#rightwing panics

[nando161mando]

Here's a great example of how inappropriate #civility is in response to attacks on our humanity. This guy is the source of many invented right wing panics and the media still wants to hear what he has to say?

"The Guardian emailed Rufo with questions on his apparent endorsement of Aporia, and how he reconciled that with his professed “colorblindness”. He did not respond directly to any questions put to him but instead made a crude sexual insult to a Guardian reporter."

#christopher rufo #eugenics #civility #rightwingers #rightwing panics #rightwing #panics #media #scientific racism #racism #racist #bigot #hypocrite #nazisploitation #sacha baron cohen accuses tiktok of ‘biggest antisemitism movement since the nazis’ #nazis #nazigate #nazi #neonazis #neonazi #neofascism #class war #right wing extremism #right wing terrorism #right wing politics #right wing women #right wing bullshit #far right #ausgov #politas

[theirwolfbicanthrope]

hey if anyone has any reading recommendations regarding socialism, leftist politics, feminism, queer history and issues, and/or Christianity, please share with me. this off season I really want to become a more knowledgeable, learned person. really understand what I believe, where I stand, know where we’ve come from, etc., etc.

#am i also asking for some biblical translation/history recs from my evangelical rightwing father because i want to better understand #his side and see their arguments because i actually have effectively forgotten 90% of what I learned from him which #actually wasn't all that much indepth tbh? yes #i am prepping for when we move and get established in our own place #and i come out as nonbinary and finally am like 'ok come at me i'm ready' #...or my anxiety and upbringing send me into a panic and i run back into zealotry #this is a fear of mine #along with the fear of being wrong and my parents being right and eternal damnation awaits #hahahaha i love it #LOVE IT #Christianity #anxiety #hell cw

[memecucker]

10 years ago it seemed like left-liberal online culture was so much more into sex positivity like people were into the idea of providing accessible sex ed information online and that this could be especially useful for young people to ensure they practice safe sex but now it seems like so many people have ceded ground and are like “well OBVIOUSLY teens have to be shielded from anything involving sexuality” and don’t even think there’s something conservative with that. People went from making videos laughing at moral-panic Lifetime movies about the dangers of online porn to suddenly “porn addiction” has become a thing people just assume is “common sense” and totally exists in a non-placebo way and not something invented by Evangelicals when they decided to co-opt therapeutic/clinical language in the 80s through stuff like Focus on the Family

Was it just because the right took a slight break from making Bush-era “abstinence only no sex before marriage between a man and a woman and we don’t need to talk about that either because there’s only one way you should do that also” or something? Maybe that’s part of it but honestly considering how in places like tumblr and twitter this frequently paired alongside other “How Do You People Not See How Reactionary This Is” stuff like anti-multiculturalism or anti-atheism and I’m sorry but you cannot just chalk that entirely up to a rightwing psyop

[loving-n0t-heyting]

watching the same dash tremble in a mixture of fear and outrage about the recent rightwing "groomer panic" and then get all defensive about hey john green really did have creepy groomer vibes and we were right to sexually harass him en masse is sure An Experience

[mariacallous]

As far as mass shootings, go, it was over quickly. Just before midnight on Saturday, a man carrying multiple magazines of ammunition entered the Club Q, a gay bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado, spraying gunfire. As bullets flew, two patrons at the club subdued the attacker by grabbing the gun from him, and hitting him with it. They held him down until police arrived. The first 911 call was made at 11.56pm; the killer was taken into custody at 12.02am. But in those six minutes, five people were killed, including Daniel Aston and Derrick Rump, two men who were tending bar, and Kerry Loving, a partygoer. Eighteen were wounded. As the clock struck midnight, it became a holiday for the bar’s community: Transgender Day of Remembrance, which honors trans people killed in hate attacks, was observed on Sunday.

