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The South Carolina Senate just invoked cloture on the second reading of the bill to redraw the state's congressional map. Republicans are on the verge of their 17th nominal redistricting pickup of the cycle. Not all of these seats are going to flip in November. Democrats are favored to hold OH-1 and TX-28, for example. But many of these seats are essentially guaranteed to flip.

Never be ashamed to call yourself a reactionary. We've seen what they call "Progress."

Almost seven years clean and sober. Not a victory lap. Just a fact. To anyone in the fight right now: it gets quieter. Not easier. Quieter. In the quiet, you find out who you actually are. That’s the part they can’t take from you.

I wrote this the last time you freaks got mad at anime depicting disabled people being worthy of love, but didn't post it, so enjoy (1/3): The phrase "Men want to be needed" can come off as sinister, if you're predisposed to paranoia or if your brain has been primed to be paranoid by decades of propaganda. Because what that phrase turns into, in the mind of a person like that, is "Men want to be depended on" Which sounds like a distinction without a difference but it isn't. The propaganda that comes from people who's brains have been melted by True Crime documentaries, present the natural and wholesome desire that all good, well-raised and well-adjusted men have that makes them feel the need to provide value for others, as the desire to keep others, specifically women, as dependent on them for everything and thus unable to escape them. I discussed at great length how independence is a myth in another piece. You are always relying, have relied and always will rely on another person to some extent, and it is not in total atomisation but in correctly selecting who to rely on and to what extent that you find true happiness, so I'll focus on the other side of this here. There's an old, I think Tumblr, post where the OP described overhearing two men talking, where a skinny guy describes the reason why he wants to become jacked. The reason being that he wants to be "the guy" that people call to move stuff, like if you need help moving a fridge, your friend will go "Oh don't call a mover, I'll just call my friend, Larry, and he'll do it." Without realising it, the man in the story, and the poster, captured the essence of true masculinity in this story. True masculinity is the desire to "be the guy" that people go to, for whatever your chosen skill is. "Being the man" doesn't mean having a beard or having muscles or wearing a suit and trousers instead of a skirt, "Being THE man" means "Being the man that people go to for a service." "Men want to be needed" is therefore a mistake, it is more "Men need to provide." It is not that men need to be relied upon, it is that men need to be useful. This is the essence of Chivalry. It is not that the lady can't open the door for themselves, it is not that they are frail and weak and lack the agency to open their own doors, it is that they shouldn't have to and that the (capital M) Man is there to provide the service of opening the door. And importantly, the door that the lady points to. "A man may be the head of the house, but a woman is the neck and she can turn the head any way she wants. " Whatever skill or service a man may excel at, be it plumbing, DIY, woodworking, textiles and sewing, beekeeping, interior decorating, painting, masonry, surgery, when a man is called upon to perform the task he excels at and does well and is rewarded, whether financially or socially, for at least a few minutes, that man is in heaven.

Anyone who doesn’t stand with Hasan is an enemy. This is a fascist regime, either you fight them now or just capitulate.

You’re either MAGA or the enemy. There is no in between.

AOC says Democrats should respond to SCOTUS weakening the VRA by doing their own redistricting until a national gerrymander ban passes

🚨 Louisiana Democrats introduced a bill to ban bestiality. 10 Republicans voted against it.

When you think in terms of the Kardashev scale, it becomes obvious that the Sun is the most overwhelming source of energy