This is beautiful. For those calling it a half measure, calling for the end to private insurance etc etc, this is the government paying for medical care.

By paying only pennies on the dollar it's demonstrating that medical debt is a farce. That puts a huge dent in the myth that public healthcare is impractical here

It's murder. Cold blooded execution.

There's an interesting kind of poster that I've only seen here on Lemmy, the "why bother, it's not going to work" poster.

Why vote? It doesn't matter.

Why write or call your rep, they're in the pocket of blah blah anyway?

Why put a bumper sticker in your car? Performative BS, maaaan.

Etm etm...

How do you feel when you see Trump stickers everywhere?

How do you feel when you're in a neighborhood with pride flags everywhere? Is that different and better?

What about when you see Wellstone! sticker in deep red Midwest? A little hope that there are other people who haven't given up?

Show up! Speak out! Be visible! Live into the small moments of joy where resistance lives!

I have personally known abusers that are so charming and considerate and kind outside of the home that it makes the abused person question reality, and trying to talk about it to people they know feel impossible.

She's positioning herself for running as Vance's VP in 2028. That's it.

She hasn't had a change of heart, she doesn't warrant us "giving her a chance," she's not "okay for a republican."

NOTHING has changed.

She's an unapologetic white supremacists who is happily employed by the billionaire class.

R Pike is legend. His videos on concurrent programming remain reference level excellence years after publication. Just a great teacher as well as brilliant theoretical programmer.

From where I'm sitting, a 55yo who came out eight years ago, the biggest thing I deal with is grief.

I tried to come out at 23 -- young for the 90's! -- but chickened out in part because of some gatekeeping and also fear. So. Much. Fear. Even then though, my voice had dropped, my beard come in, and and and...

But I was young and hot and around beautiful slackers who would have loved me regardless, and now I carry the grief of 33 years of coulda-been.

That's the price of transitioning in middle age, for me at least.

You might think that an old like me might be resentful of the opportunities available for trans youth today. Absolutely not! Seeing young adults who never had to go through the "wrong" puberty, that gives me so much hope and joy!

I grieve now for the kids who are seeing that hope deferred.

I guess what I'm getting at is that any age you transition at, there may be lost time to grieve, but more than that, it's something to be treasured beyond value.

I celebrate each and every one of you 💕

See, this is interesting. I'm out here looking for the new shiny easy button, but what I'm hearing is "the old config-file based thing works really well. ain't broken, etc."

I may give that a swing and see.

Minneapolis knows how to respond to state violence in a way that creates unity.

Okay, I'll bite. I need to add to my block list anyway.

Y'all have heard of the Nazi Bar problem, right? Paradox of intolerance? Which turns out not to be a paradox after all? You should def look that one up rather than waiting for me to type it all out.

Release the pornhub files!

Yeah just like those other refugees fleeing repressive regimes across Eastern Europe and the southern hemisphere! Go back and fix the problems yourselves with your zero money or political power and total surveillance states.

/s in case it's not blindingly obvious.

Jack Dorsey once again singing "but baby I've changed!"

hard pass from me.

Such an excellent thread for filling out my block list

The assignment had nothing to do with transgenderism. It

"transgenderism" isn't a real word. It's a propaganda word similar to "the homosexual lifestyle."

This section of the course is the only section taught by a transwoman.

trans woman. Two words, short for transgender woman.

Will do!

"It's legal if we like it." -- GOP, probably.

They did more than that, their bathroom got blown up by a religious nut over their inclusive bathroom policy, and they re-opened without changing their policy.

They advocated internally for LGBTQ people especially trans people.

That's why this absolute cave, spinning about-face so fast they could start a fire without matches... this is so fucking dumb.

And the people who see it are justifiably disgusted.

Except that is is? Tells others to hide, brings legal observers and sometimes enough activists to "unarrest" the person.

don’t think using the term “trans people” is the problem. It’s a tool of language, and

It is supposed to be two word, just like that. Mashing them together is the issue.