There’s a grim routine, these days, to the mass shootings in America. Some elements remain constant from shooting to shooting. Usually, the gunman is a young white man, and usually, he has a history of violence against women. There will have been mental health episodes, or previous run-ins with police. But none of this history will have stopped him from getting a gun. American mass shooters tend to use automatic or semi-automatic long guns, the kind that aren’t available to civilians in other countries. Almost always, they purchased them legally.

In the aftermath, the public makes a grim calculus. How many dead? How many wounded? The initial numbers that trickle out through the media tend to tick upward in the following hours and days, as more of the injured arrive in local hospitals and some of the wounded pass away. Americans compare the latest massacre to the others, rationalizing to keep the panic and despair at bay. “That one wasn’t so bad,” we tell ourselves. “Only three were killed.” This has become the price of being in public in America, a psychic tax that we all pay when we leave the house: that the next time, when the next gunman opens fire in a school, or a church, or a grocery store, that one of the anonymous numbers printed in the newspaper will be someone we love.

In the hours after a gunman stormed into Club Q, a morbid kind of box checking began. Yes, it was a young white man who committed the rampage – this time a 22-year-old. Yes, the shooter had a history of violence against women: the attacker was arrested last year after an hours-long standoff with police after making a bomb threat against his mother. He was charged with multiple felonies, but, yes, he still had access to guns. Yes, the killer used an AR-style long gun to murder his victims. And yes, the killer appears to have rightwing ties: he’s the grandson of a far-right California state assemblyman who supported the January 6 insurrection. On Monday, the shooter was charged with five counts of murder and several hate crimes.

There’s a morbid randomness to American gun violence – that fatal combination of scarce mental health treatment and superabundant firearms that makes America, and only America, a place where mass public massacres are common even when the nation is ostensibly at peace. But if the Colorado attack was enabled by America’s pervasive gun violence problem, it seems to have been prompted by the tenor of rightwing media, both broadcast and online, which over the past years has turned a virulent, conspiratorial and obsessively hateful eye towards the LGBT community.

In the coming days, the massacre at Club Q will be cast as an isolated tragedy, and those who point out the right’s complicity in the violence will be accused, with predictable cynicism, of politicizing the tragedy. But what happened in Colorado Springs this past weekend was the foreseeable continuation of a trend of escalating violence targeting gay spaces, and drag shows in particular.

Egged on by conservative politicians, like Lauren Boebert, social media figures, like Libs of TikTok, and traditional media scions, like Tucker Carlson, conservatives have spent the past months consuming the lie that gay and trans people are “groomers” – that is, perverts and pedophiles who want to molest children, or sterilize them, or confuse them into leading different, wrong and lesser lives. In the face of this supposed harm to the innocent, any vengeance can be justified.

The lie that gay people are “grooming” children has provided cover for violent and bigoted displays at LGBT community spaces across the country. Over the past year, drag performances and other LGBT events have been targeted with protests and violent threats in California, Idaho, Georgia, Texas, Florida, Indiana, Oregon, North Carolina and New York. Violent rightwing militia groups, like the Proud Boys and a group calling itself Patriot Front – who wear masks, because they are ashamed to show their faces – have appeared at these events, menacing gay people with threats. Just last month, in Eugene, Oregon, violence erupted outside a drag show when rightwing goons appeared and began throwing rocks and smoke bombs. At that hate rally, as at others, the anti-gay protesters carried semi-automatic rifles. It was only a matter of time before they started using them.

Like most bigots, homophobes know little about the groups they target, and their hatred doesn’t hew to logic. But when pressed, they will say that gay and trans people lack the virtues that they associate with traditional masculinity – virtues like honesty and integrity; courage, discipline and willingness to protect the innocent. But it was two patrons, almost certainly gay themselves, who subdued the attacker at Club Q, risking their lives to spare more bloodshed.

Meanwhile, in Uvalde, police officers armed to the teeth – the paragons of hegemonic masculinity that the right is always insisting we worship – stood by, cowardly and immobile, while a gunman slaughtered little children. If the right sees “manliness” as a virtue, a willingness to risk yourself to help the vulnerable, then you’d think it would be clear to them who the real “men” were.

