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Are we really walking right into another RBG situation? Like seriously?

 

To be honest that’s a little lower down my list right now, her living another 4 years wouldn’t be some crazy thing, and is probably way more likely than not knock on wood…but missing the chance to replace the two current worst justices and swing the court to 5-4 liberal just fucking sucks.

I really hope they’re both so far up their own asses that they don’t retire

 

A lot of jokes on Twitter of people saying "she is like your mom's weird friend" or "she like a tertiary one off Girls character", and it finally hit me of what MGP reminds me of personally:

She reminds me of the mid to late 30's ageing hipster middle managers I have had. She listens to Cat Power and Waxahachie, but will not blink in firing you if production standards are not met. She takes weekend trips to Brooklyn but will tell you to just suck it up if your workload suddenly increases. She had Broad City merch on her desk but will give you a passive aggressive reply if you ask for help on something in Hangouts.

 

touché MF

 

This is very interesting. A lot of distrust of the standard democrat aka Kamala.

 

thank you, been having a similar thought string in my head the last couple days but couldn’t articulate it.

Hillary’s half of them are in the basket of deplorables line continues to be possibly the only correct thing she’s ever said? Lol

 

My understanding is that there are some effects of puberty blockers which are not reversible. If I'm misinformed, please send me more info!

 

So you think being trans is the same as having cancer? That's a crazy jump...

 

Yeah, Sotomayor is 17 years younger than RBG was. She should still retire, but she's not like, very near-death age

 

I have also been thinking on something similar and not sure I am in a place to fully articulate it but it was something I noticed in the post election reporting. It has to do with education levels in the voting base and the fact that a majority of this country reads at a middle school level, then couple that with the lack of quality history education (partly due to the speed run that has to happen to get through all of it).

Using words like authoritarian, fascism don't resonate with middle age/younger people because they truly don't know what they mean. There is that video of Adin Ross where he is trying to figure out what fascism means.

This thinking was spurred by me reading this biography of J. Edgar Hoover and all the lynchings that took place around WW2, which I knew about but didn't fully understand how widespread it was. Which was a surprise to me as I am someone who reads a shit ton of history books. This is similar to my experience with watching The Watchmen and the Tulsa Race Riots.

 

holy shit - I am familiar with Mexican Coke, but I have never heard of Canadian Coke made with maple syrup!!!

garbage country

 

Tate Teens is not a thing we needa do internet.

 

Puberty blockers are also given to non-trans kids and have been since they were invented without many reported ill effects.

The general effects are not irreversible. As with all medications there can be extreme side effects for certain individuals that are irreversible, but this is far from the typical experience.

 

Regarding the Puberty blockers and/or HRT for minors discussion. My only singular concern if I were a parent would be if my kid has something done that has nonreversable effects and later realizes they are gender fluid or somewhere in the middle of the gender spectrum as they mature and learn more about themselves in their late teens/early 20's. But also I admit for as much I was want to be an ally and want to learn, I am still kind of an idiot about this stuff because I am cis and there is stuff I still don't understand. I would want my kid to talk to an expert and have also them meet and talk to older adult trans people before anything.

 

hello i am a former tate teen i am eternally on chorus.fm

 

You don’t permanently alter anything with puberty blockers. Once you stop, puberty in either direction sets in. Saying otherwise is just plain misinformation. And once again, forcing anyone to go through the wrong puberty is cruel as fuck.

Study finds use of puberty blockers safe and reversible, countering anti-trans accusations

 

Yeah this definitely reads as "we are going to put the homeless into camps", but I could understand a dumb person reading that headline and being like " oh that is bold and radical like Hamsterdam in The Wire! "

 

Which effects?

 

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