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Why Trump is Erasing Transgender History

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It's time to rise up to stop Trump's fascist takeover and defend democracy

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This

Has equal and opposite vibes to this

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what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

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"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

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I think liberals are having a hard time understanding the era we're living in right now.

Legal arguments or the wording of the Constitution don't mean anything to the oligarchs that have taken over. This isn't something you can sue your way out of. They won't be swayed by reason, technicalities, or calls for civility.

This morning I saw a video of members of Congress trying to enter the Department of Education, and all that was standing in their way was a skinny Nazi who denied them entry, and they still couldn't get in.

One skinny, shit-faced little nazi. And they were a crowd at least two dozen strong and they couldn't do anything beyond try to appeal to his good judgment.

Guys... guys!! You need to step up. And if you can't, you need to start making fast friends with black block anarchists, who actually have the guts to do what you can't.

“If you pick up your copy of the Constitution, as I have just done, you can see that its plain language forbids Donald Trump from running for office. Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment is as clear as can be on this point. Anyone who has taken an oath as an officer of government, and then taken part in an insurrection, may not hold any office thereafter.”

— Timothy Snyder

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Which, of course, is the whole point behind capitalism: to make you feel unsafe, to keep you on edge, ever struggling, but always with the knowledge that if you try and buck the system (say by trying to unionize, or whistleblow, or prioritize home over work) you can be made destitute.

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Yeah, here's the thing: I don't care if the company I work for has a great year. I don't care if they have record profits, or if sales are up 50% compared to last quarter or whatever.

Unless that increased revenue comes with some kind of profit-sharing scheme and I get to see a pay increase, I don't give a damn what numbers the CFO or CEO release to their employees. I'm not here for the corporate pep rally.

Why?

Because I know that a company doing well is no guarantee that my job is safe.

Companies lay off employees when things are going badly: it lets them recoup the budget they would have paid out in salaries and benefits. This makes intuitive sense, right?

But companies also do lay offs when things are going great, and for the same reason: to decrease costs and increase profit.

Also, whenever a company -- like, say, a tech company -- does mass layoffs, it also has the effect of depressing wages, because now their former employees have flooded the job market and increased competition among unemployed workers.

So no, I don't care if the company I work for does well.

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If Star Wars stories are not allowed to create narratives that depict the good, the bad and the ugly of the Jedi order - what even is the point of the franchise? What happened to nuanced storytelling, and since when did Season 1 of a series have to reveal the whole intent of the writers vision? What happened to allowing multiple seasons build up to something? How come the Acolyte was never afforded this grace to build up to something from the critics?

I'm so tired.