Well, with Vietnam, we literally did a fucking false flag to give ourself a pretense.

I really can’t blame 9/11 Truthers that much, the fact that the Gulf of Tonkin shit happened is fucking insane. Vietnam won its independence fair and square, we should have stayed the fuck out.

I made the conscious decision when I was around 14 to not transition, because I knew that it would lead to a more difficult life.

I could not make it. I would be dead if not for transition in my early 20’s.

My life is still more difficult, and I struggle with suicidal ideation, but that is entirely related to the way society treats me. I have been chased out of my career field, I have been told I am disgusting, I have been threatened, I have been sexually assault. Those things have happened because I am trans, and they have made me suicidal. But denying me treatment would take away the one aspect - the comfort in my own body - that helps protect me from the decision to commit suicide.

A goal of mine is to ensure that my library is preserved in some fashion after I die, because I do believe it would be valuable. Many of the books I have are out of print, rare, and obscure. I have a fantasy of a library room set aside with my collection - a couple of comfortable chairs in a little nook.

Especially with the way that AI has polluted information sources online, I think having a collection of the printed word which is guaranteed to be vetted and written by humans would be useful. The religious material I think also could be helpful in preserving history - eg, I have versions of Mormon books which are likely not consistent with current doctrine.

My apartment is 60% books. I don’t have enough bookshelves, I have most loaded to the point where they are bending and there are piles of books stacked on top. Stacks and stacks and stacks.

I think my library is almost an art project at this point. I thrift a lot, check out library discard sales and have a bunch of things I bought when you could get books on Amazon for a penny + shipping. I often pick up 5-10 a week, because at the thrift shop that’s maybe $10 at most. (Goodwill is getting precious, but the really ratty ones are often prime spots.)

Very little fiction. Mostly textbooks and history and language and arcane computer things and strange religious literature and philosophy and paranormal arcana. Obscure things - I mostly collect things that I wouldn’t normally be able to find in a library.

My ex hated my books and wanted to work out a deal where I’d have to give up two for every one I took in. Now I am free to live in a pile of stacks. I don’t care if it looks “messy” or “cluttered.” It represents my mind.

Or French philosophers….

Just like my recent post on r/politics got censored?

Possibility. The pro-trans messaging I leave often gets a fairly violent reaction. Someone destroyed a Dollar Tree bathroom over a couple of stickers I left behind once.

No one in OK is tearing down my “Defund ICE” signs.

My other two favorite examples of “Christianity inspiring someone to be a better person” are Dietrich Bonhoeffer (stood up to the Nazis, also was very likely gay) and the living Fred Clark (blogger, idk there’s something profound about his Friday the 13th story and his writings on Huckleberry Finn)

It’s usually TERFs, not MAGAs. It’s a Rowling thing.

It’s based on the fact that Erwin Gohrbandt did help in the first vaginoplasty ever performed on Dora Richter. Gohrbandt went on to participate in medical atrocities at Dachau. He was not the leader of the Institute of Sexual Research, he just participated in a surgery there.

From this one fact, the story spins out of control. I have seen multiple people claim that the Nazis invented the “transvestite passes” that were available for trans people in the Weimar Republic. This is a disgusting lie, because the Nazis in fact revoked these passes and used them as a means to track down and murder transgender people.

This is also an attempt associate transgender surgery by with medical experiments (really just murder, the only thing even close to scientific was the hypothermia research) done at places like Aushwitz and Dachau.

Rowling is as much as a Holocaust denier as David Irving is. It’s not different from the “there were swimming pools at Auschwitz crowd!” They are lying deliberately for political reasons.

I believe that there is a concerted effort by a group to spread this narrative on tumblr especially. I have seen it posted by multiple unconnected individuals.

Or of course an erect penis, which would land the Joker in jail.

Jared Leto is still walking free.

At least Joker’s boners are real :(

They recruit high schoolers without other options.

I worked in one of the worst high schools in the nation. There were recruiters in our cafeteria every day. They gave me periodic tables with National Guard branding (which you can be sure I used, because I only had 1000 prints a month, and 500 of those had to be on my own paper.)

Imagine - you aren’t going to be able to get into or afford college. Your dad is in jail. Your mom is working three jobs, none of which provide your family with health insurance. The places that are hiring are McDonald’s and Walmart.

The only people that you know in your community that have insurance and can afford a house - they are former military. You have already seen people go down extremely dark paths - you probably do know someone who joined a gang and you might have attended their funeral. Your pastor tells you that the military will teach you discipline and protect your from that fate.

There are other reasons too. The military is really the only route you have for college if you don’t have the financial resources.

I don’t think you imagine yourself killing people either. Most of what the military does isn’t directly related to combat.

I think this video might be an interesting perspective too.

Yeah, I played it as a teenager on emulation and was pretty mystified at why it was considered so much worse than the other things available on the system. Why would people love Adventure but hate this?

I was pretty miffed because the switch over on Arch was a pain in the ass. A naïve pacman -Syu and the day was ruined.

I had a friend who got into it and would get emotionally upset when I’d make fun of JR Bob Dobbs. Which was depressing, because I felt that was the whole point to Dobbs.

I’ve been a member of the Church for more than ten years and take it more seriously than I should. (I paid my $30 to Bobb when it was $30. Can’t wait for my flying pleasure saucer, already planned for where I’m turning my lasers.)

What the fuck.

Did they not participate in any form of Subgenius activity, consume any form of Subgenius art? Did they not listen to the Hour of Slack?

Like, listen to the Agent and Mr. Dobbs. Listen to the way we talk about Connie. Listen to the story about the Subgenius who gets lost on their way to to the Devival and ends up getting their corpse gang banged by wolves, dogs and cops. How on earth would you think that you are supposed to be reverent when talking about Bob?

Alex Jones sets a lot of that up too. It’s really disturbing. He’ll talk about how there’s going to be a false flag shooting preemptively any time there is a big protest or similar planned. It’s almost like he’s outright calling for it to happen, giving permission to some psycho with a gun because they know he’ll cover for them.

About to lose the OKC/Dallas route.

To take Amtrak anywhere else, I have to ride a bus to Kansas.

That’s about my average, but I’m hyperlexic.

This is the bottom of my pan right now. PFAS are the least of my concern.