pro tip: if the surface you’re about to sit on is the same colour as your noble eunuch, make sure to double check it to avoid any accusations of assassination attempts
ICE has profiled and detained at least 5 Native people in Minneapolis in the past 2 weeks. One man has been identified and released, but the other four were unhoused and have yet to be located.
The preponderance of evidence is that most trending calling posts on Tumblr alleging sexual misconduct by trans women are fabricated by the same relatively small group of bad-faith actors, and that these bullshit callout posts outnumber the legit ones by a considerable margin.
If you think you can tell the legit callout posts and the bullshit ones apart just by looking at them, you’re almost certainly wrong.
Like most mechanisms of social control which are based on ostracism, callout posts tend to be most effective against people who are already in a position of vulnerability, and concomitantly, tend to have no significant long-term effect when deployed against people in positions of power or authority.
What all this adds up to is that even leaving the moral dimension of the act aside, from a purely pragmatic perspective, reblogging that callout post accusing a random trans woman you’ve never heard of of being a dogfucker or what-have-you is an action which, in a worst-case scenario, will contribute to ruining an innocent person’s life, and in a best-case scenario, is likely to accomplish nothing whatsoever.
Folks often justify reblogging callout posts without performing due diligence under the rubric of “better safe than sorry”, but any realistic assessment of the likely outcomes will tell you that the true “better safe than sorry” course of action is to keep your damn mouth shut!
“But I thought we were supposed to always believe allegations of sexual misconduct” well, the thing is, “false allegations of sexual misconduct are rare” and “false allegations of sexual misconduct disproportionately target specific visible minorities” are both true statements. There’s no algorithm for being a good person – you really do have to think this shit through every single time it comes up.
Please take this story’s moral not as “this woman was being stupid and shortsighted” or “this is a problem you as an individual fix by making your health more of a priority”
But as “a society that puts anyone in this position must be transformed in a fundamental way”.
Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigated to this article, your IP address was logged and your supervisor approved the decision to remove you from your position,” the report read in part, revealing that the choice had been made after a brief conversation among your superiors in which it was repeatedly emphasized that your behavior in loading this page and spending nearly two minutes reading its content about the late Turning Point USA co-founder was an action inappropriate for the moment.
“Imagine,” says the voice, “that you were underneath a blanket. It’s a little small, so your feet poke out from underneath it, and your arms come out from either side.”
“Okay,” says the human, dangling upside down, suspended by a group of tentacles. “I got it.”
“Right,” says the voice, which comes from everywhere and nowhere. “Now consider a cat. The cat thinks you’re kind of like a cat, but you’re so big, he has some problems understanding that all of your body is really you.”
“Am I the-”
“Yes. Now listen. Especially under the blanket, the cat doesn’t really know where your body begins and ends. He sees your feet, and decides to attack them. He’s only play-fighting, but his claws are real sharp, so it hurts. What would you do?”
“Well,” says the human, gently spinning in the tentacle’s grasp, “I’d try to tuck my feet under the blanket.”
“Ah, but then it’s even worse,” claims the voice, triumphantly, “because now your cat sees Blanket Monsters and attacks them twice as hard.”
“So you have to grab the cat.”
“It’s either that or burrito her,” says the voice, squeezing the human in the grip of its tentacles. “And since in this metaphor the blanket represents the fabric of reality as you know it, I don’t think you’d find it very pleasant.”
“Fair enough,” says the human, blood beginning to pool in her head. “Can you please put me down, now? I promise I won’t attack you again.”
“That’s what the cat says every time, too, and yet…”
Every safety regulation is written in blood, and every weird customer service question is written in the drool of an idiot before you.
Ordered the “signature omelet” (jalapeno and feta) at a place where the waitress then confirmed “That has jalapenos, is that ok? They’re spicy. And it has feta, is that ok? It’s a strong flavor.” Other people at my table thought it was stupid, but I was like “That is a woman who has had to take back a lot of omelets from people who didn’t know that jalapenos would be spicy.”
Here, put this candy in your annoying mouth and shut the fuck up.
They’re like adult pacifiers
Same thing was done in Brighton where people were given kitkats as they leave nightclubs because you need both hands to eat them, plus obvs eating.
Other cities would also have mounted police on horses patrolling the streets. Nothing to do with needing to add police presence, they realised drunk people see a horse and go “Ooh Horsies” and stroke the horse. It would distract people from fighting in queues for taxis.
I have witnessed the horse thing in action! for a short amount of time I went clubbing regularly, and being the only person who hated the taste of alcohol I usually just ended up observing the behaviour of the native drunk wildlife, like some sort of Jane Goodall of inebriated students. It was educational.
By far one of the best nights was out in Cardiff, and when we left the club there was, indeed, a horsie and the absolutely immediate, instinctual response of the first dozen people to leave the club (and therefore the first to see this) was to form a group around the door to tell everyone who was leaving the whole pack going shhshshhsh there’s. there’s A HORSIE don’t. don’t make a noise don’t scare the horsie :’( and everyone leaving the club INSTANTLY quieted the fuck down like even the ones who were fight-me-im-drunk drunk got calmly surpressed by their friends and redirected their energy. Many people did go and pet the horsie who was clearly very well trained and the whole thing was thoroughly impressive and really very moving :’D
how much can crime be reduced with sheer novelty?
this is not an argument that only novelty should be used
I can clearly remember the moment I first realised my mother and I were living on completely different planes of existence. I was 7 years old and I came home from my school’s first track and field day having placed second or third in every event. the teachers had been making jokes all afternoon about how many times they had to call my name. my friends thought I was cool as shit. my enemies thought I was cool as shit too, come to think of it. I was proud as hell. so I get home with the entire front of my shirt covered in ribbons like I was a military dictator who’d awarded himself every medal, I walk into the kitchen and tell my mum all about my day, and she goes “oh, that must be disappointing not getting any firsts.” and I’m like no?? first of all the first place ribbons are red and I don’t like red. second of all look at me. there’s literally nowhere left on my body for accolades. I am fucking Jacked of All Trades. how could this possibly be a disappointment.
they make the best aliens because little girls are fucking bizarre, nobody else can match that energy
In an interview he said that the boys always ended up breaking their costumes bc they would fight each other, but the girls Got. Into. Character. and were amazing creepy little aliens.
Yes they do. It’s just that their morals are rooted in “protect the people and things closest to me at all costs”. Their values are extreme tribalism. They also believe those outside the group are constantly threatening the safety and prosperity of the in-group.
This is why so much of what they do seems contradictory and hypocritical. Yes, they want prosperity for those they consider “like them”, but they are also willing to do things that harm themselves if it harms the “enemy” more. And, they blame the enemy for that harm, not themselves.
It’s literally “this is why we can’t have nice things”. It’s your fault.
A conservative may think, “welfare might be nice, and it’s true all my neighbors depend on it, but those welfare queens are stealing it, so we can’t have it. Public pools might be nice, and they provide a safe place for my children to play, but people I consider unclean might use them, so we can’t have them.”
This is how a conservative woman can justify an abortion for herself, but not for others, even though anti-abortion laws make it harder for her to get that abortion in the first place.
What needs to be done will morph and change, external influences will change what they think are important values for the inside group to have to some degree, but at the core it’s always about protecting their own.
