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Request: Seattle has Mayoral, County, and City Council elections today, polls close at 11pm Eastern.

Mayoral race, Bruce Harnell vs Katie Wilson, is a neoliberal vs Socdem/‘Progressive’ matchup that sets the tone for the whole election - that’s how it is for the city council seats, too, including for the President of the Council’s seat.

Could be interesting. Could see a socdem sweep tonight in Seattle, same night as Mamdani likely winning.

That is still lying and still carries all of the same psychological difficulties in terms of actually pulling it off.

Have you ever had to lie by omission to any sort of authority figure? Particularly likely already being traumatized by interactions with authority figures, like a LOT of trans people are?

If you don’t have difficulties with that, you genuinely have nerves of steel and that’s extremely impressive, but even if you’re convinced ‘temporarily becoming very forgetful’ is something most trans people are capable of successfully doing, this is a situation that is 1000x worse than anything anyone would reasonably expect to deal with it.

It’s not just cops, it’s cops investigating a fucking political assassination and looking for anything they can to blame this on you specifically and people like you, it is the number 1 news item in the entire country! The stakes and psychological stress are so much fucking higher - I definitely couldn’t keep my shit together while being ‘very forgetful’ with all this stress on me, honestly. Especially not with cops poking and proding for any cracks in that front.

Ah, yes, let’s just pre-emptively censor everything to appease the right-wing lunatics who crave a return to the American 1950s that exists only in their fucking minds, to the good old day of God and Family and Women in their Proper Place and No Queers and No Blacks and No Hispanics and No Autists and No Mentally Ill and No Homeless only Good White Christian Families doing Good White Christian things.

The cisheteropatriarchy is never going to accept people who do not adhere to it’s unachievable horrendous norms, no matter how clean and pure and pre-censored everything is. Pornographic material is always the canary in the fucking coal mine, and this was a direct attack on literally the least harmful form of pornographic material that has none of the fucking issues with exploitation and coercion as live-action porn - nobody is hurt by pornographic video games! People like you just refuse to give up the position of Morality Police making sure that all artistic and cultural products stay within your lanes of ‘culturally acceptable’ - you fundamentally agree with fascists like these people, you just nitpick the details.

Those 1% would’ve likely done it anyway, with or without the game. It also needs to be said that the vast majority of cis men who go on to sexually assault people aren’t playing porn video games anyway, they’re incredibly niche and in my experience are played by a roughly 50/50 split of archetypal mentally disabled people who aren’t going out enough to sexually assault anyone (like myself in the past) and queer people. The choking problem doesn’t come from porn video games, it comes from the intensely exploitative live-action porn industry, which is not in any way comparable to video games or any other type of animated pornography.

In my experience the majority of people who engage with rpe-kink (god I hate the filtering here) are rpe-victims, such as myself. It is a way of processing and reclaiming the trauma, and rendering the idea of r*pe so fuckin taboo that it cannot be processed and dealt with through kink is horrible practice that does nothing but make the lives of many victims a lot harder. Speaking from experience.

There’s nothing wrong with having a kink for SA anyway, which is the target market of games like that. 99% of the people who play those games aren’t going to turn around and go and sexually assault someone, this is the same logic as claiming that video games cause violence when they demonstrably do not.

Oh, fuck off. Schizophrenic people are almost never violent against anyone but themselves - advocating for the forced imprisonment of schizophrenic people in any context is completely unacceptable behavior for anyone who wants to call themselves a communist.

There’s no need to hero worship this guy. It’s not like his actions actually accomplished anything anyway. Adventurism is bad, and I’m not shocked that this guy had idiotic positions on ableism and nuerodivergency.

True, you are my correct, my apologies for my imprecision on the matter. I suppose I tend to lump it all together as in my view the particularities of why the nuerotypes we recognize as Autistic occur - be they genetic, derived from environmental conditions in the womb, or literally just pure behavioral stuff that was learned in childhood or otherwise - is ultimately an irrelevant factoid, something that ought not be researched at all. What matters, in my view, is combating nuerotypical oppression, and ‘we’re all on the autism spectrum’ stuff is poison to that goal because it denies that autists are even different.

A denial of difference goes hand-in-hand with a refusal to accommodate and an expectation of assimilation into nuerotypical behavioral patterns, imo, so I tend to go rather hard against such language.

This is not true - allistic people are in fact real. The ‘Autism spectrum’ only refers to differing severity of various ‘symptoms’ in specific individuals, as each autistic person is unique. That term was never meant to imply that ‘we’re all a little bit autistic’ or whatever, that is simply categorically false, Autistic people are a distinct nuerotype from Allistic people, and that material and psychological distinction is the reason for our social oppression by allistics.

Read the article challenge:

This happened when he left Interplay, it has nothing to do with Bethesda. Not that I am a fan of their treatment of Fallout in the slightest, but this kind of thing is standard industry practice, not ‘vindictiveness’ on the part of Bethesda.

In fairness, the headline is very misleading, makes it seem like he’s not talking about like 20 year old events.

Dragon Ball Online did a lot of this stuff - Toryiama actually wrote the plot outline for it, it was set several hundred years in the future, featuring ancient Piccolo and Master Roshi still being around and stuff like that, and Dende, but otherwise all new people besides occasional exceptions for the time-travel heavy main plot - but gameplay wise it was very much the typical MMO.