The BBC has rightfully criticised russian state owned media in the past for doing similar things but now its doing the same
The original scene goes as follows
>Sam: It's just... sometimes the world can be a scary place. It's hard to know who's dangerous or not. > >Nightshade: Hmm, that's true, though dissapointing. > >Sam: Hey, it's ok. I know I'm safe when I'm with my friends or other non-binary people. > >Nightshade: Non-binary? > >Sam: People who aren't female or male. Oh I'm sorry, I shouldn't have assumed. > >Nightshade: I always felt my pronouns felt right, but what a wonderful word for a wonderful experience.
the one on BBC iplayer goes like this:
>Sam: It's just... sometimes the world can be a scary place. It's hard to know who's dangerous or not. > >Nightshade: Hmm, that's true, though dissapointing. > >Sam: Hey, it's ok. I know I'm safe when I'm with my friends. > >[second of awkward silence as the audio was removed but nothing was added back in and then it cuts to the next scene]
to fellow brits you can see the edited scene here, 10:15 seconds in: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0g9f9cn/transformers-earthspark-series-1-17-home-part-1?seriesId=unsliced
A good book I liked about it was Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg, available here in pdf form: https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2021-12-29_61cca107e2f6b_leslie-feinberg-trans-liberation-beyond-pink-or-blue.pdf
It was written in the 90s so some of the terms are sort of dated but it holds true with what a lot of the modern trans experience continues to be
a new political office who’s sole purpose is to determine if trans people should have rights or not.
We already have that smh: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_for_Women_and_Equalities
A Council of Europe report[6][7] in September 2021 criticised the Minister for Equalities, stating that rhetoric from the minister is in contradiction with international human rights standards and has contributed to a sharp increase in transphobic crimes since 2015.
They're basically reassuring her that they're still transphobic enough for her to support after she went against them to endorse the Communist Party of Britain because one of their candidates put out a really transphobic statement for their election (but then CPB disavowed their member's statement in a really limp wristed way to try and maintain the facade that they're still the social centrists in between the former party RFB and CPGB-ML so she took back her endorsement)
We're at new new labour now smh
Author responds after shadow chancellor says party would be ‘really happy’ to ‘give her assurances’
This country sucks so bad, why couldn't the weird transphobic internet lady just stick to her castle and keep tweeting about how wizards used to just shit on the floor bcs they were too stupid to use plumbing
This comm looks like it'll be cool I'm laughably bad at stuff like this so it'd help
Knowing how transphobic Streeting is the "simplification" of the process will probably be banning it all together
Also how labour is literally getting policy advice from JK Rowling: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/labour-jk-rowling-rachel-reeves-labour-party-douglas-ross-b2567853.html
iirc from growing up in a church school and all the Bible study bits I did growing up, there's a bit in the bible where jesus says that if someone tries to kidnap and enslave someone they should pay a fine to the parents in addition to the punishment they'd receive from the law which some people twist around into trying to imply that jesus was saying kidnapping and enslaving people is ok as long as you pay a fine to the parents.
They're making fun of how Brexit was pushed on a platform of getting rid of overstrict EU regulations and bureaucracy (as well as a lot of overt racism) but it turned out a load of it was just homegrown British bureaucracy that had nothing to do with the EU but UKIP voters kept complaining that anything they didn't like about Britain was the fault of the EU anyway
What's the point in memes where it's putting something that's just uncontroversially true and not really that complex of an idea next to a twink wojack
Edit: just read the comments smh. My bad OP you're entirely in the right for this, apparently the basic idea that the dominant ideology reproduces itself is too complicated for people to get, also someone calling you a tankie for this lol
go to this web address: https://app.element.io/#/register and then put in either matrix.org or chat.blahaj.zone as your homeserver. the page should look like this once you've done that:
once you've set up an account try clicking through the link to the chat i sent you again
i found some links for you and edited my earlier comment
i saw something a few weeks ago about some company in china that recently patented a potential cure for diabetes that removed the need for insulin so it might be referring to that. i'll try and find an article about it
edit: here's some stuff about it
https://interestingengineering.com/health/stem-cell-therapy-diabetes-china
idk about hte claim that people are trying to fight it (though tbh as soon as it looks like it might be viable on a large scale they probably will tbh)
There's a blahaj matrix chat, lemme just find the link to it
Edit: here's the link https://matrix.to/#/#genderverse-chat:chat.blahaj.zone
In future I'd advise using the term cis woman instead of biological woman because biological woman has a history of being used as a transphobic term by TERFs to delegitimise trans people, especially in the UK.
