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It's not so much weird as the consequence of the shits making those arguments largely being the exact same people, I think. Transfolk are being targeted with the exact same arguments that were aimed at LGB demographics because the fuckers doing it pretty much lost the fight on that part of the spectrum, and they're as unimaginative as they are hateful. When they target the next group the old crap just gets recycled.

The sad thing is it seems to be getting more traction, probably just because there's so many fewer trans people. LGB are common enough interactions with them once they started coming out the closet en masse became something you'd easily trip over. T (or enby, or whatever)... not nearly as much. Makes getting a picture of them as just another neighbor more difficult.

Make no mistake, though, prior to decades of dedicated effort by LGBT folks, the sentiment against LGB was every bit as hateful and bitter as it is against trans now. Again, it's largely the same fuckers behind it, the vitriol and violence they spit back then is exactly what they're spitting now, it was just against a less vulnerable target

E: It really does probably need to be mentioned again, but the reaction in the old days to stateside LGBT demographics was also genocide, just with an even higher (so far, anyway) body count. The AIDs pandemic was very, very pointedly ignored back then expressly so it would rip a black line of death through the LGBT population -- and it did. That wasn't done unknowingly, it was active malice directed against the gays, and to hell with whatever got caught as collateral. The way history rhymes is fucking depressing sometimes.

Well... if the color hell is intentional, let it be known window's high contrast mode poos on your intent and makes the entire thing look more or less reasonable, heh. You're not in lacking company on that one, though, basically no one designs websites around accessibility options.

Theoretically there's a few of them in north america (one in canada, few in the US), though most of the still existent ones seem to be more a joke than anything serious. I kinda' like the Nation of Celestial Space, though, as a concept if nothing else -- it was founded as an attempt to lay claim to everything that isn't earth, in order to prevent any country from trying to hold hegemony over outer space.

... less directly, it's emblematic of the sort of libertarian nonsense that gets people run out of towns by bears, which is unfortunately more influential in US politics than it would be were the world reasonable or just.

*shakes fist at the name thief*

Not from a starting point of actual transgendered athletes who take hormones because of their earnest need but from the perspective of bad faith actors who might use it to cheat under the protection of a medical label, like the Norwegians do with asthma.

See, this is one of those things I'd say would make more sense to worry about if it had, like. Ever? Ever. If it had ever happened. As far as I'm aware there has currently been exactly zero (0) cases of someone faking transitioning to get access to relevant hormones for a competitive advantage in sports. It's not entirely unreasonable to worry about specific expressions of bad faith, but it kinda' is unreasonable to worry about nonexistent ones, y'know?

Statue of limitations applies to the start of the investigation, not the time of indictment. It's clear even for a misdemeanor, far as I've noticed. There's been a fair amount of reporting that there's quite a lot more going on than a single misdemeanor charge, though.

New wrinkle: Trump could just stay in Florida, and New York couldn't touch him.

There's pretty much zero chance of this, though, even if trump decides not to cooperate. The extradition stuff on the books predates deshitis and is still in effect, asshole's bloviating and both can't and won't stop the USSS from hauling trump up north if it comes to that. The only wrinkle is governor shitheel grifting a bit, which is less wrinkle than "it's a day of the week ending in y".

I got it a while back, and while I very much enjoyed it at first, it started getting samey and unenjoyable after a bit. YMMV, but it didn't really feel like it evolved at all as the game went on.

Echo-ish that, though I think some of the DLC work changes that up a bit? Even base game felt like it was worth... whatever it was I paid for it, years ago, in any case. Deffo worth free.

... though minor caveat, I didn't like the... oxygen or energy or whatever mechanic it used to put a clock on individual runs, so I did yeet that mess out of my life with cheat engine when I played. I don't think it's a detriment to the game, per se, and plenty of folks probably enjoy the constraint/resource management involved, but, like. I bloody hate food clocks and will beat them over the head with a memory editing tire iron very rapidly and with no regret, so.