I think bringing up “it/its” pronouns is a good test for people who claim to be “trans allies” because it so easily weeds out the people who are only doing it superficially. I’ve seen so many people who will post “Punch your local TERF #transrightsarehumanrights” and then turn around and be like “If someone says they go by ‘it/its’ pronouns it’s actually good to misgender them because they’re just teenager trenders”
you can’t claim to support trans people and then qualify it with “but only the people I deem 'real’ trans people”
“The YouTuber patriarch of a right-wing Canadian family, Arend Feenstra, decided that he’d had just about enough of the gay people existing in his country. So he decided to take his family to Russia instead.
“We didn’t feel safe for our children there in the future anymore,” said avowedly Christian dad of eight Arend Feenstra on Russian state TV. “There’s a lot of left-wing ideology, LGBTQ+, trans, just a lot of things that we don’t agree with that they teach there now, and we wanted to get away from that for our children.”
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Would it have been a good idea for them to learn Russian before they went? Yes, yes it would. Did they do that? No, they did not. “We were naive on that,” said Anneesa Feenstra, matriarch and former beet farmer. “I needed to use the washroom, and on the doors said male and female, but I didn’t know which was which!”
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In a YouTube episode titled “our first week in Russia”, Arend Feenstra showcases the hospitality that the local people living in their district had shown to the clueless family, who hadn’t brought enough cold-weather clothes. The locals donated snow suits for the children, and even helped them with their language issues.
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Unfortunately, no amount of kindness from strangers can make up for significant financial problems: something the Feenstras encountered because – who knew?! – Visa or MasterCard don’t work there, and authorities closed the Russian account they moved their money to due to it being a suspiciously high sum with no explanation of where it came from. Similar anti-money laundering laws exist in the UK and US.
Arguing for their money proved incredibly challenging since Russia doesn’t require any bank, or any business, to hire English translators.
This caused a fairly significant tantrum, posted on YouTube by Anneesa Feenstra and then deleted. “I’m very disappointed in this country at this point,” she said – about a snag that could have easily been solved in advance with a quick Google search. “I’m ready to jump on a plane and get out of here”.”
“An Indiana family of missionaries that fled to the Caribbean over COVID-19 is now facing mounting legal woes and financial ruin since investigators found an unlicensed firearm and a trove of ammunition in their possessions.
Jason and Jennifer Grogg and their two teen daughters were taken into custody on April 17 when authorities on the island of Dominica found the gun and ammunition inside the 40-foot shipping container the family used to store their belongings, the Indianapolis Star reported.
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The Groggs’ legal woes came two years after Jason and Jennifer – who describe themselves as Christian missionaries – moved their family to Dominica from Logansport amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Even before the family decided to decamp to the East Caribbean, they had written in a newsletter to friends and family that they felt the expansion of LGBTQ+ rights meant that the US had rejected God.
“We were feeling like God was leading us out of the country to go somewhere else. He led us to the Commonwealth of Dominica,” Jason told the IndyStar.
The Groggs decided to decamp to the Dominica based on a recommendation from an associate in Florida, and their own research that connected them with Feed My Sheep, a faith-based nonprofit that supports youth in crisis on the island.
Feed My Sheep severed ties with Jason Grogg on April 11 – just a few days before the authorities raided the family’s belongings – due to “his recent abusive & fraudulent behavior,” the organization said in a statement.”
“Comment Award goes to Laughing Gravy: "I’ll bet back home they used to whine about immigrants who don’t know the language, who have no money, who expect the government to hand them a house and a job, and who complain when they don’t get everything they want.”“
Owning a cat is doing what literal years of therapy could not do for me. This little animal routinely keeps me from spiraling, just by flopping her stupid little body on my keyboard. I love her with everything.
When I was a very suicidal trans activist in Texas, Benjamin Sisko saying “sure, you would [die for your people]. Dying gets you off the hook. The question is: are you willing to live for your people?” changed and possibly saved my life. It’s up there with “if we are going to be damned, let us be damned for who we really are” from Picard. Star Trek not only shows us a better world, it teaches us how to make it there
EDIT: I HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT I MAY HAVE BEEN MISINFORMED, AND THAT THERE IS NO DECISIONS BEING MADE TODAY (THE 8TH) TO DECIDE KOSA. NONE THE LESS PLEASE DO NOT STOP CALLING YOUR REPS. WHEN IT DOES GET VOTED ON WE NEED ALL THE SUPPORT WE CAN GET TO GET IT TO FAIL.
