Ye Olde Reminder that US elections have been rigged for a very long time now:
https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

This is 100% a thing that Misato would do.

Can’t wait for Tumblr to join the Fediverse

“Haha, weird”, I quip dismissively, as I check my profile to see how many upvotes my comments have

Ok, didn’t realise the shooter’s race and gender were apparent from footage. They could have framed someone with a marginalized identity otherwise.

If he was framed by an algorithm, though, it was a pretty shitty algorithm. Luigi’s political views were all over the place, and I don’t remember any indications of him even supporting or advocating violence. Meanwhile there are still plenty of actual radical leftists on the internet. Was he really the most convincing scapegoat they could find? Pretty sure I could do better by manually scrolling Twitter.

If this man were to voice any sentiments short of full-throated Trump endorsement, would it make him more likely to see his wife again?

He could be terminally stupid, or this could just be the MAGA version of respectability politics. Pretending you’re still one of the good ones so the leopards stay away from your face long enough for you and your loved ones to escape.

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But… why him? They could have framed literally any convicted felon, and have a much easier time with the jury. Why would they choose an attractive cis white male engineer?

Algorithms, mate. Algorithms…

Except that they probably don’t think that.

However, they might think that a professor exposing himself to his students is an abuse of power and sexual harassment, due to the local cultural consensus around what that specific action means, and the unequal relationship between teacher and student.

Good! In a culture that worships cops and “thought leaders”, this is two steps up from meekly accepting whatever powerful people say.

Now it’s time for:
(3) Acting on your ethical convictions towards specific goals, and learning to work with people who share them, even when their motivations or values are different.

P.S. As others here have stated, (1) and (2) are not contradictory. If morality is constructed, then we all construct our own. Unless you actually WANT to be an amoral bastard.

逃げちゃダメだ
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n-no! I am an inscrutable mystery! b-baka!

no lies detected

For what it’s worth, I agree with you in this case, and I’m sorry about your Dad. I hope he sees reason soon.

The strongest predictor for someone being accepting of trans people is… knowing trans people.

Or even knowing of trans people. I was raised in a conservative family and society. If not for access to the stories of trans people that the internet gave me, I would probably have ended up as a deeply repressed, self-hating transphobe.

The world needs us.

steal your food, then toss you table scraps

consider: train🚆
train: go zoom 🚄
train: fit many catgirls 😽 n all my transmasc homies too 🤠 don’t forget the enbies dummy 💁
train: run on electricity ⚡ give a hoot! 📣

🚆tra(i)ns 🏳️‍⚧️

but would it be on fire if it was a good car 🤔

sizzling hot take: all political parties end up as tools for elites to capture power

truly a bold and newfangled idea, surely only a few radical extremists could buy into it. surely parliamentary socialists in Meiji-era Japan, for instance, would never derive this dangerous concept from first principles