Stellula
19m ago
Has McBride done or said anything to convince you her presentation is sexualized?
Why does he wear fake breasts? Is he planning on nursing a baby with these fake breasts? Signaling his (non-existent) fertility with these fake breasts? Or is it perhaps that male sexual fixation on female breasts informs the things that he does as a part of what appears to be a crossdressing fetish?
This is about as reasonable as asking why we tolerate bondage fetishists in the police force.
Police handcuffs serve a practical function that assists the public generally. Do Sarah's fake breasts serve a similar practical function? (No).
Stellula
1hr ago
The problem this creates it that any tomboyish looking woman is now a target for harassment.
Why do trans people need to use the bathroom they don’t belong in so badly? We literally have them sex segregated to protect women. Why do these men need to be in the enclosed, single exit room with women?
The grace here should be going both ways: I’ll call you the name you are asking me to, but you need to realize that your fetish is your own fetish, and shouldn’t be imposed on women who are simply trying to exist. Just let them have the bathroom FFS.
Stellula
5hr ago
Why is this such an issue?
Bathrooms are extremely vulnerable places; they usually have one exit, you are often in there alone, and you are often doing something which makes you physically vulnerable (using the toilet). It seems completely reasonable for women to want to keep men out of these spaces.
Stellula
13hr ago
For the purpose of this post I will use the following terms in the following ways:
Woman = Biological woman. Man = Biological man
Well it seems like we are on episode >9000 "transgender bathrooms".
There is currently a man named Sarah McBride who has been elected to congress. This person (a man), who wishes to be seen as female, has caused another member of congress named Nancy Mace (a woman) to start whining and complaining on various social media videos and news interviews about her (Nancy's) concern that Sarah will try to use the female bathrooms, lockerrooms, etc. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has said that the policy of the House is that women's restrooms/lockerrooms are for women, and men's restrooms lockerrooms are for men. There are a number of non-gender specific bathrooms around the house grounds that are open to anybody who doesn't want to abide by this.
Here is what I actually think a reasonable framing of this question is: "can men with a cross dressing fetish involve non-consenting women in their crossdress-play?" In a reasonable society I think the answer to this question should be: no, obviously.
Everybody seems intent on being dishonest towards each other when talking about this, so here is what I think is a reasonable answer to "why does anybody care? Just let everybody pee in peace!".
Bathrooms are extremely vulnerable places; they usually have one exit, you are often in there alone, and you are often doing something which makes you physically vulnerable (using the toilet). It seems completely reasonable for women to want to keep men out of these spaces.
To put some additonal context here: I think that the tide is turning pretty sharply on gender ideology within the democratic party (at least for anybody mildly near the center). I've seen several prominent-ish democrat spokespeople openly blame transgender people for the 2024 presidential loss. You also have the UK making it illegal to trans your kids, as well as a recent, prominent NYT article that was critical of transing your children (unfortunately the google index seems very intent on not showing me links to the article, but has plenty of links to people talking about it.
Stellula
8d ago
It seems like a mug shot meets the criteria in other cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mug_shot_of_Donald_Trump
Stellula
9d ago
Are you thinking of this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukesha_Christmas_parade_attack?useskin=vector
This is an odd statement to me. News reporting agencies report...news? Like isn't this self evident?
AP doesn't actually decide the election, they just "call" it as in: they report the results. They're not inaugurating the president, they're telling people who won.
Stellula
15d ago
I hate this. I hate these fucking machines.
The exact same garbage happened in Maricopa county in 2022, which resulted in Katie Hobbs being elected as their governor.
Was the mysterious day of scanner problem a factor in her win? Hard to know, but it looks suspicious as hell.
Stellula
15d ago
Mark Halperin is basically the journalist that all other journalists are cosplaying as. Here’s his livestream:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qbs9Wka8bpo
Very non partisan by Mark, but has several partisan cohosts. One of the cohosts is Sean Spicer.
Stellula
16d ago
Commenting here so I can also get the recommendations.
(I love collecting somewhat strange books like this)
Stellula
19d ago
I don’t get the excuse of biopsying the squirrels brain to check for rabies. If there is a concern just give the guy the anti rabies meds anyway.
