Ma'amsplaining.

This is a side blog. It is my tantrum hole.

[afurioushawk]

Everyone who didn't vote for Kamala Harris, along with everyone in this administration, is going to hell.

[mariacallous]

[maamsplaining]

One thing I’ve read over and over regarding modern autocrats is that this is precisely how they win - by convincing people that nothing matters and the truth can’t be known and it’s all too corrupt to even bother trying for good government.

[mariacallous]

[mariacallous]

[afurioushawk]

Amazing

[achievementhaunterss]

stay tuned for my next groundbreaking thinkpiece: democrats need to stop thinking of men as 'evil' and that's why they MUST embrace a known lying, abusive nazi as their next great white hope.

[bbcwhereareyou]

On the radio in the car earlier this afternoon they aired a clip of Platner complaining that people asking questions about his tattoo was "politically motivated."

Yeah, dude. I am politically motivated by the desire to not support someone with a nazi tattoo.

I watched this episode of something a while back (I forget what) where a tattoo artist who was a skinhead was talking about how he covers up nazi tattoos for free. People who've gotten out of the life and are trying to be better but have this permanent reminder of their shameful past on their skin. Men who were incarcerated and joined nazi gangs because it seemed like a way to survive and later regretted it. That sort of thing. And this guy is using his work as a way to make amends and help people move on and make better choices.

I think it's admirable to learn and grow. I don't expect the individual people who were harmed to forgive them, or assume people in communities they targeted will trust them without their own proof. But if there's true rehabilitation and they regret what they've done and show that through their actions moving forward, saying "but you were a nazi, once evil always evil" is only going to serve to drive them back to that life.

AND YET

All Platner has done is make excuse after excuse. Every single direct quote I've heard from him has been attempting to handwave and discredit the people with concerns rather than taking ownership over the choices about what he put on his body. Regardless of whether you want to believe he didn't know what it meant at the time (I don't believe it, fwiw), THAT is the thing that's more concerning than anything. No responsibility or honesty.

(AND to that story about the tattoo guy, I can give the benefit of the doubt for a second chance without trusting them to hold elected office to represent me, too. Jesus.)

[afurioushawk]

[maamsplaining]

Aw, I’m gonna feel bad if that’s not bad makeup and is actually liver failure making him orange.

J/k, I’m gonna be cool with it.

[midnightssea]

Voice of the people

[sewer-swan]

please stop trying to convince me the cause is righteous and convince me the tactics are effective

[mariacallous]

[afurioushawk]

David Duke also hates Israel, just like Graham Platner, and popularized the left's favorite emotional support slur. I'm sure Graham and David would bond over their mutual mentally unwell obsession with Joo money, I mean AIPAC, along with white supremacist tattoos.

[maamsplaining]

"'They" are famed commie George Herbert Walker Bush, who, as president, said publicly - and I'm paraphrasing here - "Sorry, but you're gonna have to vote for the Dem on this one, because he was a FUCKING GRAND WIZARD OF THE KKK. What is wrong with y'all?"

[afurioushawk]

The exact same people who said they needed a reason besides Orange Man Bad to vote for Kamala Harris now want you to support Nazi Titty Tattoo Man because Susan Collins Bad.

[maamsplaining]

[the-big-mood]

These two giant turtles have been fighting each other for more than 120 years.

According to the zoo, one turtle stole the other’s food 120 years ago, and since that day they became enemies.

There hasn’t been a single day where they don’t fight for 2–3 minutes😂

[cash4bees]

I think the reason I still enjoy tumblr is that even though this all still pisses me off, I know that anything that makes me mad on here is 100% earnest. It's not ragebait or engagement farming, y'all are actually just that stupid sometimes

[strangehorse]

Is anyone else starting to feel kind of wary about the increasingly common narrative that "women's bodies are so different to men's that modern scientific recommendations do not apply to them"?

Like. There is a significant gap between 'a lot of studies do not take into account variations caused by things like female hormone cycles, which can limit how generalisable they are' and 'medical science does not apply to women', and the latter just seems to create a situation rife for bad faith actors and snake oil salesmen to reassure you that actually, THEY have the answers, because THEY listen to women, and if you simply pay them for their online subscription service-

[strangehorse]

like. female and male bodies are not different species. the traits you consider inherent and unique to Female or Male can often be changed by hormone therapy and other interventions, and many traits fall on a bimodal distribution, not a binary one. you can apply the findings of 'Invisible Women' without implying that female bodies are like, Startouched Special Moon-Tied Nature Creatures that are immune to all known scientific phenomena

[leighlew3]

Stephen Miller and the MAGAt trash are so threatened by James Talarico for being a calm, levelheaded, very vocally Christian Democrat that they are now spreading blatant lies calling him trans and making transphobic “jokes” because they know they’ve demonized trans people so much and it’s their last hope.

