dream_weasel

IDK, I was pretty sure they exist as a vehicle for Russians to launder money and peddle influence in the US.

I think your heart is in the right place but the practice isn’t. People award “stunning and brave” points just for being trans without further effort. Consider Elon’s daughter. She has done exactly nothing but people fawn over Vivian. It’s Caitlyn Jenner all over again except I feel like Bruce Jenner had negative karma that got erased instead of just getting benefit of the doubt.

I’m under no delusions about how difficult it is to be a trans person, I have ~5 friends who are trans and it doesn’t look easy. They are not in any context getting equal treatment though. They either get treated like something less than or something greater than just for the fact of being trans.

Functionally trans people are just people and that’s the whole point: they are a vast–and equivalent–minority being made a token group by everybody.

EVERYONE is too obsessed with trans folks on both sides. There aren’t enough people in that bucket to have an ideology against OR build a political identity around. We got bigger fish to fry no matter what side of the aisle you’re on. It sounds crass even to say and it doesn’t feel like it’s the case on Lemmy, but it’s true. Less than 3 of 100 people.

Because R doesn’t care about jack shit, but if you run a D campaign it’s purity tests all the way down. If he said the wrong thing about Tibet he’s fucked, because the “big tent” on the left is fucking stupid and self-cannibalizing.

Hospital food klobuchar is and will continue to be the absolute worst Dem candidate. She’s an empty shell.

Yeah it’s the exam you take for grad school in the US for some colleges. I think it is the “graduate readiness exam” but it’s been a few years and I cant spare 10 seconds to look lol.

I am not retaking the GRE to use that card.

Maybe Kirk was one of his horcruxes

The only new information in all of this is that apparently that hideous ghoul is like 20 years younger than I thought.

What’s that site that gives you the summary to start from or read and the numbers for your representatives? Probably time to link it again.

Edit:

https://5calls.org/issue/court-contempt-enforcement-cuts-budget-reconciliation/

But you’ll have to look up your own numbers for this one.

How did he even get an invite?

Yes they mean something different. If you go ask 5 random people what an oligarch is, at least one is likely not to know what it means.

The “woke” reputation stuff is also a little weird, but there again, the people using it as an insult probably don’t have a good working definition.

It’s easy to say “words have meaning” but lots of people, even left leaning ones, don’t always know what those meanings are.

Exactly.

Do you know what the word “most” means? Do you also see that the article misrepresents her position which is basically “use an easier word than oligarch”?

Take a breath; if you did read the article, you apparently didn’t read my comment. It doesn’t say “if you disagree it’s obvious you didn’t read it”.

Read the fucking article before you comment. It’s obvious most did not.

If she died tomorrow, I would still drive 30 mins out of my way to pee on her grave in a week 🤷

Holy fuck she’s my age. I thought it would take longer for a cancer like MTG to metastasize.

If it gets you and anyone else off their lazy asses it’s a win. And if you “don’t get why”, thanks for your tax money because I’m the one getting breaks on your dime. Hopefully that pisses you off. If it doesn’t, well, my next house will have a pool and you’ll rent. Get mad and DO something!

Well you’ve succeeded at being mad about it. Next maybe instead of spending 7 seconds complaining you don’t understand, spend 11 seconds and know the answer.

If you were a right wing grandmother you would at least have watched enough TV to know something without complaining you had to watch the full segment between commercals. Instead you play the whiny and resentful twit. Sorry I didn’t make a fucking TIKTOK of this issue to fit your goldfish attention span. Channel that rage into voting, calling, and action instead of being a know nothing whiny waste of oxygen. It’s not the job of the world to spoon feed you facts and an opinion.

“I don’t understand”. WELL JESUS FUCKING NUGGET. PUT IN SOME EFFORT YA DINGUS!

Edit: In the time since this comment was made, I have called both my senators and emailed my congressional rep. What have you done?

Same goes.