Yeah, same. Outside of this meme, whenever I see "J. K. Rowling said...", I just don't bother to read it. Because why would I devote any of my brain real estate to her putrid TERFy thoughts?

i choose to think about her as little as possible because shes a genuinely ghastly figure to me. she's the literary peter thiel

:( Oh that is disappointing... Hoping you can get it sooner rather than later!

Update: he said i have to get a psych note before I can get the surgery. Really annoying and probably going to add a lot more waiting time before I can actually get the procedure done, kind of bummed out about the whole thing. Oh well.

i appreciate it <3

i think to be a democrat you have to never acknowledge your own mortality

this is the funniest comment about this news i've seen across the entire internet today

either that or he refused to get exams

given his age and position its fucking insane that his doctors weren't monitoring him like hawks for prostate cancer metastasis. nearly all men have prostate cancer past 80 and to some extent that's fine - most die from other causes before they're really affected - but once it leaves the prostate for other organs that's when the risk of dying from cancer specifically goes way up. i'm surprised they weren't more diligent about biopsying cells and analysing them for their potential to spread. maybe they thought he didn't have much time left anyway?

hope this won't impact his 2028 bid

i forgot to read the article and might not tonight. but perhaps this comment will be enough so that i will remember?

That makes more sense, and I agree with that.

Thank you for articulating this better than I could

It's true that no one should join the military but the right to join the military is part of what the state considers to be the rights conferred on you for being a full citizen. When they deem you ineligible to do this core thing that's part of civic life, they're saying you're less of a valid person.

No one should join the military. But the government saying "you are officially an outgroup of undesirables" is very serious.

I thought I'd addressed this though. I'm not talking about the individual level; we're agreed about the moral character of military work.

The issues with "if it were me" aside, I'm talking about how the military is an avenue for participation in the US, on the demographic level. Sex work, comparatively, is actively expunged. Trans people are being removed because it's not "honorable, truthful, and disciplined". That is to say, trans people are fraudulent.

Maybe it'll stop there somehow, maybe the world is made of pudding. More likely, this is discrimination that will just impact every trans person in the US, even leftie trans people who dislike the military.

A deal with the devil might present certain "opportunities for advancement" for the individual involved, but that doesn't change the fact of it being a deal with the devil. I met a trans woman IRL who told me about how she fled a small christofash town after receiving death threats by joining the military, and the thought of "how many poor people of color suffered, directly or indirectly, as a result of her participation in the military?" crossed my mind. If it were me, I would try to find literally any other way to survive - even turning to sex work if I had to - besides joining the US military. If that were the only option, I'd have to think long and hard about whether joining to save my own life would cause more harm to others than good to me in the long run.

i'm writing this comment so i will come back and review this once i have woken up

trans formers. tankies in disguise

a non-nyt link that has links to the nyt and new lines mag articles that talk about the founder's links to the ccp. the video could very well be real but the underlying politics is tankies in disguise

more importantly, if trump were british, and therefore consumed tea instead of coffee, what would covfefe look like?

my thoughts exactly

Colbert and Stewart have so much to answer for.

Then, Reagan died a slow, horrible death from Alzheimers. I would anticipate gay celebration of cosmic justice, but I see none. Why?

Easy answer: crab rave didn't exist.

More seriously, I think the internet has allowed us to celebrate deaths by connecting us with other people who don't find that sort of thing "in bad taste". Some social critic who's smarter than me could say more...

Oh Kristi Noem got a real dressing down about all the laws she's breaking by this Congress man, who will not do shit about it and keeps voting to confirm trump nominees.

They don't give a fuck about you yelling at them. They like that it makes dems mad and they know you're not even gonna do shit about it.

the presentation of politics as entertainment really annoys me for whatever reason. it feels like an empty power fantasy to imagine that these political figures would be affected negatively by anything at all.

my mom loooves those videos where some youtube guy dramatically talks about how some political fartman really got put in his place, no really, for real this time. they don't care! they will never care. there's so many layers of power and money separating them from any sort of consequences.

its pitiful, desperate magical thinking to entertain any of these charlatans for even a brief moment. spending all that emotional energy on shit-tier infotainment is worse than useless