I bet it’s the second one. People tend to listen to things that they find relatable, so trans people tend to listen to trans musicians making songs about the trans experience.
I saw a video just the other day that you might like that’s related to this. It’s called dissociation and the “trans aesthetic”.
I haven’t watched it in probably 20 years (whenever those episodes came out, time is an illusion and lunch time doubly so), but wasn’t that whole arc about Mr Garrison thinking they had to be a woman because they’re attracted to men and therefore couldn’t just be a gay man? Which seems more about old school homophobia or maybe the transphobic “trans women are just gay men trying to trick straight men into sleeping with them” autogynephelia thing. Plus there were all the usual Republican “I’m not 5ft 11! I’m trans 6 feet!”, trans-species, and trans-race “jokes” that are transphobic. Those were basically 1 step removed from them making an “attack helicopter” joke (if that).
Also, this?
Garrison was trans, then wasn’t
That’s transphobic. Being trans isn’t any more of a choice than being gay. Kissing the homies goodnight with full tongue isn’t you deciding to be gay for a day and then deciding to be straight again, and experimenting with your gender isn’t waking up one morning and deciding to be trans for a day.
You may try it and decide that it isn’t for you, but that doesn’t mean that you were trans or gay and now aren’t anymore. It just means that you ran an experiment that helped you learn more about yourself.
And to go further, breaking gender stereotypes (like femboys do, for example) doesn’t make you trans either, but it does make you cool for being brave enough to give the finger to society by not playing the stereotype they expect you to play. And if you try it and decide you don’t like it? That’s cool too, you were brave enough to step outside your comfort zone and the rules society wants to force you into in order to try something new.
To be fair, both of those were won with plenty of violence and took decades to accomplish.
The first Pride was a riot started most likely by a black trans woman who refused to be grabbed by the cops during one of their usual roundups of gay people and threw the first punch (brick to the face?) that set off a brawl across the whole area. IIRC, 100 cops were injured in the fight. But it still took nearly 50 years for gay marriage to be completely legal in the US. 1969 was when Stonewall happened, 2015 was the Supreme Court ruling (and that can be repealed at any time, like they did with abortion). Even the first state to officially write it into law, Massachusetts, only happened in 2004.
MLK Jr credited the Black Panthers being armed and willing to do what he couldn’t as a major part of why he had the success that he did. And his protests were already illegal, risking possible prison time for those involved if they weren’t done very carefully. And even after 10 years, Civil Rights laws were only written after a week of riots and billions of dollars in property damage sparked by his murder. 10 years of protests, but it took less than a week for the laws to be drafted and signed into law when entire city districts started to get burnt to the ground.
However, revolutions can be cultural as well. Gay marriage is a great example with actual polling numbers to present. By the time that the Supreme Court ruled on it, polls said that the country was equally split on the issue while as of 2021 a full 70% of the US apparently supports gay marriage.
Don’t worry, it’s an older meme, sir, but it still checks out.
It’s another frequently joked about justification for why men play women in games, alongside the other common “because they get better outfits” or “they have a smaller hitbox”.
Similarly:
It’s all conjecture at this point, but there’s an argument to be made that increased funding (like when Biden quadrupled their budget, as someone else said he did during his term) could have pushed it back as the Darian Gap is a natural choke point that provides much better bang for your buck compared to having to fight it back across what could potentially be the entire continental US in a few years (or less).
If the feral hog population is a vector as well, we could see it explode like a wildfire out towards the east coast, and with climate change who knows how far north they will go. I don’t think there’s a snowball’s chance in hell of us ever being able to contain it like that again. In 5 years time Canada might be allocating funds towards trying to contain it at the US border.
Always remember that 50% of the population is more dumb than the average American.
Which begs the question of whether or not the median would be pushed up by conservatives actually being a minority in the US (studies claim that 60% of the population is more left leaning than the government regardless of who is in office), or if it would be even worse because we’re all actually just that dumb.
Don’t worry, they want to replace your hardware with a “cloud based computing solution” as well.
When did that absurdity come back? I thought we killed the cloud computer nonsense a decade ago.
The point that they’re making though is that you don’t see the military hanging around public transportation terminals in the US. That’s a level of militarized police state that not even the US has.
If this man had run in any recent US presidential election, he would’ve gotten a noticeable chunk of the votes.
He’s basically Trump before Trump thought he could get elected. Talks a lot about changing a broken system, personal freedom, and how might makes right, while the system he proposes is basically identical to the system he promises to change, only more cruel because it will be run only by those with the strength to plant their boot on the neck of everyone else.
“We must tear down the oppression of the orphan crushing machine! Then every orphan will be able to make their own choices, and fight their own fights, in my new orphan gladiator arena!”
I’m not from Scotland and I haven’t looked into the history of the sport, though I believe you’re right that it came from Scotland, but one thing I do know is that there is not a lot of wilderness left there and the Scottish absolutely hate Trump as one of the people destroying what natural landscape they have left with his golf course.
The reason that they stop so frequently is for the ads on television/streaming.
Are you kidding me? Scotland would be cheering if they could torch the golf courses. Especially Trump’s. During his last regime, somebody in the crowd of protesters threw a bag of Cheetos at him when he went to his golf course. Smacked him right in the face IIRC.
Many studies have been released recently about the rapid loss of cognitive abilities and skills due to the use of AI. It’s like how driving everywhere causes your muscles to atrophy, except it’s your critical thinking and reasoning skills, and it starts to happen within days or weeks of relying upon AI to do the work for you. Programmers who use AI and then stop have been found to write worse code after they stopped using AI than before they started, even for basic tasks. Reliance becomes dependence as you can no longer do the work yourself.
This meme is quite literally true.
Didn’t he also follow her to Twitter or something and harass her there as well after banning her?
It’s been a while since I saw this going on, but I swear that that was part of the outrage.
I checked, and the link is to a post from about 10 hours ago talking about how the person in the screenshot, liv, was banned for that post earlier today.
So, in short, they were banned for a post from 503 days ago - from back in December of 2024.
The context of the post that they were banned over is exactly what it says: the head of Trust and Safety got caught liking teen porn from a spam bot on his work account by a bot designed to post what posts his account likes (very similar to the Twitter account that used to track Musk’s airplane - both are publicly available information), and he panicked and banned the bot and the account of the creator, a (from what I understand) well liked trans woman back in late 2024. This caused major backlash for a number of reasons that included the large trans population of users on BlueSky and the general distrust and discontent with the staff and their actions, but also due to the staff reaction to the outrage, which was to ban more people. And, if I remember correctly, the head of Trust and Safety followed the trans woman onto another social media platform after banning her to harass her there.
And roof installations for panels are expensive to put in and take out, and need to be taken out to replace roof shingles/tiles under them.
This tech might end up being the best of both worlds for roof panels because they have the potential to remove the frame from the equation.
Instructions unclear, bulldozed public spaces to build a parking lot with a solar roof over it.
Will try again with nearby farmland.
IMO, they have a similar thing going on as the US does where one of their largest exports is culture.
The veneer is peeling on the American Empire, but Hollywood and American media giants (and credit card companies) still hold massive sway over much of the world’s cultures, and Japan holds similar power with the export of anime and manga, as they are often one of the few things people know Japan through (that, and stuff about feudal era Japan and samurai as the Japanese counterpart to the American cowboy).
PR is one of their biggest products, whether it’s through their media or the reputation of the quality of their consumer goods, etc.