your hand if you're not here", but we only say the latter as a joke. 😑
I think we don't talk often enough about how times like these-- where the naked rigging of our economy and the inherent unfairness of the way we run our society are on full, brazen display-- are super emotionally difficult for autistic people on a, like, *bone deep* level.
This reminds me of the fact that after years of hearing that Lolita was "perverted pedo trash" or "good, but like really fucked up" I finally found out at 32 that Nabokov was himself a victim of childhood sexual abuse just trying to explore his trauma with the tools at hand.
I am desperate for a TTRPG podcast with a trans woman at the table instead of just in the narrative. Trans girls, this is your chance to promote your self-indulgent Actual Play projects.
Everyone please RT this so that it gets maximum reach. I need *many hours* of content.
Do you all realize what it would mean if this Harry Potter game flops after Fantastic Beasts II and a year of the rankest TERFery from Jo?
Harry Potter might, like, actually go away.
Liberals might be forced to read a NEW book.
Don't buy the new Harry Potter game.
You know, people who like to complain about non-binary people being treated as "women lite" could probably do more work to explicitly include AMAB non-binary people in their analyses of the social dynamics surrounding non-binary identity themselves.
Jus' sayin'.
To be clear: when leftists and queer people say "abolish the family", there's a lot of things we DON'T mean. Here's a sampling:
- Abolish monogamy
- Abolish childbearing
- Abolish child-rearing
- Abolish romance
- Abolish marriage
- Take children from their parents
To be clear, the reason why Netflix can't fire Chapelle and Spotify can't fire Rogan is because their entire business model rests on fooling credulous rich people into thinking they're good at investing towards the long game. Admitting they made a bad investment is verboten.
The fact that gangstalking, long considered to be a myth and a symptom of schizophrenia in itself, is real now and it can happen to you mostly just because you were a little too cringe and neurodivergent online is honestly terrifying.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but when you think something is "cringe"? It's because you're imagining yourself in the place of the person being "cringe" and how embarrassed you'd be. That's an internalized shame reaction.
That's a "you" problem, not a "them" problem.
Put on a dress and call yourself a boywife. Be like twenty different genders. Tryout genderslime over genderfluid. Be a girl in a flak jacket. Hack a prison commissary fund and give everyone enough money for phone calls. Grow vegetables in your backyard. Do whatever you want.
Queer discourse fucking sucks go have sex with whoever you want and call it whatever makes you happy. Don't have sex if it doesn't. Throw a brick at your constable. Burn down a border wall. Do literally anything else other than this shit
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Traumatized people often feel as though love is something they can "deserve" or "earn", but that's simply not how love works. I love other people because *I* have chosen to love them, not because they have met some list of criteria.
"Unfairness" and imbalance is something our brains HATE. It's a commonly known symptom of our neurotype.
Remember the article from a bit ago about how autistic people are "deficient" because we'll almost always do the right thing over the personally beneficial thing? Same thing.
So picrew avatars not only help trans people alleviate gender dysphoria, they're also a very useful tool in helping plural systems illustrate themselves and lessen identity dysphoria.
Railing against picrew avatars isn't only transmisia, it's pluralmisia, too.
Programmer socks. Monster energy. Mopping your style from Saks. Las telenovelas transvestis. I don't care. Lots of culture. Let trans women be people for fucks sake.
There's a really unfortunate tendency by trans people to view TERFs as misguided left-wing political actors because of the cloak of feminist language they use, and it's really starting to wear thin on me. By and large they are politically conservative.
Non-binary women are also women. That's why we call ourselves women instead of just non-binary people.
You don't have to put an X. Promise.
If you want to include plain-old non-women non-binary people in Women's History Month? Well, we have a word for that:
It's misgendering.
Black trans women, Asian trans women, white trans women, Indigenous trans women, all the trans women. Let them develop a culture. Lots of cultures. As many cultures as people need.
It's rough when unfairness effects you personally, whether on a small or large scale.
When you come to realize our entire modern society is STRUCTURED AROUND unfairness? Yeah, that screws you up in an *ongoing* way.
I cannot stress enough to you that to most right-wingers? The End of the World is a good thing.
It's really hard for leftists and especially liberals to wrap their head around: the average "conservative" voter is strongly hoping for Apocalypse.
The sheer staggering delusion of right-wingers calling leftists "nihilistic" when they're the ones whose only vision of a future is "we'll intentionally avoid using the vast technological advances we've made to help fix the world's problems"
So what DO we mean?
- No more parents working alone
- Communalize the work of raising and educating children
- No more inherited wealth
- No more dynasties
- More difficult to abuse children behind closed doors
- Actually talking to your neighbors again
- Better community values
@ParkerMolloy
"Come back to me when Leftists humiliate you at a protest for being well known as a massive tool. Obviously that's what makes a *real* worthwhile political voice. Not your silly <checks notes> Pulitzer Prize nomination."
You don't like the flavor of the month? That's cool. Make your own. Maybe it will be the flavor next month. They don't tend to last that long. Maybe because we viciously shame anyone who likes them after a few months or years, maybe because it's just fashion and fashions shift.
In 2008, a paper was published reporting on a woman who had normal periods, conceived and gave birth normally, went through menopause normally and had normal hormones. Everything about her was as expected... except that most of the cells in her body had XY chromosomes.
Wait until Zoomers find out even most (suburban and rural) millennials didn't grow up with cops in schools. At least nothing like we have now.
