Nowhere Girl

Formerly from Twitter and Mastodon.lol. Trans, bi, she / her. Writing, dreams, politics, science, metaphysics.

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2024-10-25 00:59:13

Masculinity is fine. I'm attracted to men for a reason. It's the guys who act like not being shitty to women requires a huge, life-altering concession on their part and are resentful about it who are the fucking problem.

2024-10-01 21:50:22

Capitalism is so efficient at allocating resources that Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook have spent billions of dollars on "AI," VR, and augmented reality headsets that cost too much, mostly don't work, and nobody wants.
It's amazing, really.

2024-09-09 17:44:48

JD Vance is accusing Black people of stealing and eating people's pets and this is just a normal news item in America.

2024-09-06 20:27:31

Brianna Wu is just the latest in a long line of people to go "fuck you, I got mine, I want to cash in" and who try to pull up the ladder behind them.
Her version of cashing in, as with so many people, involves sucking up to the fascists. That she's a trans woman is almost beside the point.
And the fascists will hate her, too. But she'll add to the pile of bullshit we're dealing with before fading back into much deserved obscurity.
Anyway. Fuck her.

2024-09-05 22:05:52

Do the rando reply guys who write angry essays at me realize I never even see their posts or any notifications because I have them filtered? And how easy it is to block them if I do? I mean, go ahead and waste your time, I guess. I don't care.

2024-08-15 20:04:45

The primary purpose of "AI" as it is currently construed is to automate labor out of existence, particularly knowledge-based labor but not exclusively, as corporations are keen to employ as few people as possible.
Its secondary purpose is to pollute our information and confuse people about what is true and real so that powerful people can exploit those ambiguities.
It's also good for scamming people and producing spam.
Its few good use cases are honestly very much beside the point.

2024-08-12 16:46:44

"I don't know what that guy is packing," MK said, "But it hurts."
"Anti-magic DU rounds," Aurvandil said.
"Depleted uranium?"
"Metaphorically speaking. Probably an enchantment on the gun itself."
"I'm surprised you even know what uranium is."
"Oh? You think I'm a primitive screwhead? Don't let appearances fool you. My favorite food in the world used to be the Taco Bell Crunchwrap Supreme. Do they have that where you come from?"
"No," MK said.
"See, who's really civilized then?"
#writing

2024-08-10 19:55:02

So the Trump campaign got "hacked" and the media are going to take a principled stand and not publish the material? 😒
Where were these so-called ethics before?

2024-08-09 19:39:52

Yeah. My voter registration in Texas has been suspended because we moved literally a block up the street. They have my new address and I mailed back the card they sent me, but who fucking knows at this point.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/elections/2024/08/05/texas-voter-suspense-list-tops-21-million-heres-what-to-do-if-youre-on-it/

2024-08-09 15:37:51

Gavin Newsom is one of the physical embodiments of why white liberals suck.
"California governor vows to take away funding from cities and counties for not clearing [homeless] encampments"
https://apnews.com/article/california-gavin-newsom-homeless-sweeps-funding-bdaf5719847e11daf8cca06c62737994

2024-08-08 19:47:31

Gender is simultaneously an intimate thing, so close to our hearts we may never even know it's there unless something violates it, and also a preposterous thing that can be so large and encompassing as to be seemingly impossible to define.
And while most people ultimately put ourselves in one of two big buckets labeled "man" or "woman," that tells us very little, and we ultimately define the experience for ourselves irrespective of biology, culture, or attempts to socialize us differently.

2024-08-08 17:58:31

You can tell Republicans are the party of freedom because they keep telling you what to do.

2024-08-08 00:46:44

Americans have been propagandized into seeing Israel as the Most Moral Nation, and told little about the realities of Palestinians to maintain it, but honestly, it was easy with Islamophobia and Americans' passive acceptance of racism and colonial oppression.
Politically, it's to protect the AIPAC gravy train of campaign contributions, even though AIPAC is an unholy alliance of neoconservatives and antisemitic evangelicals with Israeli right-wingers, and to shovel money to arms manufacturers.

