Or they’re scared of the entirity of Dem-adjacent media giving them the Tara Reid treatment. Coming forward with allegations against anybody this powerful is pretty daunting, you can also safely bet that there’s a lot more than these 11 women that could accuse Trump of CSA, but that they’re terrified of what would be done to them by the public.
How many months (years?) did the dems sit on this shit and delay making it public?
Bill Clinton moved in the same circles back then, he did the same shit, so the dems were there while Trump did this.
Some of this happened as far back as the 1980s, a lot of it is from the mid 1990s, a lot of the allegations on file are from Epsteins first trial, from the Maxwell trial or shortly before or after these, but a lot of it was not made public before. This has been going on forever and has been successfully covered up over and over again, with the redacting of the Epstein Files being the most recent cover-up. Apparently some Dems have gotten access to some unredacted files some time after that, so technically this was info they accquired during Trump’s second term, at least in this form.
Cattle farming is up there with fossil fuels when it comes to climate impact. Being involved in ecocide correlates very reliably with being a hyperchud.
I would assume there is a way to lift parliamentary immunity, especially given that the Brazilian fascists have not managed to fully secure the courts to support their antics.
That’s assuming one wants to play by the rules, which i think Lula does based on how he’s acted in the past. But that does not mean you can’t utilize these rules as much as possible.
Yeah, this is absolutely LLM slop.
Yeah i get that, it’s a nice change of pace to feel some optimism beyond something like:
In the dark times, should the starts also go out?
The big difference to western countries is that there was a meaningful geopolitical choice on the ballot: A BRICS nation defending its sovereignty or becoming a comprador-ran puppet like Argentina. That’s not comparable to people in the imperial core getting to pick between diet hitlerism and diet strasserism. It was terrifying to see how one LatAm government after the other fell to the US-backed fascists, i am relieved to see that a nation as big as Brazil has bucked that trend.
Love and solidarity to my Brazilian comrades! Glad you fought back against the US meddling, may all of LatAm follow!
You are representative of the median democrat, you frothing fascist pig.
Literally saying out loud he views it as a success when his staff has abused kids to the point of showing a fawn response to the threat of violence. As if school wasn’t traumatizing enough without people who get paid to physically abuse children with torture devices.
I had to check a map to compare historic and re-introduced ranges of wolves, and i sadly didn’t even have to check a map for the fascists, but yes.
I have no idea who any of these people are, but i strongly suspect my life is better for it.
As somebody coming from a country that also barely has any old growth forest left, where wolves were hunted to extinction and where their return has been constantly used as a talking point by a far right party courting the votes of petit bourgeois farmers, i find that depressingly relatable.
yeah has this changed?
It has to some degree since the community has become less dominated by white cis gay men. Coming out as gay doesn’t have the impact it used to have for visibility unless you’re a football pro or smth. OTOH, queer communities are increasingly aware of the risks coming out at the wrong time can have for vulnerable members of the community that would be at risk of physical violence, homelesness etc. after a forced outing. Ending up on the street because your phobic parents threw you out is something that happens, especially in the US, but i also know cases from Germany. There’s also the risk of being threatened with conversion therapy and for trans folks living with their parents it can mean that they jeopardize being able to start or continue HRT in secret etc. And for trans folks, a lot of us nowadays wait with coming out until they’re a good deal into their physical transition so they avoid that hypervisibility phase that comes from going out with the dress and five o clock shadow combo. I just rawdogged that with the power of orange concealing powder, i’m stubborn like that, but i always understood it’s a valid strategy to just wait longer with that kind of stuff. And a lot of my friends are just stealth in day to day life. When we pass, it’s pretty normal that we do not tell every cissie we’re trans because that means we get hatecrimed and procedurally discriminated against a lot less. I’m also aware that local outreach programs for queer refugees usually have strong privacy protection measures for a variety of reasons. Straight people need to understand that being unouted is frequently an understandable safety measure and it’s not because we are “ashamed of our dark secret” or however the straights like to imagine it, it’s because you straights frequently are an active threat to our wellbeing or even our lifes when you know we’re queer.
Now none of that applies to Lindsey Graham. He was a grown cis man, he was financially secure, in the last years of his political career you could make a grift out of being a conservative token gay and besides that from all i’ve heard he was one of those glass closet cases where everybody knew he was queer anway. And i think it wouldn’t be too useful to focus too much on the forced outing part here because of these differences in the conditions he was living under to those of at-risk unouted queer people. He’s been de facto outed ages ago, it was one of the first things i learned about him as somebody who isn’t a USian, this isn’t about that.
My problem with this is the whole liberal Trump is gay for Putin mindset behind these attacks. You say it doesn’t strike you as that, but this is the transphobes from TYT we’re talking about, this is a talking point for mainstream Democrats that Hunter Biden has gone off about, i buy it that you do not want to situate it in that kind of context but they absolutely do. And in general i gotta say it just doesn’t feel the same when straight people try to dunk on a guy like him. When i hear gay men throw shade on Lindsey Graham, when i joke about Alice Weidel or KKKontraPointSS, it just hits differently, at least most of the time. Because we can do that in a way that does not use the pull of systemic homophobia, lesbophobia and transmisogyny to add weight to our punches. Because we are passing judgement on a problematic piece of shit from our own community. Because we understand these people and the straights, sorry to be so blunt, never completely will.
That does not mean that being gay, trans or both should exempt us from criticism from straight people, that would not make any sense. But i will view straight people as unsafe when they bring our marginalization into criticizing us in spite of there being thousands of things wrong with people like Graham that do not have anything to do with whether they’re queer. Ripping on them for being closeted is not a line to cross when you’ve never been in the closet and do not understand the closet and what it means.
The FBI counts this as “nihilistic violent extremism”, a category they created specifically to obfuscate that groups like 764 or O9A follow a fascist ideology. I doubt this will be counted as a right wing attack in spite of the obvious ableism shown in the selection of the victims.
Apparently this time it was 764, but same difference.
Given that they mention it was a “large, water-filled” pothole, my guess is that it’s a similar situation to cybertrucks getting bricked when you drive them through a car wash, but somehow even more stupid.
I’m fruity, but also batty
AmeriKKKans on riots: Imagine a vandalized burger
Now i can’t help but wonder if there’s cybertruck owners who also wrap their other dumpster, maybe even in matching colors so that both trashcans look exactly the same, or if they make “still love the can” posts when it’s on fire, or if Slavoj Zizek has ever stood next to a cybertruck talking about cinema.