[jewishbarbies]

as much as claudine gay did herself no favors, it's a little weird to celebrate a black woman resigning from a high ranking academic post because of a smear campaign by chris rufo, a major figure in the rightwing takeover of new college in florida and the architect of the panic over "critical race theory". her answers in that hearing were disappointing but the people in positions of power trying to get her ousted are all right wingers, from rufo, to nyt columnists like bret stephens and ross douthat, to promoters of antisemitic "great replacement theory" like elise stefanik. these people are not trying to fight campus antisemitism as much if not even more than gay. and they're now even more emboldened to go after people they dislike in academic spaces with the ultimate goal of tearing down the integration of american universities. campus antisemitism should be taken more seriously, particularly by administrators, but this isn't really about antisemitism for the most vocal people involved.

it’s not weird to celebrate an antisemite resigning. Idc if there were right wingers calling for her to resign, JEWS were calling for her to resign. it’s unfortunate conservatives might feel emboldened by this. but she needs to resign if she’s not capable of doing her job with ALL students in mind. you can reduce this down to “black woman removed from power” all you want - an antisemite resigned. I’m allowed to be happy about it. jews are allowed to be happy about it.

#Asks #anonymoose #antisemitism

[nerdby]

Ok, I was a little off. This show isn't the anti-Totally Spies.

If anything Buffy Summers seems like an evangelical Kim Possible. But mocking nerdy girls isn't any better than mocking Valley girls.

At least that's what I can gather from the first episode with the whole underground Christian rave party and Luke going on about how the master will inherent the earth and the devil will come to town. And does it bother anyone else that Angel is like forty and giving a SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD girl presents after being caught stalking her???

Did I mention that Angel is one of Buffy's infamous love interests???? Which makes the aforementioned weirdness even more uncomfortable😣

I'm kinda triggered right now, not gonna lie. Cause I'm getting some pretty strong anti-Paganism vibes from this first episode. But can the show really be called anti-Pagan if its based off of vampire mythology which is rooted in Christianity??? Or at least it is in the Western world -- there are some pretty cool Asian mythologies about vampires or blood-sucking creatures.

By the way, I'm also a Pagan witch, so if you're wondering why I'm just a little upset that would be why.

So I am gonna take a pause and just hold off on that second episode. Cause I need a moment to process and decompress before I try to deal with anymore potentially rightwing fearmongering bullshit. That crap was everywhere in the 90s courtesy of Satanic Panic. And, no, I'm not being dramatic -- anyone who tells you Pagans don't face discrimination is extremely ignorant.

Wiccans weren't even allowed to have pentacles on tombstones until like 2008 and it wasn't until the 2010s that pentacles were allowed in most schools in the US. I'm not a Wiccan but I do emphasize with them cause that is some grade-A Christofascist bullshit.

This is all googleable, by the way.

#comic books #horror genre #horror series #teen horror #nostalgia geek #nostalgiacore #90s nostalgia #tv and streaming #tv and movies #hulu #buffy the vampire slayer #buffy summers #paganism #vampires #satanic panic #ptsd thoughts #actually ptsd

[otomelavenderhaze]

All the rightwing media in panic over Taylor Swift getting more young people to vote and trying to throw blows that they always have, feels so desperate from them. Lmao. I hope she keeps doing her thing and keep striving for their despair.

