@mwl I was interested that Indivisible is touting 500k registrations for tomorrow. Show up, I will, or I won't, but I don't think I'll register on the internet.
(Three Strom Thurmond sidenotes. 1) His eldest child was born out of wedlock to a black woman who worked for his family. The woman was 16 at the time. 2) He served in the Senate until he was 100 years old. 3) He was a notorious and well-known creep and groper, and once groped Senator Patty Murray on an elevator, not realizing she was a freshman Senator.)
3) "Entitlement" is meant as a slur. But Social Security is individuals loaning money, and asking to be repaid for their principal and their interest. None of those people using that word as a slur call the same situation "entitlement", when *they* call in their debts.
4) Social Security is one of the tightest most fraud-proof systems a government has ever made. If fraud happens here, it may, sometimes, it is *miniscule*. Less likely than getting struck by lightning.
Framing the universities and/or lawfirms as "capitulating" is the wrong framing in my view. What they are doing is actively collaborating.
Look, Columbia furiously persecuted its student protestors during the *Biden* administration. They're not buckling under, they're doing what they've already done: actively working for the suppression of dissent.
True Canada story. I once had a gig outside Toronto, and I was not independent then, and I was sent to the gig. And for whatever reason -- this was back in the oughties, before everything got so crazy -- I was randomly pulled for a passport inspection.
And the woman asked me why I was there, and I said, I have a gig. And she perked up her ears. "You have no work visa."
So she grilled me. I had to show her my business card. I had to show her my company's website that mentioned my name. I had to describe the kind of work that I did.
So she leans back in her chair, and she fixes me with her deadly Canadian glare. She asks, "And are there any Canadian persons who could do this work?"
I'm thinking of Dave Astels, Joe Rainsberger, and several others. I had many Canadian friends who were in the same trade as I, some of them world-class at that trade.
They target trans-folk *precisely* because they think cis-het folk will look away. Cuz cis-het folk basically don't *get* it. We can't, really. They're counting on us not defending those who aren't like us.
I'm not looking away.
I have friends and family who are trans. I don't get it, sure, I don't, and I'm not claiming to.
What I *do* get is that these evil fucks are hurting people I *love*, cuz the camps always start with the minorities we don't get. *Always*.
There is no evidence, none, nada, bupkus, zip, zero, zilch, of any kind whatsoever in any country anywhere in the world of a transfemme or transmasc person doing a crime in the bathroom.
I miss Buffy sometimes. I have a new gee-kid, he's just 12. When he's 14, we'll share the only-when-together blood oath and watch Buffy from beginning to end.
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