Good.
If your "leftism" is being destroyed by the fact that trans people and tankies exist then it needs to die.
Lib: "bernie bros are transphobic"
Same lib: "if you're not super hot, maybe dress normally and don't present yourself as a transvestite"
Can we take a moment to acknowledge how astonishingly sexist and misogynistic this comment is? (Since you've already covered the transphobia angle here.)
She's telling a woman that if she isn't meeting her personal standards of beauty then she needs to cover up and dress in a way that suits her preference. She's literally body-shaming a woman and policing her self expression.
I would put money on Wu absolutely castigating a man who was in her presence if he said something like "Disgusting! Cover yourself up and show some decency. Women like you have no right to dress that way in public!!" to a woman and yet here she is doing this very thing to a trans woman.
Imagine having the audacity to complain about sexism and transphobia when you're clearly a very willing proponent of it, simply because you see trans women as being lesser than other women. (Opportunistic Feminists Don't Abandon Your Principles When Encountering a Trans Woman Challenge [impossible])
There's a special place in the gulag for people like Brianna Wu.
I have data showing that a significant portion of it was Russia trying to divide us
“I have here in my hand a list of 205 [State Department employees] that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.”
how is it this common that a person's ideology comes down to being a transphobe or not? It's like the central dividing line in who people are. Every single time someone talks about tankies, or the left going too far, or blah blah, they're coming from a position of transphobia. It consumed them. My brain is gonna explode.
how is it this common that a person's ideology comes down to being a transphobe or not?
Transphobia is on the borderline of being a socially permissive form of bigotry, which makes it a litmus test ideal for revealing the people who aren't open about being fascists, but still share the complete emotional and moral desolation and the political sadism of the mask-off fascists. Checking if somebody is a transphobe flushes out the ones who are too chickenshit to be, say, outright racists. Although Wu's comments about BLM in the linked tweets make me assume she's also an anti-black racist who merely had the instinct not to be open about her views in 2020.
Diehard Democrats need a scapegoat because without one they are left with the painfully uncomfortable realisation that the DNC exists in a parasitical relationship with the GOP and that, in a shocking number of situations, their party would prefer a Republican victory because it provides the Democrats with huge opportunities for shifting further to the right, for preferencing the interests of capital instead of needing to make small concessions to the working class, and of course for fundraising.
So naturally it's the tankies and the trans people and the Russian bots who are ruining the so-called left. They need this to be true in order to diffuse the cognitive dissonance they experience by being a Democrat supporter.
I hate being in the middle of all this. These people need to get firmly out of my life
Do NOT read her linked tweets if transphobia is in any way a trigger issue for you. Seriously. It's honestly almost what i would have suspected from somebody who hangs out with V*ush, but still, this is pit material.
Death to all transphobes, no exceptions, particularly not for this traitor.
If I’m willing to throw Paul Cockschott in the pit (and I am, even acknowledging how much he has helped me understand Marxism), then I sure as hell ain’t making an exception for this rando.
First time hearing of this person. She is a middle aged woman who hangs out with V**sh? I don't understand honestly. Screw her anyway though.
wasn't life expectency in past times dragged down by higher infant mortality rates? i.e. if you made it out of early childhood you'd probably make it to your 70s? Dante's Inferno starts with Dante having a midlife crisis at 35 and that was written in like the year 1300
You're correct about this. Infant mortality was just so incredibly high that it drags down the average. Most people who survived infancy were not dropping dead at 30
this is a myth that comes out of misunderstanding life expectancy data. people coming at you with the 70s-80s 'expectancy after childhood' are people making the observation that people have been observed to reach such ages in the historical record, proving nothing biological has changed for human longevity in recorded history. the ancient man was not genetically pre-disposed to die sooner.
but they were socially disposed to live and die brief lives because of class disparities, violence, and diseases they had no recourse against. it's all well and good to make a list of old patrician romans and their long lives, but 93% of the roman empire was under the age of 25. these numbers didn't pop out of thin air, they're made from records, gravestones, and bodies, of which children are the least represented demographic.
Dante btw said it was the middle of life but croaked before he crossed that finish line lol
As an aside, this whole 80s/90s idea of a “midlife crisis” is so strange. Like I’m 41, my friends are all around that age. Not a single one of us is experiencing what was called a “midlife crisis”. We’re all just basically doing our normal thing that we’ve always done. I’m mean, I’m kinda doomer because of climate change and all but that’s just a rational response to an existential crisis for humanity. Neither I nor my friends are unreasonably stressed about getting older so we’re buying sports cars (not that we could afford them ofc) or cheating on spouses or whatever. I watch a movie like “City Slickers” and it seems like such a social relic.