#taylor swift #personal

[holdoncallfailed]

OMG wouldn’t it be so cool if in addition to getting into kate bush teenagers who watched stranger things also got into learning about the satanic panic and then realized how much it mirrors the reactionary christian right of today and the parallels between that and Qanon and how it fostered a sense of mistrust among communities further isolating people from their neighbors and thus preventing them from forming collectives and then they realized how the current economy is in shambles because reagan cut federal funding to education and social programs and that current politicians are all just propping up the rotting corpse of reaganomics and that rightwing christians have always had the power in this country to destroy the rest of our lives and that nothing has changed since the 1980s and that we have to go back to even older collectivist labor and social justice movements to overcome the current state of affairs and the totally rose-colored retromania for the 1980s in popular media today could actually serve as the catalyst to radicalize young people into leftist politics. wouldn’t that be so fun

#there's a satanic panic storyline on this season of stranger things in case that wasn't clear #re: d&d and metal lol #text #also i think it's great that teenagers are listening to kate bush. everyone should listen to her #for once im not gatekeeping....cos it didn't come from tiktok lol<3

[dereksmcgrath]

There, we are progressing the Damian family plot and giving Yor her own cast of characters, progression, and moments to be awesome and awkward. Are we all happy now?

And I’m jumping right into spoilers, so read the chapter first before proceeding.

Spy x Family, Chapter 65. By Tatsuya Endo, translation by Casey Loe, lettering by Rina Mapa. Available from Viz.

As usual, I remain oblivious to a plot twist coming, or a detail that is probably obviously telegraphed that I just wasn’t noticing. 

In retrospect, Yor’s new friend should obviously have been recognized as Damian’s mother, Melinda. Yes, we never saw her before, not even in Damian’s memories of home. But her wealth and her fixation on a “patriotic” women’s group were clues, and she really does resemble Damian, down to her eyelashes. (This is how you draw characters with limited family resemblance, not engaging in the “same face” problems of, say, Fate or “Death the Kid was Shinra Kusakabe’s spiritual grandson all along” crap.) Even Melinda’s earrings, with the eye motif (more like an Illuminati triangle), invokes the eye motif around WISE’s symbol and Donavan Desmond’s owl motif. 

But the major hint that I was missing was that we start this chapter with Anya talking about Damian, Yor worried about Anya befriending Damian–and then I get distracted by the funny hijinks of Yor’s panic over being a good parent, then shopping, now a volleyball contest, to remember, “Oh, yeah, we did talk about Damian at the beginning of this chapter,” before, surprise, this is Melinda Desmond, Damian’s mother. 

I also should have sensed that this was Damian’s mother, given the foreboding nature to this seemingly polite and “nice” person that I sensed just in the undercurrent. Keeping her eyes obscured for so long reinforced that worry, to the point that I thought this was actually Twilight’s handler in disguise. But after the last six years of seeing “nice” white people deciding they were fine with fascism and bigotry so long as their rightwing anti-abortion fuckwads got into elected office (especially the 55 percent of white women who voted to that orange Nazi), of course this white woman enjoying wealth, access, and a “patriot” group is firing off every last red alert in my brain, beyond the historical allusions made to Cold War Germany. 

But enough of the serious stuff that reminds us that the United States is still heading towards fascism if people don’t vote (fucking register to vote at this link and go vote for Democrats–Jesus Christ, what other rights do Republicans have to take away and Democrats have to protect for you to figure this out?).

Let’s talk about what good this chapter did with Yor. 

A complaint I’ve had, that I don’t think I’ve shared on this blog yet, is how Spy x Family was going to have a challenge giving Yor enough attention when her first major arc in the manga isn’t until too late to get adapted in the first half of the season. That’s not ignoring excellent stories for Yor in that first half, such as protecting Anya from the kidnappers. But so much of the later part of the manga does more to progress her character, including the cruise ship arc and her reaction to Twilight’s work relationship with Nightfall. 

Despite this challenge, CloverWorks and Wit Studios made sure that the first half of the season would expand Yor’s role, including in the dodgeball episode. And I wonder whether those adaptation choices influenced how Endo plotted out this chapter, not only for how to stage sports scenes but also to direct focus back to Yor and her desires to improve as a mother. After all, Yor’s training of Anya in dodgeball looks a lot like her performance with volleyball in this chapter, including the destruction her blows deliver, with some definitely unbelievable but still hilarious instances of superhuman strength that sends the volleyball into orbit–and no one in this cast allows that to get in the way of enjoying Yor’s company. It is such a bizarre moment, to suspend disbelief here, but it works, because the characters just accept it and move on. (I know I should only allow myself one instance of dunking on it, but this is how you justify cartoonish moments, Fire Force, not wrapping up your series with plodding exposition.)