TALK ABOUT KOSA LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON ITWE CAN’T HAVE IT PASS!!
If you care about Palestine, racial, lgbtq, religious, or other minorities you NEED to care about KOSA. Email your state reps and call them!! Calling will do so much more than an email. Sending both can do more.
Owning a cat is doing what literal years of therapy could not do for me. This little animal routinely keeps me from spiraling, just by flopping her stupid little body on my keyboard. I love her with everything.
I think bringing up “it/its” pronouns is a good test for people who claim to be “trans allies” because it so easily weeds out the people who are only doing it superficially. I’ve seen so many people who will post “Punch your local TERF #transrightsarehumanrights” and then turn around and be like “If someone says they go by ‘it/its’ pronouns it’s actually good to misgender them because they’re just teenager trenders”
you can’t claim to support trans people and then qualify it with “but only the people I deem 'real’ trans people”
you dont have to be a parent to understand the horror of walking into a room and discovering that the baby crawled out of his baby crib and onto that pottery wheel that you forgot to turn off
and while the baby is spinning around and around, the dog is sitting there all calm, like a person, gently using his paws to fashion the babys soft cartilage head into something a little more modern
it might be the classic tale of bad parenting, but lets see where the dog is going with this
Game Concept: JRPG set in the US but the developers know nothing about America
I regret to inform you that the hamburger festival is in fact real
“Regret”, this fucking rules
Americans will have a festival for literally any kind of food. We will go for any excuse to eat food off of flimsy paper plates out in the fairground parking lot.
excuse me, United Nations, please send 10000 armed peacekeepers to Get this trans woman. she said she hoped an anvil fell on me anda big pink lump popped out of my head and i stumbled about while birds flew around my head tweeting and i had to reach up and push my head lump back in and shoo the birds away.and i feel threatened for my life,
Seeing them be like “why does everyone hates us usamericans? we’re just regular people?” while also joking about a possible ww3 because their country likes to fund genocide, wars and kill innocent civilians
I really do wander why would everyone hate the country that’s terrorizing half of the planet, country that’s so self-centered that it doesn’t even acknowledge or see value in the rest of the world?
YOU – mm i want a fat man on me gaystyle but with clothes on
FURRY INCLINATION [Medium: Success] – Any *animalline traits* to him, two-legs?
SENSATION – That would do nicely, texturally speaking…
YOU – not for now, but i’ll keep that in mind.
POSTER’S GAMBIT [Easy: Success] – Yes. YES. It’s the perfect emotion. Everyone wants – even if not that. So generalize, blogsman. Ambiguate. With this, you can finally build your *viral empire.*
BROAD APPEAL [Hard: Success] – With your crowd: three faves, and a flirtatious re-blog from some fur-fag. Eight if the bitcoinette or the not-lycanthrope touches it…
POSTER’S GAMBIT – Try again. We’re *this* close to another “you have to let ‘denny’s parking lot at 3am’ go.”
YOU – mm i want big men on me gaystyle #gay #mlm #lgbt #asexual
SENSATION [Medium: Success] – But it’s not about “big” – “big” alone is nothing. Non descript. You crave *plasticity* – you want to feel him pushing through, between your fingers…
SENSATION – *Really* sonft. If we must say it that way. And so *heavy* on our supine body, too. I almost wonder if we could…
New task: Administer the *auto-hand-job.*
SENSATION – Yeah.
POSTER’S GAMBIT – NEVER MIND THEM. Never mind any of that. You’re almost there. Keep going, blogsman. *Earn* the U.R.L.
BROAD APPEAL [Hard: Success] – Thirteen faves, four reblogs. None flirtatious – none you think.
YOU – what’s missing?
BROAD APPEAL – What do you think?
YOU [Impossible: Success] – the *sapphic* factor.
BROAD APPEAL – Exactly right. I *told* you I’m named this way for a reason…
HIGH SCHOOL G.S.A. – Do it for Erin. And Michaela. I wonder if they’re still…
BROAD INTUITION [Medium: Success] – They’re not.
YOU – mm i want big men or women on me #lgbt #ambiguously queer
HIGH SCHOOL G.S.A. – Ah-ah-ah.
