and the time necessary to dig into a bunch of dubious claims by a politician who is likely lying to you is beyond what's reasonable for a person working a full-time job with a family or anything vaguely resembling a social life
have you met many quants? a large number of them are like that, in much the same way that crypto currency people are (in fact, i think the crypto people are like that because they are poorly copying the quants).
usually the bits here are somewhat over the top, but this is a very modest proposal.
apologies for not memeing on this, but the parallel that immediately comes to mind is when Kavanaugh was getting confirmed, he said that Roe v Wade was "settled law". she is absolutely going to enact some anti-trans bullshit.
here is a partial critique i read of whipping girl many years ago which has stuck with me Deconstructing Whipping Girl By b. binaohan
these issues that you highlight seem strongly tied to Serano's bioessentialist understanding of gender, which (iirc) is whatever in-born tendencies that you have one way or another. once you start trying to find gender in biology, you quickly end up reproducing the biologization of gender that is the basis of modern era misogyny because gender was one of the driving ideologies that shaped the biological study in the first place.
once you make that connection, it becomes more clear where the "binary-phobia" stuff comes from. it's literally just a reformulation of colonial era justification of eradicating native genders that the colonizers didn't like. and to get out ahead of the obvious misreading, white non-binary people in the US/europe are not colonized. capital would just generally prefer to be able to easily sort everyone into 2 easily distinguishable categories with pre-defined social positions.
i'm so tired of libs (especially "leftists") saying things like this are a win, or even that this is a "pretty significant shift in the status quo" (literally quoting one of them) because they might consider restricting arm transfers. another one i saw mentioned potential domestic military raids as a reason not to vote for Trump. the american left is fucking cooked. willing to vote for a genocide to save themselves is pure cowardice.
clearly foreign adversaries are trying to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids
i know at one point they were quite proud to have a federal (DHS i think?) cybersecurity department on there. like, there was an announcement. this was a couple years ago, so i guess stuff may have changed since then, but i don't trust like that.
infosec dot exchange. they gleefully welcomed feds on there
from what that link says, it sounds like the rule was made mostly to get around employers saying "this part of your paycheck is a bonus, not a wage, so it's exempt from the time and a half rule"
nah, that's a load bearing personal fantasy. once you put it in, it's never coming out.
i know i'm not the first to make this comparison, but everytime another one of these embarrassing misstatements comes out, i remember the dean scream
so, start with:
x = 0.999...
now multiply each side by 10
10x = 9.9999....
now we subtract x from the left side, and 0.999... from the right, which is fine because they are equal:
9x = 9
and from there it should be fairly obvious that x is also equal to 1, which means 0.999... is also equal to 1
i think this is the link to the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultraleft/comments/1dii2hl/leftoid_ethnostate/
i have a hard time reading the conversation as anything but pro-colonial
ah yes, the "i don't want you to know how much this is astroturfed" protests, against the "we want to know how much astroturf is there" law.
"you can maybe criticize our ally, but only if you give an equal amount of time, or maybe a bit more, to criticizing their enemies"
i mean, the way the supreme court has operated historically (and especially in the last few years) means they can delete basically any law they don't like, but you are correct that the decriminalisation of homosexuality is only based on a court verdict. many states never removed the relevant laws from their books, so they could in theory be enforced again if the court changes their precedent.