(And an aside from my aside… what is so bizarre about being my precise age is you watch a movie like “City Slickers” and it’s about these old dudes coming to grips with the fact that they’re now old as shit, then you look up the actors and see that they were younger than you are now when the movie was filmed. What really blew my mind is when I got older than Robin Williams was when he was in “Hook”, since when I was a kid that was my quintessential “dad” movie).
My dad, a boomer, told me that 25 was a lot rougher on him than "midlife". I had a rough time with 25 too, so so far that tracks. But I'm getting closer to 40 and I'm not liking it lol.
She is a middle aged woman who hangs out with V**sh?
Yeah, it's a bit odd. She's definitely not Va*sh's target demographic.
Yes, but apparently she didn't learn anything about fascist online hate mobs back then.
not so! she clearly learned how effectively they can be weaponized against people she considers subhuman.
update: trans people are too attractive for beauty contests, too smart to play chess, too strong, tall, and fast to be a professional athlete, always have the moral high ground, can cause floods, alter the environment of the planet single handedly, are single handedly destroying leftism, and can kill god.
One of the most cynical people I have witnessed, simultaneously issuing nakedly insincere half-apologies about how its wrong to be mean(transphobic) to people just because of online beef, while also openly liking tweets that are just people posting "I love transphobia and Brianna Wu! She's epic based and said nothing wrong!" as if she's pretending to be unaware that people can just see what she likes on twitter.
Offering a shit sandwich apology then spitting in it right in front of everyone for good measure, just to add insult.
With that in mind it's really no wonder why she was the ideal Dem candidate
Autism compels me to encourage accuracy here, she was an outsider candidate that didnt even make the Ballot: https://ballotpedia.org/Brianna_Wu (running against the worst Massachusets represnative as well, and positioning herself as a progressive alternative)
Her profile says "former candidate" so I dont think she's running again, and Stephen Lynch hasn't retired or anything.
i love that dems are copying labour, this rules. i love having the liberals trying to outflank the conservatives on transphobia and red scare tactics
Dems aren't doing that. They're doing the age-old "you want to put all trans people in camps, so let's compromise and just kill some". This person is just starting their right wing grift arc like Sameera Khan
Brianna Wu hardly represents the establishment party line though. Not that I'm saying its much different, I just want to clarify that Wu was an outsider candidate that didnt even make the Ballot.
Honestly while I haven't followed her political career if I could make a guess the good news is her campaign won't get anywhere. Internet weirdos really think they can take on a democratic party political machine but I'm sure there's gonna be an establishment democrat or two that's gonna see that some internet weirdo is their main left-wing primary component and is gonna say "Game" and flood the race with money so hard that I'd be surprised if she gets a double digit primary vote.
Even if she does win, unless she's in a safe state then I'm sure she'll get cut off by the DNC for daring to run against their anointed democrat and will get absolutely smashed by a car dealership owner.
This was my first impression before even googling her, I wonder how close/far my speculation is to the truth
Yeah I mean this was over state party leadership not one election but when the DSA took over the Nevada DNC, the national party and opponents in the state party treated it like the DSA folks were peasants in medieval uprising, so they laid siege to the town.
I’m trying to find out, but I’m not seeing much online. The old DNC folks who lost basically took all the money with them. I seem to recall hearing that the DNC did eventually squeeze out the DSA people but I can’t find a proper news article about it.
I was wrong about her being in district where she could lose to a republican but yeah I was right. Every medium sized half-urbanized area has "The Progressive Crank" that takes all of the air out of the room when it comes to forming an electoral opposition to the maineline democrat. My city's version of this is a local progressive who is well liked by some parts of the labor movement but the rest of the left stays away from due to his abusive behavior towards his former spouse.
I feel like we're about nine months out from her dumping 'leftism' entirely and finally joining Candace Owens on the ex-gamergate person of interest turned alt-right grifter
The only trans people they know are collaborationist transmed scum who take the maximalist position in self-hatred, assimilationism and pathologization.
Basically being like "if I spoke up about BLM being bad we wouldn't have tankies in the democratic party and trans people would respect the gender binary" is straight up reactionary, why would anyone want her on their side
As an aside, is there a term or phrase for when someone starts doing a West Wing monologue in a group chat?
As an aside, is there a term or phrase for when someone starts doing a West Wing monologue in a group chat?
...Sorkinizing, maybe?
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If BriannaWu wants to credit tankies with pronouns (probably referring to neopronouns and Feinberg) and defeating transmedicalism I say we lean into it.
Some of the best trans victories in recent years have been driven by marxist-leninists and if these toolbags are admitting that then we should agree and take ownership of it.
calling her an "activist" honestly gives her too much credit. the issue she first got any attention for was getting cyberbullied by dumbass gamers. she hasn't done or said anything else that was noteworthy.