BROAD APPEAL – And about that word “big” … you know what has to happen.
YOU – but that’s the core of it to me, kind of.
POSTER’S GAMBIT [Easy: Success] – And to the fur-fag sector.
BROAD APPEAL – A sector is nothing. We want the *website* in our hands. Even the proponents of Astarion, and the proprietors of “best girls”…
YOU – Yuck.
BROAD APPEAL – I know. But they’re the only way.
VANITY [Easy: Failure] – God, we’ll be on *Ellen.*
BROAD APPEAL – Enough of that. She’s out.
YOU [Impossible: Success] – mm i want anything at all #lgbt #ambiguously queer #asexual
POSTER’S GAMBIT – STOP THERE. YOU’VE FOUND IT, BLOGSMAN. QUICKLY – BEFORE WE BOTH FORGET – TYPE IT UP AND POST.
BROAD APPEAL – The known numbers don’t go high enough. You’ve found a ticket out of here – out of *Massachusetts.*
SHIVERS – IN 2027, A METEOR THE SIZE OF A KLEAN KANTEEN WILL LAND IN THE CENTER OF ROXBURY AND LEVEL BOSTON WITH ITS ZETTA-JOULES OF IMPACT ENERGY. TOO SMALL AND TOO QUICK FOR EVEN M.I.T.’S OBSERVATORY-BOYS TO DETECT.
POSTER’S GAMBIT – More important things than that are happening – and sooner, too. Type it up, blogsman. This is the easy part…
YOU – You type: “mm i want anything at all #lgbt #ambiguously queer #asexual.”
SENSATION [Hard: Success] – Stop. Go back. It’s dishonest.
BROAD APPEAL – This was never about you – you were only ever the basis on which *this* could be constructed. If that…
POSTER’S GAMBIT – Post it, blogsman. Make the world relate to you.
YOU – You hit: “post.”
YOU – The progress bar reaches – reaches – completes. A green light indicates success.
POSTER’S GAMBIT – YES. YES… Oh, I suppose we should have waited for *optimum posting hours.* It doesn’t matter now. It’s done – and the onslaught faves will begin rolling in catastrophically in three… two…
POSTER’S GAMBIT – In three… two…
Thought gained: Any day now…
POSTER’S GAMBIT – Don’t worry, blogsman. Just keep checking your phone – the *wi-fi* here is *bunk,* anyway.
ive gotten so much mileage out of this tweet. every time i see something on the internet that makes me mad i just think to myself “people in real life: hey man how’s it going” and i keep it pushing
hi I’m from your pseudo-medieval fantasy city. yeah. you forgot to put farms around us. we have very impressive walls and stuff but everyone here is starving. the hero showed up here as part of his quest and we killed and ate him
The fact that israel revels in the destruction of a hospital and gleefully attacks civilian centers while Iran responds to an attack on it by striking military targets, yet the former is called “restrained” and “democratically humanistic” while the latter is villified as “aggressive” and “dangerous” should tell you everything you need to know about both western liberal democratic imperialism and western media’s class nature.
hey, so… after years of misdiagnoses and crises and hospitalizations, my sister has finally been diagnosed (with 99% certainty) with Crohn’s disease. If anyone could help even a bit with money for food, meds and more doctor visits, we would be really grateful.
My sister has been moaning and crying in pain all day since yesterday. Her meds cost 200 reais (40 dollars) and they barely last 2 weeks. We REALLY need any amount of help we can get right now.
I got home and just found out my sister got hospitalized in a hurry while i was out so this is kind of urgent now please :)))
Not to be that person but this is such a weird one to me. I get it’s to make fun of that stupid queer rep poll stuff but like, have any of you seen the Hazbin show? Not the pilot, the show? It has a canon lesbian couple and it’s fine. Like, nothing impressive, the show imo is painfully average but like, compared to South Park? Y'all are basically comparing gen z invader zim to an actual bigot manifesto made with construction paper.
Hannah Arendt was also an extremely racist bastard who believed “totalitarianism” originated in “Oriental despotism” “encroaching” open pure, progressive European individualism.
From The Origins of Totalitarianism Like, it can’t be stressed enough how much the entire idea of “totalitarianism” is rooted in deeply racist, colonialist, orientalist thought.
She also thought desegregation, i.e. black people having the same rights as white people, was a form of “totalitarianism.”
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