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Fearing such hits as “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park,” “National Brotherhood Week,” “The Masochism Tango,” “The Element Song,” “Be Prepared,” and “Lobachevsky”

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I’m unaware of any other such studies done and I’d love to see more. This aligns with my experience of using AI developer tools though for sure

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Surprisingly, they actually acknowledged the reason for the age-dependent transition gender gap! (with sources)

❝Why is this happening? Trans misogyny is a unique type of discrimination trans girls and women face. It combines transphobia, the hatred for and discrimination against trans people, with misogyny, the prejudice and contempt towards women. The impact of trans misogyny is far-reaching. During adolescence, trans girls experience higher rates of bullying and victimisation than trans boys and cisgender peers. During adulthood, trans women remain at high risk of abuse and violence. They are also more likely to encounter housing discrimination, homelessness, unemployment and poverty than the general population. Faced with such daunting prospects, it seems much harder for trans girls to reveal their gender identity as adolescents at an already uncertain time of their lives.❞

(yes, the language and such is slightly off, the authors being medical professionals, gender specialists, but not, so far as I know, trans themselves—still, the whole article is very good in content and well-sourced)

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Concurring and also every time I see people talking about how porn addiction isn't real it's a right wing meme I basically agree but also I think about the time shortly after I started looking at porn when I became anxious that I was addicted to it, so I vented about it to some classmates, and they reported me to the (lefty-puritanical) school admin for trying to groom them by discussing inappropriate topics, and the admin took my notion that I might have an addiction dead-seriously while also punishing me for it, and obviously forwarded this report to my dad, who also punished me for it (as he was supposed to, like obviously that's why schools forward disciplinary reports to parents)

I'm sorry that happened to you :(

the actual negative psychological effects of "degenerate behavior" are all caused by the negative overreactions of everyone around you & fear of those negative overreactions.

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I think this is obvious enough that everyone already understands it, but also I've never actually seen it articulated in a straightforward way - and it's not rare to see Discourse People talking around it in an evasive fashion - so maybe I'll just put it down on paper, in case anyone finds it helpful.

It is definitely true, in some sense, that the American electorate likes populist lefty economic policy. Or at least that it likes something in the same approximate concept-sphere as populist lefty economic policy. By which I mean that American voters very much like being given free stuff, and they harbor a lot of hostility towards Rich Elites and Rich Corporations.

It is also definitely true that the American electorate has a passionate bone-deep hatred of the rhetoric, aesthetic, and style associated with populist lefty economic policy. If you utter socialist-sounding talking points - even relatively anodyne ones - you will get slammed, hard, anywhere outside the established liberal enclaves (and also inside a lot of those enclaves). This is partly because, thanks to the long-standing historical relationship between educational/cultural elites and radical left politics, salt-of-the-earth populist types have learned to understand that kind of rhetoric/aesthetic/style as being a signal of Against-Them-ness even when the notional content is 100% For Them. It's partly because that kind of rhetoric/aesthetic/style has become heavily associated with poverty and resentment, and the electorate cares about nothing more than prosperity and success.

You can easily find data suggesting that the voters would be happy with something like socialism, but there is zero reason to believe that they would be willing to receive it from a pack of socialists. They want their populist lefty economic policy delivered by a comfortingly worldly Business Daddy who will make it seem like a policy for people who want to get rich, not for people who want to display their idealism.

So, y'know, the thing Donald Trump did on stage, more or less.

(Note that none of this has any bearing on the object-level soundness of populist lefty economic policy, in any direction.)

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kids deserve so much more respect and it turns out that saying that is a great way to locate the horrible people in any community <3

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anyway just a reminder for the myth lovers out there

king arthur was welsh. merlin was welsh. camelot was in wales. the lady and the lake she pops out of; welsh. excalibur; magic inanimate welsh object. etc.

on the way to see family, i drive past a lake that in which is welsh legend, is the last resting place of excalibur.

i’m just saying in my experience a lot of these legends had been so anglo-fied in the past and it’s like, all this cool shit is celtic welsh legend.

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looks like the government is doing something about cults

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ik i already said this on twitter but neil gaiman and amanda palmer are the fandom kid version of grimes and elon musk

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"How dare you say my argument that men should be silenced and only women's voices have merit is related to radical feminism! Didn't you see I also hate intersex people?"

I'm just so fucking tired.

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Hot, messy and queer normative--Spitfire is a story for people who want to see bodies and brains like theirs in high fantasy romance.

If you like yearning, spicy sex scenes that leave the awkward bits in, and romance featuring fat and neurodivergent characters, this is your book.

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Tens of thousands of notes on a post claiming a bill introduced by the Republicans will make credit card companies support NSFW content, and only a handful going "hey maybe don't support this".

Let's look into how the bill is being reported elsewhere - in fact, from the Senator who introduced the Senate version of the Fair Access to Banking Act

"In recent years, prominent American banks have engaged in a discriminatory practice, referred to as debanking. Banks and financial institutions use their economic standing to categorically exclude law-abiding, legal industries by refusing to lend or provide services to them."

Hmm. What industries could he mean?

"This includes industries such as firearms, ammunition, crypto, federal prison contractors, as well as energy producers."

Wow. Who could've guessed that's what he meant

“When progressives failed at banning these entire industries, what they did instead is they turned to weaponizing banks as sort of a backdoor to carry out their activist goals..."

So it is, in fact, a bill around trying to stop left-wing activists from, say, going after oil and gas companies or private prisons or the arms industry

But - surely it would include NSFW bans too, right? It would overturn them, right? If you read the text of the bill, which is deliberately vague as you'd expect, it explicitly allows banks to deny payment based on "quantitative, impartial risk-based standards" - it only bans it for "political" or "reputational risk" considerations. And claims that the adult media industry is "high risk" is why payment processors drop it

But let's see who supports it!

"The Fair Access to Banking Act is endorsed by several organizations, including the National Shooting Sports Foundation, National Rifle Association, North Dakota Petroleum Council, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, The Digital Chamber, Blockchain Association, Independent Petroleum Association of America, Online Lenders Alliance, Day 1 Alliance, GEO Group, Lignite Energy Council, National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, National Mining Association, CoreCivic, and the National ATM Council."

Private prison companies, fossil fuel companies, blockchain companies, and the NRA. But surely...? SURELY a bill we're explicitly told again and again is about preventing left-wing activism against private industry, that's co-sponsored by fucking Lindsey Graham, and that certainly seems to include a carve-out specifically to let payment processors continue to deny adult content, but not deny conservative political causes...would secretly be pro-NSFW content?

This bill is all over the internet now, with viral pleas to GET IT PASSED and shutdowns of any criticism of a bill whose real intent is extremely overt. All of this is a simple search away and straight from the horse's mouth, and nobody wants to do even that modicum of research because they would prefer to take someone's word for it that a magic panacea is just a few phone calls away. If you make phone calls asking for this to pass, you're being played: tricked into supporting a bill crafted by the people leading the moral panic that harassed Itch into oblivion that would do nothing to help that, but that would ban any activism against payments for destructive fossil fuel extraction or gun lobbying. The guy who made it just told everyone that's what it's for! Does no one care to look? To read the bill? You can be the one to read it and say it's bad (being the only person to actually read an odious bill is called "Russ Feingold-ing")

Looking up the talk about this bill one theme I saw a lot was people dismissing anyone pointing out a Republican introduced it by saying "I don't care who introduced it! AS LONG AS SOMEBODY DOES SOMETHING!!!!" But you know what? If you saw that a Republican introduced the bill, and your reaction was to go "wow, so a Republican introduced a bill to protect adult content?" without even a pang of skepticism...I have no words tbh