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Art by Juliana Naufel.

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can you get in trouble for remembering a detail about someone

is it normal to notice details

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how much is it normal to remember about someone

are you allowed to think about people when they're not talking to you +reddit

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I’ve had a lot of conversations since Tuesday revolving around the question of why Donald Trump won. The economy and inflation. Kamala Harris didn’t do this or that. Sexism and racism. The border. That trans-inmate ad that ran a jillion times. And so on.

These conversations have usually proceeded along lines where people ask incredulously how a majority of voters could have believed this or that. Weren’t they bothered that Trump is a convicted felon? An adjudicated rapist? Didn’t his invocation of violence against Liz Cheney, or 50 other examples of his disgusting imprecations, obviously disqualify him? And couldn’t they see that Harris, whatever her shortcomings, was a fundamentally smart, honest, well-meaning person who would show basic respect for the Constitution and wouldn’t do anything weird as president?

The answer is obviously no—not enough people were able to see any of those things. At which point people throw up their hands and say, “I give up.”

But this line of analysis requires that we ask one more question. And it’s the crucial one: Why didn’t a majority of voters see these things? And understanding the answer to that question is how we start to dig out of this tragic mess.

The answer is the right-wing media. Today, the right-wing media—Fox News (and the entire News Corp.), Newsmax, One America News Network, the Sinclair network of radio and TV stations and newspapers, iHeart Media (formerly Clear Channel), the Bott Radio Network (Christian radio), Elon Musk’s X, the huge podcasts like Joe Rogan’s, and much more—sets the news agenda in this country. And they fed their audiences a diet of slanted and distorted information that made it possible for Trump to win. [...]

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"the pvp on this site is brutal" "this website's hatemail game is insane" you guys werent here from 2013-2016. they shot you if you reblogged from someone who reblogged from someone who liked kill la kill.

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The funniest thing about all these TERF wars is that one day a white man with a British accent is just going to repeat verbatim what radical feminists have been saying about trans advoacy for the past 10 years and it's going to click for tens of millions of left-wing people. It will happen suddenly and very quickly. All of sudden people will start repeating what "TERFS" have been saying but pretending it's a new revelation.

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You feel both masculine and feminine??? REALLY? Omg I've never met someone like that!😲 Could you believe I always felt the most womanly womon wombat? That's right, I once put on men's clothes (jeans and a big hoodie) and I got a rash 😭. It's great that you aren't limited by your identity and can do and feel whatever you want each day, non binary people are so cool 🥺. My poor woman brain can't handle the complexity...

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oh btw saying relationships with men inherently have power dynamics and involves a women submitting to a man literally just reinforces the patriarchy by implying women are inherently weaker than men. just saying

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I fucking ADORE it when women PEAAAAAKKKKK and speak their truth. The fact that i saw this on tiktak restored my faith in humanity

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it’s crazy how men have like mobilized en masse against women’s rights and women are still arguing amongst ourselves about like whether we should be nicer to men. in a perfect world we would just start killing men for real.

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by calling historically ‘masculine’ women trans (i.e. joan of arc, mulan), it only perpetuates the idea that heroism, strength, and success are male traits

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Taking a domestic violence training. It's a good perspective on how outsiders can help. Will be posting later about anything I think might help people identify and assist friends who might be victims.

Also it's really refreshing that the detectives/judges in the video are honest that the overwhelming majority of victims are women.

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The idea that the female body is the same as the male body but with just breasts and a uterus added is the reason why women's health and research are lagging behind. Scientists see our feminine sex characteristics and processes such as menstruation and pregnancy as confounding factors. They perceive the male body as being free from the supposedly extraneous variables of menstruation and uteri and thus better for study. But it's a lie. Significant and important sex differences permeate almost every biological phenomenon. We only know about 50% of how the human body functions because we've been only studying one body type: male. And now this view is being further embedded with gender ideology. With transwomen viewing their male bodies as just missing a few naughty female bits. This idea harms women and is anti-science.

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we need to put an end to it. abolish mens suffrage now.

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ngl gotta hand it to the man in a dress here

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Opinions on trans people? I know a lot of radfems are against them but I can't seem to figure out why.

I view trans people the same way I view religious people. They can have their beliefs, dress how they want, and call themselves what they want and it has nothing to do with me. My problem is when they start to force their unscientific beliefs onto other people and society. Just as I shouldn't be forced to belive in god and change how I live to align with Christian scripture I shouldn't be forced to reject reality and change how I speak and allow my boundaries to be violated. The transgender movement acts very much like christianity in the US, they are trying to force their belief system onto us.

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i‘m done coddling misogynistic TIFs. if you go around and call women derogatory terms to affirm your "manhood" you deserve everything coming for you.