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this is a key point. various elite centrists and liberals have become radically pilled on transphobia (likely on Vichy Twitter) and joined the right-wing exterminationist crusade
But now we come to an equally vital issue, one which practically merits an essay of its own: the fact that committed, passionately ideological transphobia is, at present, almost exclusively an obsession of political and media elites. The seizure on the New York Times’ brief gloss of the Future Forward report was the result of wishcasting on the part of this group, many of whom have been sealing themselves up in a closed loop of extremely online life. An oubliette of their own making where trans people loom large in their demonology of the world. The fact is that most Americans are not on Twitter. But much of the media, a shocking number of billionaires, and most of our political class are. On such open social media platforms one is far more likely to be exposed to the bleeding edge of esoteric discourses from and about very small communities—including transgender people. If ordinary voters don’t care too much about us, it’s because they don’t interact with us regularly, recall. But someone like David Shor, Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein, or Marc Andreesen is likely seeing people with trans flags in their usernames troll them and spoonerise their names on a fairly regular basis. It’s a simple matter of perception: we’re prone to overindex on those things we experience frequently. The classic bubble.
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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ddayen.bsky.social
The last time these right wingers took control of any part of Venezuela they funneled $30 billion out of the Treasury and immiserated the country.
prospect.org/2025/11/26/3...
The $30 Billion Identity Theft of Venezuela - The American Prospect
How Juan Guaidó sucked a weary nation dry, and primed it for the current U.S.-led assault
prospect.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM