HopeOfTheGunblade @ HopeOfTheGunblade @kbin.social

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Where, by "bend the knee" you mean "never have to interact with it in any way," but nah, you go off, fam. Row row fight the powah!

And that's why, despite there being a hundred years of research on trans people, nazis today still call gender affirming care "experimental". They burned the research once and they'll do it again, if we let them.

Hey, it's absolutely democratic! One dollar, one vote!

We are the dumbest apes capable of building a technological civilization.

Look, I know it's a big ask, but can y'all please spirit our problems away?

Yeah, it's both. Final answer.

No, see, it's like an inverted pyramid, and the little our overlords permit us of the product of our labor trickles down to them, you see.

Yeah, if you've been around long enough the arguments are the same.

Hey, that's not fair. They had authority figures tell them to be afraid and hateful, they aren't waiting on it anymore.

Nick Fuentes is not an old dog. Or Shapiro, or Walsh, or Owens, or desantis, or ramaswamy.... not all red teamers are old. Seriously, this is just bad thinking that's been around since at least the 60s, it's been two solid generations and somehow all the old people still haven't died!

Well, probably not so much now.

In theory, I don't give a shit, consenting adults and all that.

In practice, they're complete pig rectums to everyone else about their sex lives so I'm not really invested in defending them. Got people at a higher priority to back.

And why is that? Well, because there are a few democrats who are soft-to-shit on that, and an entire fucking party whose whole deal is "Let them eat cake" at best. And somehow this is always the democrats fault. Always.

Joe, "If you pay more in taxes nothing will fundamentally change," to a room full of rich assholes Biden, yes.

Americans have been trained into thinking that anything two steps to the left of, "hunting the homeless for sport" is "extreme" and "radical", and those are scary. We also have "communism" and "socialism" as thought terminating cliches. They don't actually mean anything, but once a pol says them people can turn off all their higher brain functions and run "frothing rage".

Reactionaries gonna react.

Sir SIC theme plays

Huh, not one single person with any power to do anything. Why exactly should I care, when the people who could do something have repeatedly and explicitly said they ain't gonna?

Right, this is the one who got into an argument with Boebert about which of them got to file impeachment charges. And, somehow, both of them got reelected after their first term where they were... them.

Right, and you're just going to completely ignore that they made that opening remain open until their guy could nominate the judge they wanted because of a rule they made up that they completely trashed a few years later. Yeah okay.

Also who exactly is talking about adding seats? Citations needed.

"I always hated the speeches when I was in school, the preaching in auditoriums, the one-note message.
Stuff like saying drugs are bad. It's wrong. Drugs are fantastic."
"Um," Fox-mask said.
Mrs. Yamada was glaring at me, but she hadn't interrupted.
"People wouldn't do them if they weren't. They make you feel good, make your day brighter, give you
energy-"
"Weaver," Mrs. Yamada cut in.
"-until they don't," I said. "People hear the message that drugs are bad, that they'll ruin your life if you
do them once. And then you find out that isn't exactly true because your friends did it and turned out
okay, or you wind up trying something and you're fine. So you try them, try them again. It isn't a
mind-shattering moment of horrible when you try that first drug. Or so I hear. It's subtle, it creeps up
on you, and you never really get a good, convincing reason to stop before it ruins your life beyond
comprehension. I never went down that road, but I knew a fair number of people who did. People who
worked for me, when I was a supervillain."
I had their attention now, at least.

Yes. We should absolutely tell kids that drugs are fun. Along with all the rest. DARE programs are linked with higher drug usage, because they lie and keep the truth from kids, and they kids test what they were taught, find out it was lies, and don't trust anything else from the program. Hiding reality from people does not make them better equipped for reality.