Drew Despereaux

@despereaux
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Writer who mainly writes humor. Sometimes I'm funny.
I have decided to shut down the Twitter accounts for @blendernation and @blenderartists. With a combined following of 220k that’s going to hurt, but I can’t morally justify it anymore. More information will follow soon. #b3d #blender3d

Got my teeth cleaned today…

Dentist: how’s it going?

Me: absolutely horrible.

Dentist: why?

Me: woke up in Nazi America last week.

Dentist: how can I help?

Me: make my teeth strong.

Dentist: so you can bite a nazi? I got you.

Me: 👀

Dentist: 😉

#Dentist #Nazi #Fascism #Protest #BiteANazi

Doing my best to start #TransgenderAwarenessWeek by being visible. I’m trans, I’m proud, and the misguided politics and misogynistic hate towards our community will not change that. Fuck off to anyone who feels they have a say in how I or anyone else lives their lives.

Photo is from #SFCityHall from a wedding of two beautiful women who I adore and was so honored and happy to be present for them on their special day.

Be safe, be strong and be yourselves.

Matt Gaetz as the U.S. attorney general drives home that U.S. lawyers and legal scholars now confront a federal legal system run by people who see law as simply a tool for social control in service of Republican Fascism. 1/ #Lawfedi

My opinion.

Trump’s thugs are not “clowns” or a “clown car” as so many pundits & others like to say. Clowns are intended to be amusing, goofy,
👉🏼harmless👈🏼, and appeal to kids.

Zero of those apply to the GOP Fascist Party. They’re malignant, calculating, and lethal. I find nothing comical about them.

I'm going to start listing some good things that have happened in society, and I know a lot of you are going to want to say, Well, that's all over now, it will all be taken away, but remember nothing lasts forever, even the bad stuff. So, instead of giving into despair and hopelessness, think for a second, and instead of tearing down hope, add to the list.

The idea that we would have open legal gay marriage in my lifetime wasn't something I believed would happen, but here we are.

I can buy legal recreational Marijuana in my state.

The show Drag Race not only exists, but it has for a long time, and it's very popular.

AIDS is no longer a death sentence.

And to add to that, you can take a drug that will just stop you from getting it.

There is a vaccine for Malaria.

I can just go buy an electric car.

When I was a kid, parents hitting kids was the rule, not an exception.

In my teens and 20's, I never met a transitioned or transitioning Trans person, now I know lots of them.

Abortion pills exist.

There are tenant union.

There is a vaccine against cervical cancer.

Women make up more than half of the college educated work force.

Millions of people showed up to protest police brutality in 2020, I know that's not enough, but if you compare that to the past, or even Rodney King, it's a big fucking deal.

Things are rough, and we are scared, but we haven't just been treading water, and we won't just sit in misery. It's never going to be perfect, but we can be better.

@dration @ra6bit

This describes one of the simplest, most elegant acts of resistance I have ever seen.

https://www.drive.com.au/caradvice/citroens-genius-act-of-sabotage-against-the-nazis-in-world-war-ii/

Citroen’s genius act of sabotage against the Nazis in World War II

When the German army rolled into France in 1940, the boss of Citroen was never just going to just lie down and surrender

Drive

The #Trump administration nominated #MikeHuckabee to be the ambassador to Israel.

Mike Huckabee, the guy who believes that Palestine shouldn't be a state, the guy who encouraged the illegal West Bank settlements, the guy who says there isn't a military occupation in #Gaza.

If you're unhappy with how #Harris dealt with the humanitarian crisis in #Palestine, Trump will likely treat them even worse

https://apnews.com/article/trump-huckabee-ambassador-israel-ace1894ce731c36622d5f09982a0a9b2

Trump picks Mike Huckabee to serve as US ambassador to Israel

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be ambassador to Israel, has long rejected a Palestinian state in territory previously seized by Israel. He also has repeatedly signaled his staunch support for hardline Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and says the U.S. needs to stand firmly behind Israel. Huckabee frequently visits Israel and once said he wanted to buy a holiday home there. He has maintained throughout the years that the West Bank belongs to Israel, and recently said “the title deed was given by God to Abraham and to his heirs.” His argument for a so-called “one-state solution” contradicts longstanding official U.S. support for the eventual establishment of a Palestinian state.

AP News

I feel that journalists broadly learned their lessons from 2016, but it didn't matter.

We're so cooked

https://theconversation.com/what-should-journalists-do-when-the-facts-dont-matter-243197

#politics #politics2024 #trump

What should journalists do when the facts don’t matter?

Historical examples abound of American news consumers being presented with verified facts about controversial figures or events, only to have the excellent journalism have little to no effect.

The Conversation

The same people in my life who refused to vote because 'both sides are the same' are now crying because their preferred candidate didn't win, the fact that their cognitive dissonance hasn't split their mind in two is something that will astound scientists for decades to come

#politics2024 #politics #2024election #PresidentialElection