Changeling of the Wastes.(it/its{en},ono/njega{sh})
@enigmaticpigeon
💍. Court Unseemly. Oracle. High Priestex of the Wanderer. Owned by Devi Princess of Hell.
We are the Changeling of the Wastes. We're a psychotic polyamorous fairy otherkin genderqueer bi lesbian polyfragmentary plural system who kins Lain.
We use it/its pronouns for each of us and the system as a whole. Please don't call us a person. We're a creature.
"The statistics about there being more houses than homeless are just...fake."
"In a country with 150,000,000 housing units, a 2% vacancy rate is three million units, which, yes, is greater than the homeless population."
This is, to be clear, him saying they are not fake.
I think a harm of online activism is the "THIS IS ACTUALLY EASY" argument.
I've seen lots of folks indicate that a single billionaire could solve homelessness, or that there are 30x more houses than homeless people so we could just give them all houses.
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that they/them pronouns had to be so endlessly explained until demi lovato gave up isn't a consequence of ignorance. this is something that's been in the news, it's not, like, a revelation.
it's cruelty meant to make using they/them pronouns as exhausting as possible.
it's a mistake not to think of what the orcas are doing in terms of revolt.
they aren't humans. they aren't thinking about human politics nor are they in solidarity with any human.
but they're intelligent and willful and taking violent action against a system that hurts them.
@NYCGreenfield
And, yet, here, someone has, as a reasoned political decision, self-immolated as a political act in response to the non-responsiveness of political leaders to the people when it comes to a genocide.
@NYCGreenfield
Self-immolation is not a cry for mental health. It's a fairly common, if a bit extreme, political action.
No one self-immolates in front of an embassy because they have mental health problems. They do that to make a specific political point.
...So, wait, the right wing "smear" of Zooey Zephyr and Erin Reed is that Zooey is into transhumanism, used to wrestle, played professional Smash, and is into anime, and Erin Reed used to sell LSD?
So their "smear" is that the two of them are cool as fuck?
"There are only two genders" is like Plato defining mankind as a featherless biped and non-binary people are Diogenes bursting in with a plucked chicken yelling, "Behold, Plato's man!"
There is no reason to pursue self-driving cars or even electric cars when there already exists a reliable, frequently electric transportation technology which we can build up to reduce carbon impact and make it quicker, cheaper, and easier to get around: Trains.
Friendly reminder: In terms of value stolen, the two largest forms of theft are wage theft and civil forfeiture. Wage theft alone accounts for more value stolen than all other forms of theft combined. The two most likely people to steal from you are your boss and the cops.
@kattenbarge
she lived until she was 37. she wasn't married until she was 15 to another 15 year old. there's no evidence that she was unhappy with the arrangement.
she was an absolute monarch who, alongside her husband, led a counterrevolutionary army to try and murder the peasantry.
@NYCGreenfield
No one is encouraging anything, here. You're simply denying the reality of self-immolation as a reasoned political act done by mentally healthy people.
When Thích Quảng Đức set himself on fire in the middle of the street, he didn't do this because he was mentally unwell.
@NYCGreenfield
Do you think that all suicides are inherently caused by mental health and that no one can kill themselves as a considered political act done to achieve specific political effects without an underlying mental health problem?
@NYCGreenfield
Self-immolation is not like most suicide in almost every way. It is not done by the same sorts of people for the same sorts of reason.
Suicide is not illegal in the US and nor should it be. That would be horrifying.
The function of Kiwi Farms was always to police difference. If you behave, think, or identify in a way outside of the norm, Kiwi Farms conceived of this as a problem and would often harass you.
BREAKING: Tennessee man arrested for wielding an AK-47 — the same gun used by the Taliban — inside a Little Caesar’s pizzeria after he was told his pepperoni pizza would take ten minutes to make. RT IF YOU THINK WE NEED GUN CONTROL NOW!
if what they're doing isn't revolt, then what *is* revolt?
they1re seeking safety/freedom in the face of a hostile, oppcessive system through violent action. that's revolt.
they aren't anticolonial or anticapitalist, again, not human, but they don't need to be to be in revolt.
That vacancy rate is fake, tho. As of 2020, the vacancy rate was 9.7%.
The lowest rate for states in the country (California) is still 6.4%.
The lowest rate for core based statistical areas (Modesto, California) is also above 2% at 3.5%.
Not accessibility at pride as in making allocishets happy.
Accessibility at pride as in ramps for wheelchairs, available seating, available quiet spaces, sign language interpreters, etc.
being polyamorous without marriage equality means making a lot of really hard decisions monogamists don't need to make, especially if marriage becomes necessary for some reason, like for immigration purposes, which can easily leave people you love feeling terrible and unwanted.
@ArborErich
You've just recreated the reservation system. Consider that "land back" means not having borders to restrict where first nations people live and move on their ancestral land.
Homo sapiens did not kill off homo erectus which did not kill off homo habilis which did not kill off australopithecus. They weren't threats or dangers to each other. This fundamentally misunderstands hominid evolution.
Fascists who accuse people of being secret communists are mostly projecting. Communists pretty universally openly tell people we're communists while fascists keep inventing words, ie alt-right, identitarian, etc, to mask that they're fascists.
"Technically, tear gas is only a war crime when used against enemy combatants and not when used domestically against civilians, so the cops aren't commiting war crimes" isn't really making the argument you think it is.
@colinmdownes
So, a few things: I presume you mean trains, because I have never met anyone who said they'd rather sit on a bus than drive, though I suppose they probably exist.
With how many people on left twitter mutually hate each other while sharing friends, I feel like I can understand what it was like to be a noble in a royal court with a complex web of alliances and enemies that they have to navigate in order to come out ahead.
this is a common enough story among enbies that we recognize it. often they eventually get back to using pronouns that make them more comfortable.
sometimes they just learn to repress those feelings and just hurt the rest of their lives and that's sad.
