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I was raped as a kid. I gotta say, chemically castrating the man who abused me would do literally nothing to improve my life or anyone else’s.

People say these things, but it’s just so they can feel good about themselves. They place rapists nearly in a “them” category and talk about how awful “them” are.

And then the rapist is one of “us”. And suddenly we have to protect him he’s good at swimming. And the “us” of the world start frantically looking for something wrong with the victim, to try to label the victim a “them” (society has decided when an “us” commits a crimes against “them” it doesn’t count)

I’m rambling.

People who want chemical castration rarely support things that would actually improve the lives of rape victims or at risk people.

The most at risk people are the people who have the least power in our society. Queer people, women, people of color, people in poverty, the mentally unwell, people who struggle with drug addiction, the homeless, and people in prison are all very at risk. And we could dramatically decrease the amount of rape in our society if we put in an effort to improve their lives. Give these people enough money to safely exist, create an environment where they can trust the people around them, be a part of their social safety net, and immediately you’ll do more to help than castration ever could.

But it’s never been about helping. It’s always about hurting “them”.

you guys are so fucking stupidddd omg "rapists and pedophiles should be chemically castrated, this is a good thing" quick tell me about historical precedents of this idea and who or what ideology they are connected to......... 🤔

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some things i leave in the drafts folder because i don't think society is ready for them yet

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New tinyview exclusive, “little bites” https://tinyview.com/the-other-end/2025/02/28/little-bites

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WEEEEEEEEE!

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There are people in the world who have decided some lives matter and some lives don’t.

Time after time, serial killers, genocidal leaders, and/or an apathetic public allow the unthinkable to occur because they decide the victims don’t count.

The LGBT community, people of color, women, Muslims, Jewish people, all of them have long horrible histories of getting othered, dehumanized, and having their deaths ignored.

The police are complicit, make no mistake. But until we march together, until we say every life matters, until we stop turning a blind eye when the victimized are those we despise, the perpetrators of injustice are given more opportunities to strike again.

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Agreed! It is silly and fun and probably not good. It will make people who want to play it very happy.

Cecil, Dark Knight//Cecil, redeemed paladin though.

That card will see play in legacy.

Very sad to see some amount of Jumbo Cactuar hate online. Leave my silly lil fella alone.

It's 7 mana for a creature without any evasion, no haste, and no protection. It is a card made solely for people with my specific brain rot about playing Big Dumb Creatures and it won't do anything else.

[ID: A Magic: The Gathering card from the Final Fantasy spoilers release called "Jumbo Cactuar". It's a 1/7 Plant creature for 5GG with an ability that reads "10,000 Needles — Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +9999/+0 until end of turn."]

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Black history.... history as in about five minutes ago. Alive and well and tweeting about being the first Black girl at a school after desegregation.

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I've got a pageant-themed murder mystery party to go to after tomorrow's trial. We're supposed to write our characters' states on our sashes.

I'm tired.

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Yes, It Is Just Like The Nazis

Hey so remember Anne Frank? The Jewish young girl who hid in an attic and was killed by the Nazis? The emblematic person we think of when we think of victims of the Holocaust? 

She did not die in a gas chamber or in a death camp. She died in a ‘temporary’ detention center for the mass deportations which preceded the death camps. She was in that camp because a patriotic neighbor ratted her out to the German deportation force. She died, not of a bullet to the back of the head or choking on gas, but of typhus. She contracted typhus because the Nazis couldn’t realistically deport people at the rate they wanted to, because before the death camps their infrastructure couldn’t handle the sudden influx of ethnic minorities they had decided to imprison, and because they didn’t care about the consequences of that so their deportation detention centers were unhygienic and prisoners were underfed and overcrowded. 

And she was picked up by the deportation force not because she was an illegal citizen but because, just like the US is doing with asylum seekers, she was part of a formerly recognized class of citizens who were legally redefined to lack citizenship by a new administration. 

Anne Frank is exactly like the children who have already died in the United State’s detention camps. Exactly. Down to the very last detail. There. Is. Not. A. Single. Difference. 

So unless you want to fucking tell me that Anne goddamn Frank was not a victim of the Holocaust, y’all can shut the fuck up with that “stop making concentration camp comparisons, you’re diminishing the suffering of the Holocaust” bullshit. 

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There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most — public praise on the Sunday news shows — in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.

I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.

As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.

The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.

The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.

As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.

I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.

I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.

All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.

Sources:

• NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text

• Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)

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my favorite dune posts ever

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Remember barely even a week ago when the New York Times editorial staff put out an article calling Trump's erasure of trans people abhorrent, but took no responsibility for their role in it?

Yeah. About that

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Writing a horror game involving a character in a wheel chair, but I don’t know anyone in a wheel chair to ask about their experiences.

Hmmm.