#bigoted pikachu

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[perenlop]

i dont even like meowth all that much either, but damn its sorta crazy how he’s closer to genuine lgbt rep than jessie and james and having real importance through helping his VA learn she was trans, and Maddie Blaustein’s influence on our childhoods, but whenever people talk about TRio being the epitome of gay rep (and you SUCK if you dont like them!!!!!) he sorta gets left out or dismissed as “well hes just their cat”. like hes never in any of the polls people fight over either.

damn, for people who claim that team rocket are the most important characters of all time and are supposedly massive fans of them, they sure do love fundamentally misunderstanding 1/3 of the trio’s entire character and what makes their dynamic work

[ssaalexblake]

can you imagine how insufferable it'd be to have somebody be Adamant that you are a certain sexuality and act like you're deluded or confused for not acknowledging it when you are literally Not that???

I cannot imagine wanting any kind of fame or notoriety it sounds like a fucking nightmare

[takerfoxx]

On the night of the election, I had an honest-to-God dream where I woke up and found out that Harris had shockingly come in from behind and won the election. I remember how relieved I was that the nightmare had been averted. That we did choose to not elect a senile fascist back into office. That most of my country weren't willing choosing evil over progress.

Then I woke up, literally and figuratively.

Obviously, this has been a heavy blow. Honestly, as someone who was raised as a conservative Christian, who was a huge fan of Linkin Park, Kanye West, JK Rowling, Joss Whedon, Neil Gaiman, and the Undertaker for years, and who felt like I could trust my friends and family to have my back, it's been like these last few years have been a relentless train of disappointment and disillusionment in everything and everyone I once believed in and looked up to, and who I would go to for escape when things were bad. I know you should never meet your heroes, but damn, could they just have been like salty jerks who were caught being mean to the waiter instead of fascists, abusers, bigots, and so on? Could the entire world view that I had been raised in and fervently believed for over half my life not have turned out to be so awful? And yeah, I'm including the friends and family part in that as well.

Obviously, since the election, there's been a lot of finger pointing. Did Harris run a bad campaign? Did she abandon the working class? Was it the Gaza issue? Was it the fault of moral abstainers or third-party voters?

And honestly, I get it. Given the sheer horror of what we're facing, I get being frustrated with people who don't help and/or vote against their own interests only to go all Shocked Pikachu face when the worst possible scenario occurs. But I've been doing some thinking, and I personally believe that even if all those groups came out in support of Harris, whether it be because they do support her or even just as a way to block Trump, she still would have lost. This is the first time in a long time that a Democratic nominee lost the popular vote, after all. I think Biden would have lost too, and he only won in 2020 because of the very unique circumstances caused by the pandemic.

I think we need to face the facts. America's been sliding into fascism for decades.

Reagan. The extremism that erupted after 9/11. Birtherism. Gamergate. The Manosphere. The far right has been busy, whether it be stacking the deck politically or pinpointing the fears and insecurities of every generation and tuning their messaging to draw people in. They tell them what they want to hear, that it's not their fault that they aren't getting what the American dream promised them, and it's all the fault of (insert minority group here). It's been targeted. It's been methodical. And it's been working.

Trump won. He's going to get away with everything. The far right won. This sucks. I wish I had some inspiring words about never giving up the fight, but I'm not that guy. And honestly, I'm starting to feel that spiteful part of me come out, the one that sort of hopes that everything does get much worse so that every braindead moron who voted against their best interests gets exactly what they got coming to them.

But I also know how dangerous that line of thinking of. So please, Do NOT listen to me. There are plenty of people still rallying the troops, still encouraging people to fight, people who are in far more danger than I am. I'll be fine. I'm just a tired and disappointed middle-aged white guy living in a boring California suburb. I'm safe. But there's a lot of people that aren't. And those are the voice that you need to be listening to.

As for me, I'm not giving up, I'm going to keep voting, going to keep supporting the causes I believe in, and going to keep helping how I can. But I'm also going to go away for a while. Not long, probably just a few weeks or so. But I'm going to disengage from social media for a bit to keep from doomscrolling and just focus on writing, because that's all I really know how to do. And when I do come back, I'll have a lot more stuff for you guys.

