From @acxn.bsky.social
Is it a Coup? www.liberalcurrents.com/is-it-a-coup...

Sorry for my perversion though

It's a bunch of settler colonies with birthright citizenship and a high concentration of presidential systems. The history of nearly every American country is a story of natives, settlers, and the Metropole, plus in many of the countries African slaves.

I also have had Mexicans using estadounidense with me because they are afraid I'll be offended by gringo, which is actually pejorative.

Sure and I'm sure it's annoying to be demanded to say anything, but I'm from the US, sometimes call myself USian, and think of it like latinx: a deliberate effort to open new social possibilities through language. So I find the backlash overwrought

I don't really understand the framing of this as pejorative or derogatory or see why the diversity of the US has anything to do with it? I use USians sometimes when I'm distinguishing from the broader population of the Americas, and I think it's useful to think about a broad American identity

Of course we all know what she's saying because these words are all just pointing to the real argument which is Palestinians are Muslims who are evil, but it's worth pointing out that she cannot string together a sentence to put some kind of logical face on this argument

Read practice.

I think everything Pratchett had to say about *gender* can be summarized in the scene when Polly is among the washerwomen and one of them says "dressing as a man is an affront to Nuggin" and Polly says "but I'm dressed like a girl!" Truly truly it is all in the socks.

Don't we give them Western values in exchange for the oil?

I'd love to know how many self-identified stans (of anyone) are frequent voters. My initial guess is fewer compared with their age cohort but maybe I'm wrong and making fancams and going to the polls require the same kinds of motivation. Or maybe the fancam makers vote and the reposters don't

This has become a very salient dimension of our politics: do you think designing institutions is hard or do you think that everyone who came before you is just evil? If the only problem with progressive era mental hospitals is those people were bad and you are good, it's fine to recreate them

My proposed solution is the new movie "reveals" that the James Bond of every other movie was actually a white-passing black man who has now decided to live openly. So now the whole team at MI6 is reckoning with the fact that the bond they thought was white is black. Starring Idris Elba.