Green Eraser
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Green Eraser
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· Jun 30
Trifecta of restoring democracy:
- End Citizen's United / enact stricter campaign finance laws so politicians cannot be bought.
- Implement STAR Voting so people can safely vote for who they want, including 3rd parties.
- Expand voting rights to all citizens, including everybody under 18 and felons.
- End Citizen's United / enact stricter campaign finance laws so politicians cannot be bought.
- Implement STAR Voting so people can safely vote for who they want, including 3rd parties.
- Expand voting rights to all citizens, including everybody under 18 and felons.
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I'm not having a "debate over puberty blockers".
My position is that kids deserve access to the standard endocrine care for the gender they wish to live the rest of their lives as, full fucking stop.
My position is that kids deserve access to the standard endocrine care for the gender they wish to live the rest of their lives as, full fucking stop.
December 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I'm not having a "debate over puberty blockers".
My position is that kids deserve access to the standard endocrine care for the gender they wish to live the rest of their lives as, full fucking stop.
My position is that kids deserve access to the standard endocrine care for the gender they wish to live the rest of their lives as, full fucking stop.
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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Yes, absolutely this is what America believes. Children are possessions, not people, and the overwhelming culture is one of actively enforcing the idea that children have no bodily autonomy whatsoever
The running theme between the Epstein story, banning trans healthcare for minors, religious homeschooling and the complaints about adult children estranging themselves is a fundamental American belief that children are property with no rights of their own
America is a culture of child abuse. Ask any survivor - we find one another, we form networks and communities.
The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.
The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.
December 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Yes, absolutely this is what America believes. Children are possessions, not people, and the overwhelming culture is one of actively enforcing the idea that children have no bodily autonomy whatsoever
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The running theme between the Epstein story, banning trans healthcare for minors, religious homeschooling and the complaints about adult children estranging themselves is a fundamental American belief that children are property with no rights of their own
America is a culture of child abuse. Ask any survivor - we find one another, we form networks and communities.
The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.
The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.
Government of pedophiles. They're all tainted with this for the rest of their lives.
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The running theme between the Epstein story, banning trans healthcare for minors, religious homeschooling and the complaints about adult children estranging themselves is a fundamental American belief that children are property with no rights of their own
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We've been through it with light bulbs and seat belts and car seats and fossil fuel, et cetera and so forth. It's just exhausting dragging people kicking and screaming into any sort of progress.
December 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
We've been through it with light bulbs and seat belts and car seats and fossil fuel, et cetera and so forth. It's just exhausting dragging people kicking and screaming into any sort of progress.
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transphobia as a political project is about preserving authoritarian sexual control of children
December 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
transphobia as a political project is about preserving authoritarian sexual control of children
The first step in fixing this, in my opinion, is voting rights, which would allow young people into the conversation on every other issue that affects them.
the oppression of children runs so deep in our society that one of the primary ways that we disempower people is by assigning them child-adjacent status as adults. license to abuse flows from that
December 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The first step in fixing this, in my opinion, is voting rights, which would allow young people into the conversation on every other issue that affects them.
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all the fake AI trash really contradicts one of the main ways we're told capitalism operates, with capitalists identifying wants/needs & developing products & services to meet those. turns out you can skip that step & just pretend. nigh everyone hates AI and it makes no money but it's everywhere
December 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
all the fake AI trash really contradicts one of the main ways we're told capitalism operates, with capitalists identifying wants/needs & developing products & services to meet those. turns out you can skip that step & just pretend. nigh everyone hates AI and it makes no money but it's everywhere
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Really gives the game away about all phone and internet bans for kids if all the other arguments hadn't already.
Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz says Jewish students shouldn’t have smartphones until they finish high school — so they don’t see the “carnage” Israel and the U.S. have carried out in Gaza.
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Really gives the game away about all phone and internet bans for kids if all the other arguments hadn't already.
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that whole 'this country isn't ready for a woman president' line is really upsetting because it shows exactly how neoliberalism works, redirecting blame from issues of policy (or lack thereof) onto a flattened, vague type of sexism in a way that ultimately doesn't even challenge sexism!
November 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
that whole 'this country isn't ready for a woman president' line is really upsetting because it shows exactly how neoliberalism works, redirecting blame from issues of policy (or lack thereof) onto a flattened, vague type of sexism in a way that ultimately doesn't even challenge sexism!
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Like I am dead serious I do think a 13 year old should be able to tell the doctor, “My parents think “sluts deserve cancer” and that if your husband cheats on you it’s your own fault, don’t listen to them, give me the hpv vaccine”
November 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Like I am dead serious I do think a 13 year old should be able to tell the doctor, “My parents think “sluts deserve cancer” and that if your husband cheats on you it’s your own fault, don’t listen to them, give me the hpv vaccine”
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Raising children should be decentralized and community-driven. Parents should not have total control over the lives of their kids, especially when it comes to what they are allowed to learn about. More positive, trusted adult role models could intervene in situations of abuse/neglect
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Raising children should be decentralized and community-driven. Parents should not have total control over the lives of their kids, especially when it comes to what they are allowed to learn about. More positive, trusted adult role models could intervene in situations of abuse/neglect
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The recent policy change which makes it impossible for young trans people to delay puberty, at great cost to their mental health, has a special caveat to allow cross-sex hormones to be used on intersex children even contrary to their wishes, at great cost to their mental health.
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The recent policy change which makes it impossible for young trans people to delay puberty, at great cost to their mental health, has a special caveat to allow cross-sex hormones to be used on intersex children even contrary to their wishes, at great cost to their mental health.