2024-08-08 00:33:58

My gender is rooted in the expectation of a body that isn't there and the life I could have had because of it. A major component of my depression is I still suck at embodying my own gender after all these years.

2024-08-07 21:08:00

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The whole thing is predicated on the belief men and women are alien creatures to each other, that women cannot and should not challenge men physically or intellectually, and that women exist as men's property for the sole purpose of producing children -- and specifically white children in this context.

2024-08-07 21:04:30

Transphobia in the West should be understood as a violent attempt to maintain an "ideal" of femininity that is inherently white, passive, and subservient. In this way, transphobia is inextricable from misogyny and racism regardless of who engages in it.

2024-08-07 19:31:14

The WSJ is having a freakout about Tim Walz being a normie Democrat who actually got shit done because Democrats being politically effective at the expense of Republicans is what they hate most in the world, apparently.

2024-08-07 15:44:29

Cori Bush lost her primary after AIPAC outspent her campaign 4 to 1.
It's nice that a far right organization run by neoconservatives and apocalyptic evangelicals has so much influence over Democratic politics. 😒
https://theintercept.com/2024/08/06/aipac-cori-bush-election-results-wesley-bell/?s=09

2024-08-05 15:50:23

It's kinda hard to care when stocks go down when 93% are owned by the top 10% richest people and the whole thing is grossly inflated anyway.

2024-08-03 16:59:33

I dreamed we had a young daughter. She was intelligent but not always verbal and liked to be held and carried even though she was getting too big for me to pick her up. She liked animal shows and shows about "normal" people. She made a distinction between "inside" (home, us, safe) and "outside," which she didn't trust.
#dream

2024-08-02 21:15:19

I've been struggling with writing lately because of depression and stuff but I've finally done a clean up on the first three chapters of the next Navigator novel. So I feel like I know where I stand and vaguely where I'm going, at least.

2024-08-02 00:18:21

"it's not a coincidence that terfs are attacking a non-white cis woman for punching 'too hard' during an olympic boxing match. nor is it contradictory that terfs will casually discard the womanhood of a non-white cis woman. transphobia informs their racism, racism informs their transphobia."
https://bsky.app/profile/livfreeorcry.gay/post/3kyoy6jdrvt27

2024-08-01 20:52:00

So I got a jury summons. They wouldn't let me out of it at first. But I'm thinking they won't like my responses to the questionnaire. "Hey, look, it's the politically active Buddhist queer chick who doesn't like cops."

2024-08-01 20:07:37

Going down through the burning building, MK found a hallway with every apartment ablaze. She was about to dive in and continue the search when something put her hackles up.
She didn't have "spider senses." How convenient would that be? But her blood suddenly ran cold.
She was about to shake it off, ignore it, when he appeared: a white man, heavyset, dressed like a preacher in a black suit and white collar. He just walked right out of the flames.
He stared at her. MK gawked back.
#writing

2024-07-31 20:39:29

"It’s fucked that trans adults keep saying 'I wish I could have come out and received care sooner instead of having to live with dysphoria for decades and pay out the ass to undo upsetting puberty' and the takeaway of the NYT et al is 'Kids don’t know who they are or what they want.'"
https://bsky.app/profile/restingdinoface.bsky.social/post/3k5ph2v56i722

2024-07-31 18:11:13

I don't trust anyone who thinks there's strong social pressure to transition. They're either working an angle or have been programmed by the constant moral panic shit in the media.
All the social pressure is in the other direction, to conform, stay in the closet, hide, hate yourself, and it always has been outside of a handful of online spaces populated by trans people.
What happens is people blame those spaces for providing their trans kids with community and support.

2024-07-31 16:58:56

Bullies don't like it when you turn around and make fun of them. They start to cry about how unfair it is. How you're so mean for bullying them!

