JK Rowling in 2020: “I was the victim of sexual assault, so it’s okay for me to distrust and revile transgender women.”

JK Rowling in 2025: “Women need to commit more sex crimes against one another in order to feel safe.”

Who does he think he is? Beto O’Rourke?

HitlerPig cheated, and we all know it.

Nixon accused JFK of buying votes all through Illinois after the 1960 election. And we have ample statistical and anecdotal evidence to suggest the Dem machine in Chicago was absolutely stacking the deck in JFK’s favor. But we also have ample statistical and anecdotal evidence to suggest the GOP machine was stacking the deck in the south of the state.

Subsequently, when Nixon recaptured the executive branch in '68 (following a series of very convenient political upheavals) he implemented the “Southern Strategy” to win over Dixiecrat leadership and cement a Republican majority across the Gulf Coast for the next 80 years. The same Democrats who had been winning elections on the back of that machine in the 60s/70s became Republicans winning with the same machine at their backs in the 80s/90s.

This isn’t a problem unique to Trump. It’s baked into the decentralized, county-lead, deliberately opaque and byzantine electoral counting and reporting system. Katherine Harris was fucking with Florida elections in 2000 the same way Brad Raffensperger fucked with Georgia elections in 2024.

And don’t look too hard at California’s ascendancy of Silicon Valley shills or the cop-lead effort to elevate Eric Adams to the NYC Mayorship or the Richie Torries seat in the Bronx or the current ratfvckery with Cuomo.

You won’t be torn anymore.

I’ve seen bits of it and heard some of the highnotes covered in other media. I think one of the producers was on the TrashFuture podcast at one point… or another one I listen to.

Either way, the Russia/China/North Korea/Insert-Evil-Foreigner-Here (but never Israel or Saudi Arabia or Qatar, because we’re friends and they would never dream of…) angle was overhyped, while the degree to which local county clerks and judges fuck with this was under reported.

To believe that extremely powerful forces have NOT been trying to control our elections for years, is extremely naive.

Election manipulation, particularly domestically, is a very touchy subject. It’s been proven to depress voter turnout in the receptive demographic. So you’re stuck with this dilemma of trying to alert people to manipulation without deterring them from turning out in the next cycle. The line that both liberals and conservatives throw out is “We have to vote in such huge numbers that they can’t cheat us!” which can be an effective rallying cry in the moment. But it doesn’t work if you don’t ever do anything to address the claims down the line.

Even when Obama’s campaign swept the Atlantic Coast in 2008, what did his DOJ do to confront all the Bush-era fuckery thereafter? Same with Trump in 2016, screaming “Lock her up!” at Hillary while insisting she’s rigged the whole vote, then… just shrugging and ignoring her while in office. Really kicks the legs out of your base when you spend a year complaining about how inherently unfair the election process has become and then announcing “We won so I guess everything is fine”.

There’s the “machines are rigged” explanation, which I’ve been torn on.

But there’s also the far more likely “the city officials simply don’t let you in if they think you’re not going to vote for Trump” which I find much more believable.

On Lemmy, idk. Some definitely exist.

Anywhere else, a lot more

According to Chevy Chase

More seriously, I think erasure is only part of it. Lots of LGBTQ folks deliberately remain in the closet for the sake of family relationships, careers, and local politics.

If you’re bi, it’s just easier.

But that heterosexual camouflage does get confusing to process when you “come out”. Especially with the reactionary attitude that heterosexuality is a choice.

The brutal math of selection bias. Ten people read your post. Nine of them shrug and move on. One of them stops to verbally fuck up your shit.

Agnes Bertrand Sanz of Oxfam said: “There are moments in history where delay and distraction are not neutral, it is a decision.

“While EU ministers continue to debate and defer, entire families in Gaza are being buried under rubble and people are being killed while trying to get food. Every second of delay costs lives.”

The association agreement, which came into force in 2000, underpins a trading relationship worth €68bn (£58bn) between the 27 EU countries and Israel. The bloc is Israel’s largest market, accounting for about a third of its exports.

At least one.

A more common strategy than you’d like to think. For instance, in 1918 the state of California declared a War On Squirrels.

In 1937, the Colorado National Guard conducted a campaign to eliminate locusts with flamethrowers.

Then there were much more successful campaigns to eradicate certain apex predators - wolves and bears most commonly

The idea that we shouldn’t be attempting to eradicate whole species that local populations consider hazardous or harmful is a relatively novel one.

And then they came for Uncle Tom, and there was no one left to speak for him.

Bees are collapsing in the U.S. A key to their secrets might vanish.

I fucking hate these nonsense clickbait headlines.

don’t show up

They did show up. Kamala Harris won more votes than Barack Obama.

People talk like the Democrats didn’t successfully twist arms and browbeat supporters into showing up for them in droves. 75,017,613 people voted for Kamala Harris, despite her vile stench.

Trump simply brought in more.

For fucks sake leave Biden alone.

My man had four years to put a very obvious, comically easy to convict, serial murderer behind bars. And he dragged his feet because he thought Trump 2 would be easier to win against than Trump 1.

That’s before you get into the genocides he backed or the pandemic responses he defunded or the insurance reforms he quashed or the fucking Clarence Thomas SCOTUS nomination. Dude should be crucified for that last one alone.

There are so many, many, many reasons to hate Joe Biden. We could be living in a golden new age of peace and prosperity in 2025 and we would still have ample reason to damn that piece of shit to hell for ten lifetimes.

At what point does pride become delusion?

You are only bisexual if you are engaged in sex with two people of the opposite sex simultaneously.

Otherwise, you’re just Schrodinger’s Gay.

Found the Irishman.

Possibly the peak of the franchise, assuming you enjoy drag racing more than professional musicians launching cars into space.