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zero percent chance that Susan Collins doesn't immediately drop all of this the second the general election starts if this guy wins the primary - the DoD is 100% sitting on the file on this guy and will send it to her the second he wins the nomination

Shame of Trumpist era vs the load bearing comprehensiveness of how totally dehumanized all Muslims are in American political culture

Likelihood of any president in the future apologizing for us obliterating an entire school of children?

The “always has been” meme, with the first astronaut saying “wait it’s all gender?” and the astronaut with the gun saying “always has been”

It’s Do Not Freak The Fuck Out Friday. It’s where you don’t freak the fuck out on a Friday because the US president is the antichrist and roughly one third of the country are devil worshippers who wish to reestablish chattel slavery after turning the middle east into a parking lot for Israel.

I will never get the AIM open/close door sounds out of my head for as long as I live

I got my bluesky invite from a friend I first met on IRC

do not cite the deep magic to us

Anyway, pay your manga translators (and everybody else involved) a living wage and give them royalties, for fuck's sake. You're bigger than ever and can afford rates many times bigger than the 90s on the bestsellers topping the fucking NYT charts. Embarrassing you refuse to take care of your own.

I genuinely just don't know what more these people want. We're in an age where non-Ghibli anime films can be box office juggernauts and physical manga routinely does circles around Marvel and DC, all while paying pennies on the dollar for good translation talent. They're cultural rent-seekers, dude.

If translation *alone* took six months, the pay rate would be so huge, it'd eclipse the golden years of the 90s and every manga translator I know wouldn't be juggling 10+ series. But no, it's one of the quickest, cheapest parts, for worse and for worse. You're drawing blood out of a stone, dinguses.

ill tell you what helps with this tho, since starting transitioning ive actually started living in and inhabiting my body, caring how it looks, if it lives (and if i do). i want to shape it and feed it and water it well and no longer feel like a brain in a shitty jar i hate. being transmasc rocks

Voters elected Trump to make them rich

Stopping this descent requires facing some hard truths: the realisation that the violent and expansionist takeover of land resonates deep within Zionism. That realisation does not provide ready-made solutions; those don't really exist. But it's a starting point.

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And if you object to the terminology because it hurts your feelings, while avowing your opposition to those "Extremists", you won't be able to see this for what it is, and you let them drag down the entire Israeli society - and much of the Jewish diaspora - further into the abyss.

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If we are unable to call it for what it is, we won't be able to stop it. Because it's so embedded in Israeli state institutions, because the people leading the charge are so committed to this and they know to speak the language of "settlement" that resonates with early Zionism.

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And the question of ancient historical ties is beside the point. "Jewish Settlement is a national value" says the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People (2018). Jewish settlement is about non-Jews out and giving their land to Jews.

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This is more than bigotry or zeal. There's an entire state infrastructure behind these hoodlums, multiple state mechanisms which plan and facilitate the takeover of land and the dispossession of those currently living there. That's settler colonialism.

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"Fanatics" is not a good enough explanation. The West Bank Pogroms, like all pogroms, are violence with the backing of the state, and it is violence not "to keep Palestinians in their place" but rather the opposite, to make them leave their place, to take over their land.

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The reason the category of settler colonialism is so vital to the Palestine/Israel discussion is that you simply cannot understand contemporary Israeli policies without it, e.g. in West Bank. Otherwise people resort to talking about the problem as one of "fanatics" - and that's just unconvincing.
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True, but the fact that they replace her makes them look bungling and weak, which is good. Also, it will likely dash her hopes of being the next MAGA candidate. And it will make her feel terrible. All good things.

lmao eat shit kristi

takes a lot to make the collective intelligence of this administration go down but they're giving it a real shot here

I love games and so many of the people who make them. It was an honor to accept the award on behalf of the team and a privilege to be able to speak to what I believe in. ♥️

the thing that the Democratic base cannot abide above all else right now is Handing It To Them

and being anti-trans is, in fact, Handing It To Them

don't do that, it's bad morals and bad politics

gavin newsom is a very useful weathervane because he believes in nothing save the fact that he should be president

that he's making these noises about israel support should tell you how incredibly over it is for israel within the democratic party going forward

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This trans teacher has no choice but to leave Florida: 'I can't defend myself' Saoirse Stone says state policies have turned her daily life in an Orlando high school classroom into a series of quiet humiliations.

Christopher Wiggins at The Advocate was kind enough to interview me about my decision to leave Florida, as well as the state of public education there. I would really appreciate if you gave it a read. It almost begins to capture how dire things are.

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

i'm shaking and crying and can barely think straight. this was taken care of. thank y'all so much 😭😭😭😭

WOW thank goodness!! 😭 I was so worried, holy shit what a relief

yeah the damage a single bad billionaire can do wildly outstrips any positive impact even a theoretically ideal billionaire can have

more, I think that the kind of person you need to be to become a billionaire tends to select for the worst outcomes in all but the rarest of cases