nickiwest @ nickiwest @lemmy.world

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I am so sorry that happened to you and that the place where you turned for help just added to your trauma.

Unless things have changed significantly at the border in the past few years, there's no process to leave the US. It's just the Canadian border guard checking things as you enter their country.

Of course, if the GOP decides to fully enact Operation: Handmaid's Tale, then that could change.

There is a presumption from conservative/fascist women that they occupy a position of hierarchy over non-fascist/non-conservative women. That by virtue of supporting fascism and patriarchy that fascist men will afford them personhood. They don't believe in any of the assertions of feminism. They instead believe that women who suffer at the hands of men simply deserve it. That all women are judged in some kind of meritocracy, where belief in fascism and support of fascists itself is a determining factor of merit.

This may be true for some women, maybe in the "tradwife" and white supremacist circles. But if, as you say, it's critical to understand what these women think, you have to understand that they are not a monolith. There are other motivations to consider.

I was raised in a fundamentalist, evangelical church. Within that community, there was no presumption of a hierarchical position over other women. There was only our god-given position to be subservient to our fathers, and later, our husbands. We could either obey the divine plan to someday reach heaven or disobey it and be resigned to hell. There was no in-between.

Now, a reasonable person would see this as patently ridiculous. But the problem is that reason has no place in this worldview. You doggedly follow a literal interpretation of the King James Bible, or you go to hell.

Many years ago, when I was 16, I had asked for a particular privilege. And my mother agreed to grant it if I would listen to some audio tapes that she had of a series of sermons from a woman. Now, that was unusual in itself, because women are not allowed to teach men within fundamentalist churches (Because The Bible Says So™). So this was definitely a teaching that was only meant for women. What I heard was horrifying.

The entire point of this sermon series was to teach women how to be good, submissive Christian wives. The lesson of one tape was literally that if your husband commanded you to commit murder, you would have to do it, because God put him in charge of you and your duty to God was simply to follow orders from your husband.

A woman would not be judged for breaking a commandment if she followed the direction of her husband. The husband would be punished for causing someone to break God's commandments, but the wife would be spared because she was simply doing her duty as a wife to follow what her husband said.

Women's agency is completely removed in this scenario. Which sounds exactly like what the men described in the article want.

Again, the problem here is that reason has no purchase in this worldview. No amount of evidence or argument is going to change their minds or magically give them a sense of agency.

Making sure that women have very little self-respect is one of the primary functions of American Evangelicalism.

All samples were negative for common hemorrhagic fever diseases, although some tested positive for malaria.

Looks like at minimum, it's a strain of Ebola that's different enough not to register on a test.

I think at this point, the Boomers have gone all in on "We brought you into this world, and we can take you out of it."

As a generation, they have never cared about anyone but themselves. They seized financial and political power early, and they won't let go until we pry it out of their cold, dead hands.

But their numbers are dwindling now, and I think we might finally be at a point where -- if the other generations band together -- we can finally take their political power for ourselves.

Remember when Barack Obama wore a tan suit? Remember when he ordered a hamburger with spicy mustard?

If he had ignored federal judges' orders, the entire staff of Fox News would have had a stroke.

I'm in Colombia. My local grocery store has them for 23 mil pesos ($5.58 USD at today's exchange rate) for 30 eggs. That comes out to $2.38 USD per dozen.

The tienda by my home has them cheaper, but I can't check their prices online to verify the exact cost.

I didn't see "free" mentioned anywhere.

My guess is that these "wellness farms" will be just as costly to patients as traditional rehab programs, but at the same time the patients will be expected to do physical labor on the farms.

They'll literally be paying to work there. Isn't that the ultimate end-stage capitalist dream?

It was only lupus the one time.

Don't forget how hard it is to pay other people to play video games for you so you can call yourself an "elite" gamer.

The Colombian one is pretty accurate, but it should probably have bacon on it, too.

This really makes me wonder how much Hawley has invested in American AI companies.

If you're actually curious about this, Elaine Pagels has a really great book about this. The book of Revelation was just a thinly-veiled series of jabs at specific people and the politics of the time.

Her interpretation is that it would have been blatantly obvious to John's contemporaries, but it's opaque to us now because we're so far removed from that time period.

I live in Latin America, and most of the people I talk to consider themselves to be white.

Race doesn't have a valid scientific basis, so I guess it's one of those "eye of the beholder" things. But I doubt that the MAGA crew would look at your average Colombian or Venezuelan and think, "Oh, yeah, that person is on our team."

Username checks out along with the math.

I'm sorry that was your experience. I'm sure it was hard, but I'm glad you made the choice that means you're still here to tell your story.

And people don't seem to notice that more people came out after they could live authentically and do other jobs.

All of this Boomer nonsense about "There were no trans people in my day."

No, grandpa, they were just too afraid to let you know it, so they lived quietly miserable lives with a socially acceptable spouse and 2.5 kids.

Every time that a conservative equates the mere existence of trans people with sex, they're just outing their own kink.

He got an entire art supply empire with franchises that sold painting courses (and maybe still do?).

I think he also got screwed out of most of the proceeds and possibly even the use of his own name because he had a shady business partner.