Who could have seen this coming?

I need that outfit

Yeah most of us are pretty sure whatever semblance of it he ever had is long gone

Good, she’s a solid progressive by all accounts and isn’t scandal ridden like her opponent

And she’s won now

I follow asl style for the right hand:

1- pointer; 2- pointer and middle; 3- pointer, middle, and thumb; 4- everything but thumb; all five up; 6- thumb touching pinky; 7- thumb touching ring; 8- thumb touching middle; 9- thumb touching pointer; 10- fist

Then I use the left hand for 10s. So i can get up to 100

My thoughts went to bell hooks. This woman is encouraging the emotional castration of her son and celebrating the damaged nature of men like that because they have the capacity to dominate.

In good men this damage may heal with intent and nurturing, but can manifest in self destructive behaviors like substance abuse, isolation, and suicidality. In men who are less good it can manifest as predation on others, violent dominance, and other antisocial behaviors.

Yeah, the vast majority of intersex people are just normal people. I’d even say that this shaming of physical traits is what leads to the well known machismo overcompensation.

Yeah it might’ve looked like my emotions were numbed on it as a kid, but that’s just that it let me think before I acted

When it comes to healthcare I want to feel like a European not an entrepreneur. I hate negotiating and I’m bad at it. But even if not I don’t have leverage. And it’s not like they’ll let you negotiate, they’ll say “80% of your paycheck, take it or leave it”

It’s ok because your preexisting conditions not being covered will mean you don’t really have much incentive to actually buy it

Oh that’s really fucking dumb. Like so dumb it feels like it was suggested by an accelerationist whose end goal is m4a.

They still have the 1¥, they can speak up when they don’t have a coin for 0.65c. Like they do a lot right with money, I love how large of denominations are coins, going up to the equivalent of 3.25USD, but still the 1¥ coin…

I prefer redecimalization. Just redesign money with a zero chopped off. Also get rid of the $1 bill and replace it with a coin. This would make the coins represent the current value of 10c, 50c, $1, $2.5, (maybe $5), and $10, with bills for $20, $50, $100, $200, and $1000. Bills would be representing amounts of money that while commonly exchanged, isn’t actively everyday transaction amounts, those would be represented by coinage.

It’s similar to the current situation with yen, where usually you’re rooting in your pocket to pay for something small, not opening your wallet. Though for the life of me I can’t understand why the 1¥ coin remains

Yeah, but like, is it a valuable token of trade? It’s 1c, yes that’s money, its a whole percent of a dollar, but it’s illegal in most of the country to pay someone less than 12.5 of them per minute of labor, an unlivably low wage. The $15/hr wage is increasingly normal for low skilled labor and is a quarter a minute. A quarter is great as you don’t need to fill your pocket with it to buy something from a vending machine. Ok that’s not the most honest comparison as vending machines haven’t taken pennies in at least a decade. It’s a denomination sufficiently small to cause a lot of people to just not bother with them, they just aren’t worth the time to use them or keep track of them.

Good, while we’re at it we should redecimalize. A coin that can’t pay for a significant portion of something is worthless. People used to buy snacks with coins, and like, thats where they thrive. Coins are more expensive than bills but they can change hands a lot more times. A dime for a soda or a cheap snack, maybe a nickel if it’s a good deal on a bag of chips is about right.

Like, this isn’t even a monetary policy failure, it’s just something that should happen every century or two in an inflationary economy with a 5% target.

In both cases it works because that’s the only requirement. It doesn’t need to be elegant or make sense or even last very long

Yeah there’d be like 8, one of which was a major European power before Germany was founded.

I’ve long said that the German response has been not that fascism is bad from the root to the fruit, but that Jews are good and maybe queer people as well.

Germans (and other Europeans) have displayed some appalling levels of racism towards Roma and Turkish people just casually. They sound just like elderly white people in the American south when talking about these groups. Many still also believe that Germany is for Germans.

To inocculate people against fascism you have to teach them about the disparate ideologies and the long running ideological undercurrents that coalesced into the NSDAP regime. Like, Germans and Americans alike largely just see it as big totalitarian antisemitism that wants to kill everyone. But otherwise reasonable people weren’t attracted to it for that, they were pulled into things like the volkish movement (similar to modern homesteading movement) out of a fear of the costs of modernity, or they had concerns about changing morals and mores with regards to gender and sexuality (similar to the modern anti feminist and transphobia communities), or they got into conspiracism after unexpected and uncomfortable world events like the Soviet revolution, the 1918 flu, and the shattering of the German front in the first world war, all of which led to blaming others. Hell even “tough on crime”, anti drug, and health concern attitudes were some people’s inroads.

We see so much of this again today because we’ve created an image of 1930s fascist Germany and for many people their interpretation of that image has become the whole of the real thing in their eyes. They don’t understand that these ideas can be tempting and that a Jewish nation is capable of fascism because they think fascism requires hating Jewish people rather than just that diasporic people with a different religion and a history of persecution are really easy targets for it

Keep in mind Costa Rica and him are both ok with him being sent to Costa Rica

Do it, I got way more compliments for nail polish when I was read as a guy