Cyrus Draegur

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  • When it comes to leadership who view an ongoing genocide overseas with blase tacit complicity, we are indeed damned if we do AND damned if we don’t.

    If we are to be damned no matter what we do, though, it then becomes a question of what qualities our inevitable damnation should possess.

    Shall we be damned with bog standard milquetoast business as usual liberalism that doesn’t do enough to actually help anything get better and continues to naively play nice with the predators, parasites, and scavengers of the big business elite class?

    OR

    Shall we be damned with concentration camps on American soil rounding up anyone the republican party deems to be “undesirable” and “making them go away” (any american who uses their free speech “the wrong way” being labeled a domestic terrorist ‘enemy alien’, nevermind the economy tanking, women being held hostage by their uteri and dying frequent preventable maternal deaths because a stillborn fetus is valued more highly than her life, prices soaring due to tariffs making imported goods nonviable, etc) ON TOP OF all the shit that’s wrong with liberalism with regard to big business pandering (except only the businesses owned by republican-party-approved individuals)?

    the idea that people can’t tell the difference makes my fucking blood boil


  • He wasted a perfectly ideal opportunity to say fuck that noise, or more diplomatically: “i don’t care about something that concerns America so little when we have such serious issues to deal with right here at home. it’s like a plane that has lost cabin pressure; we need to secure our own oxygen mask before we can help anyone else.”

    predictably, nobody talks about Aleppo or the things that happened there now.

    i probably wasn’t going to vote for him no matter what but his failure to leverage that opportunity still disappointed me and what IS still happening to this day is my disdain for people who still identify with his organization. they did not eat; they got cooked. they need to read the goddamn room and go home.


  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eetoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldLetter from the Editor
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    I for one was not surprised at all when Hillary lost in 2016.

    she engaged her pied piper strategy, held that rotten rat bastard plutocrat irredeemable orange scumbag to America’s head like a gun, said “vote for me or else,” and smugly thought to herself “well now they have no choice but to vote for me.”

    from where i stood, i fully expected that America very well could have been petty enough that it would cut off its own nose to spite its face. or in this case, reach up and pull the trigger on that gun itself.

    America said “else,” and proceeded to pay dearly for responding to an act of out-of-touch party aristocrat hubris with careless lackadaisical contempt.

    my father is dead because America didn’t have appropriate healthcare or effective pandemic response frameworks in place. it has robbed me of a significant chunk of my humanity and empathy. a good man died because of this comedy of errors, and anyone less of a worthwhile person than my father had been who yet lives will never again be seen as a human being in these eyes of mine.

    I’d like to believe this country has learnt its very painful lesson.

    but if it hasn’t, it can drown in the bed it will have shat. i shall squander no loyalty or kindness upon anyone who “left on the table” the most accessible possible measure within their grasp to ensure trump never defiles public office again. for those Innocents who may yet be caught in the crossfire of “protest voter” manic delusions of self-righteousness, I’m ready to assist in helping people escape this shithole nation with all the resources a working class household with four walls and a roof can spare. it would sure be nice if it didn’t come to that, though.















  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eetoLinguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksBone cognates
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    analogous structures like these helped me break down the false barrier in my mind about men and women being fundamentally different as if the two reproductive castes are monoliths. they aren’t. they are staggeringly similar. Especially mind-blowing was learning that the default structure is what we classify as “female”.

    Every mammalian fetus starts development along the female bodyplan, and unless acted upon by the external impulses of a y-chromosome, the mammal’s bodyplan will continue to develop in a way that appears entirely female, EVEN IF the y-chromosome is actually present.

    Such as: If it’s there but it doesn’t work (if it’s malformed or partially missing), or if it’s there AND it works but the REST of the cells aren’t responding to the androgens. Turns out the X “set” contains all the instructions needed to make a sentient being, even if it’s very likely that this being will not be capable of reproduction through traditional means.

    The point is, everything you can point to on the male anatomy, all those tissues exist in the female anatomy, they’re just distributed differently. And that’s freaking cool.