Posts by GCat@spinster.xyz
(DIR) Post #AI0beCNhmalYqdvhHE by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-01T15:02:26.151163Z
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@KarePatriot @cully45 I have to admit that I also was blinded by the propaganda about Trump. Can’t say that I’m a big Trump supporter now but it is super clear to me that things were much better under him than under Biden, mean tweets aside. Ironically, one of the things I had feared under Trump was vax passports due to him spearheading Operation Warp Speed. I really disliked Biden but him promising not to institute passports was the single deciding factor in my 2020 vote.
(DIR) Post #AI0q5S1v6m2AYgd3U8 by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-01T17:44:13.369848Z
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@PG @KarePatriot @cully45 The TRA thing is only one of many reasons why I dislike Biden. As someone who absolutely loathed Trump, and frankly, still kinda hates him, there were a number of things he did that were objectively good. Putting caps on insulin and epipen costs. The First Step Act. Signing an act to make animal cruelty a federal crime with up to 7 years in prison. Not getting us involved in new wars and attempting to de-escalate the ones we were in. Lowered unemployment rates (although this can be disputed, since unemployment rate doesn’t take into account people who have just given up. And a lot of the economic gains were lost in March 2020). He also kept oil prices low, which in turn lowered costs on the working and middle classes. Finally, as someone who was a hard pass on the vaccine, Trump so far has not backed the efforts to mandate it, although I can’t say what he would have done if he were in office. I would also point out that as far as corruption, and allegations of sexual assault go - many of these criticisms apply to Biden (Tara Reade, the Hunter Biden stuff). The vaccine mandate was the single biggest threat to bodily autonomy I have seen in my lifetime. I appreciate your position on this especially with respect to senior benefits. However many of these programs were never going to be sustainable - social security seems to assume exponential population growth. Medical costs rise every year, and we pay more for healthcare in this country and get worse outcomes than our peer countries. I don’t know what the solution is but I don’t think we can rely on the bullshit happening in Washington anymore, whether it is lead by a republican or a democrat.
(DIR) Post #AI1JW7hHi7OTzF2zhY by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-01T23:13:59.883620Z
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@Yemaya This is a sincere question and I’m genuinely trying to understand your position. But I’m not sure why the Will Smith slap is being framed as a racial issue when both Will Smith and Chris Rock are black? I read the scene more as a situation of male violence and possessiveness of women. Personally, I think I would find it more humiliating to have my husband slap someone and start screaming at them in front of a large awards ceremony than I would by a nasty, unfunny joke (although both scenarios would be pretty awful to experience). And then the video went viral for everyone to watch and dissect. Had Will Smith left it alone, Chris Rock’s comments would have been buried and forgotten by the end of the night. To me, it seems like the real victim in this was Jada Pinkett, who was publicly humiliated not once but twice in the space of 30 seconds, and has had her alopecia and sex life continuously discussed for the past week. What part makes this a racial issue? The audience reaction against Will Smith? Chris Rock being insensitive and upholding western beauty standards as well as mocking someone with a medical condition? Does it just serve as a reminder to other black women when people have made rude comments about their hair? All or none of the above?
(DIR) Post #AI1OWa3okuF7j1cm7E by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-02T00:10:06.431580Z
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@FemaleIsNotAFeeling It has become increasingly common for people to believe that modern medicine is limitless and that the drugs they take won’t cause side effects. Side effects, in their minds, are super rare and doctors only list them because they are obligated to for insurance purposes, so they don’t make the connection between the drugs they take and the negative effects they experience. People have been conditioned to not listen to their own bodies, especially when they are on medications. Trans people are on a whole other level of being divorced from reality, so it doesn’t shock me that they would be more likely to suffer from self-inflicted chronic disease and not make the connection. They are usually not just on cross sex hormones but also drugs to treat anxiety/depression, and then whatever else they are given to treat the mysterious chronic illnesses they develop.
(DIR) Post #AI1SN5NxppXDnZm9y4 by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-02T00:53:12.389590Z
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@TheWitchBitch @Yemaya After re-watching the clip, I see what you mean and don’t really know what to make of it all. I’ve always really liked Will Smith so it is a bit sad to watch unfold.
(DIR) Post #AI1TOYpJxUWfLvq4QK by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-02T01:04:40.995231Z
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@LadyMont Where did she even get the fetuses from? And why would she have them at her house? This is such a weird story.
(DIR) Post #AI1UZYhgr9gy6v4stc by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-02T01:17:52.254833Z
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@LadyMont There are some pretty gruesome pictures floating around of the fetuses’ remains. At least one of them looks like it may have had anencephaly.