In the meantime, please be good to yourselves. Be good to those who are scared and hurting. The world needs you in it, now more than ever.

[chaos0pikachu]

Okay, you've been relogging TharnType gifs (which I appreciate as one of the cursed TharnType's enjoyers, sue me) but where are the hot takes? Where's the meta?! Pikachu, speak, please!

Anon what's this cursed business I enjoy tharntype without shame I don't gaf what the discourse says the show is a bodice ripper mess with some truly genuinely well done char development especially for Thai BLs in 2019/2020

I'd rather watch tharntype again than 2gether or 1000 Stars I said what I said bake that hot take in your pie Ms Lovett

Speaking of tharntype tho I saw this twitter thread talking about it and was like yeah ppl ARE weird about tharntype and some of that weirdness is understandable and some of that weirdness is sus as fuck hot take dos putas

tell me I'm doing "doing being queer wrong" b/c I like some dumbass soap yaoi like baby go outside, knit some mittens for some kittens at least Type has an actual char arc unlike a ton of squeecore BL protagonists hot take tres chepies

look if ppl don't like tharntype idc y'all do you I don't like a lot of popular BLs - wait till the episode on Until We Meet Again drops on the pod lmaoooo - I even GET why ppl don't like the show and I think some of the critiques are valid but god damn some ppl be WEIRD about the show and Mame to the extreme l

ike jfc I saw someone call Mame a bigot for tharntype - but the dude director of the series got absolved he was gucci lol - some of the weirdness just feels less about genuine critique and more Christian rebranded moral high groundness and I have no time for that hot take cuatro

Anyway pour one out for Techno he was the one really suffering in Tharntype my little dude, my funny man, my ever suffering dude

[bickbickbarnes]

There is something genuinely hilarious happening on TikTok right now. A part of the pro- Palestinian movement is just now discovering that may be the movement might have some bigots in it. Of course this is being discovered because of anti-blackness within the movement. A lot of it stemming from the vocal part that is screaming about not voting for Kamala Harris in the general election.  and some creators who have been bitchy to black women who say that they’re absolutely voting for her.

I’m watching this and I’m thinking, if only there was a group of people telling you that there was a severe problem in the movement for over half a year now. If only Jews were ringing the alarm bell saying that. That A lot of this isn’t about Palestinian liberation, it’s just mob mentality hatred. People who are going to think that Hamas is a righteous freedom fighting group are probably not the people that most Americans are eventually going to agree with.

It’s just so weird to see these people literally pikachu-shocked face about it all. LISTEN TO JEWS. We’re usually the damn bigotry canary in the coal mine anyway. At least take it as an early warning system instead of fully ignoring us, and then being shocked when it’s your turn to face the bigotry. 

[actualtrainerred]

Introductory post.

Hey, I'm Red, yeah that one, don't make a big deal out of it. I'm 27 now, he/him exclusively rn, and very, VERY autistic. But I'm sure you've all figured that out. Rules for my blog under the cut below the FAQ. Also here's my trainer card, though the pic is... Old.

Q. Are you really Champion Red?

A. Former Champion. But yeah I'm the same guy

Q. Are you secretly a ditto/zorua/ghost ECT.

A. No

Q. Are you secretly a Pikachu

A. Yeah

Q. Can I battle you?

A. Short answer: if you can find me. Long answer: I'm working on setting up on one of those battle simulation games to get some more practice in. Once I do that I'll let you know when we can run one. Its not as fun as the real deal, but it's something. Aside from that, if you meet me irl and I'm not avoiding eye contact, yeah sure. I'm also at the Battle Tree in the summertime this year so. 👍

Q. Can I date you?

A. No, spoken for. Also I don't date fans as a rule.

Q. Why don't you talk?

A. Autism. The same reason my text comes across really blunt. Communication isn't my strong suit. No, I don't think I'm too good or better than you, it's just a feature.

