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("They" meaning trans people in general, not a specific person).

Are you trying to say they'll be way worse off if a Republican wins? Because the article addressed that (Assumption #8):

Assumption #7: Trans people are selfish and only thinking of themselves
Assumption #8: Trans people will be way worse off if the Republican wins

I am grouping these together because they are both common responses, sometimes espoused by the same person, even though they are inherently contradictory. The former tacitly recognizes that protesting the Democratic candidate in question is in trans people’s best interest, while the latter suggests that it’s not in our best interest. So which is it? It can’t be both!

While contradictory, Assumptions #7 and 8 can both be used toward the same end goal, namely, dismissing trans people’s perspectives. They are both “polite” ways of telling trans people to “shut the fuck up.”

Regarding Assumption #7: If you sincerely engaged in the thought experiment in the last section, you can see why this “selfish” accusation is deranged. It’s *our rights* that are on the chopping block, so of course we are speaking out. And if *your rights* are not currently on the chopping block (insert “First They Came” reference here), then you are the one being selfish by telling us to put aside our concerns for yours!

Regarding Assumption #8: This isn’t necessarily true. One only needs to look at the UK, where Labour (the center-left party that is analogous to Democrats here) tried to appease anti-trans activists in an attempt to garner broader support, but it completely backfired, and now they have alienated much of their base (a lesson that Democrats should pay heed to). And now with both major UK parties embracing anti-trans policies, trans people face a nation-wide situation that is arguably worse than it is in most red states.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

They will generate as many rotating villains as they need as long as they think they can get away with it.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Speaking of having a bit in the mouth

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'd take this idea but I dunno, adopt a dog or a cat and ask friends to come over and celebrate. Bring pet beds, toys, Chewy gift cards or whatever. Costco sheet cake + pizza + beer and he'd have a gathering. Beats wallowing in self-pity.

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

So, it's been about one month since Macklemore got dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour and my Macklemore video got a big bump from the news, I'm donating the extra revenue from it (about $400) to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (pcrf.net) and hey, maybe you want to also

pcrf.net

PCRF

The Palestine Children's Relief Fund was established in 1992 by concerned humanitarians in the USA to bring injured and sick children for free medical care they could not get locally

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Waiting the Bailey 2: Motte

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

She almost went through a primary and then dropped out before Iowa because it was clear her candidacy was doomed. Then they let her skip the line in 2024 and she couldn't even beat Trump.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm reading men! Hallelujah I'm reading men! (Amen)

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If they're so brilliant why do they live in the ocean?

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm sure as a good liberal you'd prefer she be deported.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Blocked for the least controversial opinion in the world. Not the USWNT's best game.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sure, he was only harassed by police for the rest of his life and suffered from addiction that eventually led to his premature death. But he survived the beating.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Feels good after the shitshow that was the Brentford game 3 weeks ago.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Loving that replay from 120 yards away, lol

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They do, as do the 1.5 million North Korean civilians who died. That still doesn't justify what the US did. And if you think it does, I don't know what to tell you.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I mean if you're comparing the US and North Korea, one of those countries carpet-bombed the other with more ordinance than had been used in the entire Pacific theater of WW2, killing hundreds of thousands and damaging/destroying something like 90% of the buildings. You know, "barbarity."

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The wrongest part of his entire post is claiming he has friends.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I mean it didn't specify on the head.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we?

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What's the video game??

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kropotkin in "The Permanence of Society After Revolution" on mercantilism, industrialism, and capitalism: "It has never been anything else but a machine for robbery, except a machine for, in addition, arbitrary suppression of free thought, speech and action.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You're right: It's a genocide.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The solution isn't AI slop.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Do you dorks ever get sick of losing or is it a humiliation fetish?

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Makes me want to read it again. A fantastic book.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also very funny! "After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses...and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people."

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Disney has been weird about snubbing him, refusing to name him as a Disney Legend despite honoring Lin-Manuel Miranda and Dwayne Johnson this year, among others.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ugh, these people are so gross. So little distance between your average liberal and MAGA. bsky.app/profile/bran...

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's going to be 86 degrees today, a bit warm for your average October day. As long as we're discussing things that aren't relevant to what I posted.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Balfour Declaration - Wikipedia share.google/7hhpuRAb4Wcg...

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Balfour Declaration - Wikipedia

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't remember this part of Bastion

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Apartheid South Africa. Nazi Germany. Imperial Japan. You might notice that this didn't mean the land and all its people were wiped off the map.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jews lived in Palestine before it was colonized. A Palestinian state doesn't exclude them.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Find someone who loves you as much as Democrats love meaningless attempts at "reform."

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Are you joking? People talk about this all the time. The last American president was a Christian Zionist freak.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Literally at a gay wedding reception right now.

A rainbow emerges from the clouds above the trees and a conservatory.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm assuming he's responding to Ben Lorber by pointing out that Zionism is explicitly procedural and systemic state-sponsored oppression of a people in a way that isn't comparable to what's going on in New York currently. But it's a snippet being used for rage-bait engagement, so hard to tell.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well you'll be happy to know the movie is surprisingly accurate for the game's world! I was almost too happy to see a displacer beast, haha.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hmmm sounds like it's time for a 5th watch, cause 5th edition? It's early and that's all I've got.

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Ryan @borubyarlo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'll complain if someone is killed in the commission of a crime because cops aren't supposed to be judge, jury, and executioner.

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