(DIR) Post #AI1sWfn0S9UE7MimAq by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-02T05:46:16.400876Z
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@polarisera @Ausenseiter @Hollahollara @LaylaAlexandrovna @TDovelle I want to know too - do they give you some kind of anti-parasitic for this condition?
(DIR) Post #AI2cP2XyYL8qH2zNtw by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-02T14:20:19.759419Z
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@polarisera Is this his granddaughter? Ugh seeing all these creeper Biden pictures in a row makes me feel a little nauseous
(DIR) Post #AI2govZXVVCnzJJuOO by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-02T15:09:49.661954Z
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@HebrideanHecate Why are so many female celebrities wearing these horribly unflattering transparent lingerie-like dresses like in the thumbnail? I’ve seen a few now and they always look stupid.
(DIR) Post #AI3rkBUYBVGUZEt4Vc by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T04:46:55.709520Z
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@Yemaya @TheWitchBitch I read through your other responses. Thank you for taking the time to answer my question.
(DIR) Post #AI3ugLa326MMYqJw4u by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T05:19:50.444304Z
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@SandyD @LaylaAlexandrovna @TDovelle Masks were never necessary in any setting! Decades of studies show they do nothing to prevent transmission of respiratory viruses. It is all about reminding people day after day that they need to be afraid, and instituting arbitrary rules that are impossible to follow in order to demoralize the entire population.
(DIR) Post #AI3zTIlIhTr3pGBOCm by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T06:13:30.968916Z
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@Yemaya @TheWitchBitch To answer your question if it is not rhetorical: I am also a racial minority and I live in a very white area. And while I have encountered racial prejudice (typically in ways that are casual and never acknowledged as racism), it would be a lie for me to claim that race and racism have played any significant role in my life trajectory. So based on my own personal experience, I really can’t agree that everything in this country is about race, when other things like family connections, wealth, education, neighborhood, friend choices, health status, have been more obvious influences in my life and the lives of my peers. Of course, I do not speak for anyone but myself, and anti-black racism is a different type of racism entirely to what I have experienced.
(DIR) Post #AI53eqqotOBJi9UG9o by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T18:35:08.671153Z
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@sunspot This is how totally normal women behave
(DIR) Post #AI59kJIz7vln8KeC4O by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T19:43:21.501198Z
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@Yemaya @TheWitchBitch Here’s my issue with this. Your premise that racism is baked into American society and can’t be denied has become accepted en masse by most of the educated and managerial class, and the policy decisions these people are implementing in order to “correct” this problem are actively making race relations deteriorate. Framing the problem this way is generating statistically worse outcomes for young black people especially in education, violent crime, and health. These have all been problems in the past but over the past decade they have gotten much worse. If the attempts to correct the problem are making these metrics increasingly bad, then perhaps all of the initial assumptions need to be re-examined.
(DIR) Post #AI5F2BUXPrYLsoOSJM by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T20:42:33.282079Z
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@Ausenseiter @Yemaya @TheWitchBitch Because I don’t think that either these new policies, or the assumptions that were used to justify them, should be treated as sacred. At least not if you are serious about improving things.
(DIR) Post #AI5FGAxwATE4J3og0O by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T20:45:08.704827Z
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@Ausenseiter I don’t think that either these new policies, or the assumptions that were used to justify them, should be treated as sacred. At least not if you are serious about improving things.
(DIR) Post #AI5LTj4VH1ohZcjRwm by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T21:54:48.909625Z
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@AnungIkwe @You_cat_to_be_kitten_me I should have heeded your warning and not clicked on this.
(DIR) Post #AI5Mp9DtL2REiStydM by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T22:09:53.513121Z
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@Ausenseiter I think these broad statements like “women have been oppressed for millennia” need to be qualified with a lot more information. How were they oppressed? Which cultures and which time period? Why were they oppressed? What can an individual woman do to improve her situation and those around her? (This question is the controversial one that people are afraid of asking.) If we implement a solution, what will the consequences of be? Once a problem has been well defined and understood, it is easier to come up with larger scale solutions that actually work instead of implementing something that looks good on paper but makes things worse.
(DIR) Post #AI5VBUtuDmHxx6ioM4 by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T23:43:34.871376Z
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@Ausenseiter I think my point here is: how much do we truly know? Over the past couple years, there have been many things that I took for granted as assumptions not worth revisiting. Yet as soon as I did start looking, I found many conflicting pieces of information that forced me to draw conclusions that are largely not establishment approved. This is not merely a theoretical exercise - unless we are continually revisiting our assumptions, it is easy for those assumptions to be manipulated in ways that are harmful. Even your example of women being oppressed over time has been twisted to “women are oppressed because of gender”, which has now lead to “trans women need access to womens spaces.”