All the legacy media coverage i've seen today, after his socials have been combed, mention his islamophobia, that he's a fan of AfD leader Alice Weidel and called for the execution of Angela Merkel for the Great Replacement. None mention his zionism. The absolutely rabid support of Israel amongst the AfD and its supporters is practically never adressed in public, as it is a position that 100% aligns with that of centrist parties now.

Yeah, it's "the jews have set up a Truman Show style trap for humanity and are covering it up".

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I recomend beets, it's like a tasty rock minus the toothaches. Borshtsh is basically the best rock soup in the world.

A lot of minors are not getting any gender affirming care at all, it is already illegal in roughly half of the states in the US. The results of that are dire. Puberty is rough to begin with, but going through the wrong puberty while being fully aware of it must be hell on earth. These measures kill children, we have clear evidence for that, and that will most likely soon be expanded to the entire country.

Can't kick the can down the road when there's only toll roads and everything else just collapses

Chapter 7 is a bit of a mixed bag for me. Like earlier in the book, hooks only speaks in terms of the gender binary without any discussion of trans and NB identities, which imo really undercuts the point she’s trying to make about reclaiming masculinity and “male bodies” by literally defining “male being” as “of the human body that has a penis”. Like I understand her broad point but idk if she is simply leaving out queer identities (apart from a few mentions of gay men) to make the book more stomachable for cishet men and women who may be new to feminist ideas, or if she simply doesn’t have good insight into how queer people fit into this picture. Either way it did not vibe right with me at all.

I got the same impression. Will need to write an effortpost about how that chapters' content plays out for me as a trans person. There's good, productive stuff in there, but also a part that really did not sit well with me and the feeling that she doesn't fully get to the point specifically because she writes from a cisnormative perspective.

It's a very competitive field for stupid takes, but this person may have genuinely posted the dumbest shit any transphobe ever came up with.

Chapter 6 genuinely made me go "this was written two major capitalist crisis cycles ago", immediately followed by the realization how much worse this constant wounding of success-based masculinity has become since then and how easily this development ties into the idea of fascism as capitalism in decay. It's such a good example of how dialectic the intersection between capitalist base and patriarchal superstructure can be.

The studies i've seen so far on this had one thing in common: They do not get the actual use of trigger warnings. Either they just put the warning there, but participants have to view the stuff anyway, which ofc means the warning does absolutely nothing, or participants voluntarily view it, which also says little about the use of the warning. Trigger warnings are about giving people the option to avoid certain topics. Many people who use them may or may not do so on a case by case basis, like assumed severity of the material, general mood in that moment, a calculation of their need to stay informed vs. how recent and severe their latest trauma has been and so on. In a study situation (where they will usually not know that the study researches use of trigger warnings, were they will usually not expect particularly gruesome material, and were they may feel that they should be thorough to be a useful participant), it's reasonable to assume that people will be much more likely to view CWed material.

yes ofc

it ain't me, it ain't me, i ain't no son

How are Amerikans supposed to feel at home in it if it isn't painted like an aircraft carrier?

Tiny Groverhouse

the show at it's core is moreso about family and trauma than it is about politics

Jinx wouldn't have her trauma if Piltover wouldn't wage hextech-based class war against Zaun. S2 makes it pretty clear that in a less repressive world, she could have just grown up to be Powder and live a mostly happy life even if there's significant loss and grief in it. Psychology and politics cannot be seperate spheres when you live in a system that inflicts trauma on you and your people and takes away your ressources to deal with it.

Can't call a crisis hotline when you're dead

Tony Blair Hitler (CDU) is almost guaranteed to win and with Friedrich Merz they're running the most unhinged and corrupt austerity ghoul in their entire party of corrupt austerity ghouls. The question is who this diabolic, inhuman MFer will form a coalition with. The likely options are either Tony Blair (SPD) or Tony Blair but green (Greens), depending on who lets Tony Blair Hitler be more Hitlerist (they will both let him be very Hitlerist). The SPD would likely allow the CDU to do more racism, transphobia, misogyny and police state overreach and would be more in favor of fossil industries, the Greens are less reactionary but complete lanyard dorks on foreign policy and more neoliberal (so are the SPD, but it's somehow worse with the Greens). So the options are shit and more shit and i'm doing what i can to radicalize people around me, because we're gonna need that in the coming years.

Also, there's the question wich smaller parties will make it into the next parliament. The libertarian hustlegrind bazinga brains from the FDP (Tony Blair who is friends with Hitler) might fail the 5% threshold after blockading everything for the last three years and deliberately breaking up the last coalition. Die Linke just had the BSW split off from them, so now we have a leftist party that does nothing and a party of PatSoc tailists who function as a personality cult for Sahra Wagenknecht, ex-ML-turned-reactionary-socdem. Both of them could fail the 5% threshold, but Die Linke is more likely to because ofc people in this country want more racism and transphobia in their mild socdem policies. Both are also almost guaranteed to not be part of any government on the federal level because they are not imperialist enough to be let anywhere near German foreign policy.

Which is also the only reason why i do not think the CDU will form a coalition with Hitler (the AfD, which is the second strongest party in polls rn). While they aren't principled anti-imperialists (they are the most rabidly zionist party in parliament), they are vocally pro-Russian, and the CDU is pro-USA to the bone. That's not gonna work out, anything but unwavering commitment to being a US vassal state is not on the polls.

If the impression you're getting from this is that Germany isn't actually a democracy, that things here are completely fucked, or that Stalin shouldn't have stopped at Berlin, you're obviously correct.

Could refer to the BSW, the PatSoc split from Die Linke.

Ceratopsian beak performance was impressive, we know these were able to easily chew and digest wood, they could just eat entire branches like nothing, but on an anatomical level, beak performance was actually strongest among Hadrosaurs. They had both constantly regrowing batteries of hexagonal teeth and where capable of chewing independently with both cheeks.