2024-07-31 16:13:11

Hey, maybe fix society and social supports and access to vital mental health services before just slapping bans on social media? That would be nice.
"Most young people who die by suicide in the US do not have previous mental health diagnoses, study suggests"
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/30/health/young-people-suicide-mental-health/index.html

2024-07-31 15:57:51

I just assume by default people don't like me and I'm taking up space that could be used by someone smarter, funnier, or more interesting.
Blog and influencer stuff never worked for me because it felt like trying to sell people something. And that something is me. And I don't like me either.
Social media is nice because I can just sit here burbling to myself and if somebody wants to talk to me, they can. And I'll be friendly and try to not remind them they could talk to someone better. LOL.

2024-07-30 22:08:39

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One of the reasons I'm leery of giving parents more control over their kids' Internet and social media experience is for every good parent, there's at least one truly shitty, abusive parent.
And the "parents rights" people are all fucking anti-trans Nazis.

2024-07-30 22:04:20

I was a depressed and suicidal trans kid. The Internet didn't exist back then. The only trans representation was "Ace Ventura" and trashy daytime talk shows. I didn't even learn there were other people like me until I found us mentioned in an "Abnormal Psychology" textbook. My family was broke half the time. We lost our house. My dad was unemployed a lot. They emotionally abused me. My brother physically abused me. So you know what? The modern Internet would have been a fucking godsend.

2024-07-30 21:38:31

One of the things that bothers me about how KOSA played out in the Senate is there were different parent groups: those who lost children to suicide who thought the bill might have prevented it and parents of trans kids who feared the bill's censorship regime would endanger theirs and other children. Only one of these groups was taken seriously and invited to the Capitol to talk about it.

2024-07-30 19:59:39

It seems like all I do lately is feel sad, cry, get angry, and then despair at how little it matters.

2024-07-29 20:58:57

100% of conservative "morality" is just them insisting they know you and what you want better than you do and you should be grateful they're here to stop you from being free.

2024-07-29 19:39:16

"I don't see any racism on Mastodon," says the white person talking down to a Black person and trying to invalidate their actual lived experience.

2024-07-27 19:37:30

It's refreshing the way Harris talks about abortion versus the old white man who personally opposes it and spent most of his career trying to sabotage it.

2024-07-26 16:19:45

If people just fucking listened to trans kids and trans people in general, they would know the biggest threats to us aren't social media but narcissistic, abusive parents, legislators banning our access to necessary care, and widespread discriminatory systems that promote violence against us.
But they don't want to listen.

2024-07-26 15:39:34

Any bill that purports to "protect" kids that doesn't either address abuse directly or just gives money to them and their parents for food, healthcare, and housing is inevitably puritanical reactionary shit.

2024-07-23 20:34:26

Aside from white supremacy and a compliant opposition, the main reason conservatives have gotten away with so much is the sheer cultural inertia of people refusing to believe they could lose access to abortion, contraception, the right to vote, or any number of other things in their lifetime. Dystopias are always posed as occurring somewhere in the future, and it's easy to build one in the shadow of that neglect.

2024-07-23 19:08:19

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I'll accept not having my existence banned in the meantime, though, I guess.
If that's not asking too much.

2024-07-23 19:07:41

What I want is a left that's happy to fight the culture war and the class war and drive all of these billionaires and theocrats and their sycophants into the sea once and for all.

2024-07-23 16:33:21

Younger people have a hard time imagining a world where literally everybody smoked and drank constantly and leaded gasoline was everywhere and the deleterious effect it had on people.
Which is good! I only experienced the last gasp of that world myself and I don't miss it. It's kinda weird that some people, mostly conservatives, want to bring it back. All I want is easier access to the fun, happy drugs.

