It's like people have already forgotten that a few weeks ago, hit pieces were using fatphobia and racism against him. There was skepticism that he was electable. 26 billionaires threw money at stopping it. A wave of marketing tried to stop it. It won anyway.

Yeah this is a good thing. More and more people are noticing who are accurately making political predictions and it definitely hasn't been the center or right.

Exactly. Just get it over with. This shouldn't have been allowed to happen, but it did because our entire political economy sucks, so the only way out is through.

Yup, there's a show version on AppleTV. About a robot in a corporate dystopia that becomes sentient and just wants to watch soap operas (... and maybe ends up finding some anti-corporate friends along the way). Pos queer rep. Quick episodes. Bingeable.

Murderbot was quite (bitter)sweet and funny.

It might be naive of me, but it also feels like we're starting to feel a cross-sectarian vibe among the far left with a "throw spaghetti on the wall and see what sticks" vibe as the counter-reaction... which actually feels a bit hopeful. An attitude of building parallel movements/structures.

Especially when you consider the wide range of independent creative media out there that doesn't get funding and huge platforms for telling truly diverse queer stories. The talent is out there, but it doesn't get the spotlight.

There's a lot of knee-jerk "X means Y is bad" assumptions when really a lot of media criticism is just asking to notice patterns and think about how stories get made and what stories get told. I get you.

AND how many of those people seem to be isolated Americans, as opposed to trans people living in safer countries. To be clear. Very vocal Americans espousing liberal incrementalism or insisting that certain trans people have "victim mentality," as opposed to how human rights is understood elsewhere.

And it is very troubling to me how much the latter dictates politics to the former online.

Something else to unpack is that the life experiences of trans people living in hostile regions and/or who made it out is drastically different from those that have always lived in regions where trans rights and medical access are the norm.

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Perhaps they were just waiting for anything from the Republicans to make it look more palatable. Seems there was some discontent over who would take the fall for this.

Just another sign of an old crusty government structure that was never meant to govern over 340+ million people. Even if you somehow put in a parliamentary style election trigger, such a federal election would be massively expensive and slow. Can't express how much simpler voting in Canada is.

I've had to move around a lot and one of the aspects of that is sadly leaving behind favourite food places and to this day I am haunted by a lemongrass tofu bahn mi I used to have all the time 10 years ago.