“Grooming” Is Republicans’ Cruel New Buzzword for Targeting Trans Kids

Lean into coding “grooming” as a rightist and anti-LGBT shibboleth, use it to start scraping antis and puriteens from youth culture, Bob’s yer uncle

Parts of Twitter realizing that if they understand trans people as definitionally part of their cultural coalition they’re inviting entryism by types who would have been anime-watching channers in 2007. And like, yeah.

angelicguy:

i would straight kill myself if i worked at twitter

curlymcclain:

curlymcclain:

sometimes i think i’m overblowing the weirdness of the gen z puritan thing but my roommate won’t wear her favorite skirt with a slit in it to a massive kpop concert because a member of the band is a minor

exact opposite energy

“On the gender spectrum”

alexandriaocasiocortez:

memecucker:

samueldays:

The bluechecks are upset that Russia copied their shtick.

This is particularly cheeky by Craig Silverman who has the gall to put ProPublica and BuzzFeed in bio. Pot, meet kettle.

antoine-roquentin:

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all governments lie, as howard zinn says, since “if they told people the truth they wouldn’t last very long”, but if you read the press, you get the impression that only foreign ones do systematically. 

thyrell:

not to be dramatic but someone should honestly die for this

So my general take on economic showdown with Russia:

• America and the American regime will survive it
• Russia and the Russian regime might well survive it
• Most likely it seems to me that it will create enough strain elsewhere that important things will break, sparking second-order pressures and realignments such that the American-led post-Cold War order does not survive it

kontextmaschine:

Not sure “let’s force Russia into autarky with no resources but a massive supply of hydrocarbons they can’t export and will be replaced on world markets by American production” is gonna be a winning decarbonization strategy, honestly

Oh, especially in the middle of the whole “electricity can be frictionlessly converted to ungovernable mediums of exchange” crypto thing

Not sure “let’s force Russia into autarky with no resources but a massive supply of hydrocarbons they can’t export and will be replaced on world markets by American production” is gonna be a winning decarbonization strategy, honestly

ksylofonimandariini:

kontextmaschine:

If Russia does have any meme warriors at work in the American ideosphere seems like now would be a prime time to pump up some issue that divides the nation and gets India doubting our long-term viability to cater to

inb4 ‘the left wants to take away your penis’ becomes the next unironic culture war topic

I mean, “the left wants to take away your son’s penis (or at least give him pervert drugs and convince him he’s a girl)” absolutely is

Mike Davis, Thanatos Triumphant — Sidecar

I see stuff like “but what does the new wave of national leaders even have to offer people for the future?”

Not being destroyed

Or at least being relegated down to supporting cast

This was WWII! Germany, Japan, and Italy were the major powers who modernized too late to grab empires from terra nullis, they saw that continuing on cruise control would leave them also-rans so made a gamble

This was how we got Trump. Flight 93 Election, charge the cockpit and you might die but don’t and you definitely will, remember?

micro-usb-deactivated20230625:

gumbootsoup:

Kind of hoping we’re not in a Far Cry 5 situation where the mostly ignorable background plot about the wider world ends up resolving the protagonist’s local main plot with a nuclear war

dostoyevsky-official:

the taliban just issued a statement for restraint in ukraine

poipoipoi-2016:

The timeline tonight