what the transphobes say "a man might dress up and pretend to be trans to hurt trans people, and thus we should just kick the trans people out from the beginning"
what they mean: "a transphobe might rape someone and pretend theyre trans, and thus we should further hurt this minority whos already been damaged by the transphobe and already have a damaged reputation from the rapist"
also why is it that someone who isnt a part of a group, and does something bad, should make the group bad? like thats if the 9/11 terrorists pretended to be from an airline administration, and then people blamed that airline administration
saying someone commited terrorism for disliking a companies **business strategy** is just so fucking insane
Briana Boston is a 42 year old mother of three from Florida who is under house arrest for expressing her frustration at her insurance (which she PAYS for) who denied her claim. She owns ZERO guns and doesn't have a criminal record.
She was originally held in prison for $100,000 bail. They have not dropped the charges and she is under house arrest even after widespread backlash.
They are trying to charge her with terrorism. They want her to spend 15 years in prison.
They are calling her a Luigi Mangione copycat. As if she killed someone. She made a indirect, not at all credible threat.
Meanwhile...
I want every woman who has ever faced threats online, stalking, etc to bring this Briana Boston up at every opportunity. Every time you were told by police that there was nothing they could do, know that they not only CAN do something, but they WILL do something, just not for you.
i wasnt planning on argueing, but even if i cant really argue with god, especially when its about personal definitions
I see a lot of people throw around the term fascist on this website, but I’ve never seen a definition for it, so I’m going to provide one.
The definition of fascism, if you look it up in a dictionary, should sound something like this:
a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and race above the individual, that is associated with an autocratic government
Source: Merriam-Webster
This definition of fascism notably includes both Nazism and Classical Fascism (Italian Fascism) but leaves out other Fascist movements, namely Brazilian Integralism and Falangism.
So to really understand Fascism, you must first understand the “arms” of what makes up a fascist government or movement.
The arms that I was taught are as follows:
1. Corporatism - the belief that class conflict is unnecessary and the various social classes must cooperate and do their job. Please note that it is used in other contexts, and Fascism usually adds on the caveat that the classes cooperate with the good of the state
2. Militarism - Fascist movement traditionally merge state & military, which goes with corporatism to militarize society into strict and rigid social hierarchies. This also has the added effect of making Fascist nations more belligerent but also more unstable, as a fascist military when overstepping its duties often contradicts official government policy (for an example, look up the Marco Polo bridge incident)
3. Hatred of intellectualism - fascist movements dislike intellectualism, as freedom of thought can contradict what they believe to be the one truth. This is an important time to tell you that Fascism is a reactionary movement. Fascists do not like change, and dream of an imagined past ideal society.
4. Violent rhetoric against communism - Fascist movements arose in Europe as a result of the ascendancy of the USSR. Many prominent fascists used the fear of communism to cement their power and initiate purges. Fascists dislike communism because communism advocates for abolition of class structure and social equality, neither of which fit with the nationalist & hierarchical view of Fascists.
5. Ultra-nationalism & supremacy of the state - these two go hand in hand, as Fascists believe their nation to be above all else, superior and unbeatable in every way to every other country in the world. The state is the supreme power in fascist nations, and compliance is not expected as much demanded from all citizens. This often ties into racist views of fascists, who believe their race, similar to their nation, to be superior to all else. It is important to note that some fascist movements were not as extreme in the race department, as Integralism advocated for people of all races co-existing, so long as they were subservient to the states will, and Falangism believed that all Hispanic peoples (Spaniards, non-Brazilian South Americans, Latinos, Mexicans, and Philipinos) were all part of the super race, and should interbreed to create superhumans.
6. One leader - fascist movements have one person who is viewed as supreme & infallible, who wields autocratic authority over every aspect of the state and is treated as though they are the nation in many cases.
7. Feeling of national humiliation - fascist movements often espouse that their country has been slighted or humiliated by their allies or rivals in the past, and that the only way to make up for this stain on national honor is to expel those who humiliated the country (often ethnic minorities) and create a homogeneous and pure society
8. Mass media & propaganda - Fascism uses false statements and misinformation as propaganda to cement their authority and make their influence complete.
So with all of that in mind here are some prominent fascist governments both in history and modern day:
1. Italian fascism, aka classical fascism was started by Benito Mussolini and was the offical ideology of Italy until the end of WWII. Corporatism was the biggest tenant of this branch, along with a strong feeling of national betrayal by the allies in WWI.
