omg not the teens in the comments and qrts saying that the pink triangle is antisemitic? it’s been a symbol of ACT UP and queer liberation for decades—who is teaching *so many of them* otherwise??
@BlackWordBound
@_troubling
@EveryF_ingTime
@Olixius2
Nearly every currency on the planet is a fiat currency, so what does it matter whether the USD is widely used in trade or some other currency? Denmark is the happiest nation on earth, but the Krone isn't the global currency.
@3Run2life
@pronounced_ing
@cmclymer
not sure why having a *private* group chat where you talk shit about a deeply narcissistic and irritating person keeps being characterized as “mean girls.”
is it because they’re (mostly) women, having the audacity to have friends and dislike people?
@IAmMikeRana
@midnucas
@RalphRSnyder
But price gouging by a smaller amount is still price gouging. Price gouging isn’t determined by the percentage the price is increased, is it?
@lilacsigan
@samerhamarneh
you know, this is exactly how people justified the violent colonization, genocide, and displacement of the vast majority of the indigenous people of north america. they weren’t a “real” people, culture, or nation.
@BertDalziel
@keffals
@BenjaminPDixon
everyone knows that. adults do and SHOULD have the right to make medical decisions about their own bodies, even if there’s a slim chance they will regret that choice. the only relevant question here is a question of bodily autonomy.
@i_gloriana
@lonelyferns
@WrittenByHanna
EXACTLY. people pissed at those making 150k, when the problem is that we ALL aren’t making that much. in a city, 150k is comfortable, not extravagant. every person in this country should have that level of comfort. THATS the problem here
@cosmic_wojapi
i keep thinking about this. the unfathomable losses of the colonization of the americas, both in lives and in ancestral ways of being. it was one of the great atrocities of human history, and these people want to do it all over again.
@nineth_enby
@lingerie_addict
i soak a little bit of essential oil into the wool, so i even get lovely smelling clothes 🥰 (although now that i’m typing that up, i wonder if it damages the clothes…)
@larney41
@DrCCedillo
@ingloriousgigi
not even just of mayan descent. they ARE mayan. there are radio stations in maya and people speaking maya in the street, mayan traditions, food, etc. are all very much alive.
@freetofic
and on the familial-coded queer love point: queer lovers used to literally adopt each other as parent and child. that was the only available legally cognizable relationship. not to mention all the queers who live together as “siblings” or “cousins” 🙄
@jessiegender
still using that male pen name and still obviously self-inserting onto a male character. the projection and hypocrisy are incredible as always
Unlike Nicaragua? Who the fuck are you--the nation that committed the Holocaust, the 1st genocide of the 20th century in Namibia, and is supplying the bombs for yet another genocide today--to lecture Nicaragua?
Disgusting, genocidal hypocrites.
Unlike Nicaragua, Germany strives every day to do justice to the dilemma of the conflict. And we are doing everything we can to alleviate the suffering in
#Gaza
, e.g. as the largest humanitarian donor to the Palestinians. (1/2)
@IAmMikeRana
@midnucas
@RalphRSnyder
Ah, apologies, it is: anything above a 10% increase is, at least in CA, price gouging (+during a state of emergency, but the entire premise of this convo is whether this is a form of non-emergency price gouging). So a 20 cent increase on a $2 bottle of water IS gouging.
@freetofic
insisting that sworn brothers is incestuous is not only imperialist and racist (although it is that), but also deeply ignorant of our own domestic history
@UsingCigarettes
@JoshuaPHilll
oh my god you are such a dweeb, dude. i’m a pretty damn good lawyer, and still a leftist and still think all cops are bastards and that you’re a boot licker. you think lawyers shed our beliefs at the law school or courthouse doors?
@gieseyracing
@it_ishuda
@JoshuaPotash
why do these people not understand you can actually think both the US credit system AND the chinese social credit system are fucked up 🤦🏻♀️
@AugustCohen4
@_waleedshahid
i think he’s saying that people of good conscience will refuse to vote for those actively funding a genocide, and that arabs and muslims are particularly likely to feel strongly about that, given where the genocide is taking place.
@NidasVoice
@RnaudBertrand
I was just thinking this: it's the perfect time to stop this from the US perspective. israel has most everything it wants but hasn't faced any real consequences. If this goes further Iran WILL attack. I'm glad it may be stopping, but I don't know how we get any meaningful change.
@priyaakulkarni2
@4noura
@POTUS
a little boy was stabbed dozens of times by his landlord, just bc he was palestinian. and that was just the *first* murder of a muslim/arab after 10/7. what on earth are you talking about?
@GendoCrypto
@redactedrain
a) it’s literally her job
b) sorry you’re clearly not capable of dating hot women who know they’re hot, or EVEN of getting dressed up and knowing you look good enough to share
@lackingceremony
@JohannesTEvans
that’s all good and well, but completely ignores the use of king and queen in black communities as a method of reclaiming power, agency, and ancestry from the maw of white supremacy.
if we’re interrogating our biases and assumptions, let’s not stop at class.
@valkariian
@RuffleJax
not for all of us there isn’t. pride is abt celebrating ALL aspects of our sexuality/gender, including those about *sex*. pride is also a protest against state violence and cisheteropatriarchy, and a memorial for those killed for who they loved + fucked. sex is a part of all that
appropriation??? the pink triangle has been ubiquitous in queer spaces since the 80s, and used fairly widely before then. where are y’all GETTING this??
the appropriation of the pink triangle in support of pedophilic and incestuous work makes me feel sick. gay men have fought the pedophile stereotype for decades and this is just a fucking slap in the face.
