The Conquest of Churu
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The Conquest of Churu
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sewer anarchism with liberal characteristics
can only afford semi-pro nouns
she/her
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I think the cognitive error here is what I am going to call - from A Man for All Seasons - the 'This Isn't Spain!' fallacy: the assumption that some special forcefield enforces the regularity of your country's politics, so that things that happen elsewhere 'cannot happen here.'
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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At 10 over 75? Non-zero chance his 'trial' is a note read aloud next to a burn pit.

You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?

There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The subtext of the Torre piece on her is she was (nonsexually) abused by the same coach, internalized it as what it takes to become a champion, failed miserably anyway, and took it all out on the trans woman for existing.
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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this is correct!

she speaks kindly of him in her book, calling him a "best friend"
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM