Ok, but one of those people will assault you if they think you’re using the wrong bathroom.
Only because they are a puppet, look at whose pulling the strings. (The right wing progaganda networks)
Lemmy is small enough, and your moniker unique enough, I keep noticing your comments and nodding my head yes. If you’re ever in Seattle, let’s go bowling or something.
You can go to their account and favorite them if you want to follow what they’ve been talking about. I just started using the feature like a couple weeks ago. I have to resist the urge to go upvote someone’s old comments.
That option isn’t visible on my desktop screen… I just check their profile once in a while. Besides, if I pick a favorite, wouldn’t everyone else’s feelings be hurt?
Reminder: No one gave the slightest fuck about women’s sports until the masses realized transpeople weren’t just a “funny joke” in a 80’s sex comedy.
Women’s basketball has exploded in the last few years, in large part because the NBA is finally seeing it as a money-maker on par with the men’s pro-League. Same with women’s soccer.
A lot of this has to do with sports, as a broad category of entertainment, still producing the kind of returns that legacy media - movies, tv serials, live music - struggle to replicate. A lot more has to do with women as an “untapped” demographic for the sports media industry. And then the pivot to Streaming means you get extra value from a continuous fresh series of live events with relatively low production costs (just like with reality TV).
I might argue that the trans-panic around women’s sports is a direct consequence of this huge new effort to commodify the franchise. Trans-rights runs up against the specter of performance enhancing drugs in athletics, giving both state officials and league owners an excuse to aggressively regulate and censor their athletes.
Wait… “Performance enhancing drugs” was a sham?
The concern-trolling over it was. Abuse continues to be rampant in professional (and amateur) athletics. Reporting tends to either fixate on the Bad Countries Cheating or explode into a “Last year’s players cheated! This won’t happen again!” moral panic after too many high profile athletes start succumbing to symptoms of chronic misuse.
Trans-athletes (and maliciously accused cis-athletes) get swept up in both. You’re either “cheating” by having the wrong set of chromosomes or you’re accused of cheating because you don’t look Trad enough.
I know that they found Lance Armstrong was cheating simply because everyone else in the Tour De France was too and they knew it wasn’t possible for him to have won fairly if they cheated and still lost. So they mass-reported him for dosing, testing him to “prove” he wasn’t, and found he was.
I hate people with no self-awareness. Like if you’re cheating too, don’t say shit.
I know that they found Lance Armstrong was cheating simply because everyone else in the Tour De France was too and they knew it wasn’t possible for him to have won fairly if they cheated and still lost.
I believe he was able to disguise some of his performance enhancement behind his chemotherapy, which is why he so drastically improved after coming back from testicular cancer.
I hate people with no self-awareness. Like if you’re cheating too, don’t say shit.
No point in staying silent if you still lose. Time to throw the front-runner under the bus and make way for the rest of the cheats.
Fighting a culture war because of collective OCD or whatever keeps us from fighting a class war, but nobody’s doing it on purpose. That’s the weird thing - there’s no agenda, just people behaving similarly because of similar fears, motivations and delusions.
I think somebody could probably figure out how to make Asimov’s psychohistory a real science.
Fighting a culture war because of collective OCD or whatever keeps us from fighting a class war, but nobody’s doing it on purpose.
You’ve never seen Fox News?
this cartoon implies that liberal and progressive citizens are equally responsible for the lack of attention to the owner class, when they’re the only ones criticizing and trying to rein in the 1% while at the same time trying to defend against incessant attacks on pretty much every part of their identity from the bleating moron maga lemmings
Left and Right aren’t a useful representation of a person’s political beliefs. I don’t think this cartoon is saying left and right are the same. I think it’s saying that the billionaire class is using useful idiots to help separate the working class and keep them fighting amongst ourselves.
Absolutely push back against what you see as harmful patterns and always support and defend the rights of others. If you hear someone dehumanizing immigrants or LGBTQA+ or any at risk population of course speak up.
But also challenge the logic of that person. Ask them how they believe what they believe and who benefits. You’re never going to reason someone out of a position they never reasoned themselves into, but you can learn the bullshit talking points they’re being fed to head off those effects for someone else.
The only way we fight Fascism in this country will be to empower each other and engender support for anti fascist action. Build mutual aid in your community and be as involved as possible politically.
Mutual Aid Hub is a beautiful project — absolutely an URL to be shared and saved, thank you.
they’re the only ones criticizing and trying to rein in the 1%
Progressives, maybe. But right after the Harris loss, I saw a flood of her liberal supporters deciding the LGBTQ caucus cost her the election.
Me too, especially the T. The manipulation is so everpresent, some of us manipulate ourselves.
liberal
trying to rein in the 1%
Choose only one. Liberals are those that subscribe to capitalism. You cannot be against the bourgeois while being for capitalism. It is contradictory.
You cannot ever get folks on our side using words like ‘bourgeois’.
Baffling statement. “Bourgeois” is one of two words that define the way my ‘side’ views the world. I don’t think you and I are on the same side.
It’s a question I’ve wondered for decades: Why do so many socialists speak in code-words — Bolsheviks, bourgeoisie, Engels, Marx, proletaritat, etc — which only push people away? Socialism is a grand concept; why not translate it into English?
How about “owning class”?
It’s a good start, but I’d go with ‘owners’ and occasionally stress, ‘all owners.’
People respect plain speaking, and suspect convoluted speaking. If we want to win folks over, plain speaking is the way.
Drag owns a toothbrush. Drag isn’t a member of the owning class, but drag is in the most literal sense an “owner”. Drag recognises you’re using a technical definition of a common term, but drag doesn’t think liberals will understand. They’ll see your language as convoluted.
If these comments are any indicator, it’s working perfectly.
Yep. Hard to admit our reactions are their manipulations. Everyone things everyone but them is the puppet.
Just because it’s a manipulation doesn’t mean it’s always avoidable, though. Like Lex Luthor manipulates Superman by putting Lois Lane’s life in danger. Letting Lois die isn’t typically a real option. He’s got no choice but to play the game because he’s a moral person.
Are we supposed to just let LGBTQ people die so we can make inroads on the class war? I don’t like it, but that’s not a real option either.
If we win the culture war, then we can focus all our efforts on the class war. If we abandon the culture war, we lose our allies and betray our principles and become weaker in the class war.
Letting Lois die isn’t typically a real option.
The way you phrase that had me literally LOLing.
