#race in the US

[isaacsapphire]

I’m not sure it explains 100% of white-on-white discrimination, but I think your explanation holds a lot of water.

As a 5th generation euro-American who nonetheless has an extremely stereotypical Slavic name, it has not escaped my notice that certain kinds of WASP are a little weird about it. I’ve also very much noticed that the “whites” most invested in DEI are the same sort of WASPy puritans that were dumping on people like my grandpa for being a Catholic polack (an oaf suited only for having 12 kids and drinking), or my other grandpa for being Norwegian (and therefore the wrong kind of Protestant, and stupid and provincial). And now they say that I’m *too* white. Nifty how that worked.

No matter the rhetoric the end result is always that my group doesn’t get to go to the Ivy League.

Thank you for the input! I was sitting on that one for a while, chewing it over. I really did get halfway through and realized that the timeline for hyphenated Americans taking on White fits really well.

[isaacsapphire]

Article is Very worth reading, don’t let the long section at the beginning about a rug put you off.

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

Please, spread this for those who might need it right now

U.S. suicide hotline: call or text 988 (available 24 hours)

U.S. trans lifeline: (877) 565-8860 (when you call, you’ll speak to a trans/nonbinary peer operator. full anonymity and confidentiality)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) – provides 24/7 confidential support and referrals for individuals and families facing mental health and substance use disorders, including panic attacks and anxiety.

LGBT National Help Center: (888) 843-4564

Trevor Project: Call (866) 488-7386, text START to 678-678, or chat online.

Take care of yourself and each other. Please stay safe ♡

[bump-inthe-night]

Trump isn't guaranteed to win this year's presidential election because he's been shot at. In 2020, Trump supporters voted in heavy numbers, but guess what? They still lost because we outvoted them. 

Do I want to vote for Biden? No, but I will since no third-party candidate has a winning chance, and I don't want Trump to be president again. Unless y'all are gonna overthrow the American political system and government, we need to vote.

It's normal to be terrified about this presidential election, but don't allow it to stop you from voting and trying to stop that orange fucker from returning to office.

[zimshan]

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[isaacsapphire]

I assume that JChoe is alluding to the fact that Rockwell also did works like this (titled “The Problem We All Live With”) a bit later.

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

[isaacsapphire]

Ok, so you’re not going to engage with the undisputed fact that an increasing number of non White/Hispanic voters voted for Trump in 2024 vs 2020 and just declare that Hispanics are White supremacists and that’s the only possible explanation of this?

things we need to address:

gen z men getting pulled into alt-right pipelines through andrew tate, joe rogan, elon musk, jordan peterson etc

the gullibility and stupidity of half the country voting against our collective best interests

the broad effect social media has on public and common good

lazy minds and lack of empathy

outside-country interference (trump and elon’s connections to russia and the amount of bots from other countries spreading misinformation)

the long-term effects of AI and rampant disinformation

[beloved-johnny-depp]

the most disturbing thing isn’t dude bros voting for trump. the most disturbing thing is women, trans, queer, disabled people and people of color voting for trump. it’s disheartening seeing how many women, trans, queer, disabled people and people of color turn out to be trump supporters.

sorry but that man isn’t going to protect you when he’s president. you are betraying your own communities who are trying to protect you at best, voted your own rights away at worst. and for what?

[isaacsapphire]

As a White/Asian person of transgenderism, I may well vote for some R soon because I am calculating what extremism I can survive. And the fact is, I can pass as my assigned gender, I can pass as a good little Protestant Christian, but I can't pass as BIPOC. And now we're letting Haitians in so me getting hate crimed is more on the table than ever, but at least the Rs let me stay strapped. And I don't mean the sexual kind of strapped. I would vote Dem if they'd swear off the woke-bigotry and the effectively-open borders, and at least do a sane shall-issue permitting regime for guns.

Obviously I don't say any of this IRL because I know who's really most likely to bash me.

Thanks for your perspective Nonny.

Um, have you actually met Haitians though? I have worked with a lot of Haitians, because they’ve been immigrating here for a while and they have seemed to be sober, hard working, family oriented people, and the most bothersome things about them by any metric were how devout they were (Seventh Day Adventist), which has some potential negative consequences from a LGBTQ perspective. But like, I was told all kinds of things about Haitians as a kid (that they were lazy devil-worshipers mostly) and it turned out that almost all of those things had nothing to do with the actual Haitians I have met. And like, I have been mostly meeting first and second gen Haitian immigrants at pretty low paid jobs so it’s not like I only encountered the absolute cream of Haitian immigrants either.

I don’t see Haitians specifically as a problem in my community, and I’m in an area where some of my work sites have been like 1/3 Haitians (because they were all smart enough to do a fairly complex computer based access control job, could pass a drug test and background check, and show up on time day after day and even do long hours, which is more than could be said for some groups).

[isaacsapphire]

This is what I am talking about when I say that both teams seem similarly shitty.

More than half of country IS women and minorities, and rather a lot of both voted for the Republicans in this election.

We’re going to hear a lot of stupid bullshit over the next few days/months/years about how Harris/the Democrats failed to win over men, or young people, or uneducated voters, or those worried about the economy, or whatever….but the truth is this: this country hates women and minorities; its citizens understand fuck all about the economy; and the people are incredibly susceptible to outright lies, scams and fascist values

[dietcokeadicction]

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[bet-on-me-13]

The weirdly competent Doctor

So! The Watchtower's Medical Bay is a hub of constant Activity. With the number of Heroes who work under the Justice League, there are always injuries, health check-Ups, and illnesses that need healing.

But with the amount of Variant Biologies that those Heroes have, it's always a guessing game as to how to help them best. Some Metahumans react positively to penicillin, but others react like it's their Kryptonite. Some Aliens have anatomy similar to Humans, others are so different you can't tell the Stomach from the Bladder.

So when they hired a New Doctor for the Medical Bay, they had to run him through an entire Course on Variant Biologies and how best to treat specific Heroes. It was long and difficult to remember fully, but it was necessary for him to know.

But then the new Doctor started correcting Them.

"Actually, Martian's react better to the Syrup of Eucalyptus Plants better than Penicillin, since Eucalyptus is very similar to a medicinal plant from Mars which they used in many of their antibiotics."

"I don't think just pumping double doses of sedative is the best way to calm down a Speedster, that could have adverse effects on their body. Perhaps try Psychic Intervention? Their minds move a Mile a Second, but if you can calm them down their bodies will follow suit."

"Of course you use Micro-Doses of Kryptonite to operate on Superman! What else would you do?! I don't know, maybe ask JLD to enchant your Equipment to make use of Kryptonian suseptiblity to Magic? The Kryptonite is just gonna give him Cancer!"

Of course the Doctors didn't take kindly to being rudely corrected by a newbie, and Fired him on his first day.

Then a few days later their usual Treatments don't work, and they decide to give those strategies the Quack Doctor gave them out of desperation.

And Lo and Behold, they work! Martian Manhunter is fully healed and feels much better than the previous times he has needed surgery. Apparently they used a different Antibiotic that worked better with his Biology. Which was incredible, how had they figured it out?

Another Doctor you say? One who was experienced on Martian Biology and Medicinal History? He would very much like to meet with the man!

...

What do you mean you fired him for talking back?!

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

respectfully, if men can say “your body, my choice” i guess it’s only fair that we say to them “my gun, your life”