Mastodawn

About trans rights:

They're a wedge issue. If you think it's okay to deprive trans people of the right to exist in the public sphere then you're saying human rights are conditional and/or can be withdrawn. Which puts you on a slippery slope to no human rights for anyone.

When you trace the roots of the modern anti-trans movement they boil down to some combination of bigotry and billionaire bullshit— the oligarchs think rights are for the rich.

So: trans-rights are human rights. No exceptions.

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Leszek Karlik

@cstross

Fucking Carl Schmitt and his evil but really insight that establishing a border and saying "those inside are the in-group and protected and those outside are the out-group and not protected" allows you to later move the border, because it has been already established that the out-group is not protected.

We really should have Nuremberged much harder.