Dick Cheney's torture program included "beating, binding in contorted stress positions, hooding, subjection to deafening noise, sleep disruption, sleep deprivation to the point of hallucination, deprivation of food, drink, and medical care for wounds, as well as waterboarding...
November 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Dick Cheney's torture program included "beating, binding in contorted stress positions, hooding, subjection to deafening noise, sleep disruption, sleep deprivation to the point of hallucination, deprivation of food, drink, and medical care for wounds, as well as waterboarding...
There’s an issue where when someone makes a fact-based statement on social media, I’m more hesitant to like it because a like feels like a stamp of approval that the facts are correct, which takes effort to verify.
November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
There’s an issue where when someone makes a fact-based statement on social media, I’m more hesitant to like it because a like feels like a stamp of approval that the facts are correct, which takes effort to verify.
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"far too many who see themselves as progressive LGBTQ 'allies' have been far too fearful of further offending the perpetually offended 'parents’ rights' crowd to prove themselves proactive advocates for these vulnerable and oppressed young people."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-ju...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-ju...
Don’t Just “Protect” Trans Youth, Actually Support Them
A right-wing “parents’ rights” movement is sweeping the country, and its ramifications for young people and LGBTQ people have already proven disastrous. So why are so many on the left repeating their ...
www.currentaffairs.org
October 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"far too many who see themselves as progressive LGBTQ 'allies' have been far too fearful of further offending the perpetually offended 'parents’ rights' crowd to prove themselves proactive advocates for these vulnerable and oppressed young people."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-ju...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-ju...
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It's ridiculous that children don't get a say in who gets to raise them and make medical and financial decisions for them.
It's also ridiculous that only certain types of abuse and neglect are taken seriously, even if the child asks for help.
It's also ridiculous that only certain types of abuse and neglect are taken seriously, even if the child asks for help.
October 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
It's ridiculous that children don't get a say in who gets to raise them and make medical and financial decisions for them.
It's also ridiculous that only certain types of abuse and neglect are taken seriously, even if the child asks for help.
It's also ridiculous that only certain types of abuse and neglect are taken seriously, even if the child asks for help.
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i think it's insane that if a child is subject to abuse, they *have* to wait it out until they're at a minimum 16 in most countries
i also think it's insane that, in most countries, child protective services are sincerely useless
i also think it's insane that, in most countries, child protective services are sincerely useless
October 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
i think it's insane that if a child is subject to abuse, they *have* to wait it out until they're at a minimum 16 in most countries
i also think it's insane that, in most countries, child protective services are sincerely useless
i also think it's insane that, in most countries, child protective services are sincerely useless
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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Students were eating lunch when they heard the gunshots. It’s yet another horrific school shooting, and every time my heart breaks for the kids, parents, and communities shattered by gun violence.
We can’t stop demanding change. Congress can and must pass gun safety legislation.
We can’t stop demanding change. Congress can and must pass gun safety legislation.
Shooting at Evergreen High School in Colorado leaves several students hurt; suspect among those injured
Three students were critically wounded on Wednesday in a shooting at Evergreen High School in the Colorado foothills. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says one of those students is the shooting s...
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September 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Students were eating lunch when they heard the gunshots. It’s yet another horrific school shooting, and every time my heart breaks for the kids, parents, and communities shattered by gun violence.
We can’t stop demanding change. Congress can and must pass gun safety legislation.
We can’t stop demanding change. Congress can and must pass gun safety legislation.
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i enjoyed one columnist’s “takedown” of ubi that said “why would anyone clean toilets?” and never quite got around to the thought that maybe cleaners would have to be valued more than they are to entice them to work, whereas columnists such as them could stand to take a pay cut to pay for that
There’s a pervasive (classist) view among people that someone working in the manual trades should never earn as much as an office worker. Which is why you get people aghast like “how can a tube driver earn more than me, a mid level marketing executive???”
September 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
i enjoyed one columnist’s “takedown” of ubi that said “why would anyone clean toilets?” and never quite got around to the thought that maybe cleaners would have to be valued more than they are to entice them to work, whereas columnists such as them could stand to take a pay cut to pay for that
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As the person who ends up being responsible for treating the negative effects of drug use and worst outcomes from drugs, I endorse this skeet with my whole chest. Even if you are opposed to drug use, prohibition makes drugs less safe & doesn’t decrease drug use, so do you just want people to suffer?
We should allow people to use drugs just for the reason that many recreational drugs are fun and can be safely consumed
I wish these people would just admit they like doing drugs. Rick Perry tripping on hallucinogens for 12 hrs on a mattress in Tijuana for repressed childhood anxiety is not medical. It’s doing drugs. There’s no good evidence it has ever worked to treat any condition. They’re also trying to profiteer…
August 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
As the person who ends up being responsible for treating the negative effects of drug use and worst outcomes from drugs, I endorse this skeet with my whole chest. Even if you are opposed to drug use, prohibition makes drugs less safe & doesn’t decrease drug use, so do you just want people to suffer?
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100% this
'it's a distraction' feels like shorthand for 'it's not important to ME'
'it's a distraction' feels like shorthand for 'it's not important to ME'
August 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
100% this
'it's a distraction' feels like shorthand for 'it's not important to ME'
'it's a distraction' feels like shorthand for 'it's not important to ME'
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Parents will say “I’ll do anything for my kids” until that thing is making society better for them
One thing I feel like I fundamentally misunderstood is how many people see social progress as threatening, especially if it’s driven by young people.
I genuinely thought that they meant it when they said they wanted a better society for the next generation. And it’s so clear that isn’t really true.
I genuinely thought that they meant it when they said they wanted a better society for the next generation. And it’s so clear that isn’t really true.
August 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Parents will say “I’ll do anything for my kids” until that thing is making society better for them