This chapter also provided some new reaction images for Yor, especially her Cat in the Hat-style balancing act with Melinda’s purchases, or when lost in the mall and panicking in front of the makeup vendor. (I’m surprised we didn’t re-enact Wonder Woman choking that mall makeup vendor in the Justice League cartoon.) But I did think the translation, or maybe the original text, stretched the gag about Yor fearing “piercing eyes.” Then again, not every gag can be a “swole chihuahua.” 

The transition to the sports hall for volleyball was also an awkward one, but it did keep the plot moving, and it’s not unbelievable that Yor would get roped into the game. I just wish there was a little more dialogue beyond Melinda’s assistant Nola saying this game would be an additional “reward” for saving her. Plus, as I said, Yor’s ferocious gameplay, as well as her teammates’ rather subdued annoyance at her style of play, provided some pleasant memories of the volleyball bout in The Way of the Househusband. 

Of course, the game is an action beat to allow the dialogue-heavy conversation that follows to help Yor realize she has made friends, that she is able to appear “normal,” that her challenges in being a wife and a mother are to be expected (although, jeez, Yor, learn how to cover up better beyond “more or less” when asked if you’re married) so that, after this lull, we are surprised to learn Melida’s identity. Now to wait for the next chapter to see whether Melinda’s presence helps Twilight’s mission, helps Anya befriend Damian–or whether Melinda is also on the same page as her husband when it comes to war, or perhaps is ahead of him in fomenting war.

Random Asides: 

It’s been awhile since I wrote about Spy x Family, huh?

Is this the first chapter to have the Spy x Family logo feature the silhouettes of the Forger family forming the “M”? 

I feel like I am missing chapters: was there an instance of Damian promising cake that I’m forgetting, or is Anya just lying? Because if she’s lying, that’s a weird choice on her part, after that one chapter where she realized how much her parents and uncle lied–and it did them no good. 

We’re going to get a ton of shipping art between Yor and Melinda, aren’t we? 

Shameless plug: I set up a Twitch account to, among other things, live-read new manga releases…and then failed to hit record until 20 minutes into the stream and when I was done talking about One Piece…and had my Internet fail and not retain any of the clips…while it takes my Internet forever to upload what I did record to YouTube. …Yay…

#spy x family #manga review #yor forger

[glitterdustcyclops]

i found my way to this article, about the "detransitioner" who leaked all those horrible emails about how all the TERFs were working with the christian white rightwing to literally orchestrate the current moral panic against trans people, and it's fascinating and horrible

because, the thing is, this trans woman had never actually detransitioned even when she was in the middle of trying to sue the government on behalf of ADF for allowing her to transition. she was saying that access to HRT was horrible and made her mentally ill while also still taking estrogen, and when she lost access to it she became suicidal.

and of course my first instinct is to say, oh my god what is wrong with you? to write articles and "testify" (apparently at a certain point she was so mentally ill she didn't even write her own testimonies anymore just had the ADF do it and sign her name) that this thing damaged you and no one should be allowed to have it while also still secretly benefiting from it?

but on the other hand, the article goes on to point out how she obviously feels remorse over what she's done (she is the one who leaked all those emails) and she eventually realized she was, and i quote, a "useful idiot" to the far right, and they dropped her as soon as she stopped being politically convenient

and idk if i really have an ultimate Take on this story, except the reminder that these people do not care about facts or logic or reason or even, honestly, the lives of trans people. we have to stop trying to meet them in the marketplace of ideals, because they aren't actually operating there. this is a sophisticated, well-funded, coordinated effort to make Being Trans literally illegal, and they're not gonna stop.

