Yeah that’s why I specified. Those things hold mostly true in the UK, too, although much less so on the “Christian” part.

The temporarily embarrassed billionaires trying to reply to me in the grays are truly precious.

Gotta love how freely people are using that token, too.

People have been pointing out just how racist the books were since they came out but the sheer amount of publicity work to whitewash JK’s work is astounding and was even in the 90s.

In a book series where she uses the pen name of a man famous for inventing conversion therapy and uses trans women as punching bags in at least two novels.

If you’re in the US, a straight, cisgender, white, “the right kind of Christian”, conservative, and wealthy man.

And vocal training is a pain.

Folks that don’t think the transphobia is reaching “getting round up to be killed” levels haven’t been to Texas or Florida lately.

The folks in charge here are trying to get lists of trans people in their states and are super fucking chummy with pastors that have been calling for us to be lined up and shot in the head.

B…

It’s been brought to my attention the VA may be trans, which, I could not verify. I can’t find a listing for the VA anywhere. If she is, that’s not what I thought (my first impression was that the VA was a cis woman making a caricature of what she thought all trans women sounded like). Me being trans doesn’t mean I…

The show does say that the Tok’ra are that way because Egeria chose to make her children less aggressive and hateful (apparently the Goa’uld both pass on their entire species’ memory (of that particular line) and to some extent personalities when they procreate, and the queens have some control over the process, to…

You’re fine, I was asleep. Centrists in general can go shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.

Harry Potter was always a neo-liberal hellscape of bigotry.

Sorry.

Death of the author is stupid, especially when that author is alive and kicking and using her billion from her literal castle to actively alter the course of politics against us and getting us killed.

BurnedIn is playing the “enlightened centrist” role it seems this time around, and, although they’ve got some of the right ideas, them tone policing folks over this garbage isn’t really all that helpful, either.

It never ceases to boggle my mind that we live in a society that thinks that the average person deserves to starve to death if they get a slightly imperfect mark on a work review or something but that CEOs and their ilk get to ride off on golden parachutes despite absolutely destroying markets, industries, whole…

Oh god absolute nightmare fuel.

I wish our problems were so alien as snake worms that take over people’s bodies and force them to do awful things. I really really do.

It’d be so much better than humans just kinda being awful.

Don’t forget the whole abusing, threatening, and bullying a subordinate until she killed herself.

Wait, is Bobby Kotick not a demon?

j/k, demons aren’t real, the only real monsters are people.
Yay.

“We’re making record breaking profits!”
“We’re not making enough money, lay off the workers!”
“Okay let’s spend an absurd amount of money buying up a company fraught with sexual assault and harassment issues.”
“We don’t have the money to hire people or the talent to do anything useful we super pinky swear, though.”

At the very least, he shouldn’t have so much power and wealth over others to continue to abuse.