Q. Didn't you write that book?

A. Yeah I sure did, about five years ago now.

Ok housekeeping stuff under the cut.

((Hi hi, I'm Melons and I've been writing for Trainer Red for 11+ years on Tumblr alone! He's one of my favorite muses and it's so nice to be playing him in a way lower stakes environment than my other Red rp blog that's been inactive for a while. I'm 28, he/him, and part of a DID system so updates are... Inconsistent. I like/follow from my self ship blog, @watermelonselfship !

I am used to doing paragraph style rp, so the in character irl pokemon style is new but exciting for me LOL! While this rendition of Red isn't the exact same one as the one from my "main" muse, it's similar because you can't do something for over a decade and not still carry it with you. I also wrote an in character autobiography on AO3, set about five years before the events of this blog!

DNI: Transphobes/general bigots, pedo/incest shippers, anti-selfshippers, and general dickheads. I do block pretty liberally, because I don't have the energy to deal with nonsense lol.

OCS PLEASE INTERACT POKESONAS PLEASE INTERACT SELF INSERTS PLEASE INTERACT DOUBLES PLEASE INTERACT I LOVE YOU ALL ))

[peachringcircus]

🍑Hello! I’m Peach, and here is a little about me!🍑

Real age: 38

Little age:1-4

How long I’ve been a regressor: 10+ years

🍑my favorite things🍑

Tv shows: Bluey, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Over the Garden Wall, Ghost Adventures, Ghost Files, Bee and Puppycat

Movies: The Nightmare Before Christmas, Inside Out, The Cat Returns, Howls Moving Castle, Detective Pikachu, A Goofy Movie, Cloverfield, Rottmnt Movie

Music: Lofi, Pop, Emo, Classic Rock, Tom Cardy

Books: House of Many Ways, House of Leaves, The Locked Tomb Series, Witchcraft Books, Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye, This One Summer

Characters: Donnie (Rottmnt), Rodimus (Transformers: MTMTE), Fizzarolli (Helluva Boss), Mewtwo (Pokémon), Muffin (Bluey), Enderman (Minecraft)

Animals: Mothman, Cats, Dogs, Foxes, Veloceraptors

Hobbies: Planning, Journaling, Drawing, Witchcraft

Games: Minecraft, Tomodachi Life, Monster Never Cry, Isekai Slow Life

🍑DNI🍑

Anti Agere, Anti Littlespace, NSFW/KINK, MAPS, Anti LGBTQA, Bigots

[starffruit]

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[ketrindoll]

Olympic disinformation and how ruzzians are behind it AGAIN

So, just for context, this post will be about the recent firehose of falsehoods about the boxing match between the Italian Angela Carini and Algerian Imane Khelif.

First of all, it's clear that Imane is no man. Algeria posted her childhood photos, her own father was against her boxing for it being unbecoming for girls, and Algeria itself is not exactly a liberal paradise full of LGBTQ athletes. Besides, Khelif got eliminated after the quarterfinal during the last Olympics, so clearly, there are plenty of those who punch harder. Meanwhile Italian participating in the "who can punch harder" sport had a breakdown over being punched hard. Truly surprised Pikachu face.

But you're going to say "hey, you Baltic russophobe, what does Russia have to do with this??" Well, buckle-up, because I'm about to serve you a huge scoop of russo-realism.

Just for context, I like to track russian media. It helps me find easy arguments why ruzzians are degenerate pieces of shit and proof of their imperialist genocidal mentality. So I learned about supposed trans-athlete beating the crap out of poor Italian from their media channels first, before I saw it spread like wildfire everywhere else. Ruzzians currently have a trend of jumping on every story that could discredit Paris Olympics, so they're now apparently against "men beating women". Which is ironic, because domestic violence is legal in ruzzia, so they would totally participate in "beat tf out of your wife" Olympics, but probably get disqualified for doping.