and also, that these people are intentionally preying on the lonely/isolated, and that the purity culture that has taken root in liberal/left-leaning spaces, where if you aren't Perfectly Morally Correct you are a BadWrongThoughtCriminal and must be excommunicated, at once, is definitely not helping

#chocolate reads things #transphobia #detransition #much to think about #i think we as trans folks need to explicitly start welcoming folks who choose to detransition for whatever reason into our spaces #because if we don't they end up doing This #and This is how we got Here

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

Stochastic terrorism - a guide. Directing and inciting rage against a particular group follows four steps: Demonization - a figure with a platform targets a person or group to be blamed for real or imagined ills Dehumanization - with repetition of the demonization, the target loses their personhood in the eyes of the audience, becoming a monster or a symbol of evil and depravity Desensitization - violent language and imagery is used in discussion of the target, and while no direct calls to use violence are issued, violent speech becomes an accepted part of the discourse Denial - when violence occurs, the stochastic terrorist denies any responsibility, pointing to their lack of direct involvement or instruction. Follow Alejandra Caraballo on Twitter and read the examples in this thread. Report this shit when you see it. The transphobia panic needs us to come down hard against it and protect our trans and nonbinary siblings. #hatespeech #stochasticterrorism #terrorism #hate #transphobia #rightwing #gop #republicans #lgbtq #hategroups #scapegoat #hatecrime #republicanparty #homophobia #racism #antisemitism #xenophobia #uspolitics #trumpism #lgbtqrights #transrights #protecttranskids #protecttransyouth #transhealth #transrightsarehumanrights https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch4kPvIuvNR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#hatespeech #stochasticterrorism #terrorism #hate #transphobia #rightwing #gop #republicans #lgbtq #hategroups #scapegoat #hatecrime #republicanparty #homophobia #racism #antisemitism #xenophobia #uspolitics #trumpism #lgbtqrights #transrights #protecttranskids #protecttransyouth #transhealth #transrightsarehumanrights

[ecaliqy]

Notes to Followers

I'm pro:

2nd amendment (in a very rightwing sense)

ukrainian assistance (fuck putin)

choice (10000% bodily autonomy)

black lives (in fact) matter

lgbtqia+ (all this transphobic nonsense is just that)

I'm against:

bigotry (in generally, tho i do despise religion, i try not to let that translate to the practitioners. call me out if i do.)

vaccine mandates (10000% bodily autonomy)

prohibitions, generally

oligarchy (corporations are NOT people)

I consider myself wokeish. Honestly, sometimes I'm a bit like the accidentally PC guy with the straw in his mouth, leaning up against the truck: I'll probably get the concept right, but call someone a retard while doing it.

Bernie would've been my president for the last two terms. He points true north 99% of the time.

I absolutely will talk with terrible people. The worst, sans pedos (to the chipper you go; no, I’m not part of the trans panic and don’t call normal people “groomers”). Sometimes I'll even repost them, if I agree. Having a terrible history isn't a deal breaker for an accurate specific post, to me. Beyond that I watch what _everyone_ is saying... good people and bad people alike.

If I go of the rails, please feel free to call me out. Or call me out on ideological inconsistencies and hypocrisies... I want to be consistent.

There's nothing centrist about me. I'm very long on unions. Unions all day long. I want universal healthcare and to raise the minimum wage. Palestine _deserves_ statehood, simply for existing, like Israel _deserves_ to exist now that it does (going back, I wouldn't have had the US participate in forming an ethnostate, but intentions were different and context was fresh, back then).

Tax payer subsidized higher education would be nothing but good for us. At very minimum anything offered at a community college should be an extension of public schools (though I also think our public schools suck, due to lack of funding). I'd like to shift some military spending to better pursuits, absolutely... BUT I _do_ LOOOOVE our military supremacy. I don't want anyone else to have it (maybe that makes me a neolib, or whatever I am with neolib characteristics, but idngaf).

