#arrant fuckery

[nentuaby]

I've seen more than one "at least Pat Robertson was sincere in his beliefs" takes and every time I just about white out with rage.

Like OK! I'm not even sure that's true, because damn did that little worm have some scams going, but ASSUMING that he sincerely wanted me dead, that doesn't actually seem much better than just thinking my life is expendable for power! Those both actually seem pretty motherfucking bad, guy!

Oh, he ONLY hated my joy and love with every fiber of his being. So much better than using his outsize cultural cachet to agitate for genocide cynically!

[jayeltontoro]

Yep. Well pointed out! War criminals last time they were in office. 2 million of us marched against it. It was on false pretences, it cost the lives of British soldiers, and the lives of nearly 1 million Iraqi's. Led to the rise of 'islamic state / daeche'. And to cap it off Blair got appointed a middle east envoy to collect more cash for his arrant bloodlust and fuckery.

You talk often about how changes that are being made are bad but I rarely see you offering what you consider to be viable alternatives. The internet safety bill won't protect kids in your pinion, so what's the alternative? We can't vote for Labour, the only real opposing party to the Tories in a FPTP system, so what's the alternative? It's fear mongering and finger pointing like this that divides people and gives room to the tories and bigots to push their agendas through. People already feel helpless and you have a platform here that you could use to better inform people, instead of just shaming.

When I criticise the online safety bill - a policy being proposed as a misdirected reaction to a trans girl being murdered - and say political parties should be condemning transphobia within their ranks and in the public sphere, I don’t know how I can be clearer.

We don’t need spyware on children’s phones. We need our politicians to show some social responsibility and stop inflaming the debates with increasing polarising rhetoric. Stop giving the right wing everything they desire.

I challenge the idea that Labour are an opposition to the Tories. They are the same party with a different colour scheme. Calling Labour out for what they are is me using my relatively small platform to get people to engage and think critically about the policies of another party. I’m not issuing instructions, I’m trying to get people to arrive at their own conclusions, and sometimes that’s pointing out that a choice is actually bad. That’s not fear-mongering.

I don’t know how many times I and others have had to clarify that England and the UK in general is not a two party system, even with First Past the Post. I’d rather encourage people to organise with their local Green/LibDem branch and fight an election hard rather than choose to vote labour and change the colour of the curtains.

Because in 5-10 years whenever labour fucks up and the Tories regain political advantage, voters will just wave them back in. Handing this election to labour without making them fight for it gives them carte blanche to do all manners of corrupt shit that they’ve just pulled with the Gaza ceasefire vote.

So I completely reject that calling Labour, who from a policy perspective are lock-step with the Tories, a shit party that people shouldn’t vote for is fear-mongering. It’s calling a spade a spade.

And look if you’ve been here for a while and noticed a change in tone then I get it. You might not like me being more combative, but as I’ve said previously, I’m angrier than I’ve ever been in my political life, and I’m tired of people pretending that Labour will sweep in and reverse 10 years of Tory rule. They will simply choose to continue it.

[newtgeiszler]

I am appalled that terrible people ask trans people "What do you think of people who won't date you because you're trans." That is arrant bullshit and I will challenge it. Thank you for writing about this, as learning of fuckery is the first step in unfucking it.

it's good to see so many people are understanding the message of my post. i've had a few struggle to understand but it looks like the majority get the picture

[nentuaby]

How the fuck does Human Pet Guy get caught off guard every time somebody replies to his nuclear ass-takes with “aren’t you Human Pet Guy?” Motherfucker never has any retort but “I don’t see why you would bring that up.” Just baffled and hurt every fucking time. Like he’s never even contemplated the idea that he juuuuuust might not be positioned to make arguments from authority.

[nentuaby]

Well, if I DO get shadowbanned due to Tumblr’s increasingly random product decisions, at least I’ll always have that time I crossposted something from Twitter and dozens of people decided to call me a liar because it featured a 9-year-old speaking in complete sentences.

Also that time I shared some mildly interesting medical science and dozens of people decided to call me an SJW r****d.

... there’s a lot of good here but it’s sometimes hard to remember why we’ll all miss it.

[nentuaby]

Ugh. Some self-proclaimed terf just responded to that Miss Frizzle post all like "well of course it turns out it's a MAN, can't let a woman have cool adventures".

Just... What is it like to pile on with a coalition of rightists and misogynists against the existence of a despised and persecuted subset of women and think you're doing it FOR women? How much mental gymnastics do you have to do keep yourself convinced that you're the victim while you make it your business to attack some of the most vulnerable people in the world?

[nentuaby]

#TFW you’ve got a clever scam, but then you oversell it... By a lot.

[somaneeshipz]

Tumblr is chock-full of mind bending content tonight.

Just as the phrase “what the entire fuck” implies the existence of fractional fucks, the phrase “what the absolute fuck” implies the existence of both positive and negative fucks (or else there would be no need for an absolute value operation). Taken together with the phrase “what the actual fuck” (which implies the existence of imaginary fucks), we may thus conclude that fuckery is isomorphic with the complex field.

[nentuaby]

Ugggggggggggggggggh. NCIS, it transpires, has an episode where the SHOCKING TWEEEEEEST is that the woman one of the agents is dating is their criminal and "actually a man." Cue team getting more freaked out about having to warn their coworker that he's with a trans woman then that he's with *an active murderer* who's probably gunning for him. Bonus: she uses the ladies room and they talk about "adding that misdemeanor" to her charges. Ugggggggghhhhhhh. Why is our entertainment so fucking awful.