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The "electability" argument in a party primary, especially one rooted in hypothetical head-to-head general election match ups have never worked and are often flat-out wrong. At this point, they just scream desperation.

nobody comment on whether it's cowardly to go directly to The Audience with this without first apologizing to the normal woman minding her business whose mentions he invaded

"i care deeply about this issue but not enough to make even a token symbolic gesture about it"

To the cis people slurping up the non-apology from Ken Jennings: You are only revealing how much you are NOT a trans ally.

0.o the lab leak "theory" is spreading to other random diseases

Some great new reaction images to use when people are obtuse on BlueSky.

Yeah, Kat Tenbarge was much nicer to Jack Osbourne than I would have been, I would have just told him to go fuck himself. Also, if you're going to accuse a writer or journalist of using "AI" on the basis of em dashes, absolutely positively go fuck yourself.

It's so condescending! It's insulting to the "middle of the country" to be like yeah, we've got to push right-wing social policies to appeal to inbred mouthbreathers (how she sees "real America"), and screw "the coasts" because they'll fall in line. And honestly, fuck that shit.

I really hate Elissa Slotkin's patronizing "my theory of the case is that what works in the middle of the country will work on the coasts, but not the other way around" shit. It's one of her canned lines that she uses in her eventual attempt to run for president.

I post for the people who grew up wailing “ahhhh! ahhhh!” in perfect time with the lady slumped backward over a gravestone in the Masterpiece: Mystery! opening credits and still do it every single time.

Edward Gorey's Masterpiece Theater AnimationAlt: Edward Gorey's Masterpiece Theater Animation, first shot is the fancy 1920s people dancing and then we quick cut to the lady with the amazing batwing hat and the magic eye fan holding a shushing finger to her lips.static.klipy.com

To bring it full circle, neither JK, nor Sex Matters, nor anyone else named in Amnesty's report has contested the facts. They don't dispute the positions they advocate for. They don't dispute the funding increase. They don't dispute the types of people providing that funding.

And it's always this. In a legal system where truth is not a defense and rights only exist post-facto if you the money to defend them, the interests of the rich and powerful will always win.

But at the end of the day it's this, it's just this.

You don't just need them to stop calling you a baddie, you need them grovelling at your feet for even suggesting you weren't a goodie. First they're wrong, then they've offended you, then they've lied, then they're the baddies who need to atone.

as we all remember, voters' reaction to "defund the police" and a preference for libertarian COVID policy led to Joe Biden's devasting loss in 2020 whereas by focusing on kitchen table issues and refusing to be baited into defending trans people or Palestinians, Kamala Harris won in 2024

I agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit.

I told this story back on the bird site, but I had an abusive ex I had to flee, like find a place to live and move while he was out, and after a while mail showed up for him at my new place he shouldn't have known about. I called the cops and they were like "well if he kills you, let us know."

if you want to relitigate “lockdowns” you need to say what period, what country, and what restrictions you are talking about !

The cupboards are bare, and grifters gonna grift. If you'd like to stick it to the billionaires, prevent me from having to choose between food and medication AND support double-threat anti-terf satire and propaganda busting, support via patreon.com/terfipedia is infinitely appreciated.

Boosting this because there's still 48 long hours until payday and I am hungry, under-medicated and under-caffeinated. No promises about which order I would address those problems in.