Anyways, I just wanted to put a clear advisory here... if you follow me with any thought that your followers will be in an echo chamber, I'll probably repost Rothmus or Kim Dot Com or Elon the next time they say something sane (sometimes they do).

Why is this on Tumblr? Because I'm not giving that shit bag $8/mo. I may end up paying for Tumblr, but Elon will never get a dollar from me.

Ultimately, it boils down to: I'm pro freedom and I think for myself and, though I watch, you'll notice I FOLLOW no one (on platforms that have lists anyways, on platforms that don't I follow everyone, lol).

Mostly, you're going to get a mix of left-wing reposts, me shit posting on right-wing accounts, and some AI and computer stuff.

Ah, one more thing... capitalism has been quite good to me. I don't think we could keep communism on the rails, just based on our nature. Some industries should be socialized, not because of theory but because of our experience with them. Some should have a nationalized competitor, to keep greed in check.

Most other things that can simply be well regulated, obviously, should stay in the freeish market. Maybe this is inconsistent with your notion of freedom, but I'd rather restrict corpos than pay my life to the company store, if you get my drift.

Oh! One more crucial thing: I periodically purge my followers. It's a vibes thing. "I don't need them." No, it's more like I don't need to think about them and the numbers fuck with me. I'm screaming into the ether, jerkin' it with the engrams, if you catch my drift. If you want to actually follow me, put me in a private list... or public (i'm not the boss of you)

[mxshr0mz]

me: im part (southern) american but i dont listen to country music and i usually just tell people im asian-latino

also me: This ain't Texas (woo), ain't no hold 'em (hey)So lay your cards down, down, down, downSo park your Lexus (woo) and throw your keys up (hey)Stick around, 'round, 'round, 'round, 'round (stick around)And I'll be damned if I can't slow dance with youCome pour some sugar on me, honey tooIt's a real life boogie and a real life hoedownDon't be a bitch, come take it to the floor now, woo, huh (woo)There's a tornado (there's a tornado) in my city (in my city)In the basement (in the basement), that shit ain't pretty (shit ain't pretty)Rugged whiskey (rugged whiskey) 'cause we survivin' ('cause we survivin')Off red cup kisses, sweet redemption, passin' time, yeahOoh, one step to the rightWe headin' to the dive bar we always thought was niceOoh, run me to the leftThen spin me in the middle, boy, I can't read your mindThis ain't Texas (woo), ain't no hold 'em (hey)So lay your cards down, down, down, downSo park your Lexus (woo) and throw your keys up (hey)Stick around, 'round, 'round, 'round, 'round (stick around)And I'll be damned if I can't slow dance with youCome pour some sugar on me, honey tooIt's a real life boogie and a real life hoedownDon't be a bitch, come take it to the floor now (woo)And I'll be damned if I cannot dance with youCome pour some liquor on me, honey tooIt's a real life boogie and a real life hoedownDon't be a bitch, come take it to the floor now (woo)Woo-hooWoo-hooWoo-hooThere's a heatwave (there's a heatwave) coming at us (coming at us)Too hot to think straight (too hot to think straight)Too cold to panic (cold to panic)All of the problems just feel dramatic (just feel dramatic)And now we're runnin' to the first spot that we find, yeahOoh, one step to the rightWe headin' to the dive bar we always thought was niceOoh, you run to the leftJust with me in the middle, boy, I can't read your mindThis ain't Texas (woo), ain't no hold 'em (hey)So lay your cards down, down, down, down, ohSo park your Lexus (hey), throw your keys up (hey)Stick around, 'round, 'round, 'round, 'round (stick around)And I'll be damned if I cannot dance with youCome pour some sugar on me, honey, tooIt's a real life boogie and a real life hoedownDon't be a bitch, come take it to the floor now (woo)And I'll be damned if I cannot dance with youCome pour some liquor on me honey, tooIt's a real life boogie and a real life hoedownDon't be a-, come take it to the floor now, oohTake it to the floor now, oohHoops, spurs, bootsTo the floor now, oohTuck, back, oops (ooh, ooh, ooh)ShootCome take it to the floor now, oohAnd I'll be damned if I cannot dance with youBaby, pour that sugar and liquor on me tooFurs, spurs, bootsSolargenic, photogenic, shoot