2024-07-22 22:11:37

In America, if you call the cops because you think you might be in danger, odds are the cops will be exponentially more dangerous to you and everyone in your vicinity than whatever you were worried about. You have to weigh whether it's worth taking that risk, especially if you're not white, straight, etc.
"Body-cam video shows Illinois officer fatally shooting Black woman in face"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/22/sonya-massey-illinois-shooting-video

2024-07-22 21:37:31

"increasingly clear that the epistemic vacuum left by gutting the journalism business is rn largely filled by overprivileged dunces wishcasting a reality that confirms their priors"
https://bsky.app/profile/amateurexpertop.bsky.social/post/3kxvkzkocix2p

2024-07-21 18:23:09

Biden has endorsed Harris on social media so it's a fight between her and the donors now, I guess.

2024-07-20 18:14:54

Humans are killing the world so a handful of people can have mega-yachts and this is apparently an intractable problem, demonstrating humans aren't an intelligent or civilized species after all.

2024-07-19 15:42:35

My read on AOC backing Biden is she thinks the power players coming out against him are doing so for selfish reasons unrelated to stopping Trump (e.g., Pelosi trying to claw back donor money) and since none of them have a plan, it would only make things worse. Which is reasonable. She also recognizes many high level Democrats are knives out against Harris even though she would be the most obvious path forward. So she doesn't trust any of these motherfuckers and I don't blame her.

2024-07-18 20:31:55

Oh, good, Lou Dobbs is dead.

2024-07-18 20:19:06

Trump isn't popular. We know this. He has a hard ceiling of support. Most people don't want him to be running and don't want to vote for him. Unfortunately, a lot of people feel the same way about Biden.
So this election is purely a question of whether Biden (or whomever) can turn out enough voters in the right states to overwhelm Trump's core of supporters and how he can do that.
Everything else is bullshit.

2024-07-18 17:09:49

Rich white people have been sucking the wealth out of the country for decades, degrading infrastructure, exacerbating climate change, ruining services, and making everything from housing to healthcare needlessly expensive and difficult, all while cranking up the resentments of cis-het white men and directing their ire at immigrants, women, and minorities. Easy to do in a country built on white supremacy and misogyny.

2024-07-18 16:04:40

"Who's going to pick the crops if they deport all the immigrants," aside from making racist assumptions itself, is kind of a dumb question to ask in this country. Prison labor already does a lot of farm work. They'll expand that as needed, pushing mass incarceration and the de facto return of plantation slavery. Why do you think the private prison industry loves Republicans so much?

2024-07-17 20:55:22

I started transitioning in the 90s when there were a lot of hateful stereotypes about trans women but little interest in legislating our existence.
You could get whatever medical care you could afford, basically, and I bankrupted myself paying for HRT without insurance. I could never afford surgery. It sucked.
But there's times I wish cis people paid LESS attention to trans issues because the people who seem to care the most these days are the Nazis.

2024-07-17 19:55:37

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Some interpret this to mean everything is fake except biology, but biological determinism is loaded up with the same garbage assumptions, e.g., every AFAB person is supposed to get pregnant because "that's what their bodies are for" and they shouldn't bother physically competing with men because "men are inherently stronger." A lot of anti-feminist and anti-trans stuff is rooted in the desire to justify these pre-existing prejudices somehow.

2024-07-17 19:54:30

A lot of gender stuff cis people take for granted is fake. Some women have masculine features. Some men have feminine features. Gender bending has always been a thing. Women aren't inherently nicer. Men aren't inherently more aggressive.
When you strip out social conditioning, the arbitrariness of who's allowed to do what, and the expectations imposed, you can end up with the question of what gender even is at all, which is why it's often described as socially constructed or performative.

2024-07-17 18:40:11

The reason Project 2025 and its creators define trans people as "porn" is they know a lot of liberals will fall all over themselves trying to "protect" kids from "porn" without bothering to inquire what it is conservatives mean exactly.
Democrats keep pushing KOSA for a reason even though Republicans insist they will use it to purge queer people's presence online. They also knowingly helped conservatives make sex workers' lives more dangerous in the name of "fighting sex trafficking."