But all they are doing is proving what absolute fucking losers they are. How anybody can still vote on the side of these childish, brainless, vile, corrupt, criminal, pedophile and pedophile protecting idiots is beyond me.

Donald Trump has made being an absolute dogshit human being the new norm. We have lost all sense of decorum or class when it comes to our political leadership. I mean they’re building a damn UFC arena on the White House lawn like it’s some white trash trailer park.

Happy 250th, we’re a fucking embarrassment and laughing stock of the world. 🇺🇸 👍

[brainstatic]

One thing I’m still pissed at Bernie Sanders about is turning a generation against the Democratic Party. Every piece of social progress in the last 80 years, from Social Security to Medicaid to Medicare to integration to the Civil Rights Act to Title IX to Roe v. Wade to labor rights to environmental protections to public health protections to Obamacare to Obergefell, all of it directly or indirectly powered by the engine of change that is the Democratic Party. And then Sanders comes and says this whole apparatus, which he had no hand in building, is corrupt and needs to be completely replaced. Now we have countless young people who think Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the same partly because they were told that an engine of change and an anchor of stagnation and oppression are equally bad because they were fed the lie that no one in the Democratic Party does anything to improve their lives.

[nyxelestia]

Nothing makes me more embarrassed about my age or generation than BernieOrBust/StillJill/NeverHillary supporters who are basically doing the GOP’s work for them and refuse to acknowledge it. As much as I hate the ageist bullshit I see Baby Boomers come up with, I can see why they think so many millenials need to get their head out of the clouds or don’t know how the real world works when I see the way people my age talk about politics. Like, I know it’s bullshit and I still don’t blame baby boomers for getting mad that young people think they know everything. Because fun story: my university campus is very liberal and very politically active, and during the last quarter there most students strongly supported Bernie Sanders…except for most of us in or connected to the Political Science Department (so Poli Sci majors, International Relations majors, certain other ‘bureaucratic’ majors, etc.) We also loved Bernie, but we all pretty bluntly said we were voting for Hillary and thought she’d be the best President. Most of us were pretty blunt about how “as much as we love Bernie’s message of change, we think Hillary can actually accomplish more of it in the real world”. We were basing our decision on our studies of politics, of what kinds of change have and have not worked in history and why. This support for Hillary, even with our love of Bernie, came from a place of deep understanding of how politics work, of why certain policies or political goals fail, and what various political leaders’ real powers and challenges are. We were called “over-educated elites” because of this.

[maddie-2022]

It’s worth noting that much of our greatest progressive reforms came from LBJ, very much a political insider, and a guy who was kind of slimy in his personal life. He was not a soaring idealist.

And some of the other progressive greats? JFK, FDR, and Teddy Roosevelt all came from long-established political dynasties

I supported Bernie in 2016 (although I did vote for Hillary in the general, and have voted Democrat every two years since), but in hindsight, I think you’re right, attacking the system is not the best move to get real reform done. H. Clinton probably would have done a good job

[prismatic-bell]

And let’s be real: many of them were assholes. JFK was a serial cheater. FDR–who anyone on this blog for more than five minutes can tell you I love for his social policies–was antisemitic and didn’t challenge racial prejudices that blocked many Black citizens from accessing those wonderful social policies. Teddy Roosevelt was an ardent supporter of, and participant in, American imperialism. LBJ used to talk about his dick to staffers. This is not uncommon, because in spite of the many jokes, politicians are people.

Change does not come from perfect individuals.

Bernie did so much damage.

[fairvilejen]

Nixon, fucking Nixon, signed the core of the ecologic protection laws.

[ralfmaximus]

Indeed, Nixon gave us the EPA and normalized relations with China.

Thanks to his assholery, we also have the Presidential Records Act.

[maamsplaining]

Maybe it's because I've been reading more American history this year, but I can't move past the fact that today's Republican party is what it is because southerners have historically been more committed to depriving black people of rights than they were to their own well-being. And every time the federal government has done anything - no matter how tepid - to protect the rights of anyone other than white men, more white men turn republican and the party turns more reactionary. These people will vote to drink poison to make sure black people don't have clean water (literally, given the recent EPA reversal on PFAs in drinking water).

If you think the parties are the same, I'd ask you to have your racist neighbor explain the difference to you, because he definitely sees one.