Smh, how could he diss the real winner of that event, Juan Guaido :guaido-despair:
When you lose but its okay because the president gives you a "1st Place" participation trophy.
accused the NCAA of destroying opportunities for women
:wonder-who-thats-for:
In slightly better news, Indiana's governor just vetoed a bill that would have prevented K-12 trans athletes from joining girls' sports teams.
Oh hey that's pretty good coming from the state of mike pence
oh damn, do you have a link? !bloomer@hexbear.net needs some content
Just posted to c/news. It's been covered by a couple different outlets but this is NPR's take. I guess Utah's governor also just vetoed a similar bill.
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/22/1088021904/11-gop-states-transgender-sports-bans-indiana-veto
:jesus-christ:
How can florida be even worse?
DeSantis: hold my beer
Has anyone else felt the vibes of public opinion shift on LGBT issues recently? Something just feels off.
To a frightening degree
People who didn't used to give a fuck about women's sports are suddenly talking about them with the same amount of passion they do with the NFL
Wonder if this is actually good for attendance and viewership, or if its literally just people talking about a blog covering a high school track meet and screaming about who won.
Some british women tweeted something like "Everyone knows that trans women are not actually women, we just say that to make them feel better"
DAE IDENTITY POLITICS BAD NOW IF YOULL EXCUSE ME LET ME BURN SOCIETY DOWN BECAUSE TRANS PEOPLE WANT TO EXIST :frothingfash:
There's def. a non-zero chance he could be president in 2025 if Trump doesn't run.
Perhaps a hot take: I would greatly prefer Trump if it came to the two of them. He's really, really awful.
Its going to be a 2016-style shit show. Cruz is running. DeSantis is running. Rand Paul will probably try again. Mike Huckabee and Tulsi Gabbard have nothing better to do with their lives. You're going to get some number of POC Business Guys/Gals doing vanity campaigns.
I don't think DeSantis has anything like a clear path to the nomination if Trump declines to run, particularly if he backs Ivanka for a bid or someone like Mike Lindell gets a tailwind.
Does this even do anything? Like, can he overrule whatever body oversees this? Or is he just shaking his fist impotently?
I can't read the article because I've apparently reached my "article limit" on this shitty website.
For my fellow article head losers . Chrome extension that bypass's paywall for news sites.
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
dont share it too much as if it gets too known it'll prolly get axed
if the NCAA had any courage, they would dangle the "death penalty" over every Florida athletics program as a message to any other state governor involving themselves in college athletics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty_(NCAA)
the NCAA are scum also, so I am taking a "let them fight" position with the assumption that desantis would see his base evaporate at the prospect of no Florida teams being allowed to compete or recruit for football, basketball or baseball for even a fraction of a season.
but realistically, the NCAA will just ignore him in true lib fashion, thinking this problem will go away on its own.
there is no point in having power if you don't use it against reactionaries to protect people.
There is no point in having power if...
Coincidentally, tonight lib comments and posts about KBJ had really gotten to me. Even r/politics post titles are annoying me. Here's a 12k upvote example - Ketanji Brown Jackson schooled GOP senator who ranted about gay marriage | "Well, senator, that is the nature of a right." : politics
Schooled, huh? Sigh.
The dem senate can confirm KBJ themselves. A dem fuckup is possible because it's always possible but the dems have an easy layup. But their base really needs this dog-and-pony show so that they feel oh-so smug in their moral superiority and for a little while they can ignore they brutal reality that the GOP will still have total control over the court via their 6-3 majority.
Power is the only thing that matters. And that will always be true no matter how smug the dems get.
Kwame Ture, The Pitfalls of Liberalism, 1969:
Fourth, I do not think that liberals understand the difference between influence and power, and the liberals get confused seeking influence rather than power. The conservatives on the right wing, or the fascists, understand power, though, and they move to consolidate power while the liberal pushes for influence.
Kwame Ture was so incredibly on-point with his analysis, every other day I read something that reminds me of this particular essay.
And he just kept getting “more knowledgeable, more experienced, and more determined to destroy American imperialism” in the infamous Colin Powell clip (can turn in subtitles if no speaker, very short clip)
What a wise man
The Pitfalls of Liberalism
It's been a long day for me so I don't have the focus or the energy right now but I'll definitely read that tomorrow.
He just kept getting more knowledgeable, more experienced, and more determined.
We should all be doing that.
the smugness as a motivator is fine I guess if it motivates them to vote / mobilize against bigots, but goddamn is it it annoying.
I disagree.
Last year was the last hope for the dems to fix the court. I know it's as unlikely as science fiction but Biden and the dems could have packed the court. In the course of her career KBJ could pen 100 or 100,000 fiery, powerful, impassioned, etc (ad naseum) dissents but none of them will matter because she and the other dems on the court will have no power for quite a long time. Surely a decade at least.
She's 51 so it's also possible that she'll never be on a court with a dem majority. I expect dark days for the US and I think that's the powerless future she and the other dem justices will have.
if she's anything like the rest of them except maybe Sotomayor she'll have plenty of power ruling in favor of capital over labor.
This is the man who is possibly the front runner to be President in 2025 (I'm not sure he loses a primary to Trump, even).
90% of his platform will be masks, vaccines, trans athletes, CRT, and Don't Say Gay bills. And that's not hyperbole. Note that all those issues are deeply tied into public education. The GOP thinks (probably correctly) that they can get the suburban white folks back who voted for Biden back with that.
There's no more fanatical a culture warrior than a chud that says they hate culture wars and identity politics and want everyone to just be NORMAL. :frothingfash:
:no: we do not compromise with bigots.
easier fix: murder every pig with an opinion on trans people in sports until there aren't any left to squeal.
:do-not-do-this: :frog-no-pretext:
It's an easy solution because there isn't an actual problem here. There is no meaningful difference between cis and trans athletes competing in the same sport, especially with the waiting period that already exists.
Trying to jump to "eliminate gender in sports altogether" is a shit solution to this discussion since it contains a concession to transphobes about their stupid word vomit. It's a cool idea, but a different topic.
I know nothing about
Then I would suggest listening to trans people who do know.
given that sexual dimorphism is not a clear cut thing
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Have fun casually advocating for murder lol.
every. transphobe. gets. a. bullet.