@Reenee_6
@TimmyRagequit
@ziyadhatesmbz
@Crashandmemes
Palestinians should not give something up for nothing, especially as Netenyahu makes clear that (a) he's not interested in the hostages and (b) he will continue attacking Gaza regardless of whether the hostages are released.
@HankeyLeone
@askforcawmbyok
We should be as critical of Al Jazeera as we are CNN or the BBC. It’s a propaganda arm of the Qatari government. It’s in Qatar’s interest to report on that’s happening in Palestine, but where there interests diverge from truth, they’ll publish misinformation.
@Raphaelmorgans
my hot take is that it’s not healthy for anyone. taking the thing(s) you love and are passionate about and making them your 40+ hour/week commitment, with all the stress, pressure, etc., just makes you resent the thing(s) you loved. i think it’s better to choose a career that /
@obakachantachi
@kage_urufu
@LolOverruled
it was always nonviable. the british had no right to attempt it in the first place, and all of this is just the inevitable fallout of a settler state.
@BertDalziel
@keffals
@BenjaminPDixon
they already, always, are. no doctor will let someone waltz into this without medical disclosures, and no trans person waltzes into massive sirgo with MONTHS of painful recovery without forethought. this is like saying women and pregnant people don’t think adequately think /
@shelly2161
@er_ique
no one’s saying it’s not bad for trans people. we are saying that complaining that black rights—after literally centuries of unceasing activism—are getting *slightly* more attention than before is not productive.
@ShaneSchaetzel
So nearly 80% of catholics disagree with you, but YOUR opinion is the One True Catholic Opinion? Have you talked to your therapist about your narcissism problem?
@shameisok
@OliverAshKleine
whats funny is that there really is no sex more respectful or equitable sex than kinky sex. do you realize how much communication, affirmation, and trust it takes to have kinky sex vs vanilla? it requires a whole different kind of foundation
@BBonkBonkBen
@loudpenitent
but they’re not fictional. they are not. they are real people. i can call some of them up on the phone right now. they are NOT fictional and it is sociopathic to think they are.
i am honestly shocked to see this. this is so much darker than i could have imagined.
@manimoonor
@AvatarNews_
conversations about how native someone looks shift reallll quickly into blood quantum colonialist nonsense. it’s okay to think he’s too light skinned to play hakoda (i agree). it’s not okay to say he’s too light skinned to be native.
@sportyandspoilt
all y’all thinking your parents love you more bc they could afford to pay their children’s way. unreal. y’all aren’t more loved, you’re just lucky. and that’s fine.
just don’t get it twisted and think those of us who grew up poor had a deficit of love or support.
unlike fetuses, the citizens of HALF THE PLANET are real, living people whose lives are just as valuable as our own.
this might take the cake for worst, most despicably cruel, most Americans-believe-they-are-the-only-humans take of the day. christ.
incandescent take time, following up on my thesis of how dirtbag leftists employ an anonymized "the global south" in the same way that anti-abortion activists use "the unborn":
@RealKepheus
@DMAFTMPersonal
@ReigenHR
@prettysourlaura
honestly i love this tweet: “you know who’s terminally online such that it makes sense to tell them to touch grass? people who FUCK”
it’s giving im-not-like-the-other-slutty-kids-and-im-really-jealous-of-that-so-im-going-to-pretend-I’M-the-cool-one!!!
@Gareth_the_brit
@cvc_2k
@WomenBeingAwful
Assuming that’s true: there were approx. 3.66 million births in the US in 2021, 1% of which is 36,600 pregnancies.
Should those 36,600 mothers die because they’re only 1%, and therefore irrelevant?
@DijikVan
@adamjohnsonCHI
but it’s not a threat. when i say i can’t vite for biden i am BEGGING for him to call for a ceasefire in the only way i know how—by imposing the only consequence i can.
@bitterbleue
fr, and it goes back to the goddamn emphasis on “validity.” you’re valid. good for you! and now what? bc validity is inherently internal and individualistic; your validity does nothing for the community you’re apparently so proud to be a part of 🙄
@loudpenitent
the rest of the thread is WORSE. you wrote that the “‘people of the global south’ is not worth more than domestic queer citizens…or, bluntly, any fellow citizenship at all.”
please explain to me why, other than an unfathomable narcissism. please.
@JagerBradley
@deedeevertigo
We're talking about the thematic "why," not the literal "why"; symbolism, not plot points. Do they not still teach lit crit in the schools?
@houRs_diary
@sportyandspoilt
“let you work”
that’s the problem right there. some of us HAD to work to pay rent while also excelling academically, bc our parents could not afford to foot our bills. NOT bc they didn’t care or weren’t supportive. it was not POSSIBLE for our parents to foot our bills.
@KathrynPaisner
@prem_thakker
It would be fine to harass anyone in any building selling homes and land belonging to people undergoing ethnic cleansing and genocide. This is not difficult.
@Gwenbors1
@SashaDistan
@chasestrangio
yeah. bc he’s trans. the universe of possible options for him were:
1) remain in the closet and bear the harm of being deadnamed, misgendered, and disrespected; or
2) come out, immediately landing in the center of a raging “debate” over trans ppl, whether he wanted to or not.
@femmerrhoid
@clancynacht
@TheAniXTheory
@ADubiousPronoun
i care very little about ana mardoll specifically but a LOT about how many (often white queer) people i assumed were thoughtful and trustworthy are actually arms dealer apologists. it’s honestly pretty revolting.