I've been saying for years now that the rampant corruption and absence of protocol means the White House's security must be considered too compromised for the next administration to handle matters of security there, but Trump is also hellbent on ruining the historical value too.
Like, my original pitch was "just convert the whole thing into a museum and house the new president somewhere else" but even assuming we survive what's to come and nothing is further damaged in removing him from the premises, they've ruined the rose garden, they're turning the
entire place into some sort of paranoid bunker, I'd be absolutely shocked if all manner of historical items from inside haven't already been smuggled out and sold off or carelessly destroyed.
I'm obviously much more concerned with the long term effects of judiciary appointments
and the gutting of basically every federal agency, but there really is no level, practical, cultural, or even physical where we've really taken a sober look at what's been irreparably destroyed by letting this incompetent mobster set one foot into that office.
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There are few things I hate as much as the myth of the competent nazi.
The myth is, itself, flagrant fascist propaganda.
Nazis need everyone to believe in these strong charismatic leaders who just sweep in, take direct control of everything, and Get A Bunch Of Stuff Done, and
have that concept normalized. They need you to buy into the idea that at least on paper, authoritarianism and dictatorship works, you just need to have the right person at the helm.
And they don't just need you to believe that about this guy they're pointing to as "right" today,
they need you to keep believing that premise going forward so the next guy they prop up doesn't seem like a terrible idea as well.
But no, the fundamental premise is, in fact, unsound. Things actually do run much better when you allow the experts who actually have the experience
It's been a while and I've had enough new followers pop up since that I think we're way overdue for some Story Time but I'm also sitting here looking at Twitter as the sun goes down and I promised myself I'd make some stew in the slow cooker, so read Gwen's thread then come back.
Right then, flashback time! The year was 2014, I'd just started a new set of social media accounts to explore transition options safely, and a bunch of nazis looking to test how much violence they could get away with started terrorizing the hell out of a seemingly random group of
Random stray thought since for the past month or so I've seen another uptick of weird dudes pissing their pants over efforts to not make all dwarves be fighters or whatever in RPGs:
Imagine that there were a rule in the game that you get a +2 bonus to Str if your name is Betty.
Not you as a player, just your character. And they can even do all their adventuring under a fake name where it won't necessarily come up, just so long as it's canonical that up until shortly before joining the party, they were called Betty, and that's their actual legal name.
It's a completely arbitrary rule, not based in real life or anything, but you've got 3 options now, going forward:
You start making every single martial character you play be a Betty.
You start making every character in the game have a dark mysterious past where they hide the
What I'm about to say here I should preface by stressing that this in no way makes them less of a very serious threat, but I'm perpetually stunned by how this particular group of obsessive stalkers manages to be so profoundly pathetic and incompetent in everything they attempt.
Case in point, I've been seeing them come at Yonah all day long shouting the bog standard slurs scumbags love shouting at trans women, and I don't see how those can be expected to have any real impact on someone who is not transfeminine.
Which Yonah is very plainly not.
Which is
something you would really expect these people would know, as they have been maintaining a massive stalking database on Yonah since before they came out as non-binary, and if you look at their feed today, or really any time in like, the past 3 years or so at least, you will see
I feel like right now is a good time for a little educational thread about death threats, and in a broader sense, that weird little game abusers so love to play, making mountains out of molehills while pointing at actual mountains and labeling them as molehills.
Let's start off
with what is actually considered to be a death threat in the legal sense, something most people don't have a clue about as very few people have ever seriously been sent one.
A death threat as relayed by law enforcement types, is a clearly expressed statement that one party plans
to kill another party, specifying a time place and means by which they intend to do so.
There are enough specific components to that you'd figure it would never come up, and like I said, it rarely ever actually does. Usually, it'll be in the context of some kind of coercion.
So last night I tossed one of those posts up that just sort of inherently generates big numbers and gets a lot of responses, trying to encourage people to speak up about transphobia with a few more teeth than the usual. And that's been happening and all quite positive, except for
one rather striking response from an account not following me or much of anyone else taking pretty huge offense to the whole notion and going off on a ridiculous tirade. And yes, to my lack of surprise, this did in fact appear to belong to a combative sort from the UK. I'd parade
it around as a textbook example of unconscionable behavior, but as is frequently the case with these things, the real point of the post was to try to bait me into saying something aggressive to play victim over. I failed to take the bait, so the bigot in question deleted the post