How did the former model who partied with Leonardo DiCaprio and graced the cover of international magazines come to groom her followers and lure them into sexual exploitation?
If she partied with any celebrities, she was probably working on getting them to buy her product.
Why do they need to report that? No harm is done by being a trans person, it’s not contagious or dangerous. It’s a realization and decision made after years of therapy; no one needs to report to parents nor do parents have a right to know.
ROFL If I had kids, I’d only care about a teacher’s ability to teach! Personal life is separate from work, if a teacher can connect to children and inspire a want to learn-IDGAF about anything else. Well, as long as they’re not a bigot or facist, that matters.
Not really. The efficacy of a teacher is not dependent on their gender. Providing that information does nothing for anyone, and no one “deserves” that information.
i mean i definitely know it’s satire. they do a good job of that. i just don’t know if their all caps words and exclamation marks are characterization or just how they prefer to type.
deserve to be informed? why? why do you even give a shit? I’ve never informed by parents about the genders or sexuality of my teachers and never thought it was relevant. they didn’t even know which ones were men or women. why are you so concerned with genitals dude? get help.
With that logic, parents should be informed about the teacher’s religion too! Wouldn’t want some strict <insert random religion with ineffective methods regarding unwanted pregnancies> teaching sex ed!
After the nazi’s made good use of the registration system in the Netherlands, it became illegal to ask certain questions regarding background, sexuality and religion. Not on a professional level such as by recruiters. Only exceptions are medical situations. This level of privacy should be implemented everywhere.
Why? I thought you guys “cAn ALwaYs tEll”. Are you worried some might be slipping by? Perhaps you’d prefer if they had to wear something like a pink triangle on their clothes?
Emerson T. Brooking @etbrooking ~20 hours after a seismic event in American history (with a lot of very bad discourse), this is the first real attempt at AI disinformation that I’ve seen.
Wake-up call for anyone worried that it was deepfakes that were going to radically alter 2024.
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Mike Rothschild (no relation) @rothschildmd · 10h There’s a fake version of the Trump photo getting passed around by resistance accounts that claims to show Secret Service agents smiling as they grab Trump. The real photo clearly doesn’t show them smiling.
I hate misinformation as much as the next guy but I kind of want to send around an altered version with everyone smiling, including Trump. It’d look like they were horsing around.
I was hoping daily beast’s source link had more info, but no. I even looked for the full article and it is equally devoid of details. From apnews :
A local law enforcement officer climbed to the roof and found Crooks, who pointed the rifle at the officer. The officer retreated down the ladder, and the gunman quickly fired toward Trump, the officials said. That’s when U.S. Secret Service gunmen shot him, the officials said.
Honestly, I don’t blame the office for not getting pointlessly shot. I hope the officer immediately messaged the situation, but it was probably too late.
In fact, one of the news sites last night showed the shooting from an angle where you could see the anti-sniper to Trump’s right (left side of TV screen) as the shots came in.
I’d swear I could see the anti-sniper’s recoil hitting BEFORE Trump was shot. Don’t quote me on that, though. I’m not an expert.
Bad take. If he’d gotten shot, the snipers would have immediately killed the shooter before he could reposition and take more shots. It would have saved a guy’s life and kept a former president from being shot, so definitely not pointless. And he likely had on body armor so he had a lot better chance of surviving than any of the people in the crowd did.
The guy was also pointing his gun at a whole lot of people who weren’t trump. Do you extend your statement to them too because they support trump? At least many of the media weren’t there to support trump. I’m sure at least some people were there to see the spectacle rather than support him. Should their value be disregarded as well just for being around the guy? I get the attitude that trump has asked for this. I don’t think it’s right to say everyone else there asked to be shot at too.
The basic problem I see is that we keep treating police like it’s their job to protect people and when they don’t we say, nah it’s ok, that’s not your job.
It’s very much not their job. They’ve effectively lobbied to make sure there are laws that say police are never obligated to help or protect anyone but themselves.
Alright, I admit that from a tactical point of view, if the local cop got shot it would have alerted other security and maybe no one would have died … though at such short range, it would be likely that the cop died instead of the firefighter in the stands.
That said, I still don’t blame the cop – who I presume never had Secret Service training – for taking cover when someone aims a gun at them. That seems like an instinctive reaction that you’d need serious training to overcome. I expect it to take a few seconds at least to figure out how to approach the situation before you stick your head back up for easy targeting.
