I haven’t seen this before. It’s very accurate and clever. I hate it.

great comment, even

That’s true, but that does imply that this war would conclude first. Which is consistent with saying Russia does not want this conflict to expand beyond Ukraine.

I’m not arguing either of these points, I’m just pointing out that all NYT is saying here is that US officials have always believed that Russia wants this war to stay contained to Ukraine. Not that they think Russia didn’t want this war or that Russia doesn’t have other interests it will pursue external to this war.

All I’m saying is NYT didn’t really reveal anything here.

I’m not trying to get flamed as a lib here, but there’s a gulf of difference between “not wanting to expand the war” and “having no further ambition once the war is over”

I gotta start going to bars 😅

the first sound plan I’ve seen on here

Welllll overdue lol

the meta of posting this thread to shitreactionariessay 😵‍💫

You seem to think walking away from the systems of power weakens them. In your desperation to not be part of the problem, you refuse to be part of a solution. I can’t blame you, it’s a rather bleak situation. But I see more suffering in the world where people give up the struggle out of hopelessness than the one where people keep fighting.

You seem to consider acknowledging that fewer people will suffer with one option than with the other as “standing with” that option. It’s not about poc, queer trans and LGBT liberals taking some kind of deal with the devil; marginalized peoples are far more likely to already have disengaged politically. It’s the fact that under one regime, more of societies burdens will be borne by those who least have the ability to bear them. If a system is to be resisted and revolted against, why sit back and let the system be as cruel as possible to those who least deserve it?

Powers that the Biden administration will do nothing with are powers that a Trump administration will do evil with.

Finally, some good fucking [regulations on predatory games]

Pretending that a federal government run by christofascists and one run by liberals has no material difference for the lives of trans, LGBT and marginalized peoples more broadly is just silly.

You can argue that one will eventually lead to the other anyway, or that rejection of the already existing elements of liberal fascism is worth sacrificing the short term material comfort to those groups, but not even acknowledging that sacrifice is callous ignorance at best.

Asking someone not to dox you is not gatekeeping

They were called out for using they/them in cases with no ambiguity, as in, there was a known desired pronoun and they used they/them instead

literally vanguardism

The important distinction is what it means for it to “be clear”. Unless someone has indicated what their pronouns are, using they/them for everyone is the polite option. But if you’re using he/him for strangers just because they’re “clearly a cis man”, you’re now imposing a transphobic bias on those whom you use they/them

1.4k in Attila

Attila really was a fcking legend. The reversed start of collapsing empire and the actual need to supplicate before the might of the Huns 😭