Apparition of Jack

Well, as full people and not just the butt of a joke / shallow stereotypes. Think the difference between “trans woman” and “girl with a dick” for instance.

@Leo Gura You’re technically correct, and if I’m being completely honest with myself I’m guilty of being off-put by things like tampons in men’s bathrooms, but you could also argue that just showing basic respect even on discussion forums will normalise queer identities more and lay the groundwork for acceptance down the line, right? Like, just on a personal level, I’ve overcome a lot of my own biases towards trans / gay people just by listening to grounded, respectful language about them and not just reducing them to silly jokes, even if they’re not meant to be malicious. We might not have widespread social acceptance for trans people today but if we continue to treat them like full human beings maybe in 10-20 years down the line their existence won’t seem so weird. Be the change you want to see in the world and all that, no?

The problem is that the Right overrwhelmingly has horrible economic policies (destroying social security, neglecting infrastructure, tax breaks for the elites, etc) but they use culture war noise to keep people from voting in their material self-interest. Ive always been of the opinion that 90% of politics is material - people generally speaking don’t care about if you’re gay, trans, a minority etc, all they really want to know is will their kids have a good life and will they be able to pay the bills. Republicans don’t offer that. They offer the exact opposite. MAGA conservativism is a death cult that demands the blood sacrifice of countless working peoples on the high altar of Greed. Until most Americans realise that, countless people will go bankrupt, homeless, go into medical debt, develop chronic illnesses, fall into crime, drug abuse, prostitution, and even die as all the wealth in society is funnelled to a group of sadistic sociopaths at the top. It’s like the collapse of the USSR but a million times worse, because this time it’s self-inflicted. God Americans are stupid. Sorry. End rant.

Why do Democrats not simply go on the attack? Spam scary images of Trump with his terrible policies plastered in big red letters everywhere. Literally just remind people time and time again how evil he is. Conservatives always do this shit because it works, why are progressives / liberals so adverse to this?

@Twentyfirst This is insane, even the most delirious MAGA cultists wouldn’t want Russia and Europe at war. In fact it’s pretty much only Putin who wants to keep fighting at this point.

He’s so fucking stupid

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/canada-election-liberals-will-form-next-government-cbc-news-projects-9.6738893 Good news for sanity, humanism and democracy worldwide. Almost like siding with narcissistic fascists is a losing strategy

A lot is certainly happening but be careful not to mistake the ego’s fears for insights. I wouldn’t be surprised if big things are on the horizon but how or what they are exactly no one can ultimately know. Best just to stay grounded and take things as they come.

Been a while since I’ve done one of these.

A good example of Stage Blue sticking up for their values (in this case, rules-based international law) and not just the first conman who panders to them.

How did you pass the time? I feel like along with 99% of the rest of the population I’m addicted to the internet at this point

He’s yellow because he’ll piss on your leg and tell you it’s raining

Trump 2028 life sentences more like

I like white people too, they can walk through walls 👻

He barely talks about it dude

Doing God’s work

If Jeff Bezos actually cared about “bringing spaceflight to humanity,” he’d offer the seats to librarians, nurses and truck drivers. Not whatever tf this was

Unrelenting force, vision, and commitment to victory. Don’t give fascists an inch. Oppose them at every corner, jump on every chance to undermine them, and take every win you can get. Know that you can win, know that Trumpism can be defeated, and work every day to make that a reality. Know that love will always trump hate.

This is goddamn insane. Truly next-level stuff. I got them from this Reddit thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/nKxqtIYudj What do you think, @Leo Gura?

A nice little musing for people struggling to get out of Stage Orange

How hard is it to fish? We’re not cavemen anymore. Even someone with just your basic high school degree is vastly more educated than a peasant was 200 years ago. With access to cars, technologies, the internet, global shipping etc your average person today can be 100 times more productive in a year than someone born just a few generations ago. We’ve built a society of technological marvels, why not put them to human use?

Green is better for society than Orange because it isn’t greedy as fuck. Green understands no one can build a society on their own, Green understands that different people have different talents (thus not forcing everyone into grindset mode just to survive), Green understands that destroying the environment to improve society is an oxymoron. If we truly want to avoid poverty, climate collapse, WW3, genocides, racism, bigotry, suffering, lost human potential, etc etc etc, the world needs Green. It makes perfect sense. Orange has had its day; it’s time for something better.

I heard petar8p picks his nose and eats it!

I think making them legal in a medical context makes sense; that way you give people access to their therapeutic benefits whilst also not letting some depressed dropout fry his brain with LSD or something.

As funny as it is to dunk on Trump the sad reality is that a lot of regular people are going to be fucked over by this. Expect poverty rates to rise in the coming months.