(sorry, realizing now this was a tangent and not actually aligned with your point)

I think about how the two queer people in my hometown were implied to be pedophiles to me constantly when I was a child. And now as an adult I've learned about all the *actual* pedophiles and rapists that were around, but were never talked about, because they were upstanding members of the community

We have reached a verdict: Not guilty.

We have a word to describe people who are very sanctimonious when talking about their enemies' racism, but get aggressive and confrontational when anybody mentions their allies' racism.

And that word is "racist".

eat shit

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16's writing for its women characters was just flat out unacceptable, with Benedikta's being particularly egregious. After finishing the game and looking back at the whole experience, I wished I hadn't played it at all.

I wasn't sure if I was claustrophobic before I had one a few years ago. Turns out it definitely bothers me!

This is a horrendously stupid take.

The outpouring of support from readers & colleagues is overwhelming. I can't imagine them coming together like this for a "problematic" trans woman even five years ago. If you want to help me make up the lost income from comics work, you can subscribe to my Patreon.

www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...

You cannot kill me in a way that matters.

I regret nothing, I don't apologize, kiss my ass.

I quit a bad startup job last November (~90% turnover of the eng dept over the 18 months I worked there) and am still looking. 12 YOE, Senior Eng, shit sucks. Really over the whole industry at this point tbh.

God, yes, that too. Oh, I guess Pete did that last year already.

"who they do agree with that they feel like they have to walk on eggshells around constantly because they’re going to be judged or ostracized or excommunicated,” Hogg said Friday during an appearance on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

He and Hogg sound like they're reading from the same script.

thehill.com/homenews/cam...

“What I think happened last election is younger men, they would rather vote for somebody … who they don’t completely agree with — [that] they don’t feel judged by — than somebody" (cont)

Maybe at worst vaguely centrist. I'm not sure whether they were just much more right wing than I thought and just hid it well, or if this is a case of the normies being absolutely bamboozled by the right wing disinfo machine and really doing the most with it.

I am sort of surprised at the number of IG accounts I've run across having an absolute meltdown about him, some to the point of posting full on memorials. I'm talking about accounts I either followed or at least was familiar with that I had generally clocked as politically inoffensive