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@CaHSRA And I guess those jobs are forever since you’re never going to finish the project.

California High-Speed Rail is creating good-paying jobs for hardworking members of the trades. 🛠️16,000+ jobs created 🏗️1,600+ daily-workers dispatched These jobs mean steady, mortgage-paying careers for thousands of Californian families. #BuildHSR

@SenWarren Interesting that a former constitutional law professor doesn’t anticipate any issues with a wealth tax when it took an amendment to institute an income tax. It’s almost like you know damn well this isn’t going to work, and you’re just virtue signaling to your idiot fans.

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

@clockworkwhale @wesyang The first few seasons of L&O were much grittier than what the show became. As an example, S. Epatha Merkerson’s first role on it was as the mother of an infant killed in a random, senseless shooting. It wasn’t any less compelling then; I’d argue it was more so.

@wesyang tbh I think there's a practical storytelling element to it as well depicting the reality of underclass crime wouldn't be entertaining, it'd just be sad and revolting and depressing stories about stupid disordered people abusing each other for incoherent reasons

The conundrum here is that the overwhelmingly black population subject to the criminal justice system is what lends (superficial) credence to the (false) “New Jim Crow” narrative at the foundation of the decarceration movement — but a realistic portrayal of it would be shocking even to the liberals whose votes support decarceral agendas. It would either have to be New Jim Crow agitprop that would fail dramatically and be non-credible or an actual depiction of what decarceration is actually doing (unleashing criminals with dozens of prior arrests until they finally kill). Thus the manufacture of white criminals.

@AlexVagari @Howlingmutant0 For as pro-trans as Reddit is, the porn subs have held the line for a long time. Now gooners might have reason to turn transphobic.

@Howlingmutant0 The implication of this is fucking hilarious. Shit fetishists are sitting there gooning to women taking a shit and then suddenly there is a man taking a shit instead. 🤣🤣

This is why you gatekeep

@77_steeze @The_Fact_Facer Not giving space to the audience to figure it out on their own betrays contempt for them (they might interpret it wrong!) which feels left coded in current day.

Yeah. What I’m saying though is that, as left wing art became increasingly prescriptive and didactic, ‘openness to interpretation’ became right-coded. And so, artists who don’t necessarily have overt political intentions and just want to create absurd or open-ended things can be labelled “right” simply for not aiming to amplify “left” concerns

If David Lynch is right wing (true), is Ween right wing whether they like it or not?

@BigDumSirk @owenbroadcast There’s also the horrific way they get their young accustomed to eating eucalyptus.

@owenbroadcast honestly, the more you learn and see about koalas the less endearing they become. All their weird orc grunting, gross double-penis, and koala male-pattern baldness, then stories of them getting drunk on eucalyptus & falling out of trees becomes less silly and more sad...

went to the zoo. saw a koala. it occurs to me i have only seen them in media, never in real life. very misrepresented. they are gremlins. shoving leaves into its mouth. shoving. crunching. shove. crunch. with its dead eyes. i am largely shielded from the darker side of nature

@Janedoeordont @PascaleD76079 @RoisinMichaux You’re arguing with a man pretending to be a woman. Of course he thinks the gynecologist should be suspended for telling the truth.

@PascaleD76079 @RoisinMichaux How is it « transphobic » to state that the patient was not female ? Is reality « transphobic »? « Transphobia » is a get out of jail free card for narcissists. Anything and everything goes…

So the same French NGO that reported a gynaecologist for not treating a man pretending to be a woman (the doctor got suspended) backed out of joining as a civil party in case of a homophobic gang rape because it would go against their values: the rapists were immigrants with deportation orders. The NGO had even been planning to fund the case until they found out about the rapists’ immigration status. @SOShomophobie

@LauraSuckling2 @wesyang @Chris_C_Horner

@wesyang @Chris_C_Horner Sometimes, I feel the need to say “ladies have a funny & men have a willie”. Not to a three year old but to a fucking grown up!

"Her penis" went from being Ricky Gervais punchline to compulsory across all newsroom style guides in just a few years. There is no reductio ad absurdum that isn't endorsed as doxa within a few years.

@sqibkw @wesyang I don’t remember his name, otherwise I’d link to him, but one of the more prolific posters to Newsom’s X account is a very embarrassing gay guy.

@wesyang Is that a hunch or do we know who that is?

