“Don’t EVER say anything bad my political sports team” must be third grade level—I’m hoping to graduate soon. I voted for her btw, and I don’t think “they’re exactly the same” but this slavish devotion is weird as fuck. We aren’t maga, we are allowed to critique dear leader… I hope.
This is like Trump saying “the real reason for the season is my personal lord and savior, Jesus Christ.”
No no, cruel deportations, cutting social programs, and anti-worker economic policy is only bad when the red guys do it. Also, it only started this year.
“We all love religion and you’re being bigoted and dismissive to say that my Christianity makes me close minded, btw religion means: being dogmatic and not looking at the facts, which is what science is, a religion, which is bad, and also I love religion and think it should be taught in schools”
I think claiming they are the same is so dumb—almost intentionally inflammatory at this point. Just look around. Saying that, if you think the Dems have NO part in how we got here, especially the complete acceptance of Reaganism/neoliberal economics, you’re also being (purposefully?) obtuse.
I’m sorry you received hate, but it’s important to realize there are many trans people/advocates that don’t need to hate to point out that Newsom is very bad on this issue, and in a particularly insidious way. I agree that we should treat people better however
Gotcha. I hope he comes out to clarify that “they are putting it everywhere” and questioning why “we have to show that at this age” wasn’t as serious as it sounds. I guess most people jumped on it because it sounds similar enough to what the right says about queer representation?
Honest question, what context are people missing due to the coverage?
It’s actually an insane thing to hold other people to, but I do agree it’s fine for you want to live that way—just don’t go out in public and don’t expect anyone to facilitate your extreme reaction. Even better, don’t say “they” are “pushing things” into films if it’s just your preferences.
Sorry, to me, forcing children to think about sex is sexualization. Which is why I find the parents+child dynamic so disturbing and should not be in schools, art, or even in public spaces. Like Snoop, I don’t want to have to explain things like that when we’re just trying to eat at Outback.
No, I’m talking about the “implied sex scene” that comes with every representation of a family with children.
I know, that’s because people are SICK of sexualizing children with images of families—I just got back from the park where I saw a couple with their kids… around other children. NO MORE! We are finally waking up!
Shit… Maybe we should have kids’ movies where everyone comes out a tube, Brave New World style? That way parents don’t have to be put in these horrible situations.
I felt the same way about the implied sex scene in Mulan. I think these movies should only be about orphans—showing parentage implies sex which is simply inappropriate. It’s sick.
The idea that most of these people opted out is also questionable. I voted for Harris, Biden, Clinton, and Obama—doesn’t mean I can’t call out when someone agrees with CHARLIE KIRK that trans people are “child butchers.”
Honest question, did you look into why anyone has been criticisms?
I think you posted the wrong screen shot?
Because then it would be cringe? The “magic” of Trump and Newsom going full meme lord is that we expect (and in most circumstances this is a correct assumption) that politicians speak with a certain decorum. That makes the divergence feel “real” and “different.” The bit requires a straight man.
I agree with you, that’s why I don’t like arguments from analogy—it’s pure emotive reaction, an EWWW, not analysis or critique—which is why I thought the “anybody notice that this sounds like another belief system” was so funny.
“Leftist guilt you over media you like just like… *GASP* evangelical Christians!” Bluesky is really good at not being able to read though, I definitely agree with that.
I forgot media is not a product, my bad.
Realizing this slowly has been horrifying.
Holy shit, they really are losing it.
I love that peak lib horror is another person having the audacity to tell you that a product you like may not be ethical. We are so fucked.
I support Newsom in terms of being spicy and the redistricting, he’s a piece of shit for succumbing to reactionary fear mongering about minorities and his approach to homelessness/inequality. If we can’t say that, then we’re just blue maga. 🤷
This is such a self-report. Do mirrors shatter in your presence? Is your existence that antithetical to self-reflection?
I’m talking about reducing someone’s disagreement with a politician to a quest for unattainable perfection instead of just addressing the criticisms. If you think it’s ok to throw trans people under the bus just say so, but there’s no need to misrepresent what the criticism is.
I love this weird strawman that you all keep repeating. Trying to frame this as “you want perfection” when it’s really just “I don’t agree with Newsom on his complete acquiescence to reactionary fear mongering about trans people.” And yes, I voted for Harris and Biden and Clinton and Obama.
Man, I didn’t really believe in blue maga but the tendency to do the whole mantric catchphrase chanting (PURITY TESTS) is too similar to them (DEI GENDER IDEOLOGY). No thinking, just getting the script and running.
I disagree with some of your takes, but this is true, diva. The mistake in their thinking is that all the bad stuff happening now just emerged from the void, fully formed. They can’t see that the way we are conditioned to think and consume partially brought us here.
The ability to read my response joking about Newsom being a leftist and jumping to “you think there is ZERO leftist infighting” is wild.
They hate Frankfurt School devotee Newsom almost as much as they hate Maoist Mayor Pete and the young Hegelian Nancy Pelosi. It’s sickening to see leftist infighting like this.
