it's honestly hilarious how oli london tries to position himself as a "detransitioner" without specifying that his "transition" was from white to korean
Ytuarte, 38, grew up a Democrat but explains that he left the party between 2008 and 2012 because he thinks Democrats began exaggerating racism, including in policing (though he concedes differential treatment is an issue).
@notkavi
also i don't get why so many people act like he never mentions capitalism is the problem, like he's mentioned capitalism like every other episode since the pandemic
star trek TOS is such a wild series bcs like half of it is some of the best television ever created and the other half of it is some of the worst and most offensive television ever created
the UAE is a dystopia larping as a utopia, it was built by oil money and slave labor and only a tiny sliver of its population actually gets to experience any of the luxuries it loves to flaunt
@discordspies
it's so wild how many far-right grifters are failed showbiz people
like even besides knowles there's also people like crowder (failed child actor) and shapiro (failed screenwriter)
daniel kräiggenbach resigned after his approval rating hit 3% due to his insane austerity policies and klåre kottrillsson resigned after she got caught attending a rave on a barge intended to house covid-infected refugees
@CollieYimby
this is especially funny bcs IIRC frank herbert said that every human in dune is mixed-race by modern definitions so if anything it's weird that anyone in the movie is white
@odessamoder
@nikicaga
yeah it was on a cis woman lmao, terfs are just malding now because of the possibility this might be doable on a trans woman by like the 2040s
@discordspies
it's especially wild bcs the left photo looks like a professional swimsuit photo, while the right photo looks like someone just took a paparazzi shot of chloe moretz while she was just casually walking down the street, and yet this person somehow thought they were comparable lmao
i love how if you even breathe the word "star" within 10 miles of jonathan frakes he will immediately run to your location faster than the flash and agree to be in your proposed star trek series
ngl it's absolutely fucked how so much of the TOS cast feud has been framed as "george takei is jealous of shatner" when in reality it's "shatner is a douchebag who alienated his castmates"
if trek ever explores cardassian history more i think they should definitely lean into the idea that cardassia used to be a functional democracy that backslid into fascism and got doomed by an anthropogenic climate catastrophe
i choose to believe that the reason the ferengi rules of acquisition sound so similar to english sayings is because they deliberately fudge the translations to make them sound similar to sayings in the target language for marketing purposes