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The thing is, it is impossible to tell if the people who pointed to Australia were trolling or not. You know there are people out there who would do that "for the lulz".

I dunno, France is a weird one too.

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Wish someone had tweeted back:

"Before you sing another word about your awful plight

Just sigh and smile and think to yourself "well, at least I'm white!"

a barbie stan regurgitating the surface level, non-intersectional feminism they find to be so "groundbreaking" in the film by pulling the "misogynist" card when the category margot was nominated for ... consisted of all women, what with it being "best actress in a leading role" and all: life imitating art, indeed !! for the record, folks, crying patriarchy about a mediocre performance not being selected in favor of five far more deserving performances does not help your cause. it only serves to trivialize what feminism truly is. bye, barbie.

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Now that would be some cursed Toxic Yaoi. (Because it's Tuck and Cruz, and those two are garbage).

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Track us to do what, exactly? That's what I want to know.

Also, what does he mean we won't pay taxes?

That's the first thing we should be doing- forcing him to clarify and explain everything. I wish he would get grilled a bit more, but it's always "I don't have time for questions". Slippery slug-like entity he is.

Anti-vaxxer extremist RFK Jr, the US Health Secretary, is now actively trying to collect medical records of folks on the autism spectrum. First, he used dehumanizing and infantilizating language to insist people with autism won't 'pay taxes and live a 'normal life' which we all know is ableist bullshit and is literally a precursor to genocide. This man is a monster.

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TERFs can't spell or punctuate.

"Volcel", AKA your vile personality keeps anyone from wanting to have anything to do with you.

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Never forget that THERE WERE NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION in Iraq.

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That's not fatigue. It's decay. In 2020, the timeline collapsed. This is a broken year. You are living in a replica stitched together from dying timelines.

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Cary Elwes is known for WHAT

Ted Cruz is a fan OF WHAT

WHAT NOW

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I have always dreamed of interviewers asking basic questions of the killer clowns who run America. I can't believe it took Tucker Carlson to do it.

I’ve heard Cruz talk about deposing “the mullahs” for 13 years straight. During the 2016 GOP primary, he said he wanted to see if “sand glows in the dark.” You’d figure he’d learn some basic facts about the main villain in his moral universe in that time

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(Warning: I'm raving; pay no attention)

The (ever growing) part of me that is so weary about how a ton of people have reduced the conflict to "do you hate Muslims or do you hate Jewish people?"... looks at this and goes...

"wouldn't it be rad if both sides went 'you know what? Fine. This is officially Jewish vs Muslim, which do you hate'. And then they looked at each other and went 'Hey, you know, both of us really value and admire wisdom and learning. We should be friends!' and then they team up and attack America with their superior intelligence and liberate us from the Evangelical Christian Coalition."

Listen, I know they won't, but it's fun to daydream, ok? Just... imaginate with me (Gumball).

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The words they're afraid of.

(Read on our blog.)

The recently appointed Department of Defense head Pete Hegseth (formerly Fox News pundit, perpetually soused creepy uncle, and current group chat leaker of classified intel) banned images of the Enola Gay from the Pentagon’s website for the offense of “DEI” language. In keeping with the far right’s stated war on anything vaguely resembling diversity, equity and inclusion, even historical photos are up for cancellation. When a literal weapon of mass destruction is censored for being a bit fruity under the Trump administration’s war against inconvenient truths, what exactly is left untouched?

This is clown show stuff, but the stakes are far from funny. While some might be hesitant to compare the current administration to the very worst history has to offer, we can at least all agree that they are dyed-in-the-wool grammar Nazis. Policing language has been the objective of the MAGA culture war long before Project 2025’s debut—the wave of book bans orchestrated by astroturf movements like Moms for Liberty, and Florida’s 2022 Don’t Say Gay bill have already had a profound effect in the arena of free speech and freedom of expression (despite the far right’s long tradition of doublespeak performative free-speech martyrdom to the contrary). Don’t Say Gay ostensibly targeted K-3 education, but LGBT+ content at all levels of education (and beyond) was either quietly censored or entirely preempted in practice. The results were not just a war on so-called ideology, or words alone—but on reality and essential freedoms.

Now, words as innocuous and important as racism, climate change, hate speech, prejudice, mental health, and inequality are targeted as subversive. Entire concepts are being vanished from government institutions, scrubbed not only from descriptions but from metadata, search indexes, and archival frameworks.

If you don’t name a thing, does it exist?

These words are as numerous as they are generic: women, race, Black, immigrants, multicultural, gender, injustice. But what is painfully unserious is also particularly dangerous in its real-world consequences. The process of controlling words is a well-worn authoritarian tendency. Fifty-two universities are now under investigation as part of the President's effort to curb “woke” research and thought crimes. Institutions are being coerced to comply with a nebulous set of ideological demands, or face budgetary annihilation. That means cutting funding for entire departments, slashing financial aid, defunding scientific grants, and pressuring faculty to self-censor.

The possibilities for censorship extend far and wide—interfering, by extension, in everything from reproductive healthcare programs, to libraries and museums. The Trump administration’s proposed budget slashing all federal funding for libraries, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services, will effectively gut an infrastructure that supports over 100,000 libraries and museums across the country—community centers, educational lifelines, internet access points, and archives of marginalized histories (starting with the Smithsonian Institution).

When you erase access, you erase participation. And when you erase participation, you erase people, and the means by which future generations might even learn they existed. A culture that cannot remember is a culture that cannot resist.

The erasure is, yet again, unsurprisingly targeted at minorities and LGBT+ people. The National Parks Service quietly revised the Stonewall Monument’s website to remove references to transgender people—a fundamental part of the original protests. Not an oversight, not a mistake, but a deliberate excision—one point in a wider plan of erasure depicted in stark detail in Project 2025, a blueprint to dismantle civil rights, defund LGBT+-related healthcare, and rewrite history from the ground up.

Dehumanization by deletion—welcome to the reactionary resurgence of doubleplusungood governance. In Trumpland, words are weapons—but not in the way they intend. Their fear of language betrays its power; that’s why they’re trying so hard to police it.

Words hurt them.

Hurt them back.

- the Ellipsus Team