If I wanted to bridge the divide between conservative Christians and gay people, I wouldn’t talk to independent fundamentalist baptists who think all gay people are pedos and should be executed. I care about Kirk because that’s not how you pierce the bubble. That’s how you validate insanity.
I can’t agree more, but we have to know who we are talking to. Charlie Kirk is not someone who is on the engagement list as he doesn’t come in good faith… ever. The only way to engage with that is debate, not conversation, because he’s so explicitly motivated.
There are actually so few trans kids that treating it like a “culture defining” issue is already buying into reactionary propaganda. The narrative only serves the right. That’s why talking to a notoriously bad faith pundit like Kirk is just mistake period.
Charlie Kirk said that trans people are butchering children in California and Newsom replied, “I have a lot to learn.” You can have questions about the 4 trans kids in your state trying to play highschool sports, but should at least be able to say “let’s not say that.”
We actually live in hell. We all died and this is hell. There’s just no other explanation.
She is a testament to how desperate they are to find a “I’m trans and I think the TRANS are crazy!” person to slap on whatever podcast they need. In a way, we’re lucky, imagine is she was charming or even clever.
She thinks Biden or Harris or Obama would do something like this? Putting CHILD migrants in a room with armed guards and no privacy? These people are nuts, WAKE UP!
But what if I want another populist reactionary movement when my neoliberal policies lead to more poverty and alienation, and the right capitalizes on it by validating the vibe and blaming queers and brown people while I talk about how good the GDP is… did you even think about that?
Really? I’ve loved the tweets, can you point me to what you’ve seen on the repubs imploding over them front? That sounds juicy 😋
“I think people are treating politics like an identity, almost religion really (SAD PATRONIZING SIGH)—it doesn’t really change anything after all, I’ve basically lived the same from Bush to now, don’t get so worked up!” This is my favorite. It’s such a self-report.
I love the Disney Channel art, oh no! She’s going to be crushed by the giant gavel!!! By the way, this involves sex trafficking! ❤️❤️🤭
Oh no!
Or, we could not be anti-trans and pro-genocide? That seems… doable?
“some men just want to watch the world burn” with wordplay
So funny that it’s not “we would have utopia, no child would go hungry, no one in need would be turned away.” It’s “NO DRAG YAY TY GOD!”
Wow, as a MAGA boy who thinks litter boxes are in classrooms and immigrants are 99% ravenous werewolf rapists (who steal as well), this FAIR and BALANCED coverage has restored my faith in mainstream media! You did it, god bless 🇺🇸 🦅 🙏
Perhaps, god does say they were wrong though. He gives Job the “answer” to why he has suffered: you don’t get to know.
Isn’t this exactly what the “miserable comforters” explain to Job—that he must have done something to bring the misfortune on himself?
I’m not surprised people are feeling more alienated/isolated, men also experience this. The solution is obviously not “50s housewives for everyone!” but goddamn. Reactionaries will capitalize on actually validating the feeling, once again with hate, while we say “try being a single MOM” 😮💨
I know, calling someone a religious fundamentalist is pure pathos—guilt by vague association—can you believe people actually liked a post like that? Thinking it’s not just deflection… Our society is cooked.
I just think it’s weird to tell women they are less than just because they dress or behave differently. All the people who complained about “big boobs” in my life were, old conservative men—which you agree with, again and again and again. Your strange obsession has warped your mind 😂
Things we have NO evidence of: Matt Walsh and the Daily Wire publicly boost and support TERFS. Things that we DO have evidence of: a nameless stranger’s inner thoughts and complete definition of womanhood without asking. Are all TERFs this… unique in their critical thinking skills?
Are you a man? I’m getting big “not challenging stereotypes” energy when you say all trans women want to be bimbos or something? Also, the idea that a woman “getting dolled up” makes her less than, wanting to control how women dress and express themselves… this SCREAMS male energy to me.
I don’t think you should have any? Like at all? I disagree with you on this one thing. Jumping to hyperbole, just because you know how silly this is if you confront it head on.
No, he’s asking you to not have birth control, risk millions of women’s lives because of pro-life nonsense, and to abolish no-fault divorces. You know, actual issues that impact millions of people.
And men back up terfs when they say “you can’t change sex, no one is transgender.” In fact, more MEN say that then WOMEN do. The worst thing Matt Walsh can be accused of is benevolent sexism—I don’t think you know much about him?
I never thought they were. A lot of horrible people know the difference between gender expression and sex, this does not make them “trans allies.” It’s why the argument I’m responding to is so silly. I think you have misunderstood the context.
I think it’s more having a conversation with Charlie Kirk and responding to “gender ideology™️ is butchering children” with “I have a lot to learn.” Kirk is a flagrant bigot, this ain’t David French or Romney, this is someone who demonizes queer people regularly and openly. It reeks.
Exactly, which is why the initial argument was so strange. Just because someone isn’t anti-trans (ie. They know the world is round) doesn’t really tell us anything about them. Guilt by association, what the original post was doing, is pointless.
Exactly. It’s a wild thing to say.
Sure, but what we’re talking about is your claim that you can know if something is good or not by who supports it. People who support you are routinely anti-women. The fact that you can’t even be a little, tiny bit consistent and just jump to another point is odd.
