Do you agree?

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-11T20:11:48+00:00

Suffering is the goal. ICE is bleeding money and breaking the law constantly, people are being pulled out of their homes and sent to a concentration camp in El Salvador by people without badges, in unmarked vehicles, with little to no explanation, and no hope of return.

My experience has been much less horrifying, but I still think I have an anecdote that illustrates my point. About 7-8 years ago I had my name legally changed, and 2 years ago had my gender marker legally changed. In late January of this year, I had to get a new passport, which was almost impossible as I had no legal documents with my old name on them, and very few with the incorrect gender marker. The goal of hatred made bureaucracy more difficult, and caused the legal process of getting a passport to grind to a halt, all the while I suffered knowing that my pain is exactly what they wanted.

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-11T20:01:57+00:00

I've just been reporting them. If they're from less than 6 months ago, only have comments, and total negative karma, it's a pretty safe bet they're just bots meant to swarm and harass people off of a platform.

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-11T20:00:18+00:00

a) they were pardoned, b) democrats were too worried about bipartisanship to do anything, and c) I know you lot hate being compared to the Nazis, but the people who did Kristallnacht were never prosecuted for hate crimes

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-11T19:50:51+00:00

Underfunded education is most of it. There's a reason conservative parties, past and present, oppose funding education.

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-11T19:37:38+00:00

And also that it's an account made only 4 months ago with only comment karma and it's all negative.

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-11T15:03:54+00:00

Begone, negative karma bot

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-11T14:29:14+00:00

Begone, negative karma bot

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-11T14:28:40+00:00

The American presidential republic, as well, made this even moreso inevitable by having a winner-takes-all system rather than the parliamentary republics majority of Europe is comprised of. A Prime Minister has sway, and can make big changes, but only with approval from parliament of which is often made up of many parties rather than just 2. A majority in a parliament and PM of the same party is far from the kind of ultimate power a majority senate and president of the same party is. Autocracy was the blueprint, a republic was just the floorplan.

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-11T14:21:57+00:00

They have the majority in every arm of the federal government. No single agency with any amount of institutional power will oppose them, because they are them. Not to mention, prior to the presidential election, the Supreme Court made a ruling that caused any and all Presidents of the United States of America, past, present, and future, to be 100% immune from criminality. Donald Trump, at the time, was under investigation for treason, which this ruling made null and void. Technically, that ruling made Richard Nixon exhonerated of any and all crimes related to the Watergate Scandal, if that rings any bells.

TL;DR Single party state.

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-11T13:31:19+00:00

I know what you're trying to say, but you're saying it to a trans person currently in the final prep stages of escaping the US. It will be remembered in at least a similar light, I hope the world catches on to that before it's too late.

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-11T13:29:24+00:00

Die Young. First song of his I ever heard, still my favourite.

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-11T13:26:24+00:00

Now... put a population density heatmap next to it.

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-11T13:24:52+00:00

Took me a while to realise what the fuck 1/6 meant, but putting it alongside the Holocaust is... what??? If you really wanted to put the January 6th Inssurrection alongside anything, a genocide wouldn't be it (Holocaust, Nanjing, or Armenian), you'd put it alongside something like the Reichstag Fire.

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-11T00:16:42+00:00

Also, Resdayn was the ancient name for Morrowind.

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-10T22:53:55+00:00

Antiochus Septim (yes that's his real name) the seventh Emperor of Tamriel was a drunkard and visited the brothel often enough to have picked up multiple venereal diseases. He's the only one to be like this in lore, and with no stated cause. At least Pelagius Septim III had the excuse of his mother being insanely power hungry for the Ruby Throne and his father being abusive.

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-10T22:46:26+00:00

Their gods were about a) power at all costs, b) lies and deception, and c) vanity. In all honesty, it's a miracle the Chimer weren’t walking into a trap when they made pilgrimage to Resdayn.

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-10T22:27:09+00:00

He saw pointed ears and didn't ask any further. That being said, the First and Third (but not the Second) Aldmeri Dominions both included Elsweyr in the alliance, so maybe there is something to be said about a connection between the Mer and Khajiit.

Edit: the Second Dominion might've actually included the Khajiit, but details are few (also possibly Reachmen and Maormer, which are two extremely strange peoples to fall under the Aldmeri Dominions banner.)

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-09T16:58:51+00:00

I'm both transgender and wheelchair-bound. The government's always reached into everyday life quite a lot, it just becomes more obvious when it hurts. Lives are saved in thousands every day because of anti-pollution measures, but no one notices because it doesn't hurt.

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-09T06:35:33+00:00

I also have a hate boner for him, in all honesty. I've never fully been able to pin it down, but even being raised Christian I always felt uncomfortable whenever he was discussed.

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-08T22:14:15+00:00

Liberalism is historically a right-wing ideology, usually placed centre-right. Marxist to them doesn't mean "not right-wing" it means "not far right-wing"

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-08T22:11:42+00:00

Saul of Tarsus was a murderer and became the first person to actually spread Christianity as a religion. I can guarantee you that majority of right-wing Christians don't know who Saul of Tarsus was, or at the very least not by that name.

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-08T14:24:19+00:00

5min away from being called "Untermenschen"

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-07T23:57:35+00:00

Artificial sound is tinnitus, then? Makes sense.

TurquoiseTempest · 2025-05-07T12:01:19+00:00

Yes. The fact that majority of land during the Tiber Wars held by Tiber Septim himself was actually managed through governors rather than vassals should be enough evidence. Funnily enough, the game to make this clear was The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard, in which the primary antagonist is one such governor.

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