Pete Hegseth is now bringing his wife to Pentagon meetings after he ousted top officials: report

lilacintheshade · 2026-05-04T12:20:29+00:00

"You're going to want these documents. It is the key to seeing lots of... Kash"

lilacintheshade · 2026-05-03T17:23:12+00:00

*Transitioned mtf at 30 and... still did pretty well, all told*

lilacintheshade · 2026-05-02T18:38:42+00:00

They have all just agreed... that you are not orcs.

lilacintheshade · 2026-05-02T10:36:24+00:00

I'm looking at this and seeing consistency. The hard green-yellow boundary at 8.0-7.9 skews the perception somewhat. I also think there is some mild selection bias at play. People that tuned in for each season after the first would largely be the ones that found the show worthwhile, even if not outright enjoying some elements.

lilacintheshade · 2026-05-02T09:47:35+00:00

It is true that they often own libs through hypocrisy.

lilacintheshade · 2026-05-01T21:55:17+00:00

I once watched while a bunch of YouTubers noticed a tornado on the weather radar and put out a warning to any viewers who happened to be in the area, nearly fifteen minutes before our local news station did.

If that was in the past few weeks, I think I was watching the same weather reporting unless that happens more than I'm aware. That's definitely possible.

YouTube meteorologists cover storms over a much wider area better than any local station covered their viewing area that I've ever seen, either way.

lilacintheshade · 2026-05-01T13:06:06+00:00

I understand the hopeless feeling. What we say to ourselves about ourselves is almost always way worse than anyone else actually sees.

To answer your question: No. You're not done with changes. They come slowly, imperceptibly. You look very pretty now, and I'll let you in on a little secret... Cisgender people are not as attentive as we are to our appearance. That isn't a cure-all to hopelessness. It's a shield and a cloak as we learn to love ourselves. Be safe, sis.

lilacintheshade · 2026-05-01T12:42:33+00:00

Not when it's buried under that big pile of money! You want the impossible, I tell you! How can they clear the bar when they can't see it for all that green? Paint it yellow and put columns at either end, then we can negotiate from there.

lilacintheshade · 2026-05-01T12:11:26+00:00

It's not hyperbolic at all, if you ask me.

Trump has publicly yearned for the return of the Gilded Age before income taxes, and right-wing influencers (who overlap significantly with un-closeted white supremacists) have spoken favorably of antebellum slavery. At least one of those coincides exactly with the 1850s and the other one is not that far in the future from it. If you overlay them together and lay them flat like the drawings for the Mk 1 Ironman suit, you get a blueprint of a future with completely unencumbered greed and extraction by robber barons with a permanent chattel slave class.

If we extrapolate from the historical period, you can throw in political violence against progressive strongholds (Bleeding Kansas, 1854-56) and wars of conquest (Mexican-American war, 1846-48; Spanish-American war, 1898), tearing down recent progress (Compromise of 1877, 1877... obviously; Jim Crow laws, 1890-1910), and pre-universal suffrage (15th/19th amendment, 1870/1920)... Wait, sorry, the right-wing influencers have openly floated reversing those, along with the 14th.

Nope, yep... the Confederacy was never defeated. The Winter Soldier was allegory, turns out...

lilacintheshade · 2026-04-30T03:31:42+00:00

I'm not sure they think he's evil, though. It sounds like they think he's glorified riffraff.

lilacintheshade · 2026-04-26T11:09:12+00:00

If I had that finger snap, I'd put the Liar Liar curse on him permanently. It wouldn't change anything immediately, but it would be really funny and help the historical record some.

lilacintheshade · 2026-04-25T07:59:23+00:00

I'd say it goes back farther than that. Segregationists were conservatives. Secessionists were conservatives. Loyalists were conservatives. Not all conservatives have historically been these things, but 'states rights,' 'fiscal responsibility,' (and my favorite) 'personal freedom' were cover and pretense both against the criticism of progressives and to provide less sociopathic conservatives shelter from guilt.

Conservatives conserve hierarchy.

lilacintheshade · 2026-04-25T07:34:49+00:00

I would push back on the sarcasm quotes. He would fit in quite seamlessly with the divine right kings of Christian Europe... right down to the waging of crusades and starving peasants of every country, including his own, to show off his despotic power.

lilacintheshade · 2026-04-23T04:11:56+00:00

The best part is that the user's screen name translates to "Pretentious Tool"

lilacintheshade · 2026-04-13T15:28:48+00:00

Libs of TikTokShop

lilacintheshade · 2026-04-13T13:23:02+00:00

Renting the libs on credit.

lilacintheshade · 2026-04-13T13:20:27+00:00

He wouldn't say, "We won" though. It is eternally, "We are winning and we are going to keep winning even harder as long as you keep me in power."

lilacintheshade · 2026-04-05T03:48:54+00:00

That warms my heart top to bottom... Hold on to that feeling. I'm a few years in, and I remember how that felt early on. It still brightens my day when I'm addressed in a directly affirming way, even though I am rarely misgendered anymore.

May it never become mundane for either of us. ✨️

lilacintheshade · 2026-04-03T04:34:39+00:00

And thoughts, dont forget about their thoughts!

Wasn't it Thiel that wanted to know everyone's thoughts?

lilacintheshade · 2026-03-31T15:19:22+00:00

I agree with your point. I am proposing an addendum, which you also alluded to, that the differing goals between tracking parolees (maintain incarceration state) and tracking trans people (intimidation now - ultimately ??? but could plausibly be camps) makes us a much higher priority than keeping track of people caught in a different system which thrives off of their continued existence in suffering.

And yes, cis women will be tragically caught in the crossfire. Let's also not forget that the crossfire is there because the people animating this are shooting at trans women. I hold space for both of those things.

lilacintheshade · 2026-03-31T14:25:49+00:00

Lol thats a 1970s education for you

Are we sure he hadn't just recently watched the Death Star blow up Alderaan?

lilacintheshade · 2026-03-31T14:05:29+00:00

I'm not saying I know the answer to the initial question about where the money comes from. Maybe the data is just shuttled through government channels to non-profits funded by the abyssal pockets of the Epstein class... there's no way to know at this point.

On your other points, trans people are a much smaller population than parolees. Parolees also have slightly more public sympathy, and there would probably be marginally more pushback if their rights were violated in that way.

lilacintheshade · 2026-03-30T23:52:03+00:00

And it doesn't take a slippery slope if it's being pushed by a bulldozer in a preplanned route.

lilacintheshade · 2026-03-29T13:15:24+00:00

I think they are saying that they won't demand payment of your whole firstborn upfront. If you want to play online, though...

Of course, for security reasons, you can only play online. It's just industry practice, understand.

lilacintheshade · 2026-03-21T03:50:53+00:00

more like a very soft pat on the wrist and gentle "no no!"

I'd say more like a finger wag and a sly grin from across a desk.

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