Better solutions might have been to either: a) have at least one person on that group of rooftops and every/any other roof-group in advance, or short of that b) when rally-goers said there was someone on the roof with a gun, radio that info FIRST and THEN look. It is possible that the latter happened, but no one passed the information forward and the cops haven’t owned up to the failure yet, but IF that happened, that sort of detail would tend to come out later rather than immediately.
This is not going far enough. If you’re pointlessly shot, you don’t have a chance to know whether you saved someone’s life or wasted yours and let the gunman get away, plus you’d rightly be fired for carelessness leading to an unnecessary death. From this tiny amount of detail, it seems like the cop did everything right. He’s got the guy contained and had an opportunity to call it in.
This is not the movies where cops win by disregarding risk and injuries, and somehow never dying: cops win with radios and bringing in more cops.
Hell, if the perpetrator shot in a hurry as described, this cop did save Trump’s life
It’s good to hear that there’s some more scientific studies showing that gender and sex are distinct facets of our biology. Sadly, I’m skeptical it will do much to sway the bigots, but any good news is positive news!
I always get a little antsy around this kind of stuff because eventually, it’s going to get to a point where it either gets treated as a diagnostic tool or insurance requirement for trans people accessing healthcare.
As long as it isn’t a requirement for legal or medical procedures and is only used as a diagnostic tool to better understand oneself, it shouldn’t be too problematic, I think. If it’s used to diagnose someone without their consent is a different story, and I would hate to see medical science advancements used to perpetuate abuse rather than improve our lives.
Or insurance requirement for trans people accessing healthcare.
I’m hoping private healthcare and health insurance will be a thing of the past by the time your concerns become a reality, but that’s an extremely valid concern nonetheless.
All my homies hate trans-medicalism, this will inevitably lead to a “cure” or something bullshit like that, we don’t need medical validation in the first place
Maybe we should try to “cure” all of it. If there was a pill that would “cure” my cisgenderness and make me trans, maybe it would be worth a try. Maybe I’d be happier as a woman even if I didn’t identify as one before.
Sexual preference too. Maybe I’d be happier being gay. If I could “cure” my heterosexuality, maybe my life would be more fulfilling.
It would be worth a try anyway.
Bring on the pills! Better living through chemistry!
(Obviously I’m being flippant. Any sort of “cure” would be designed to only go one way and we all know which way.)
If we assume that it’s useful as a diagnostic tool (very iffy if there), that’s not a bad thing.
There are people who regret transitioning and currently there’s no way to reliably tell which trans kids are actually trans and which have been manipulated or are just in a phase, thus denying early intervention for many. If it could be reasonably reliably tested for, that’s great.
The insurance part is 100% an American issue. Civilized societies have socialized healthcare.
It’s not a bad thing if we decide bodily autonomy isn’t the highest standard and that it’s significantly more accurate than self decision.
The trans community is rightfully nervous about diagnostic criteria because they’ve been used really badly against us. Like 15 years ago it was common to not be allowed to transition if you had the wrong sexual orientation (we’re pretty evenly split between straight, bi, and gay, so between 1/3-2/3 were rejected) as well as real life experience which didn’t help anyone but was/is extremely uncomfortable. And going further back you get stuff like transition being denied because a psychologist doesn’t think you’ll be attractive enough.
I get the sentiment, but I could use the same arguments against HRT, which isn’t exactly what you want.
Bodily autonomy is fine, as long as it’s not harming anyone (including oneself). If this tool is accurate (again, big if), it could actually increase bodily autonomy, since you could distinguish between real cases and those who really have other problems. That takes the burden of proof away from trans people.
Think about how long it takes today from the first visit at a doctor’s office until actual treatment or legal processes can start. Using diagnostics like this, this could be shrunken down to one MRI.
Who decides what is “real” though, if it’s not the person in the body? So someone says they are a boy, but the MRI says nope, you are wrong, you are a girl through and through.
What if I am a cis woman and have a mind that works more like a guy’s mind? But if I still am comfortable and happy in my woman’s body, who cares how my mind works? Nobody, that’s who. Why would trans people not get the same consideration?
