SerialExperimentsGay [she/her, fae/faer]

Satire isn’t dead, it just became reality.

also forcefem everybody just to make sure

only as long as they aren’t killed by them

Apparently he cleaned out his dad’s moldy basement. So room cleaning is literally what got him in the hospital.

Also, he’s on an all-meat diet which drastically increases inflammatory immune responses and his lungs have been in bad shape ever since he began benzo withdrawal, he caught pneumonia early on in that process. That pre-existing lung damage is supposedly what led to him suffering hypoxic brain damage later on when he did the artificial coma thing to quit benzos cold turkey. So anamnestically, he’s at a fairly huge risk to begin with. Not to mention that his medical history most likely includes countless covid infections at this point. Oh, and it wouldn’t surprise me if he actively refused to wear a respirator during the basement cleaning thingy, too, because of ideological reasons.

True MAHA hours for that guy.

Sorry, that’s just putting the horse before the carriage. The moralizing of foreign policy started more than a decade before gay marriage became legal in the US, in the wake of 9/11, driven by the neocons in the Bush II administration, and it originally focussed on “democracy” as the moral principle to be spread through imperialist violence. The ideologies behind this were Kantianism, especially Kant’s writings on eternal peace, Fukuyama’s “end of history” narrative and Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations, none of which had anything to do with queer rights even in the most remote sense.

Expanding this idealist approach to foreign policy to include spreading gay rights through regime change was a much later development in imperialist propaganda that happened after gay marriage became legal and homophobia as a mandatory cultural stance was denormalized. It only became a campaigning strategy after corporations had already latched onto large-scale pinkwashing in the mid 2010s. Yes, there was queer marketing before, Subaru realized a decade before other corporatios rolled out the rainbows in June that their cars were bought by lesbians and that they could expand that market, but advertising to gay people at that time was a lot more targeted and subtle than “just slap a rainbow on everything” because at this time you had to avoid straight people noticing that the brand was popular amongst queers.

Rainbow imperialism as a stance among straight people also never was that important outside of a few employers in the US MIC and Israeli PR. There is a discursive tradition of homonationalism that later developments tied into and that started around 9/11 within reactionary strata of especially communities of cis gay men and TERFy lesbians, but that was mainstreamed islamophobia seeping into queer communities, not queer emancipatory movements shaping imperialist discourse. The simultaneous exclusion and fetishization of Middle Eastern men among cis gays was a thing ever since orientalism had existed, but it wasn’t something people outside of gay spaces were even aware of. These were conversations siloed off from the straights almost entirely.

The idea that gay marriage became legal to then justify imperialism with it is honestly laughable. It was way too much of a contested issue in mainstream policy back then to parade it around like that. The whole line of reasoning doesn’t sit well with me, it reminds me way too much of reactionaries describing queerness as a “western cultural import”.

Also blaming the abandonment of rainbow imperialism on “the pushback from the radical side of the gay community” sounds like the typical hogwash from transphobic gays who blame us for “pushing things too far” and “endangering queer rights by demanding too much”. Abandoning rainbow imperialism was, from the beginning, driven by homophobes in the MIC who had never been happy with these developments in the first place. They didn’t need to listen to radical queer activists for that.

Even Richard Dawkins calls himself “culturally Christian” these days.

doomed yuri

yuri dooming treatlerites to a peanutless existence

look it’s Tolkien the turtle

If you’re an access journalist, the only way you ask a sitting prime minister of a Western ally “hard questions” is as a setup for him to deflect and downplay criticism. If you would want to actually corner him on this, you would have to build an entire career around not doing that with anybody ever until you come off as harmless enough to get accredited to the press conference, then you’d have one shot at going off script and pressing him on clarification of the obvious, then you’d spend the rest of your career trying to monetize your substack because no network would ever employ you again.

That load of drivel peppered with nonsense like “custom-generated sets of stuff” is such a good example for how relying on AI too much will completely rot your skills

After recently coming out as a furry myself and getting a more in depth look on the community from my furry friends, i can’t help but be amazed at how crafty many of these people are, how much creativity i find in that fandom and, ofc, also how much i want fluffy animal ears that automatically align themselves in the direction of noises around me jfc this is so cool that guy is cooking.

Honestly, i fear that a lot of the recent developments signal a reactionary desire to at least move back to the days when autists were forced into masking as much as possible and to actively crush acceptance of neurodivergence. And honestly, it could herald developments that are a lot worse than that. Carcereal psychiatry with forced institutionalizations, electro shocks and lobotomies is very much a part of the era that reactionaries are nostalgic for.

Apolitical 4channer most likely means"posts Hitler, but is too irony-poisoned to admit he’s serious about it"

Should’ve eaten that sweet, sweet moss straight from the wall

Oh look, i get to “as a trans woman” with my first post. So yeah, as a trans woman, i unfortunately find it’s highly usual that nobody steps in when people want us dead.