Of course, these news proved to be false, to the embarrassing shame of every bigot and their mother JK Rowling, who recently proved that her every braincell has successfully made an exit. But then new falsehood popped up, the one that even trans-supporting people shared as an argument why Khelif should be allowed to participate in women's sports. The lie was that she is a hermaphrodite, born with XY chromosomes.

This lie was, of course, fully spread in the russian media. I'd even argue they spread it first. But what is it based on?

Well, take a bowl of popcorn, because I'm about to drop my main argument.

The lie about Imane Khelif being of neutral sex first spread after she and South Korean boxer got disqualified by the International Boxing Association (IBA, not to be confused with IBF(federation)). And who is the head of this association? Certain ruzzian Umar Kremlev. Due to his leadership IBA has been involved in several controversies. Including the supposed DNA test that they took of the Algerian boxer that apparently proved that she's a man. Of course, no official record of such test exists. Not to mention, no sports federation/association normally conducts such tests, at least I never heard of it. When questions started pouring about the legitimacy of this disqualification argument, IBA quickly changed their tune, now stating that "a special test was conducted, the nature of it cannot be revealed due to data privacy reasons". Lolol so now when it was time to produce proof, ruzzians suddenly care about GDPR. It's fair to say, all of it was bogus.

But why would ruzzians have beef with Algeria? Who knows. They genuinely dislike everyone, and given that ruzzia is a mafia state, maybe the South Korean and Algerian athletes would mess up their rigged games and sports bets. Ok, but let's play the devil's advocate and assume that Umar Kremlev is the only ruzzian in a position of power who cares about fairness and doing things by the book. Then the only reason why Imane got disqualified would be over-the-norm testosterone levels. It could very much be that IBA has stricter standards for substance use than IBF or Olympics.

The arguments I'm about to present are based on the knowledge of three people that I know: a professional basketball player, a former sports official for the government, and ye humble pee collect... ehm, professional doping tester.

Essentially, every athlete uses substances. Vitamins, certain performance drugs, protein, etc etc. Think of it as that one mate of yours who drinks protein powder after every gym session. Testosterone is a common substance for female athletes, because it enhances strength by improving muscle build and retention. That is why men are objectively physically stronger. So, testosterone is one of the substances that is heavily limited for female athletes. Additionally, sports federations and associations really do have different, sometimes stricter, normatives than Olympics. But that's where Kremlev-lead IBA argument is so fake: if Khelif really was over the limit of performance-enhancing substances, they could've simply stated that she used doping. Clearly, she did not.

But let's assume again that disqualification and prior Olympic failure caused her to pump herself with testosterone and beat her way to the gold. Her norm-breaking testosterone levels would soon get proved by regular doping tests that all athletes go through after every game. And she would get disqualified. Because even if she naturally produces more testosterone, that's still breaking the Olympic normatives and giving her the unfair advantage that other countries would soon Pterodactyl-scream over to protect the chances of their own athletes. This is why ruzzia cannot compete anymore - they doped too much and too often. Being genocidal war criminals is just a cherry on top. Their state-enforced pumping of doping was so severe and open and annoyingly bold, even slightly corrupt Olympic committee couldn't ignore it anymore.

So, if the Algerian boxer is overdoing with performance enhancing drugs, she will soon get disqualified and case will be closed.

But given the fact that russians have lied about her in the past and are now flooding social media with even more propaganda, and the fact that there is no proof whatsoever that she's not 100% biologically female, and the fact that this isn't even the first time that Italian boxer pulled "owie owie, it huwts" stunt during a match, it's fair to say that Imane Khelif is just a good boxer. Even Italian boxer's coach tried to justify her dying swan stunt by saying she has sinus issues, and that's why it hurt more. But I guess bitch had sinus issues for years, cause Imane is not her first victim.

So, to summarise, there are many falsehoods. Many of those are created by ruzzia, others are just spread by them to discredit the West, the Olympics, or the decent part of humanity in general. Ruzzians are doping-gulping, cheating, women-hating, propaganda-spreading assholes. Angela Carini should be banned from boxing for being unable to handle boxing itself. And Imane Khelif, a 100% biological woman, deserved that win.