I just don’t think it makes sense to use tech to invalidate someone’s experience, and it’s just not anyone’s business if someone wants a different body. My sister got big fake boobs, nobody said “well, you don’t have a body that matches the boobs” they just gave her what she asked for and paid for. Why can’t a man do that if he wants? Why does he have to prove he’s a woman first?
Agreed, also, focusing on the differences becomes divisive at some point. The truth is, women and men think extremely similarly, as we are all human and humans think alike. But we ignore the greater similarities to instead push for tiny divisions. While it’s great to provide validation, neuroplasticity means that a “girl” brain can become a “boy” brain and vice versa through someone’s lifetime. Gender is also not a strict binary anyway, so how it’s determined who’s a girl and who is a boy and who’s agender or multigender - like it’s so much more complicated than a study like this.
We’ve known for a while that the brains of trans women more closely resemble those of cis women than cis men, and vice versa. Bigots don’t give a shit about the science, they just use their 4th grade understanding of it to attack “others”.
their name is wilson wilson which is absolutely beautiful in my opinion
they are filing the complaint just against one transphobic woman who did a harrassment campaign against them… not libs of tiktok which was disappointing to see but im not sure how this all works
I went to school with a Duwaney Duwaney (not quite sure how it was spelled, but that’s what it sounded like). He did not name himself, however. Agreed, Wilson Wilson is terrific.
We’ve been playing Redneck Life recently (highly reccommend) and you roll for your names. I think I got Billy Bob Bob or something similar once. Wilson Wilson sounds like it’d fit right in.
Its horrific to watch left (wing) leaning politicians tripping over themselves wishing trump a speedy recovery and condemning violence in any way, and then see the comments filled with fascists literally telling them that they will kill them for “demonizing the right and causing this to happen.”.
It is terrifying.
“We wish mr.trump a speedy recovery! Violence is never the answer! We hope he is okay! 🥺”
“You caused this by demonizing us and calling us fascists and nazis. We will come for you and kill you.”
“Totally understandable! We are so sorry! 🙏🥺 Please continue your quest for genocide and the elimination of democracy! Again, so sorry! Forgive me! 🙏😭”
IF Trump is the threat to democracy that the dems say, the shooting was a reasonable response.
I hate this 'violence is never the answer ' nonsense. I've been taught my entire life that sometimes violence is justified. For example: ww2, American revolutionary war, civil war, wars for independence (thanks Britain), Haitian uprising....
This. I am finding it bizarre how violence by the state is perfectly acceptable but suddenly it becomes unacceptable when a non state actor does exactly the same.
Well, yes, but it was also an ineffective response. The problem isn’t that Trump is the head of the party, it’s the party. Trump isn’t some magic irreplaceable leader, and a recursive solution isn’t sustainable.
PS: (I said “it’s the party”, but that’s not true either. The problem goes further than that; the entire system is rigged)
Congress always approves, and regularly surpasses all military budget increase requests. Don’t ever let these people tell you that violence isn’t the answer. They sure seem to understand the power of violence.
Violence against the state will always be more just than violence by the state.
Violence is sometimes the answer. And that’s when fascism comes rearing it’s head because you know for damn sure they’ll use all the violence they can to get their way and they won’t ever stop trying to enact their shitty, dumb ideas that no one likes and every normal human being knows won’t work.
Then the fascists will cry about violence and being civil as if they haven’t been complete shitheads and stoking their own violent rhetoric for the past decade. Electing the worst person possible who constantly lies about everything and won’t take responsibility for his own actions and words. A child rapist, wife beating, wife cheating, daughter fucking moron. And electing him means they’re completely fine with all that stuff which should be a massive fucking red flag to anyone sane.
Hillary was completely right. Republicans are deplorable and they’re only getting worse.
Every single Democratic response should have been “Thoughts and prayers! Now watch this drive…” takes golf swing
Anything more is overblown and unwarranted. None of them are responsible for this. The right is responsible for the violence and they don’t give a shit unless it’s happening to them.
It’s the Chamberlain approach to politics. If you need any more Nazi adjacent imagery to use. It’s great the Democrats are willing to compromise and debate. Appeasing fascists however never has a good outcome. And most of them still cannot acknowledge that’s what the GOP has been for nearly the last hundred years.
I don’t like to link Xitter, bad enough I had to give it engagement while Googling this, but if there are such things as the earlier commenter said, I’m sure they’re somewhere below this post by Biden on Twitter
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