Spoken like someone who’s family loves them.

With right wingers, it’s completely impossible.

Do you want the option to see your brother again? Mend bridges at some future point?

There are some things you can’t take back. I have a grandmother in law that skipped my wife and I’s wedding and we have not spoken to her since.

I don’t want right wing apologia in my life. I do not enjoy biting my tongue to avoid arguments. I understand why you wouldn’t either. But skipping a wedding is serious and maybe permanent damage to your relationship. If it will free you and leave you better off, don’t go. If you will regret it, probably go and do the best you can.

Oh no. You can volunteer without citizenship.

They can say no, but we have non citizens serving.

Secret knowledge was a lot more realistic back then.

If you were the ONLY person that knows how to turn base metals into gold, you can still be rich beyond all reason.

That’s about what I thought. Ukraine has gotten 40 trucks here, 12 tanks there. Better than the old Soviet stuff Russia is using, but not enough to decisively turn the tables.

I signed up with Blahaj. Zone when I came with the reddit exodus, but some time later I couldn’t log in, couldn’t reset my password, and couldn’t make another because I already had an account.

.world let me sign up. And hasn’t broken like blahaj. My heart is there, but I’m not willing to spend hours figuring how to make it work.

Honestly the pace of Russian advancement has been slowing down which is understandable because their losses are not sustainable. Their only hope for true victory is if Ukrainian losses are even less sustainable.

This is possible, especially if Germany and the US, the 2 wealthiest partners, cut off or scale back aid. But at the moment Ukraine seems slightly ahead of the attrition game and the US just INCREASED sanctions.

Really the people should be monitoring insurance industry executives more often.

For safety.

Well, if you insist. 😄

So they are getting what they asked for. I don’t know why they would want to destroy their own jobs and opportunities, but here we are.

A human that is cisgender would be cool.

Honestly though, how would I appreciate it if I don’t keep memories?

What are we but a collection of memories? Not much. A body, some desires, occasional suffering and joy.

The memories give context to everything else. Change them, and you change everything.

This is why my chronic illness is so terrifying. It’s in my brain. Literal brain damage. It’s being treated, but I wake up every day with a low lying terror that I have forgotten something important.

“We can hurt the bad people until they tell us what we need to know to be safe.”

It’s nonsense, but it can feel true.

That’s called a taint squeeze.

Tay sway has been media trained since she was a child. She’s a product and she knows it. Roan was playing on a keyboard in the park not that long ago and she hasn’t figured out that she will go crazy trying to manage her fame like she is.

This is either some wild optimism or accelerationism.

Gay rights activists got started in the 1970’s and in the 80’s they got homosexuality taken off the list of mental disorders and in the 90’s it looked like Hawaii was going to legalize same sex marriage and then the conservatives took notice and passed the defense of marriage act and Bill Clinton signed it (yes, a Democrat) and then Iowa and Massachusetts courts legalized it at the state level in the 00’s and for 10 years we watched court cases and ballot measures go state by state and then in 2014 we got obergefell.

Republicans did not get us marriage equality, Democrats did. Republicans opposed it at every step. Even obergefel would not have happened if Clinton had not won and picked some SC justices. Clinton had a Republican house and Senate and he was more concerned with avoiding a government shutdown. Defense of marriage act was a Republican bill. Don’t ask don’t tell was a compromise with Republicans. Obama repealed don’t ask don’t tell after Dems took the white house and both houses of Congress.

It matters who is in charge, every year, every election. And the Republican hasn’t been the progressive option since teddy Roosevelt left the Republicans to form the bull moose party.

So acting like we need to punish the Democrats for not opposing netanyahu by electing Republicans is literally throwing Palestinians and poc and queer people and poor people under the bus for your own self rightiousness.

I also misread your comment as pro-trans, but we DO need more trains! So keep bringing it up, you are doing good work.

Income, life expectancy, healthcare access. Union membership. Cali home prices are unaffordable because people want to live there and are willing to pay for it.

Abortion was illegal for 70-120 years depending on the state. It was 50ish years from the progressive era and the beginning of birth control to the ruling of Roe. Overturning roe was a 50 year political project by the right.

Sometimes it takes a lifetime.