2024-07-17 17:28:46

There's no such thing as an anti big business Republican, especially in an industry like tech where so many billions are just sloshing around in search of a right-wing political outcome.
Heck, at this point you'd be hard pressed to find a Democrat who is more than tepidly anti-trust or who is willing to impose real regulations and taxes on these people. The system has been gamed in favor of rich white people.

2024-07-17 16:55:33

Whenever white centrists and liberals do this "I spent time with Trump supporters and it turns out we're a lot alike," the rest of us are like, "Yeah, yeah, that's the problem actually right there."

2024-07-17 15:23:36

It's weird how a lot of people suddenly profess to be full-on pacifists whenever a Nazi might get hurt.

2024-07-16 19:54:11

People keep expecting institutions to function like they did 30+ years ago when they've all been either hollowed out for profit or rendered useless in our lifetimes.

2024-07-16 18:39:12

Many liberal heroes were either socialists or sympathetic to socialism and critiqued the inequities of white racial capitalism in the United States.
But that gets mysteriously whitewashed and left out of the picture.

2024-07-15 21:38:23

When asked for their vision, Democrats all too often are like, "We're going to do what we're already doing, but somewhat more!" Like a cereal that promise 33% more cornflakes in every box. While Republicans are like, "We will murder everyone who ever made you feel guilty [for being a piece of shit]."

2024-07-15 21:10:27

The Democratic impulse to capitulate and beg for forgiveness and unity whenever anything bad happens to a Republican is really something, especially for marginalized people who can't even get the time of day from these people.

2024-07-15 20:46:27

One of the problems with white liberal "resistance" to fascism is it accepts the anti-democratic features of the US system which fascists exploited to gain power such as the Electoral College or the Senate being stacked in favor of no population red states, while rejecting equally legal countermeasures such as court expansion or adding states, which leaves them with practically nothing except "just vote" because they've already accepted fascism's gains as legitimate.

2024-07-14 19:26:10

We've been under the weather this weekend, which might explain why I dreamed about being genetically modified by a group of South Korean high school girls after they turned my boyfriend into a Visual Kei guy for no reason.

2024-07-13 00:39:20

Anyway, what I've learned from all this is Republicans should be destroyed.

2024-07-12 19:32:46

This was 10 years ago.
"When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organised interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the US political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favour policy change, they generally do not get it."
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

2024-07-12 16:44:42

If you don't live in Texas, you have to understand the Republican legislative agenda is:
1) stripping legal authority from Democratic cities,
2) overriding the votes of Democratic cities,
3) preventing Democrats from being able to vote in the first place,
4) preventing Democrats from winning state offices by requiring they win a majority of white rural conservative counties,
5) ruining the lives of LGBT+ people, and
6) making themselves rich.

2024-07-12 16:14:28

It's kind of funny watching what the supposedly Serious People in the Democratic Party are saying and doing lately, though.

2024-07-11 22:48:30

"Biden just pardoned every person who was court martialed for getting caught being LGBTQIA+ under Don't Ask Don't Tell."
Good. He'd better veto any version of the National Defense Authorization Act that includes the anti-trans amendments Republicans want, too.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/06/26/a-proclamation-on-granting-pardon-for-certain-violations-of-article-125-under-the-uniform-code-of-military-justice/

2024-07-11 21:59:59

If Democrats don't get behind AOC's articles of impeachment for Thomas and Alito, even if it can't succeed, then they are profoundly unserious about addressing the corruption of this court.
Giving up is not a strategy.

2024-07-11 19:51:40

"I can accept the NYT inciting violence against trans people on a daily basis but nagging Biden about his age crosses the line!" -- a lot of liberals lately

2024-07-11 18:26:28

"We are in the process of a second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless -- if the left allows it to be."
This is a rape threat, basically. "I won't hurt you as long as you don't fight back."