Sure, but he is deeply anti-trans. I’m responding to someone saying “I know trans people are bad because men support them” and I’m just saying awful men support anti-trans positions, which is why it’s a silly argument period. Remember when Rowling THANKED him? So funny 🤣
I know the author is dead, but knowing that Orwell was a lifelong socialist informs this interpretation how? I’ve seen batshit crazy leftists online, but I can say the same for libs—watch them respond to a joke on this platform haha—I try not to generalize.
Not at all. I know who Matt Walsh is, you’re acting like there are no examples of this… why?
Yes, just like men who support trans women aren’t trans women. Men who supports terfs aren’t necessarily radical feminists—in many cases, they are the opposite on every other issue.
You have to… Sorry . When they go low we go there .
Do you mind if I print this out, and with my adult nephew’s help, hang this? I promise it will be framed. I’m moved and crying, want to keep this forever…
I love the logic of this because all the men who “support” anti-trans shit in my country are also majority anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-women in general. But for some reason, and we may never know why, they all agree with terfs on this… hmmmmmmm 🫢
I actually think it’s pretty funny. Idk, I’ve come to enjoy the snark of someone explaining a 12 dollar latte to me or why X singer is garbage or why THIS translation is the ONLY way to read Dante. It’s weirdly refreshing to see individuality present in a retail environment, so I cherish it haha
Beri Weiss is like the queen diva when it comes to this type of thinking. “Yes, it is worrying and something we should think about now that we don’t have due process, but did you see that a 14 year old gay kid venting online said ALL (not even some) cops are b-words—basically North Korea.”
Wow who is he
The West Wing reboot sounds WILD
Can you teach me bot discernment? Fell for this one 😔
In terms of highlighting the importance humility and self-examination, I completely agree. Do any ethical convictions survive? Ones that transcend “just another way of living” and move into “evil”?
Mao was a MAOIST idiot, not a DEMOCRAT
If he was a real man, he would expose himself to everyone
The libertarian watermark is just so sublime. Chef’s kiss.
Crying
I'm thinking negative attention is better than none, even for little incels living in mum's basement. WHOMEVER is on the list should be prosecuted to th fullest extent of the law. No exceptions. Now call upstairs. Maybe mummy made dinner & found your meds. Sit down little Betty. You hangry !!
This is so beautiful.
I, for one, think continuing the war on drugs and signing off on DOMA were brave moments of reasonable centrism that invited more people—ones afraid of queers and POC—into our coalition for justice. But the purity testing left tells me I should hate him 🙁
I think the giveaway is accusing “communists” of desperately trying to defend the guy who swung the Democratic Party to the right in terms of economic policy and did mass social services cuts, at least for me. As satire of what conservatives are saying, it made me giggle.
Next time do one about mass deportations and Obama, they have to get that.
Stop STRANGER MAN, they don’t know what subtext is and this is verging on cruelty.
As someone who is HORRIFIED and DISGUSTED by republicans cutting Medicare and Snap, enforcing work requirements, and unconscionable austerity policy, I will ALWAYS defend Bill Clinton. He has a family, don’t people have hearts?
Never ever change
I used to think liberals, unlike conservatives, had enough social intelligence to recognize parody. I have been disillusioned.
It’s called INTERSECTIONALITY
TIL Mark Epstein and Steve Bannon are the same person
Anything labeled as a classic or popularly “difficult” (like Pynchon for example) isn’t actually enjoyed by anyone. It’s just there to make you look smart. Diva, I cry every time I read Mason & Dixon and I will probably reread it until the day I die.
But haven’t you heard? Stop being so cynical and divisive with this “rich people shouldn’t have more power than everyone else” NIMBY shit. What we need to do is acquiesce to the ultra wealthy and let them do whatever they want—regulation BAD—and then everything will get better.
If this happens, we’ll see (very good) short term change—no more kidnapping brown people. Long term, we’ll have another flair up of unrest because people still can’t afford to live. Dems will do the classic “but the GDP is good” and conservatives will capitalize by actually blaming something.
Liberals have a Harry Potter morality and politics: good people do good things, bad people do bad things. Telling a liberal they are doing something unjust or that their policies are lacking, is like short-circuiting their brain. Bernie isn’t perfect, and I have some major disagreements but damn.
Angela Davis and Fred Hampton staring in the mirror and seeing “leftist bullshit people who lived through the civil rights movement reject” written on their heads
Diva, I would love that, but I’m paying out of pocket for hormones for my partner because of how amazing everything is 🙃🙃🙃
Great lesson. Here are some other phrases we should drop because people find it offensive: Queer people aren’t child predators. Black Lives Matter. Climate change is real and human caused. Trans people are real. No idea why people keep saying these things when others don’t like it.
I would believe this more if we applied pro-Israel rhetoric in our “danger to the unity of our diverse communities.” It’s just like Snow White. Saying your pro-Palestine is political and divisive, Gadot saying she’s pro-isreal in the same interview cycle = not divisive, not political.
Hell is also underground, which is why I’m against spelunking