2. Nazism, a movement that existed after WWI was taken up by Austrian politician Adolf Hitler, who led Germany until his death in 1945. Nazism called for racial purity, and used anti-Semitic & slavophobic rhetoric, all of which eventually led to the invasion of Poland (a Slavic country with a large Jewish population) and the start of WWII
3. Francoism / Falangism were competing Spanish ultranationalist ideologies following the conclusion of the Spanish civil war. Dictators Franz Franco won out and his ideology would rule Spain until the 1970s. The linguistic discrimination used by Francoism laid the groundwork for the modern Catalan & Basque independence movements
4. The Japanese military ruled Japan in a military dictatorship during WWII, and used fascist rhetoric and tactics, coupled with Japanese society being already arranged in a way to facilitate this, and supreme loyalty to the Emperor. The movement died out after WWII and the US occupation of Japan, as the Japanese military was formally disbanded and downsized immensely
5. Yes by my definition, Trumpism is a fascist movement. Please note that Trump is not a Nazi, he is a fascist and more specifically a Trumpist.
6. There were many smaller and less significant fascist countries during WWII and after, but I don’t know enough about none of them to say definitively if they were / are
also think about the medicinal technology we had 70 years ago, in 1950 the life expectency was 69.15~ (66,5 male and 71,8 female, US) and now its 77,43!, you might just live to 85+!
hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset
the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years
taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult
at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)
'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65
it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age
it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.
you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.
young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!
there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big
im very uncomfterble with eye contact, people not getting split focus, etc. like im responding to what youre saying, what else do you want??? like dissasociating happens way more if im trying to focus directly on someone, like the chance for not hearing is WAY higher
If you tell someone to "look at me when I'm talking to you", I instantly assume you're a bully toward autistic people, because you are.
Unless they're actively focused on something else, you can't accurately assume someone isn't listening just because of where they're looking.
It's not a sign of "disrespect" to not make eye contact. And if you were taught that it is, unlearn it.
go smell the moon too, and touch the moon, and hear the moon, go move the moon, go balance the moon, go interocept the moon, go electrostatically feel the moon, go be pained by the moon
Eat the MOON dude
eat the MOON
I don't gotta explain anything
The objective could not be more clear
get up and
eat the moon
go go GO GO GO
You've always wanted to eat the moon
gO GO GO GO GO GO
thank you fish
hey you. you have a very beautiful mind. please make some art
what is the rate of trans sexual assault compared to cis sexual assualt?
what are the rates of minors (more specifically under 13) medically transitioning?
what is the regret rate that isnt due to pressure from others?
how many trans people kill themselves?
what is the ACTUALL rate of suicide for trans people that have medically transitioned (that isnt based on cis people)?
thats right, transphobes cant answer these, yet they talk about "two thirds of trans women are in prison for sexual assualt" (there was only 245 trans people in prison) and "minors are getting their dicks chopped off!" (minors as in ABOVE 13. and its mostly estrogen, not surgery) and "women want safe spaces!" (public toilets werent even a safe space to begin with. and this assumes all trans people are perverted. and it assumes you can always tell, you cant)
btw evilwizard, before you die from spear i have to tell you this, i always thought your pfp was of a black cat with a very tiny wizad hat
I WILL
Guess it's my turn now
1 note : I'll clean my room 10 - 100 notes : And I will draw one of my main OCs for every 10 notes (I'll post them here) 150 notes : I will do my hair 200 notes : I will finish Omori at least once 500 notes : I will try to actually talk to people irl 750 notes : I will stop biting my nails or the skin of my fingers 800 notes : I will stop biting my lips 1000 notes : I will buy make up / do my nails again 1500 notes : I will come out to my dad 1750 notes : I will come out to my mom (maybe)
here you go have fun, but please don't make me go over 200
despite popular belief, time travel is actually a low level spell. Its bassicly a slightly different teleportation spell, and if you dont just jump to a specific time its bassicly an auto walking spell with an extra bit of code, that specifies in the TIME direction instead of XYZ directions, in a lot of scenarios its litterally just changing XYZ to TIME, like sometimes you can litterally just auto replace XYZ with time and it works fine. and since its low mana, testing it is perfectly safe! (explosion doesnt even break most low level wands)
idk i love seals and spheals. i want to become a zoologist, but i cant pronounce z, you zee my problem?
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