No you’re downvoted for accusing us of worshipping him

Oh in that case…

No, when someone robbed me and sexually assaulted my wife racial slurs are among the few insults I didn’t use because that’s not what my problem was with that asshole.

Those articles hit close to home as someone hard of hearing. So much of disability activism is trying to get able people to respect what is comfortable for us to do rather than what is comfortable for able bystanders to see us do.

Like assistive devices are awesome, but they exist for the people they are used by. We consistently want comfortable independent function without being othered for it. Some will prefer subtle devices, others will ask for a fully controllable rgb option on devices that could be hidden easily.

I wish he spent his time that productively

Exactly. Biden was bringing a lot of manufacturing into Ohio through the chips and infrastructure acts. Manufacturing with good mixes in skill of labor.

We aren’t competitive in stuff like steel or high volume low cost manufacturing. What we are able to compete on is high skill and high tech manufacturing. Things like chips, manufacturing equipment, and vehicles. Our labor is disproportionately skilled and our costs of living and land are significantly higher than in many countries. I would also love a focus on domestic production of green technologies like batteries, wind turbines, solar panels, and trains and rail equipment. There’s a reason China focused on such things.

I’m pro manufacturing, it’s my career. But tariffing everyone and everything doesn’t improve manufacturing. Targeted combinations of tariffs and subsidies do.

Additionally it needs to be said that when Trump does target, he focuses on outdated things, namely coal.

Your username is badass

OK that does sound like a fair portion of the lesbian polycules I’ve known lol

I hate that in part because as someone who’s health has been damaged by industrialization (and by illness in my youth) they get even that part wrong.

Yes, a healthy diet and frequent exercise help me, but more important is avoiding pathogens and avoiding harmful pollutants.

I’m wondering if mass distribution of direct translations of his speeches would help or just be interpreted as weird American syntax

So my mom asked if I was gay, I told her I’m only attracted to women. She kept trying to figure out what was up (she was nosy and I was trying to leave a coming out letter so I was acting sus af). Anyways eventually she said “well I know you aren’t trans” and I said “about that…” and came out. Lots of crying on both our parts later she was incredibly supportive, but I wasn’t worried as she had already been a vocal trans ally.

My father on the other hand attempted to talk me out of it then hasn’t really spoken to me since. That includes years of living together. Which, points for stubbornness I suppose.

Yeah dude. In fact I bet some trans guys would benefit from hearing cis guys talk about it

Yeah. I’m staying with a friend after fleeing a red state. I miss my old community of trusted friends back there, but I’m relying on trusted friends here. And once I settle here I’m gonna build a trusted community here too.

A lot of the cultural zeitgeist has moved away from getting to know your neighbors and getting out and doing things and meeting people. But they are very worth doing

Yeah, I don’t want a sequel for sequel’s sake. If you don’t have an artistic or consumer perspective vision on why a sequel is needed or wanted you should be focusing on something that can be justified like that.

Story and exploration games have this built in. Why do players want a sequel? To have more story, to explore more, to return to this world once they’ve tired of the previous game. Rpgs are expensive, slow, and risky, but you basically never have to justify your next game.

The games mentioned here struggle there. KSP does what it does well. Any sequel comes with huge questions of why people would want another space program simulator, and it’s clear that corporate just assumed that people would buy it because they loved the first one.

And that’s not to say games that don’t feel like a sequel is warranted can’t benefit from one. Roguelikes are about as anti sequel as city builders and there are two roguelike sequels I love. Rogue legacy 2 was the devs reimagining the concept of the first game and making a higher budget (especially in gameplay) game that doesn’t just feel like a cash grab. And Hades 2 is similar in many ways, but different enough to feel warranted and clearly made uncynically. It clearly exists because the leads felt there was more to do with the premise that didn’t belong in the first game.

And there’s the thing, I think that ksp probably did have a sequel in it. Something like a space colony sim where you’re a space station having to build and manage ships and colonies, or something else may have been warranted or good. But it would’ve come from a creative lead wanting to do it rather than what clearly happened of a corporation purchasing the game and deciding that since they owned it they had to make a sequel to use the ip

I for one support the educational system refusing to address O*io. Every year people are subjected to delicious and sinful delicacies like Da*ton style pizza, Cincin*ati chili, and *uckeyes. Remember, only you can forget about o*io

Canada has made a ton of amazing art. But what they need right now is every Canadian hand on deck. If Myers is able to inspire more Canadian resistance to American threats then he’s part of what they need.

I would actually prefer an impeachment and removal from office. That would actually be a huge step in unfucking our current situation

Oh no those keep going up because no amount of raising them has managed to reduce recidivism

I think it’s something like i7t12 ie /c/iiiiiiitttttttttttt but it could be just something that looks like that

Yeah, I’ve gotten hooked on using either my hearing aids or my pauseable and microphone containing ear buds. Getting my phone out of my pocket to pause has become an annoyance

Not him or transmasc, but as a trans woman, gender doesn’t influence how bad someone is, but it does influence how they are bad. Transphobia (directed at trans women) from cis men often looks like disgust and direct violence as well as oversexualization. There’s also an element of seeing themselves as knights in shining armor to cis women. From cis women it’s more likely to look like ostracization, backstabbing, and calling for men’s protection.

If you noticed that that’s how cis men and women tend to treat cis women they hate, congratulations, you’ve figured out why one common refrain from trans women is that transmisogyny is a form of misogyny.