[kitkatopinions]

I have this theory that rwby white knights and anti-rwdes are really into pushing the idea that Ironwood pre-shooting Oscar is some horrible clearly bad dictator with no good traits because they actually don't have any arguments against people saying his over-the-course-of-two-in-universe-days fall to villainy was rushed, unnecessary, and severely lacking in emotional depth. So the only way for them to try and make it not bad writing is to say that James was always a villain and therefore his villainy arc wasn't 'rushed' (though this ignores the fact that a villain with standards rapidly changing into a villain with zero standards with no real depth is still bad writing.)

But funnily enough, the whole thing with pushing the idea of 'Ironwood was always a bad guy, clearly a dictator, clearly everyone needs to have seen that or they're a pro-dictator bigot themselves' take... Really just makes both the team of RWBYJNROQ and the narrative that the RWBY writers painted seem worse if you ask me. Like, Team RWBY and co were actively and willingly working with IW for like two months, right? Like, they were down in the thick of it in Mantle sometimes, they saw the security camera that some people swear means that James kept the citizens of Mantle under constant surveillance, they saw the broadcasting of James and Winter that some people swear means that James was obviously feeding Mantle propaganda, they saw how he worked on a project that they actively believed in apparently instead of using the easily transferable resources of a communications tower to fix a broken wall. They saw James put things in place like curfews, which some people are swearing is proof of the ironclad hold Ironwood had on those poor defenseless citizens. They saw that he pulled his forces out of Mistral (on the advice of Winter,) which apparently is heartlessly hording protection, and they also saw him bring some of his forces into Vale which according to some people was a show of power. And despite the fact that there was every indication that IW was fully authorized to be in Vale and fully authorized in bringing over weapons, and despite the fact that he only brought them because he thought there would be an attack (which there was,) and despite the fact that he clearly didn't bring his whole fleet - No, he was invading Vale. And Team RWBY and co also saw his 'over-reliance on machinery' and his 'hatred of humanity' at play, and they saw him let teenagers do any fighting and saw that he was running a child recruitment school (ignore if this breaks the premise of the entire show by implying that Ruby shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a fight,) and they saw that he was supposedly grooming Winter. And they saw that he *gasp* was put in charge of security for an event after an attack that could've been really bad while Ironwood and the rest of Oz's inner circle was anticipating worse I MEAN he was completely unnecessarily put in charge of obviously completely unneeded security for your average everyday not in danger at all sporting event that can easily be compared to sporting events in our world where Salem and Grimm don't exist, and so that was clearly an act of aggression and exercising control.

So, if Ironwood is really a terrible dictator who has clearly been doing off the charts bad things that prove that he's a bad dictator since his very first appearances in volume two, then the options are A. Ruby and co are all so hopelessly naive that they completely ignored the clear and obvious signs of a dictator and then made shocked pikachu faces when he 'tried to leave all the poor people behind to die because of nothing but laziness, cowardice, and classism,' which makes them look really bad. B. Ruby and co are all so dumb that they just didn't realize that all the obviously bad stuff he did was obviously bad and should be a deal breaker because they're just that oblivious. Or C. Team RWBY and their friends can be slotted into the same category that the anti-rwdes put IW fans who say that the fall to villainy was rushed and that he wasn't always clearly bad, and written off as pro-dictator probably classist bigots. Ruby literally shared information on the war with him after a bunch of stuff in season seven because she and Oscar decided to trust him.

(Just to be clear, I don't believe any of that. I believe that Ironwood wasn't clearly super bad until he shot Oscar, and Team RWBY weren't in the wrong to work for and help Ironwood and believe in some of the things he was doing.)