2024-07-11 18:07:39

One of conservatism-fascism's biggest lies is that under its rule, cis-het white dudes will all have upper middle class lives, houses, and obedient wives (and mistresses, of course).
But the rich and powerful men above them won't share and still need someone to push around once they've purged the immigrants and others.
The lives of these men will probably be even worse, actually, when they start being forced to attend church and stuff like porn is banned.
But these guys aren't real bright.

2024-07-11 16:10:40

Conservatism is essentially an ideology of brutal hypocrisy.
Conservative men want to impose harsh rules on the women in their lives and force them to submit to marriage and sex and to get pregnant against their will, but they personally want easy access to mistresses and other women (and often underaged girls) on the side, as the rules of puritanical patriarchy are meant to be binding on others, not themselves.

2024-07-10 18:27:00

"You shouldn't depend on drugs to function!"
Yeah, well, congrats on being that one healthy white guy that all of our medicine is apparently based on.

2024-07-10 18:03:53

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On the one hand, if it weren't Trump...
But on the other hand, Trump is exactly who Democrats like Biden want to run against because they think it will be easy and because it's easier to campaign on fear than on fixing things.
But goddamn it.

2024-07-10 18:01:42

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So when people want to yell at me that Biden saved us from higher inflation rates or something, it's not relevant information. We're bleeding out here economically as it is while the top 10% and the wealthy Boomer retirees get to live it up at our expense.

2024-07-10 17:51:47

Trump was absolutely bad for me and the people I care about, and the right-wing reaction to his defeat in 2020 was to target trans people specifically as a wedge issue with liberals.
And you know what? It kind of worked. The public expressions of love and support for us just kind of evaporated like a mirage overnight. And the people I'm supposed to rely on either don't care or are fucking up constantly.
So that's the frame with which I view this political moment.

2024-07-09 18:38:17

Like I said earlier, this Democratic obsession with moving right ("to the center") and working with Republicans is entirely about the fact Republicans are almost exclusively white. These white Democrats would rather suck up to racists and bigots -- with whom they don't necessarily disagree, mind you -- and try in vain to build coalitions with THEM than work with "those people" to their left who ask for social and economic justice.

2024-07-09 18:03:31

There's this little voice in the back of many white liberals' heads telling them if they don't have a majority of white people supporting them then they're doomed to failure or even that they're wrong somehow, that white conservatives must have a point and may even be right.
And no matter how many times you tell them this is a fucking racist country full of racist people, this fear of standing apart from other white people repeatedly gets in the way of them pursuing any kind of progress.

2024-07-09 17:33:41

You don't see me calling on Biden to step down because I don't see the point. He's not going to and it's honestly too late to pull some candidate switcheroo without causing chaos. Much of the media frenzy is artificial and Harris is right there if he dies or whatever. All that really matters is whether Biden can beat Trump, and if people are concerned about that, well, I don't disagree, but they should be taking their case to Biden about what he's doing wrong.

2024-07-09 16:46:36

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It's interesting to me how many people think they're heroically resisting fascism when they don't even want to make these people uncomfortable.

2024-07-09 16:45:47

Like, I get nobody wants riots and violence and open warfare in the streets, but there's a reason Republicans (and sometimes Democrats) have moved to crack down on virtually any form of protest. It doesn't matter how peaceful you are, if you're perceived as a threat to power, they're going to send the riot cops to fuck you up and kill you. And a protest that doesn't generate that response is one they will completely disregard as harmless and ineffectual.

2024-07-08 21:40:35

For a lot of people, "defeating fascism" just means beating Trump at the ballot box again, as if it hasn't been growing and spreading unchecked this entire time he's been out of office.

