celeste

lots of reasons - early indoctrination, for one. but there are also benefits for women like this.

women who buy in are given a lot of power - over other women, minorities, children. they’re also told that they’ll be protected from the harm they see happening to other women (that they and the men in their lives participate in creating). i recall a recovering white supremacist woman who believed the white men around her wanted to protect good white women and girls until she was at an event and witnessed a bunch of guys raping a girl. she understood the lie, then.

so, for the same reason as the men. fear and control. and for public figures like this, money and power. women are as painfully human as men are, so over the years i’ve come to accept that the only reason more women aren’t shitheads politically in the way conservative men are is because the harm from being a shithead hits them in more direct ways, like not being able to get appropriate healthcare.

anyway, that’s my rambling answer.

When I first read this I thought “lie and cheat” was trump giving advice or like his motto or something

Trump won the 2024 election on the promise of “the largest deportation operation in American history”, but few anticipated a crackdown on documented immigrants, including visa and green card holders and citizens who have the status by birth or naturalisation, or tourists.

Plenty of people anticipated this. Who’s easier to deport when you want to get rid of a big number quickly? Someone living under the radar? Or someone who’s right on file and complies with orders to come in? And if there’s no due process, you can say they committed any crime you want to justify it. It’s not like morality or honesty would stop anyone involved in the process.

The ideal is that it’s just in there and no big deal. I know that’s all I wanted when I was young.

iirc, there was one old harvest moon game where you played as a woman and you could marry a guy OR live forever with your female bestie. i don’t remember if that one made it to the english speaking world.

stardew valley really upped the game when the guy who made it decided it’d be no big deal if you wanted to pursue a same sex relationship in it. now it feels like a standard of the genre to let you do that, and it really wasn’t always like that. other games did it, too, but it still felt exceptional back then.

(but, yeah, the gay thing was a big deal for me personally, especially at the time sdv came out. i don’t know if it was generally a big deal for most players, but that’s definitely a reason for it to catch a certain sort of player’s eye back when it was first becoming popular.)

He doesn’t need to if no one holds him accountable. He should need to, legally, but, in the current environment, he doesn’t.

The initial appeal for me was that I enjoyed harvest moon, except for how the old tech made the experience of playing it suck so bad, I couldn’t replay it. It was annoying doing any of the basic tasks like switching tools iirc. so there was a huge opening in the market for a new harvest moon that wasn’t annoying to play. And where you were allowed to be gay.

So the initial buzz came from that, imo. the people who wanted a new harvest moon game were like ‘wow, finally!’ and then word of mouth did its thing. these days, nostalgia for it specifically drives people back to play, along with extensive modding and occasional free updates keeping things fresh.

i think other people can explain better why the harvest moon formula itself is so appealing, but i just think it’s interesting how an indie game can get so popular by just being like "what if i made this big corporation game people want a new entry from, but fixed the stuff in it that sucks?’

Ever think about how many children’s lives this guy could save if he was capable of figuring out he was wrong and telling people? A lot of people wouldn’t follow him, but some would.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/11/what-has-jk-rowling-said-about-transgender-people-trans-views-tweets/

I’m not sure you should run your own social media if you become a famous celebrity.

They know it’s trump’s fault but they voted for him so they have to say biden was just as bad for the economy to justify their decision to themselves. That’s my theory.

In March, she and Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s three liberal justices in holding that Elon Musk’s nebulous cost-cutting initiative DOGE could not unilaterally freeze $2 billion in congressionally approved aid for work that had already been completed.

“She is evil, chosen solely because she checked identity politics boxes,” Cernovich wrote. “Another DEI hire. It always ends badly.”

Notably, Roberts was not accused of being a turncoat—just Coney Barrett.

Hmmmm wonder why. Man, she did her job and got roe v wade overturned, and they’ll still outright call her “evil.”