Stellula
19d ago
Or you’d need to plug a small microcontroller which can emulate a keyboard into it, then reboot it while you are in the voting booth with it.
Which is an attack that people have been demonstrating at defcon every year for at least 20 years, and is why for 20 years until something mysteriously changed in 2020, liberals were against voting machines, and it was common knowledge among hackers that voting machines were a joke.
Stellula
20d ago
Maybe it was like he had said he read moldbug then or something?
It was a long time ago when he was announced that this was being talked about. It was surprising how much overlap he had with the sort of people poasters here like.
Stellula
20d ago
Hlynka
Oh shit wasn't Hlynka a southerner and former military member?
My headcannon is now officially that Vance is Hlynka. Too bad he's banned so won't be able to tell me otherwise.
Stellula
20d ago
Vance follows moldbug, and I believe also BAP on twitter, just for reference.
Stellula
25d ago
Man I had the opposite reaction to this. Trump was telling the story of his first night staying in the White House, and sharing some of the feelings he was having while standing in the Lincoln Bedroom.
I thought it was a very humanizing story. Trump has kids who he seems to really care about (he talks about them a lot), and he seemed to be connecting how depressed the Lincoln’s were at the loss of their son.
I thought that was a really great story and was one of my favorite moments from the episode.
Stellula
27d ago
It’s literally the boy who cried Nazi wolf.
They’ve been trying these attacks against Trump for almost 10 years now. They just don’t work anymore.
Trump has thousands and thousands of hours of himself talking available online for anybody to listen to. The reality is that he’s a pretty nice, relatively normal, above average charming person. He spent most of his life as a NYC socialite so this should surprise absolutely nobody.
Stellula
29d ago
Trump said he thought there was fraud, and acted like he was genuine in this belief.
He has maintained this now for 4 years despite substantial incentive to change.
Stellula
29d ago
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Trump believed that there was enough fraud to effect the outcome of the election
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He needed a venue in which to make the argument for this and present the case for why he thought this
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If there existed conflicting electoral slates, the Vice President had the power to reject the certification, and allow a period of time for the congress to have a debate about the validity of any complaints. Such a debate has occurred in 1876, 1969, and 2005.
This seems pretty wonky, and the type of thing that nobody would usually ever care about or even know about if it weren't for cable news/twitter/hysterics.
To be clear I think that this was a completely reasonable thing to do. I think that our system of government is based on (and functions best) when it is competing forces pulling each other in tension.
I think that consensus arrises from conflict.
Every time that Trump is allowed to make his case publicly, so long as the case has no merit, it will lose supporters. Or, if it does have merit, it will gain them.
By not allowing Trump to make his case, and for trying to punish him for it with absurd conspiracy theorizing about "January 6th", it signals that Trump's opponents might fear that his case does have merit, and that by presenting the evidence for it, it will gain supporters.
Trump was clearly not trying to "overturn democracy" or "change the results of an election" or any other bullshit like that. Especially the idea that he was trying to "change the results" (he wasn't, he was trying to determine them) should disgust anybody who cares about American Democracy.
Daylight is the best disinfectant, etc.
Oh man I read this the exact opposite of you.
I thought Trump was extremely, savant level charming. It honestly made me sad that most of our politicians are so terrible.
Him pointing out that he wrote Schumer his first check, or getting in the jabs and stuff against Eric Adams (even if they were all pre written, which I doubt since it sounded very much like trumps “voice”) made it feel like there is hope that we can all actually get along.
Maybe this is just crack to me since I’m an upper-class-adjacent (friends and I are now scheming to buy a table at this event) Catholic, straight, cisgendered white male with a wife and children.
I loved this event last night. I am legitimately in afterglow this morning from it text back and forth with the aforementioned friends.
Stellula
1mo ago
not a fledgling industry that needs a financial boost.
RDOF was supposed to be a boost for rural people with no broadband. It wasn't a handout to spacex, it was a handout to rural people.
SpaceX provides a valuable service. They're not asking for (nor do they need) a handout.
I believe this is the article I was trying to find. I found it by appending "themotte" to my query, since it was discussed here quite a bit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opinion/transgender-children-gender-dysphoria.html
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