The only thing I care about is: Will this be enough to pull critical mass from Twitter? I don't think I'll ever join, because twitter life made me very unhappy, but the sooner journalists and high-volume celebs move off twitter, the sooner it can be relegated to Truth Social 2 and that, I think, will make the world a slightly better place.

The proper term is "gay" outside of a clinical context. You would think someone concerned about homophobic language would know this. And also "butthurt" is not an anti-gay slur. But enjoy your trolling!

People are weird. But also, as an old, the influencer economy is so funny to me. Either they're accepting money/gifts/promotion to "influence" on behalf products, in which case they are just going to stop taking the money? Or they're editorially pure and they're just going to stop supporting a product they have previously genuinely endorsed because more people can enjoy it? It's all dumb.

At my urging, my husband tried making miso caramel and it turned out amazing. Great on ice cream. But also: miso latte

I hate it in movies when the crime boss just casually executes a henchman for, like, giving him cold coffee because I always thought, "Why would you work for this guy when you know he'll just murder you for no reason whenever he feels like it? So unrealistic!" But I guess it's not!

I love the line about "we have 30 tools for [preventing this thing that keeps happening from happening] ". It's marketing-speak all the way down. Like, wow! Thirty tools!

I didn't say they were scared of gay people. I said they were scared of reality, which includes gay people, America's history of racism, global warming, and scientists who know more than they do. These things threaten their identity, which can feel like actual physical danger. Certainly, the powerful and sleazy opportunists have used demonization of out-groups to manipulate the masses since the beginning of time, but I don't think these maniacs screaming about pronouns at schoolboard meetings are pretending at gay panic as a clever ruse while they calmly and knowingly execute a fascism. My husband recently peeked at the facebook of one of his MAGA cousins and she is a maniac. There is nothing strategic about her behavior. She is wrapped up in an ecstasy of hate, driven by fear. It's an old joke, but she is literally terrified that trans Muslims are going to sneak across the border to forcibly inject her with 5G. Literally.

And to be clear: I don't care what is going on in their heads. It is unknowable. What I care about is how they are understood and defined by the ambient culture, and my recommendation is to relentlessly portray them as scared diaper babies desperate for their government daddy to come and save them from the big scary world.

We have to keep repeating this: These people are terrified of reality and think that it is everyone's job to protect them from the real world. I don't know if it's helpful to use the term "snowflake", but it is apt. Queer people exist in the world. There is no doubt. Trans people exist in the world. The Civil Rights movement occurred and was a big part of US history, as was slavery. If someone's religion says that ham is a sin, we don't ban it from school cafeterias. That, as we say, is a you problem. We have got to start hammering home that these people are afraid of reality and want big government to protect them from it. And we also have to start saying "Tough shit. Grow up. Learn to deal with the rest of the world or hide in your basement. I give zero fucks."

What's very clear is that you have no idea what you are talking about. "Online wokeness" is not a thing. Which is why you can't articulate it other than just naming issues that are actual real-world issues that affect real people (gay marriage, trans bathrooms, minority representation in media, critical race theory). None of those are behaviors. You say that it was ok to push for gay marriage before, because it was a side issue, but now that it's the focus we shouldn't bring it up. In other words, you want to reward the right for moving away from real issues into full-on Nazi dehumanization. That's disgusting and you should be ashamed of yourself.

In addition to being awful, your premise is also stupid and detached from reality. Let's say that every "woke" person carefully considered the "cost" of saying what was on their mind (which is apparently the bodies of dead children around the world) and decided to just log off? Well, we would still have these:

Litter boxes in schools hoax
Why Fox News is having a day-long meltdown over Dr. Seuss
2023 Bud Light boycott
Is Target Offering 'Tuck-Friendly' Bathing Suits for Kids?

I could do this all fucking day. These are all hysterias that were huge stories in right wing media. HUGE. For weeks on end. All over the web. Not only did these not have anything to do with people yelling at people online about pronouns. They are about things that didn't happen at all! The right doesn't need any actual behavior to complain about. They just make up whatever the fuck they want.

I understand perfectly well what you're saying. You're simply wrong. Stop covering for fascists. The people to blame for turning people to the right are the right-wing media, funded by right-wing billionaires. Well, and the mainstream media which helps to launder right-wing stories under the guise of "objectivity". The people to blame for the climate crisis are the corporations and wealthy elite who have been funding misinformation about the climate for decades. And the politicians that vote against climate change have been taking their money for decades. And the right using the tactic of dehumanizing minorities for political gain has been going on for decades. Long before anyone tweeted anything.

That you would blame people who are in under attack and in real danger and their allies for the deaths of poor children because they spoke about subjects they shouldn't have or with insufficient civility online is FUCKED. If you aren't a right-wing plant, you should be. You couldn't be helping them more if you tried.

What part of what you said is incorrect? All of it. For one example, trans people were not manipulated by the elites to seek to use the bathroom safely. Were MAGA asshats manipulated by the right-wing elites to care about trans people using the bathroom? Absolutely. And before that it was gay marriage. Since the beginning of this country, this is a tactic that has been used to divide the working class since Bacon's Rebellion. It is very dumb to think that right wing shitheads who hate Muslims and don't believe in climate change would agree to support Palestine and stop deforestation if we agree to let them torture trans children.

I am literally LOL-ing at your personal inventory of micro-contributions to the impoverished children of the world! But even then: You got a car so that you don't have to risk your health on public transportation?!!! You know who can't get a car to protect themselves from Covid? Palestinian Children! Even though you know that oil companies are destroying the global south and prop up fascist regimes all over the world, you give them money for your comfort and safety while the children die?

Do you see how ridiculous that kind of argument is?

"I don’t have a solution" No, you don't. But even though you admit that, here you are just generally concern-trolling that maybe caving to fascists just a little on basic human rights for marginalized people is the key to dismantling the military industrial complex. Stop it. You are not helping.

Oh hey, look what just popped up in my feed as I was typing this. These guys are completely on board with your plan. Can't wait to see you negotiate the end to American imperialism with these goons: Florida Bill Would Classify Calling Someone Anti-LGBTQ, Racist, Or Sexist As “Constituting Defamation Per Se”