I would like to think Japan is looking at us saying, "Yeah, not so fun to be on the other end of the we built this yesterday ships now is it?"

Ethical genie

Also I'm under the impression that a lot of the hardship associated with being trans comes from other people being assholes. Seems like it would be better to try and eliminate transphobia via social and political forces than to do eugenics.

My assessment remains unchanged though I understand how this would be upsetting to spider people.

Holy shit, that is cool.

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"

yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

20 of Florida's 28 districts are red. They're shooting for more this year despite it being flagrantly against the FLA constitution. Fill my cup with conservative tears about gerrymandering. I will drink my fill.

I really don't know how to describe RFK Jr to people except he thinks too many babies are currently surviving and it would be good if more babies died. Like that's the whole "natural immunity" ethos in a nutshell. It seems insane that anyone could be that evil, but that's just what it is.

There's still a lot of room to make things better while still keeping the threat of villains around. Hopefully they take advantage of this with the correct balance.

Absolute has made a world where literal super villains are in control. They are in many ways analogous to existing power structures but at the end of the day Absolute Superman can punch Brainiac in the face while regular Superman isn't gonna torch OpenAI's data centers.

I think the Absolute line has put themselves in a good position to not run out of room too soon. Mainline DC heroes live in a world where everything is basically as it is here, but a bit better overall. Changing things would mean challenging the validity of irl power structures.

Consvatism is when home and leftism is when no home.

So Desantis seems to just have a genuine hate boner for AI. I'm not gonna hand it to him, but he seems to have stumbled into something approaching a correct opinion here somehow.

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

In fact leftists are among the most reliable Democratic voters, both in terms of turnout and reliably voting Democrat. Leftists are equivalent to the evangelicals for Republicans. Imagine if Dems treated them with half the defference Repulicans treat evangelicals.

Enjoy smugly insisting suffering is inevitable, I guess. Your assertions aren't based on facts but you have to believe they are or else you'll feel shame so I know convincing you is impossible.

We'll make the world better without you and if we fail none of us will be alive to hear you gloat anyway.

The same thing was once said about the divine right of kings, slavery abolition, suffrage, civil rights, gay rights, having a black president, etc.

The status quo is absolute and unchangeable. Until it isn't.

I'm not gonna say Democrats never ever use sub optimal language but I just can't imagine caring about such a thing.

I want you to read what you wrote and really ask yourself if that's a problem anyone should expend any energy on in our current climate. Republicans have a secret police. I don't think the tone police are a good counter.

Okay.

Nobody ever said it couldn't be done with different language. The language doesn't matter. The objection is to the substance.

You're making empty arguments because you can't support your primary thesis, that inclusive language is as big a problem as conservatives say it is.

Centerist dems would rather Trump win than leftists. It's just that simple.

You have a weird thing with prioritizing messaging over actual legal effects. One might call it, to pull a phrase just completely out of nowhere, style over substance.

Guess we'll never know.

My sister in Satan, it's a budget proposal.

Laws are not written in such language and never have been.

You're saying we should try harder to please Republicans. Those are the words on your skeets. Has there been some kind of mass typo situation?

You just said you're not a lawyer and therefore don't know how to do that. I assume the man proposing the law is a lawyer, as are most politicians, so maybe you just don't know what you're talking about and have backed yourself into a corner with your spurious assertions and bad example.

It's asking for broader protections. A bunch of permanently outraged bigots don't want broader protections but rather than just outwardly say that want more dead trans people, they pretend they give a shit about honoring mothers or whatever.

You're suggesting to dull protections to please them.