Sandy Hook was 2012. I graduated in 2007. We had one retired cop with no badge or gun working "security" and just in the morning.
Like, she correctly identified that it's in fact much easier to talk down actual fascists than it is to talk down the trans community when we've decided we don't like you. Isn't that kind of... Horrifying? Like, she's right. That's true. Doesn't that make you feel ashamed of us?
When the anti-sex purity crusaders find out that a good 80% of kinks are born out of formative encounters with weird moments in media aimed at children, do you think they'll try to ban children from children's media because "something something grooming"?
@Category_Fury
A good amount of cis people still don't know estrogen grows us tits. I imagine a bunch of them barely even understand that we *take* hormones. Never underestimate the depths of cis ignorance on trans issues.
You know how a lot of your autistic friends, like, vibrated right out of our skin and into a whole 'nother plane of existence over the past year? Yeah, that's why.
2020 was hard on the fairness processing part of our brain on the level of, like, a RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE.
So... I sort of hate this meme?
Like, steam's admittedly terrible recommendation algorithms aside, queer erotic art is indeed queer art that deserves to be categorized with other queer art.
If contemporary Pride is more of a celebration than a riot, that's a PROBLEM.
Don't tell me Pride is a party, not a protest.
Not this year, when our trans folks in the UK are getting asylum to flee. Not this year, when legislatures around the US ban trans healthcare.
Remember though that if you've got money flowing from this whole stonk debacle that if you fancy yourself Robin Hoods and Goemons you can't JUST rob from the rich. You gotta give to the poor, too. I suggest finding some trans people's crowdfunds.
All Cops Are Bastards but *especially* the one who is your family member and has betrayed your love by subverting every good quality they have to the will of the State.
Are you kidding me with this?? We're going to have to be willing to go much further than some tepid graffiti if we intend to accomplish *literally any* of the goals of the movement.
If "real anarchists" wouldn't do that it's because they're doing something much more extreme!
Also, and I can't believe I even have to say this, "AFAB trans people transition to escape sexual trauma" is literally a TERF talking point and if you seriously spread it-- especially if you *aren't* a person with relevant life experience-- you are bad and should feel bad.
At first it didn't make sense to me why
@keffals
doesn't hesitate to block other trans people coming after her but try to talk to the alt-right CHUDs of KF. But then I thought: isn't it tactically sound to block the sword and talk to the person wielding it?
Like, I'm a stoner horse girl who likes to drive cars. None of this is "my stuff". I only drink full-sugar monsters lmao People always think I get mad cuz this is "my stuff". I get mad because I don't like how you beat the hell out of transfeminine people whenever you notice them
One of the unfortunate realities of transmisogyny is that trans women are often left out of these whisper networks, despite being if anything more vulnerable to predation and manipulation at the hands of dangerous men.
Being a female professional in 2021 means having a whole entire ongoing extracurricular project of working with other (mostly) female professionals to organize around the creepy/problematic male colleagues in your midst. In many situations and contexts, in an ongoing way.
This is my *friend*. I don't care if you think she made good points. I don't care about her *very brief* apology. She put several people I know in danger. She is doing material harm to our community. Obviously so! If you don't care, you aren't safe.
Like, even saying non-binary folks are treated as "women lite" is a bit AFAB focused.
In my experience AMAB are about as likely to be treated as "men, but worse": the sincerity of their gender identities is called into question. They're tarred as being enby "for clout or sex".
I mean, pretty well accepted by most scholars that among other things Aphrodite is a Westerly migration of many of the tenets of Innana worship– a goddess who expressly claims and protects trans people.
Like, when people would look at Biblical Angels their brain would melt, or Dionysus' mom saw Zeus in his full glory and burst into flames, or a procession of racists went mad in Lovecraft stories looking at old gods?
THAT'S what 2020 was like for most of my autistic friends.
Scalding take: thigh high stockings, especially with stripes, are in fact a trans feminine cultural signifier and have been at least the ten years I have been in the community. It's okay if not every cultural signifier includes you. Not all lesbians wear key-stacked carabiners.
Like if you're a fellow trans girl and this isn't the one for you? Frankly? Suck it up, buttercup. Not everything has to be for you. Be happy the girls are making friends, fuck. Your jealousy looks ugly on you and no one will want to hang out with you. Find YOUR people. Be happy.
@ParkerMolloy
"Me and Andy 'Provides Kill Lists to Atomwaffen' Ngo are the *real* voices of truth here. You can tell because we both poured milkshakes over our own heads."
And there's always collateral damage too! Always a contingent of weird cis girls, or trans mascs, or effeminate gay guys, or non-binary folks, or some or all of the above getting caught in the crossfire too for daring to relate to and hang out with trans girls. I'm sick of it.
Notice that I didn't say "cyberpunk video game" because cyberpunk is over. These games will be genepunk, solarpunk, dronepunk, and probably a few other unimagined genres besides.
But cyberpunk is for sweaty white guys who have an unhealthy fascination with finding an Asian wife.
I need you to understand that there is no world in which we are given what we need because enough people asked for it nicely.
Might sound harsh, but it won't happen until they are more afraid for their lives than their livelihoods. They feel very secure. That will be tough.
@knifeinpocket
Honestly no one is more uncomfortable with difference than the comfortable, white Front Range liberal and its ilk. Not angry. Not disgusted. But very very uncomfortable.