i ended up googling how many billionaires there are because of this whole fiasco and there are almost three tHOUSAND billionaires. that is what… trillions of dollars being horded. trillions of dollars that could feed people, house people, educate people. trillions of dollars that could be used to make sanctuaries, protect land and animals, make entire swaths of the world just places where the planet can breathe.
two thousand, seven hundred people. that’s just… a particularly dense neighborhood. owning enough wealth to save the world and instead spend on killing it and sometimes killing themselves.
that’s what people who go “aw, they’re still human beings, aren’t they?” don’t get. to me, this sounds like fucking space invaders who landed on the planet and just stole the entire food supply. that’s not a fellow human being, that is a roadblock to fucking survival. that’s my enemy and, yes, i cheer when my enemy dies sometimes.
Twitters algorithm intentionally shows me things that make me scared and pissed off. I feel like I’m being actively punished for using a service I do not want or need. Great business plan.
I feel like I’m trying to buy a hot dog but the hot dog guy is like “okay but I gotta Taser you in the pussy” and he’s surprised when I take my business elsewhere.
Ppl dont seem to realise that “only perceivably queer people should have access to queer spaces and support” and “nobody is obligated to out themselves to you and nobody needs to provide proof of their sexuality/identity” CANNOT coexist.
People are very quick to say “nobody should ever be forced out of the closet, there is no one way to be queer” but then throw a fit when someone who isnt visibly gay plays a gay character or when someone who isnt officially out acts in a ~queer way~.
Also, sometimes the person you think is the poster child for cisheterosexuality is in fact incredibly queer because that’s the way they feel happiest presenting. And sometimes the person you’re dead certain is queer is cishet and just really cool about it. And you will never be able to tell the difference on sight and that is a good thing.
gotta say just cuz i havnt seen it brought up anywhere; HUGE fan of this new era we are entering here. of unions and blackouts and attempts at criminalizing transness failing.
like yes obviously all of these only arise because situations are getting ridiculously bleak. but there are victories happening. people are taking stands. and right now a lot of it seems like hopeless shouting at deaf corporate ears but people are still shouting yknow.
thing will probably still get worse before they get any better, but the ground work for that better is being laid right now and im excited to see where it goes
See the chap with glasses and an incredible moustache in the bottom right? that’s Magnus Hirschfeld, the gay Jewish doctor who ran the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Research) in Berlin. It was largely his books, his research that the Nazis burned.
Everyone else in this photo is a trans person that Dr Hirschfeld worked with. This photo was taken at their christmas party.
Seriously, the easiest way for a time-traveler to make present-day money completely untraceably would be comicbooks.
Go buy yourself a US 10c coin from 1935, which will apparently set you back around $8.50; set your time machine for New York, April 18th 1938; walk up to a newsstand and buy a copy of Action Comics #1 with your dime.
Come back to the present, send the comic off to be professionally graded, tell everyone you found it in a yard sale, sell it at auction, and congratulations: your $8.50 is now $3.25 million.
Repeat with Detective Comics #27, Amazing Fantasy #15, etc.
Hell, if you don’t wanna draw attention to yourself, just pick less expensive comics! Need $600 quick? Go to February 1991, pick up New Mutants #98 for a dollar, and a Deadpool fan will take that off your hands really quick.
Comics are mass-produced, so history won’t miss a copy or two going missing; basically untraceable once sold; and can easily be claimed as something you found in a yard sale or charity shop.
When studies show that underage drinking is harmful, it’s banned easily. But when studies show that spanking is harmful, it remains legal and parents still insist on doing it.
Age restrictions on purchasing cigarettes pass easily. But laws prohibiting smoking where children are forced to breathe in secondhand smoke are much harder to pass.
Children under a certain age are prohibited from using most social media websites. But adults are allowed to post videos of their children’s meltdowns.
Teenagers need their parents’ permission to get body modifications. But parents can get their babies’ ears pierced.
Anyone who genuinely wants to protect children would not panic about the children’s own choices while ignoring what adults force on them. Anyone who genuinely wants to protect children would not insist that studies on the dangers of children’s own choices be fully trusted and obeyed while ignoring and arguing with studies on the dangers of how adults treat children.
But many adults just want to control children, not protect them.