A gay underling came up with and is executing this strategy

@goyjoydestroy @Slatzism One of the Reddit trans subs conducted a poll years ago, and they were grossly overrepresented, like two-thirds, IIRC.

@Slatzism How many troons are dudes with micros? Gotta be a high percentage

a troon musician posted an uncensored photo of his dick and balls on instagram and the discourse is predictably hilarious

@obsolutdisgrace @wesyang @redsteeze He recently starred as Anne Boleyn in the musical Six.

@wesyang @redsteeze What ever happened to Mulvaney? Did he come back around yet?

Flashback to Nike entering into a partnership with Dylan Mulvaney *soon after* the Bud Light debacle. "Marketing experts" assured us that doubling down was the right thing to do.

@MollyRomping @allen_bragg @wesyang Fashion has long expressed contempt for women. Our bodies are an annoying imposition on their artistic vision. I see it as a skill issue. If they were actually good at designing beautiful clothes, they could do it for women and not just starving men.

@allen_bragg @wesyang A lot of brands use trans males to model women's clothes. I don't get it. Women don't want to look like men, not even pretty men.

@banisheddime @plzbepatient It stands to reason that Starfleet has to use money to trade with other civilizations. That said, the idea of a moneyless civilization is absurd especially if it’s highly technologically advanced.

@plzbepatient Is it that the precepts of Federation culture are inconsistent or that sometimes the scripts which make up that culture suffer from lazy/bad writing? As many have noted before, Starfleet either does or does not use money depending on what the script requires of the episode 🤷

Watched STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT (1996) last night. A few funny aspects relative to today. Cochrane’s entire motive for developing warp drive was to get rich, not bring about fully automated luxury communism (which I guess was a nice side effect in the context of the story). The Federation had no qualms about exploring and colonizing the galaxy, although they did try to respect the Prime Directive. They expand and explore, not trying to live a life of asceticism in service of “equality.” Leftists of today are at their heart degrowth. Any libtard who is like “umm actually space is bad, tech is bad, just gibs money to poors, it’s the Star Trek way” doesn’t understand the conditions under which these things develop in their fictional universe. If eliminating war and poverty and disease is your goal, you need to create conditions where our current economics are irrelevant, and some people may have to get rich along the way there. “The ideology is just window dressing” is and always has been correct with them.

@docbadvibes_ @banisheddime @plzbepatient I unironically believe Roddenberry pulling back due to health issues was the best thing to happen to ST:TNG. The first season in particular was too similar to the original series which was too hokey for the late ‘80s.

@banisheddime @plzbepatient Gene Roddenbury felt like he got stepped on while making the movies, so when TNG started he had strict rules for scripts like "no interpersonal conflicts" that made hard for writers to do anything It was kind of inevitable that they'd walk his world building back with time

@Hammerjack90 @YesternightPost @DrewPavlou @MaxNordau A girl around my age was kidnapped from her home in ‘93. My batshit, low IQ stepmother was convinced the girl was kidnapped by Satanists. She was found dead weeks later, killed by a repeat offender with typical antisocial inclinations and no ties to Satanism.

@YesternightPost @DrewPavlou @MaxNordau The first of the modern age. Unless you were there, you really don’t know how much of a grip that had on the public consciousness—and the absolutely bat-guano stuff that people believed had happened.

This is just retarded and if you believe shit like this you should feel bad about yourself.

@loganclarkhall @plzbepatient When I lived in NYC, the problem wasn’t even a tenth as bad. I cannot overstate how much I loathe this third world shit.

Literally no other way to describe this except as a crime against civilization itself.

@fictionaljo @thatbloodybird @Slatzism

@Erika_Olsen @thatbloodybird @Slatzism Aye?

@fictionaljo @thatbloodybird @Slatzism Trans teflon

@thatbloodybird @Slatzism Right??? Make it make sense 🤦🏻‍♀️

"These tests that the IOC and a lot of sports federations are now presenting as new, non-invasive, cutting-edge technology. They have literally used these before and found that they were, on one hand, inaccurate in creating these false positives, and on the other hand, just in violation of people’s human rights.” motherjones.com/politics/2026/…

@wesyang She’s willing to break the taboo because she’s a Republican.

A Democratic candidate running to replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress answers a question about whether “trans women are women” forthrightly, honestly, and correctly. The question is not why Hurabiel is willing to break this ridiculous taboo but why everyone else abruptly began observing it a decade ago with no deliberation or debate. (The answer is not: “we learned something that was true.”)