I don’t mean it as a gotcha. Clearly too many people don’t care about the rights and dignity of other people unless it affects them. I wish they did, but the current political climate makes it clear that they don’t.

So I think this is worth bringing up to people about any social justice issue. Racism and nativism are used to control white workers. Patriarchy hurts men. Transphobia hurts cisgender people.

However, it is crucial to communicate to people that these ideologies are fundamentally bad and need to be abolished or else people can walk away thinking “We need to implement transphobia the ‘right’ way so it stops hurting cis people.”

It bares repeating, transphobia hurts cisgender people and transgender people.

I don’t say anything on reddit.

I hope the republicans have better aim this time.

What’s in September?

Your jobs a joke, you’re broke, and now you are a bug!

I’d be an obvious act of war. Republicans and most average Americans would feel justified in joining with Russia to rip Ukraine in half in retaliation. Even Europe would be hesitant to defend Ukraine because we had all just seen the Ukrainian president (fatally?) assault the king of america on live television.

However, within the country I think if any national level democratic politician was serious about the threat posed by trump they should use their political position to get access to him and then tackle him and start punching. Obviously they’d go jail. Obviously there’d be a national scandal. But the dude is old a hard fall would kill him. In the long run, it’d do way more good than holding up a “this isn’t normal” index card.

As best as I can remember, I’m on my 6th.

I am still using a flip phone. My new goal is to make it to 2027 marking two decades of rejecting the smartphone era. Each time I consider compromising something gets even more awful about smartphones and I double down on saying no.

They make profit off of being a useless barrier that prevents customers from accessing money they’ve contributed to use towards their own healthcare. They do nothing of any real value. Their constant profit seeking kills people. Every single administrator in their company is killing people.

Luckily, they won’t come after me because everything I said was true.

Yes I am.

It really pisses me off when the cars are backed up but the person in the drive through still has to spend time doing land acknowledgements for each customer and asking them their preferred pronouns. /s

Don’t make me post the poem again…

This is good to hear but we need to do everything we can to make each attempted deportation difficult. It’s a shame that I don’t know any undocumented immigrants to protect, and neither do you.

What do you mean? These people who have been wasting their lives idly maintaining crucial government systems will now finally be spurred into action in the private sector! They’ll be better for it and we’ll be better for it. Most of them will probably become entrepreneurs that will collectively create hundreds of thousands of high quality jobs! Then you’ll get a job for sure! A great job! As long as we remove all workplace protections, safety regulations, collective bargaining, wokeness, and keep the minimum wage at the same level as 2009, then businesses will finally have the freedom to give you the great pay and working conditions that they actually have been yearning to give employees this whole time! You just have to believe in the market. Have faith!

How about Uniformity, Segregation, and Adversity? I think we can get people on board with our new USA programs.

No but everyone’s uncle knows a guy who was so it’s definitely real.

I’m glad Mexico and Canada are a united front on this, but I wish other potential targets would join in to hit the US economy hard and fast. The US can bully one or two countries at a time and probably has the economic momentum to come out on top. So this month it’s Canada and Mexico but next month it’ll be Denmark or Panama. But, if the EU, China, Mexico, Panama, Canada all implemented targeted tariffs within a week, the US would be forced to back down.

Wherever you are if you’re a consumer outside of the US, I’d say give the US the BDS treatment right now.

Laughs in vegan

I agree, arrest the cop too.