A brilliant thing about Bilbo Baggins is how he's introduced as a burglar which he casts doubt on immediately.
But, like, if you observe his actions in the Hobbit, that's objectively his skill set. He's a natural liar, sneak, and thief who is constantly getting one over people.
Right wing weirdos: You're all special snowflakes!
Also right wing weirdos: I'm a player character, the protagonist of life, and everyone else is an NPC and not really a person.
Anti-trans people love to point to "basic biology" b/c anything more advanced actually supports trans people. It's like saying time dilation goes against "basic physics".
Lawns are worthless wastes of water and space. If you want that space for greenery and you're gonna use that water, plant a garden of plants indigenous to your area and get yourself some food out of it instead of putting in a bunch of worthless grass.
The same data shows that 150,000,000 is an over estimation, but not by a lot. The real number is 140,500,00. This is 13,500,000 vacant housing, 10,000,000 more than his estimate.
And, like, building more housing isn't how we solve the problem. This doesn't eliminate all rents. Because rent would still be a problem if there were no houseless population.
The solution is to give everyone housing for free.
So, like, he's simply wrong about this. He called true numbers fake, then gave fake numbers to 'prove' that this is a ridiculous proposition that still agreed with the conclusions of the true numbers.
At best, he was wrong. At worst, he was lying.
"See something, say something."
- Cop phrase.
- Promotes constant, unrelenting surveillance.
- Turns people against each other.
"Nobody talks, everybody walks."
- Woke.
- Promotes solidarity against the state.
- Emphasizes the import of collective action.
@halomancer1
Pretty sure he's trying to (unsuccessfully) say that the before and after only differ in expression when that's clearly not true and his example pictures help to illustrate that point.
When cishet men talk about sex not being pleasurable, they aren't saying that they lack attraction to women. This doesn't mean they're secretly gay or asexual.
They are instead making a deeply ideological statement about values.
"the main way we solve the problem is BUILDING MORE HOUSING, which I find a whole lot of my peers in seemingly progressive spaces ARE ACTUALLY OPPOSED TO."
This is a bizarre point. Giving away vacant properties can be done alongside building more housing.
"Trans women are women" Yeah, I fucking know that. Now are you going to support free, over the counter HRT? Are you going to remove gender markers from government ids? Are you going to brawl fascists in the streets to protect trans people? "Trans women are women" isn't enough.
The amount of people going, "Chelsea Manning broke the law, so she's bad!" without talking about what she did that broke the law is astounding. She exposed war crimes. It doesn't matter if it's illegal or not, that's heroism.
(this isn't the story of everyone who stops using they/them pronouns, sometimes those stories are even positive, but this version is a particularly heartbreaking version.)
@LilySimpson1312
@ChappyDev
We (LGBT people) are a threat to their social order. As more people identify as queer in some way, swelling our numbers, the foundations of society shake. With enough of us, we can tear it down brick by brick.
This means that, with a 6.4% vacancy rate and about 14,500,000 total units, the about 921,000 vacant units in California is enough to house the entire houseless population of the United States.
The Left: *Riots in the US through the summer.*
The Left: *Torch a police precinct where cops did a lynching.*
The Left: *Force the President into a bunker.*
The Right: *Get escorted into the Capitol by cops.*
Dipshits online: The right understands action better than the left!
The cool thing about being a communist is having to explain to conservatives that liberals aren't communist and to liberals that Trump isn't a communist.
Lots of """leftists""" who go on Tucker Carlson's show have justified it by saying that they were bringing a new perspective to his listeners, but, really, this is what bringing a new perspective to his viewers looks like. If you actually did what you wanted, he wouldn't air it.
"Why don't you go fuck yourself, you tiny brained—and I hope this gets picked up, because you're a moron. I tried to give you a hearing, but you were too fucking annoying."
Leaked video of the unaired Tucker Carlson segment on tax fairness
"Born this way" isn't actually a good argument for queer liberation. What that does is render whether or not I deserve to be free and equal to others to a scientific question of how queerness develops.
Abolishing gender isn't a TERF thing. It predates TERFs by a lot. There's tons of trans gender abolitionists. TERFs are also really bad at gender abolitionism. They seek to reify gender by imposing "biological sex" upon people, which ends up reinforcing gender, not harming it.
"But a 2% vacancy rate is extremely low (and bad, because it means there's fewer available units than there are people looking to move, which drives the price of rent higher.)"
This is bullshit on its own sake. There should be no rents for any property.
He did admit that the 3,000,000 that he claimed to be the number of vacant homes is bigger than the houseless numbers. He didn't give the actual number, tho.
According to the HUD, that's about 580,500 as of 2020, when those vacancy numbers are from.
A lot of people say, "If you wanna be a girl, you can just be a girl", and that's true, but it's also true that, If you wanna be a horror that has haunted humanity since antiquity who's returned to bring about the end of all things, you can just be such a horror.
Now, if we gave every houseless person a vacant house with no one sharing a house (implausible), all this would do is lower the vacancy rate from 9.7% to 9.3%. That's... not a very big change.
@Arbiterwarpig
@LumenInFusco
An "actor" wants you to "see" a "movie" he was "in". Something which requires the exchange of "money" for "goods and services".
Even just LA, with about 4,722,000 and a vacancy rate of 4.8%, the about 226,500 vacant homes could house almost 40% of the houseless population in the whole of the United States.
Ben Shapiro doesn't understand biology or sociology.
Ben Shapiro doesn't understand biology or sociology.
Ben Shapiro doesn't understand biology or sociology.
Ben Shapiro doesn't understand biology or sociology.
Ben Shapiro doesn't understand biology or sociology.
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