“We” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here

Kind of infuriating that they name cardiovascular disease and diabetes as factors that are killing us “post”-COVID but don’t make the connection that repeat COVID infections greatly increase our risk of developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Ok but they’re actually kind of doing this. 🥺 I’m starting to suspect that Xiaohongshu is the simplest, greatest psy-op of our time. Just get the Americans on the platform, be really nice to us and boom we’re China-pilled.

In his defense, many US normies have been very easily China-pilled in a matter of days. (And we love to see it!!!)

I want Xi Jinping running this country WHEN WILL HE LIBERATE US FROM OUR OPPRESSORS?!?!

I don’t, unfortunately! This is the only animal-related podcast I listen to but now that you mention it, a podcast just talking about wild animals being cool would be great.

They’re gonna do what’s best for the Chinese people. Running afoul of the US govt does not benefit Chinese people. Why would they do it? There is a fair amount of risk involved and very little reward.

Luckily pandas are pretty chill, at least

Highly recommend the “Tooth and Claw” podcast. It’s hosted by a bear biologist, Wes Larsen, his brother Jeff Larsen, and their friend Mike Smith.

It’s about animal attacks but they take care not to demonize the animals. So they’re very compelling stories and they also give you practical information about how to avoid being attacked and what to do if you are attacked, plus biology and conservation info and lots of jokes. Pretty sure Wes is a low-key leftist too.

Grizzlies are probably Wes’ favorite animal and he’s worked with them a ton so they are featured prominently on the podcast.

TL;DR: Do not hug this adorable cuddly motherfucker under any circumstances.

This is very similar to an episode of Silicon Valley.

I would hate having to see Trump’s name all over every time I get on the anti-woke Trump Train that gets me from Denver to Las Vegas in 3 hours. I would cry liberal tears the entire trip 😭

I’m a big fan of the current push to convince him that it would really piss the left off if he built high speed rail and called it “Trump Train.”

Like nothing would own the libs and commies harder than high speed Trump Train we would all be soooooooo mad!!!

Hot take but this is one of many reasons why I’d never give birth in a hospital unless it was 100% medically necessary (and also one of a million reasons why I will never give birth at all.)

Nurses and doctors are cops. Social workers are cops. Everyone fancies themself a fucking cop.

My sister gave birth to her first child at a hospital and the experience was so bad, she needed years of therapy and vowed she’d never give birth in a hospital again. Her second and third kids were delivered at home with a certified nurse midwife.

And my sister is not anti-medicine or anti-vaxx. She takes pharmaceuticals. She and her kids are fully vaccinated.

The way birthing people are treated in this country is oppressive and carceral.

California voters just had the opportunity to outlaw this practice and they voted no. 😐

Abolition now!!!

Yeah the FOIA backlog is absurd. Ken Klippenstein was just complaining about it recently.

Fucking thank you!!! As a sex worker, I know my hooker alias is linked to my government name in a federal law enforcement database and that governments use facial recognition technology to detain sex workers at international borders. We have anecdotal evidence of this happening for at least the past 6 years. If you’re a leftist who has done any fedposting at all without using op sec that borders on clinical paranoia, you should assume you’re on a list. Knowing you’re on a list doesn’t mean you should throw all caution to the wind, but people should know that you are never really anonymous online and behave accordingly.

The feds will show up at your house with printouts of your social media fedposts.

Do people think the FOIA request is gonna like, tip the feds off that this website exists? Because I promise this will not be new information to them. They have always kept close tabs on the left. This site is public and accessible to everyone. I would hope people are not posting here thinking it’s under the radar or something…?

No because thin people love to cherry pick concerns about public health and surprise, their number one concern is almost always related to fatness.

For what it’s worth, I’m the user who made the fatphobia call-out post and my goal/intention was never to purge users from the site for being fatphobic. My goal was to create some guardrails around these discussions so that a fat person can post “Wow, going to the doctor as a fat person sucks” without getting a bunch of unsolicited diet advice and concern trolling in the replies.

If we kicked off every user who has some fatphobic beliefs, there wouldn’t be many users left. Which is kind of my point. It’s not an issue of individual users being assholes and therefore needing to be purged; it’s an issue of unexamined and unchallenged beliefs about fatness. Those beliefs dominate the larger culture and the left is not an exception to this.

What I’d like to see is a rule against giving unsolicited diet and exercise advice here (if people want advice and ask for it, of course that’s fine. I don’t want or need to see it but I can keep scrolling.)

And I’d like to see a rule about content warnings applied to fatphobic topics and topics/replies that may trigger people with ED. This site generally has a culture of “when in doubt, be courteous and use CW and spoiler tags,” so it’s honestly pretty upsetting that people have no interest in simply expanding the existing guidelines to include fatphobia and ED triggers.

I didn’t see any replies that I feel warrant a ban; I would like to see fatphobic comments removed when they go too far and challenged/refuted when they don’t. And as with everything, the line between what should be removed and what should remain with a rebuttal is up to mod discretion. I don’t expect everyone to get it right every time or do things perfectly.

Dude what the fuck is wrong with you?