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• On the post: Even If Those Weren’t War Plans In Hegseth’s Signal Chat, They Were War Crimes

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2025 @ 05:49am

  Whenever I hear "Drain the swamp" by Trumpy and his MAGA henchmen, I hear "Destroy the Wetlands". Everything they do in destroying what civilization the US had is proving me right.

• On the post: The Collapse Of Republican Seriousness

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2025 @ 02:02pm

  If the judge is usurping power from the other branches, then impeachment would be appropriate.

  Does this apply if the President is a Democrat?

• On the post: Even The Guy Who Saw Nothing Wrong With CIA Torture Thinks Trump Is Going Too Far With His Deportation Efforts

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2025 @ 02:36am

  Here's the thing though: Race doesn't exist, but racism does, and as long as racism, colonialism, and fascism exist, indigenous people do exist, and in the context of humans, "indigenous" is antonymous to "colonizer". Also, in the context of the US and Canada, the tribes and nations are political entities, not merely racial identities.

• On the post: Anheuser-Busch Opposes Conservative Brewery’s ‘Ultra Right’ Mark

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2025 @ 05:11pm

  Yeah, thanks for nothing, AMBev!

• On the post: Anheuser-Busch Opposes Conservative Brewery’s ‘Ultra Right’ Mark

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2025 @ 05:11pm

  letthemfight.gif

• On the post: But Their Signal Chats: Trump Officials Share War Plans With Journalist

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2025 @ 05:04pm

  Anti-Government (but not anti-State) propaganda has brainwashed Republican messaging. Like when Kristi Noem was questioned by Dana Bash at CNN: Noem: "You wouldn't trust the government." Bash: "You are the government!"

• On the post: The Presidential Toddler Theory Of Government

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2025 @ 04:51pm

  A more German sounding term

  Best to make it sound more German: "Kinderpolitik", or "Children's Politics".

• On the post: Even The Guy Who Saw Nothing Wrong With CIA Torture Thinks Trump Is Going Too Far With His Deportation Efforts

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2025 @ 03:16pm

  People live here! Including 50.01% percent of the electorate who didn't vote for Trump! What we should do is give it back to the indigenous population. They took far better care of it.

• On the post: Yet Another Columnist Claims Bluesky Is A Liberal Echo Chamber Because Its Users Keeping Kicking Nazis Out Of The Bar

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2025 @ 07:10am

  Listen: many of us trans people look like cis people. If you ask trans men to go to the women's room, you're asking someone who looks like a man to piss and shit where the women's room is, and same for trans women who look like cis women to piss in the men's room. This doesn't even account for intersex people. You don't know what the fuck you're doing by forcing us to do our business in the bathrooms of our birth sex rather than our true gender.

• On the post: Yet Another Columnist Claims Bluesky Is A Liberal Echo Chamber Because Its Users Keeping Kicking Nazis Out Of The Bar

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2025 @ 04:22am

  Insisting that trans women should use men’s public restrooms is not “throwing them in the grave”. Remember that in many countries, becoming a “trans woman” is simply a public self-declaration, and does not require any surgeries, court decisions or hormone treatments.

  Trans woman here. I do whatever results in the most safety, not just in my own safety, but the safety of those around me. When I present as a woman, I've used women's restrooms, and there was never an issue. When I'm in the gym, I use the men's locker room, because–and this is extremely important–I care about the safety of cisgender women! Besides, how are people supposed to check whether or not someone has any "surger[y]" or "hormone treatment" before using the bathroom of their gender? Are you seriously suggesting cops look at people's genitals before using the bathroom? That's disgusting.

• On the post: Yet Another Columnist Claims Bluesky Is A Liberal Echo Chamber Because Its Users Keeping Kicking Nazis Out Of The Bar

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2025 @ 04:17am

  Sure thing, Chinese sycophant.

• On the post: Yet Another Columnist Claims Bluesky Is A Liberal Echo Chamber Because Its Users Keeping Kicking Nazis Out Of The Bar

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2025 @ 05:06pm

  No one said that not joining makes you a Nazi. No one believes that everybody not on the left is a Nazi. But if you’re out there doing Nazi salutes or rounding up people to put them in concentration camps or talking about polluting the blood of your nation, don’t be surprised if someone calls you a Nazi for engaging in literal Nazi behavior.

  Exactly. If it smells like a Nazi, it's probably Musk.

• On the post: Yet Another Columnist Claims Bluesky Is A Liberal Echo Chamber Because Its Users Keeping Kicking Nazis Out Of The Bar

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2025 @ 05:02pm

  Conservatives: "X/Twitter is king because it's the marketplace of ideas!" *Liberals, Leftists and Progressives leave X/Twitter for BlueSky because of a better user experience, thus using their market power* Conservatives: "How dare you not like our idea marketplace!"

• On the post: Unilever Turns On Ben & Jerry’s CEO As It Tries To Lick Trump Administration’s Boots

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2025 @ 10:09am

  Ah, Trump Derangement Syndrome. Also known as "Being so loyal to Trump that his Gestapo ICE could kidnap your wife and you'll still lick his boots". THAT'S Trump Derangement Syndrome. Not what we normies call "empathy" or "caring about people different than ourselves".

• On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 411: A New Podcast All About Section 230

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2025 @ 04:00pm

  We need just about anything we can get to change congress peoples’ minds.

  Campaign contributions?

• On the post: There It Is: RFK Jr. Suggests Best Strategy For Combatting Measles Is For Everyone To Get It

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2025 @ 05:21pm

  I'll be damned.

  A coherent comment from ECA? And one with which I enthusiastically agree? I guess Barack Obama was right when he said at Madiba's memorial service (but was misattributed to Madiba himself):

  It always seems impossible until it is done.

• On the post: It Is Long Past Time For Democrats To Start Pounding The Impeachment Drum

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2025 @ 03:58pm

  I've been using that Simpsons quote for a while. It's one of my favorites.

• On the post: First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out Of Control

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2025 @ 03:50pm

  I've written Florida off a long time ago.

• On the post: My New Podcast ‘Otherwise Objectionable’ Explains Why Everyone’s Wrong About Section 230

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2025 @ 11:15am

  Ah, thank you!

• On the post: My New Podcast ‘Otherwise Objectionable’ Explains Why Everyone’s Wrong About Section 230

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2025 @ 05:46pm

  Question:

  Will this podcast be a mini-series, or a continuous news-update podcast à la Techdirt and Ctrl-Alt-Speech?

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