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Somewhat off topic but playing mixed sex roller derby (an intensely physical contact sport roughly like playing rugby on skates) has really underlined for me how much our social perception of men as being a different category of strength to women is an ideological construct reinforced by separation.
Men are not superhuman or indestructible; in fact, men are killed, injured & assaulted by men every day. Men are victims of male violence at higher rates than women (apart from sexual violence & domestic abuse). The patriarchal myth of masculine invulnerability is dangerous.
June 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Somewhat off topic but playing mixed sex roller derby (an intensely physical contact sport roughly like playing rugby on skates) has really underlined for me how much our social perception of men as being a different category of strength to women is an ideological construct reinforced by separation.
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Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.
June 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.
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leftists are consistently labeled as out of touch extremists, but there isn’t a single prominent left position this unpopular
"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
June 23, 2025 at 3:39 AM
leftists are consistently labeled as out of touch extremists, but there isn’t a single prominent left position this unpopular
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You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country
June 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country
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I don't think I need to clarify my stance on the topic but these soccer folks summed it up
January 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I don't think I need to clarify my stance on the topic but these soccer folks summed it up
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There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.
June 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.
This is also historically why conservatives were opposed to any legislation that might allow gay people to be out in public. Marginalised people are easier to groom & exploit
the reason they oppose gender treatment for children is that they want children vulnerable, miserable, easy prey. this is also why they oppose giving them vaccines, educating them, and letting them have abortions. children are a natural underclass who they want to be able to harm at will
June 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is also historically why conservatives were opposed to any legislation that might allow gay people to be out in public. Marginalised people are easier to groom & exploit
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Love the Bruenigs
June 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Love the Bruenigs
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this is what Posting feels like
June 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
this is what Posting feels like
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imagining a mournful slowed-down version of Dog Police in a movie trailer
June 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
imagining a mournful slowed-down version of Dog Police in a movie trailer
What's worse is they don't seem to grasp that a world outside of the US even exists, much less the outsize impact the US has. The people the US kills and helps kill can be safely ignored so long as these permanent children can tune it out.
We were talking about voting in the US. Do pay attention.
June 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
What's worse is they don't seem to grasp that a world outside of the US even exists, much less the outsize impact the US has. The people the US kills and helps kill can be safely ignored so long as these permanent children can tune it out.
A lot of Americans have a very difficult time grasping the idea that their lives don't matter more or less than anyone else's
So which one harmed Americans the most?
And the other one helped Israel start a genocide
June 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A lot of Americans have a very difficult time grasping the idea that their lives don't matter more or less than anyone else's
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If you study the successful rebellions and resistance and civil rights movements of the past, you will note that “people who spend their time publicly bumming out everyone around them by emphasizing how totally fucked everything is” do not play a central role, or indeed, any role at all
June 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If you study the successful rebellions and resistance and civil rights movements of the past, you will note that “people who spend their time publicly bumming out everyone around them by emphasizing how totally fucked everything is” do not play a central role, or indeed, any role at all
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the shopkeeper tells me they have good fresh Conservative Intellectual
i ask if its Failed Theater Kid or Gaming Forum Guy
they say sir, this is high quality Conservative Intellectual
its Gaming Forum Guy
i ask if its Failed Theater Kid or Gaming Forum Guy
they say sir, this is high quality Conservative Intellectual
its Gaming Forum Guy
it's been a lot of fun watching Yarvin emerge into greater public scrutiny after years of being gassed up as this secret right wing mastermind, then he turns out to have the posting acumen of your average gen x reactionary that gets pre-internet mad at the slightest provocation.
June 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
the shopkeeper tells me they have good fresh Conservative Intellectual
i ask if its Failed Theater Kid or Gaming Forum Guy
they say sir, this is high quality Conservative Intellectual
its Gaming Forum Guy
i ask if its Failed Theater Kid or Gaming Forum Guy
they say sir, this is high quality Conservative Intellectual
its Gaming Forum Guy
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Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.
June 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.
Nauseating how liberals will crawl out of the woodwork to lecture people putting themselves in harm's way on "optics". Like sorry pal but the fact a lot of comfortable people don't want to log off and get involved is not their problem, because you'll always find some other excuse
June 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Nauseating how liberals will crawl out of the woodwork to lecture people putting themselves in harm's way on "optics". Like sorry pal but the fact a lot of comfortable people don't want to log off and get involved is not their problem, because you'll always find some other excuse
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These people have to account for the deep hatred and revulsion they feel when watching others act out of sincerity, courage and compassion. It threatens and bewilders them, so they must explain it away as something they recognise and understand: moral vapidity and self-absorption
June 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
These people have to account for the deep hatred and revulsion they feel when watching others act out of sincerity, courage and compassion. It threatens and bewilders them, so they must explain it away as something they recognise and understand: moral vapidity and self-absorption
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I’m taking over as the menswear guy. Men should rotate through the same four band t-shirts for 35 years. Replace the shirts with identical shirts if the holes in them get big or you get too fat for them
June 9, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I’m taking over as the menswear guy. Men should rotate through the same four band t-shirts for 35 years. Replace the shirts with identical shirts if the holes in them get big or you get too fat for them
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Reggie Watts addresses Thom Yorke’s statement on Palestine and it’s good
May 31, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Reggie Watts addresses Thom Yorke’s statement on Palestine and it’s good
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trans people are real and bathrooms and sports are made up. if you act like that's the other way around i do not have to hear your argument because it is based on a false premise
May 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
trans people are real and bathrooms and sports are made up. if you act like that's the other way around i do not have to hear your argument because it is based on a false premise
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The entire western political apparatus has been captured by neoliberalism’s true believers; people who earnestly valorise the imperatives of the capitalist free market over human flourishing. And they know what those imperatives demand, but are too cowardly to do it themselves. They *want* an out.
March 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The entire western political apparatus has been captured by neoliberalism’s true believers; people who earnestly valorise the imperatives of the capitalist free market over human flourishing. And they know what those imperatives demand, but are too cowardly to do it themselves. They *want* an out.
"Some say these anti-trans measures are only going to make all women less safe. But that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make in the name of women's safety"
"Packer is widely recognized as an icon of women’s sports. Yet not for the first time, Packer recently found herself being misgendered as a result of gender policing she believes is escalating in line with heightened anti-trans rhetoric."
www.outsports.com/2025/5/21/24...
www.outsports.com/2025/5/21/24...
PWHL hockey icon Madison Packer 'told to go to men’s restroom' - Outsports
After a 'humiliating' experience, Madison Packer calls bathroom policing a by-product of anti-trans propaganda.
www.outsports.com
May 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
"Some say these anti-trans measures are only going to make all women less safe. But that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make in the name of women's safety"