But, using that 'James was always a dictator who was always clearly bad' logic, what does that say about the narrative RWBY the show was presenting us with. Because... Team RWBY and co weren't treated as in the wrong for working for and helping Ironwood and believing in some of the things he was doing. They doubted him a little, here and there, but for the most part just worked with him, and then nobody was like 'we were so stupid to trust him after everything he did' and nobody was like 'We need to be more careful because we were working with a dictator FUCK." In fact, Yang and Ren saying anything against Ruby was still treated as completely bad and something they needed to take back, even though she was the one who told the supposed clearly evil dictator important war secrets. Sooooo, if Ironwood really was a dictator, what was the 'Ruby did no wrong' stuff supposed to tell us as viewers? XD Like I honestly truly prefer thinking 'these writers just screwed up their fall to villainy arc pretty badly' rather than thinking 'these writers deliberately made the heroes willingly and happily work for an evil dictator for months and trust him with important war secrets.'

Once again I'm wondering how RWBY simps manage to make RWBY seem eight times worse than it is while they're trying to defend it.

[holidayslinger]

Okay but do you understand how funny it would be if the team can’t figure out how to get rid of Gerard and they have to go to Buck and say, “I think….i think maybe we should sue the city.”

Because they know he has a lawyer already vaguely familiar with their history and Buck is just *surprised pikachu face* because “I thought I wasn’t allowed to do that again? That was like the ONE RULE the department gave me to being hired back???”

And they have to look at him and explain, “Yeah, which is why u can’t be involved in filing the suit.”

And Buck realizes, “wait. Wait, I’m part of the department, which means I’m part of the city, which means….are you guys all suing ME now? With my own lawyer? Is this a full circle moment right now that I’m going to get to lord over all of you for years to come?”

I need it just for the irony of it all and because I want acknowledgment that the lawsuit storyline was actually insane back in like season 2(3? Idk) and that we moved on from it way too fast. The comedy potential alone was so squandered.

actually this is hilarious hen and chim being like he literally got removed from the 118 for being a bigot what the hell BUCK WE NEED UR HELP anon u have a great point here

[aeide-thea]

very much an off-the-cuff post so there may well be bugs, i'm still workshopping my thinking here, but—

i seem to see posts fairly regularly in which a member of some marginalized group A is objecting to attempts by less marginalized group B to make connections between discrimination against A and harm experienced by B (the main thing i have in mind here is when people attempt to align themselves with visibly-trans people by pointing out the ways that transphobic legislation also impacts gnc cis people, theatrical crossdressing, &c, but there are definitely also examples along other axes)—

and like. the main objection i've seen from A is 'why do they have to connect my experience to their experience in order to care about it? why can't they just agree that i shouldn't be discriminated against as a matter of, like, compassion for fellow humanity?'

and this reaction does honestly always just seem a little, idk, naive to me?? like, i don't know, it's gotten very popular ime to complain about normies' clumsy attempts to Understand Instead of Just Accepting [this feels potentially linked to like. the way many of us now prefer silently clicking 'like' to producing our own original, maybe clumsy, responses? but don't @ me on that point], probably because a lot of the time they aren't genuinely seeking to Understand but just to point out all the ways our queerness &c doesn't fit their received (unexaminedly conservative) understanding of the world, which feels to us (very reasonably!) like renewed pressure from the establishment to make ourselves fit that established framework, and so we resist… but at the same time, idk, maybe i'm just outing myself as lesser-than-thou here, but for every sort of person i was raised to distrust and have since arrived at genuine loving acceptance/appreciation of, it's involved first coming to understand their frame of reference at least a little? not to say that there isn't a place for shutting up and listening while you're still working to understand, because there definitely is! but i do kind of think this idea that's become popular in certain liberal circles of like, 'you don't have to understand my experience, you just have to respect it,' is fine and true for keeping peace with strangers, but really isn't a recipe for winning friends or influencing people—it's a recipe for keeping people at arm's length where they can't hit you. and then people turn around and want to apply that rule to coalition-building, and get all shocked-pikachu-face when others seek to identify more active points of connection.