2024-07-08 16:07:53

Macron is predictably being a dick.
"Emmanuel Macron is avoiding acknowledging the defeat of his liberal camp in the general election, delaying the mandate for the New Popular Front to form a government."
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/07/08/macron-delays-mandate-for-new-popular-front/

2024-07-08 16:03:20

It is kind of wild how there is no Democratic plan akin to Project 2025 other than the usual wishy-washy campaign platforms that get dispensed with a week after the election. There's no systematic plan to push back on abortion, the courts, corruption, voting rights, anything. Just a weary "get off my lawn" paternalism that demands so much from voters so they can do so little.

2024-07-08 15:22:30

I dreamed I was part of this group of four friends. The "leader" was handsome, charismatic, and gay but trying to play it down. I was the trans woman friend. We saved a giant talking koala from the sewer, ghosts kept telling me to stop crying on their behalf, and we broke into DARPA for shits and giggles. The "leader" was trying to turn us into a band using fridge magnet poetry his ex left behind as lyrics. It wasn't working.
#dream

2024-07-05 16:16:12

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"We'll push Biden left."
Mm-hmm.

2024-07-05 16:11:58

Keir Starmer is a transphobic piece of shit just like the Tories and the Labour chorus of "we have to vote the Tories out first, we'll deal with that later" sounded awfully familiar to my American ears.

2024-07-05 15:30:01

The NYT has been cranking out anti-trans propaganda for months but some people are only NOW starting to question if they should subscribe to the paper because of how it treats Biden.

2024-07-03 20:05:08

It's hard to convince people with no skin in the game just how much more dangerous life has gotten in the past 10 years. But I guess it's okay because stocks are up and corporations are posting record profits.

2024-07-02 22:05:59

At this point in my life, my dream was to have a little house or maybe a flat in the big city and some grandkids on the way. Which obviously didn't happen.

2024-07-02 20:33:56

"Why don't Americans protest more" is a funny question because Americans have nothing and no one to rally around, no coherent ideology beyond a vague sense of patriotic duty, a lot of them are ignorant by design, many more are exhausted by design, protesters are universally portrayed as violent terrorists, they get no political support or protection (unless they're Nazis) and they get brutalized by cops with military gear whenever they do show up in numbers, no matter how peaceful.

2024-07-02 01:04:54

Whoa. I'm glad we dodged that bullet. 🙄
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/714/199/987/939/887/original/2ffcbca70648b493.png

2024-07-01 20:54:21

Some people like to point out American presidents have always been immoral and war criminals, especially in what we euphemistically call foreign policy.
And that's true, but the way some people say it -- and the way they shudder at the idea of exposing presidents to legal liability for official acts-- suggests they think it's a good thing, actually.

2024-07-01 19:46:59

One of the biggest problems in American politics is straight white people with money don't really believe they'll pay the price for an election loss or even a fascist takeover. That's stuff that happens to the rest of us. They can always go to another state, another country, or retreat behind their wealth and indifference.

2024-07-01 18:31:58

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Yeah, you can vote, but at the national level, you're often voting for the same people who have been in office for decades and have shown neither the willingness nor the competence to take on any of these problems.
But Nancy Pelosi just made a cool $5 million from her Nvidia stock options.
That's nice, isn't it?

2024-07-01 18:29:36

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Americans feel increasingly powerless because the rich and powerful can do whatever they want.
Republicans just break shit and make it legal retroactively.
The Democratic response is a Rube Goldberg machine that requires 50 years of winning every election, replacing every member of the judiciary as they retire, Congressional supermajorities, and a solar eclipse for good luck.

2024-07-01 18:17:18

"Demoralized" is a good way of describing the American public.
They have little experience with a functional national government and have ceased to expect it.
Their leaders rarely show any willingness to deal with important issues, preferring to tilt at windmills over TikTok or whatever. Stuff just randomly happens because the SCOTUS said so or because lobbyists bribed Congress. Oh, and Trump got away with crimes again because he's rich and they're not.
And the media are willfully useless.

2024-06-11 17:34:40

I'm depressed. 😕