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Cake day: September 13th, 2023

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  • Most of them voted with the GOP because they are upset about how the schools are presenting pronoun policy.

    And most of it is complete bullshit. They lie - they say teachers are letting students identify as cats and shit. Or with the sports stuff - the current outrage over a woman who intentionally went to a fencing competition that allowed trans women, so she could cause a scene. Amateur fencing is typically coed anyway - when I took an intro fencing class they paired us with whoever. The same woman had faced a man a few weeks ago even IIRC!

    Then she’s claiming that she was afraid for her life - as if the brutish strength of anyone with an XY chromosome is going to make fencing deadly.

    Democrats don’t give a shit about trans people and haven’t. Fox News and OAN and Alex Jones have Republicans convinced that middle school teachers are doling out puberty blockers.

    I’m sick of this “Democrats are failing because of pronoun politics” because they haven’t done Jack shit for us.







  • I sometimes tutor government, and I’ve had some crazy moments where just reading the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution out loud seems like it’s almost dangerous.

    He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

    He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

    He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

    He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

    Thomas Jefferson was brilliant, even he was a slaver and child rapist.


  • Paragraph 175 of the German code made homosexuality illegal. It had already been illegal under Weimer and the Reich before, with varying degrees of enforcement. The Nazis strengthened it, started going after even non penetrative sex.

    Pink triangle prisoners were among the lowest of the low, similar to Jews. The goal was to work them to death, in the brick works. Theres a lot of horrific fucked up sexual sadism when you read these accounts. (Having sex with a man is only gay if you love him, I guess)

    Then, when the camps were liberated:

    The American policy toward gay inmates in the US-controlled zone of occupation was based on the Handbook for Military Government in Germany Prior to Defeat or Surrender, which was compiled by the Combined Chiefs of Staff of the US Military in 1944. Part of the Handbook was dedicated specifically to directing American troops how to classify and handle the large number of concentration camp survivors. The policy for those interned based on criminal actions stated, “Ordinary criminals with a prison sentence still to serve will be transferred to civil prisons.” Since many pink triangle prisoners had been convicted of violating Paragraph 175, a law of the German Criminal Code that predated the Nazi regime, the Americans also classified them as criminals. Therefore, those who had not finished serving their sentence were often transferred to prisons.

    Homosexuality remained illegal in West Germany until the 70s. This also meant that there weren’t even accounts of the things that happened in those camps, because the social stigma didn’t go away…