Charlie Stross12h ago

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trans people of the right to exist in the public sphere then you're saying human rights are conditional and/or can be withdrawn.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.

Show threadSam Stephens11h ago
@cstross and of course, if you're anti trans, how does it feel knowing the talking points you're spouting were probably paid for by Epstein money?
Show threadJuho Mäntysalo4h ago

@chopsstephens @cstross

The problem with the "E-card" is that in actuality relatively few people are actually shocked or disgusted by his activites. What they're actually disgusted by is getting categorised into the people to be avoided.

Note how companies went back on their DEI-promises as soon as the POTUS changed. It wasn't about morals, but about optics.

Thus "your viewpoint was probably paid by Epstein money" will probably get a takeback like "who's funding your views, then?".

Show threadSam Stephens

@iju @cstross "The problem with the "E-card" is that in actuality relatively few people are actually shocked or disgusted by his activites." I've not met a single person who was not disgusted. I'm baffled by this assertion.

Companies are irrelevant here, they're not people.

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Show threadSam Stephens3h ago
@iju @cstross I'm not trying to convince the elites here, I'm talking everyday people who got taken in by the trans people in sports bullshit for example. I literally used the Epstein line recently on someone close to me whose heart is in the right place but was taken in for a while by TERFs writing for a magazine they read, pointed out some of the columns they talked about to me last year happened because of Epstein money.
Show threadJuho Mäntysalo2h ago

@chopsstephens @cstross

>I've not met a single person who was not disgusted.

For the abovementioned reasons. But there's a reason why "it's not pedofilia, but ephebophilia!" is such a meme.

I'm not going to go into this further: even writing this much feels disgusting.

>Companies are irrelevant here, they're not people.

Well, they're hierarchial communities. That's what the "company" originally means. Again, not going into this further.

You may disregard me, if you wish.