#i dont have the energy to write the lyrics #not art #not fanfic

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Schools are accommodating “furbies” with litter boxes in bathrooms, rightwing pundit claims

On a recent episode of conservative sports website OutKick’s OutKick The Morning, former ESPN sportscaster and host Charly Arnolt, with her guest Kristen Louelle Gaffney, claimed that California public schools are encouraging students to use litter boxes. Gaffney, a podcaster and the wife of former NFL running back Tyler Gaffney, appeared on the February 22 episode and was asked by Arnolt about any strange activities she may have encountered at her kids’ schools. Related: Fox host claims schools are installing litterboxes for students in bizarre rant Commentator Shannon Bream trotted out the right-wing hoax that schools are installing litterboxes for kids to use — something that has never happened. “I’m in California, so I have no choice but to put them into private school,” Gaffney said. “It’s a pretty penny, but it’s worth it because I do not mess around with the public school system. I definitely hear stories amongst our peers, and it’s pretty crazy what these kids are learning and what they’re allowed to do in school. There’s something called furbies where people go to the restroom in litter boxes.” Stay connected to your community Connect with the issues and events that impact your community at home and beyond by subscribing to our daily newsletter. Arnolt nodded and said that she has heard of the “furbies.” Gaffney is referring to the urban myth that has proliferated among anti-trans conservatives that schools across the country have been installing litter boxes in restrooms for students who identify as furries to use. The thoroughly debunked myth is an outgrowth of anti-trans hysteria, where people claim that accepting trans people as their authentic selves would require them to accept children who identify as animals. That’s not exactly what furries are – they’re a harmless subculture in which people dress up as anthropomorphic animal characters – but it’s the word conservatives have chosen to describe the kids who are supposedly meowing instead of speaking in schools. Republican politicians and right-wing commentators have repeated the hoax to gin up moral panic around trans and nonbinary kids and also to push efforts to ban students from using school bathrooms that match their gender identity. But in October 2022, NBC News reported that none of the school districts that had been accused by Republicans that year of installing litter boxes had actually done so. What’s more, one Renison University College professor who studies furry culture noted that she has never once come across any evidence of actual furries using litter boxes. Gaffney and Arnolt seem to have missed all that. The host said that she had heard about litter boxes in schools. “And this is normalized,” Gaffney replied. “How weird is that?” Arnolt added. “I mean, I don’t care, like — let’s just think about this for what it is. You are allowing your children, you are encouraging: Be who you are. Act like an animal and use a litter box in the bathroom. I mean, I just feel like as a parent I don’t care how much I want you to have freedom of expression or be yourself. That is, I mean, that’s just insane.” Of course, Gaffney quickly segued into an explicit attack on trans athletes and trans people generally. “It’s strange that we’re normalizing—and for example men playing in women’s sports,” she said. “Something that women fought so hard for, to finally have this platform to be a part of and compete, are now being taken over by so-called women.” “What, at the end of the day, we’re doing is we’re normalizing mental illness,” she added. “And it’s very strange to me that everyone can just go to bed at night like this isn’t happening in our world.” http://dlvr.it/T3FGw0

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From Novara Media UK. Lots of interesting perks into the abysmal way the British Tories and Labour Party have handled the Gaza situation. I also didn't realize that the Israeli political parties are SO Rightwing, that they don't even allow women to run for office.

The seriousness of this video really shows how infantile American News media has become.

#Novara Media #UK #Israel #Gaza #ABC #CBS #CNN #NBC #MSNBC #New York Post #Washington Post #All untrustworthy and loyal to Israel #Bibi Netanyahu