...

another ~Radical Objection to Liberal Approaches~ i've seen, though often not specifically in this context (of discussing the way attempts to oppress A have knock-on effects for B), is like—'there's no point in deconstructing their logic because it's fundamentally illogical! insert that sartre quote abt anti-semites!' and like. no, there's absolutely no point in debating their logic with them. but fundamentally when people assert a logical resistance to bigoted positions they are not doing it to Own The Bigots, imo, or at any rate shouldn't be; they're (we're) doing it to reaffirm the basis of their/our own camp's position, namely, we see your knee-jerk fears and reject them; we substitute instead a patient allegiance to logic, that reasons its way into compassion.

that said, obviously there's a conversation to be had here about, like, platforming bad positions, and to what extent deconstructing them is implicitly platforming them! but. i do think that complaining that logic won't win over bigots is missing the very fundamental point that the logic isn't for the bigots: it's for us. we're talking to ourselves; we're affirming ourselves. and yeah, we need to understand that this sort of intra-party discussion doesn't, on its own, constitute sufficient activism! messages need to be communicated beyond the bounds of the party! but i do think i disagree that there's no place for it.

[gnometa233]

People need to stop going all shocked Pikachu when their weird ass bigoted posts get pushback online. No one cares what trauma you have or thing you identify as. If you say whack shit, people are gonna call you out on it. Either put that shit on a private blog or get off the internet

[alabasterandpitch]

I'll take it a step further

Men need support, full stop. Trans or cis, a LOT of queer community spaces show 0 interest in engaging with you if you identify as male

It's a problem with leftist spaces more generally too, but it's one I've felt especially keenly since coming out and starting to explore my gender and sexyality more.

Progressives continuously bemoan the swathes of young boys who are turning to bigoted right wing pundits, but they're literally the only ones addressing young men. In many queer spaces the best you can hope for as a man is the cold shoulder, if not outright vilification, so can we please stop acting all surprised Pikachu face when young boys want nothing to do with queer leftist communities after we ignore them and treat them like shit time and time again?

sorry since realizing my gender i have zero tolerance for the whole “man hating” angle of being queer i hate i hate it i hate you. stop. you are hurting people.

[bisluthq]

I agree dems lost because being out of touch with the needs of the working class but trump doesn’t have a plan, either, beyond letting businesses be unfettered by taxes or regulation which may get you some artificial gains initially but fucks everyone in the end.

I also strongly disagree with normalizing what he said about Liz Cheney - it’s all within the context of lock her up, the enemy within, all the other vile shit he has said particularly about women and the fact he whipped his supporters up in a frenzy to storm the capital and has and will never accept the 2020 results.

“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

That’s not fuck Cheney that is a veiled threat because she spoke out against him.

that’s not the full quote of what he said in context. He was asked what the endorsement means for him and he said: “I think it hurts Kamala a lot. Actually. Look, [Cheney is] a deranged person. The reason she doesn’t like me is that she wanted to stay in Iraq.” [then he rambled because he is a deranged person himself and then he went back onto the Liz thing] “I don’t want to go to war. She wanted to go, she wanted to stay in Syria. I took [troops] out. She wanted to stay in Iraq. I took them out. I mean, if it were up to her, we’d be in 50 different countries. And you know, number one, it’s very dangerous. Number two, a lot of people get killed. And number three, I mean, it’s very, very expensive.” [then he decided to say something pro Dick lol which was a choice Trump made and so he said] “I don’t blame [Dick] for sticking with his daughter, but his daughter is a very dumb individual, very dumb. She is a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

He absolutely was saying she’s a war hawk and let’s see how she’d like it if she were there on the frontlines the way the soldiers she sends to die are every day that they’re overseas. He did NOT say he would put her in front of a firing squad because she’s an enemy of the state or spoke out against him. That’s just unequivocally not what he said at all.

And yes obviously his plan is also fucking stupid lmao. I’m not in any way pro Trump. I just don’t think it’s this big shocked Pikachu face emoji Kamala lost and I don’t think all the people who voted for Trump are racist misogynistic bigots. Many are, but not all of them. A bunch are just seriously unhappy with the economy and foreign policy tbh. And a lot of people just weren’t very excited by Kamala because of again a rubbish campaign tbh.