One thing I've seen used for CPGB-ML (an ML party so notable for their transphobia that JK Rowling has repeatedly endorsed them and their members and even the MLs in Britain largely range from looking down on to openly hating them) are the phrases tailism and right deviationism being applied to them
As a general trend in Britain the term tankie (at least in my experience) is used less by the far left because it originated here and has had more time to be misused to the point that most of us remember stuff like Jeremy Corbyn being called a "tankie trot" by Boris Johnson and stuff like that
I literally just use the web browser bcs I'm spiritually a boomer despite physically being a zoomer
Who paid for this? There’s a certain meme that I see making the rounds on Facebook every so often about the bucolic nature of life in the Shire, from Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord o…
a cool piece i read about the economics of the shire from lord of the rings that i mentioned on the blahaj matrix and was advised to post here
Key sections from the article:
> The Joe Biden administration will work with Congress on possible sanctions against the International Criminal Court after its prosecutor announced it was seeking arrest warrants for senior Israeli and Hamas officials, US secretary of state Antony Blinken said on Tuesday.
[…]
> Blinken’s openness to bipartisan co-operation over the ICC is a sign of the level of anger in Washington over its request for arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Yoav Gallant.
[…]
> The sanctions could be similar to those imposed by the Trump administration on the ICC’s then chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and the court’s head of jurisdiction Phakiso Mochochoko for their investigation into alleged US war crimes in Afghanistan. The sanctions froze their American assets and banned their travel to the US. The Biden administration has not yet indicated what kind of sanctions it would support.
[…]
> Republican Senator Lindsey Graham praised Schumer’s response to the ICC warrant application and urged him “to follow strong words with strong deeds”.
> “It is imperative that the Senate, in a bipartisan way, comes up with crippling sanctions against the ICC — not only to support Israel but to deter any future action against American personnel,” Graham said.
> In an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday, Netanyahu said his response to the ICC’s announcement was “no different from what President Biden said, this is outrageous and many people across the political spectrum in the United States . . . have called it exactly that”.
> “It’s a rogue prosecutor who’s out to demonise the one and only Jewish state,” he added.
Key sections from the article:
> The Joe Biden administration will work with Congress on possible sanctions against the International Criminal Court after its prosecutor announced it was seeking arrest warrants for senior Israeli and Hamas officials, US secretary of state Antony Blinken said on Tuesday.
[...]
> Blinken’s openness to bipartisan co-operation over the ICC is a sign of the level of anger in Washington over its request for arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Yoav Gallant.
[...]
> The sanctions could be similar to those imposed by the Trump administration on the ICC’s then chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and the court’s head of jurisdiction Phakiso Mochochoko for their investigation into alleged US war crimes in Afghanistan. The sanctions froze their American assets and banned their travel to the US. The Biden administration has not yet indicated what kind of sanctions it would support.
[...]
> Republican Senator Lindsey Graham praised Schumer’s response to the ICC warrant application and urged him “to follow strong words with strong deeds”.
> “It is imperative that the Senate, in a bipartisan way, comes up with crippling sanctions against the ICC — not only to support Israel but to deter any future action against American personnel,” Graham said.
> In an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday, Netanyahu said his response to the ICC’s announcement was “no different from what President Biden said, this is outrageous and many people across the political spectrum in the United States . . . have called it exactly that”.
> “It’s a rogue prosecutor who’s out to demonise the one and only Jewish state,” he added.
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