a specter haunting europe

“Many of the most significant upheavals in recent American political history — from the George Floyd riots to the rise of Antifa to the explosion of pro-terrorist activism on American college campuses — can be linked, in some way, shape, or form, to Cuban influence,” the report says.

As for who these supposed agents of Cuban influence are, the report is remarkably explicit. It names people like Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream fame), Mayors Zohran Mamdani and Karen Bass, media figures like Amy Goodman and Hasan Piker, and organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America and the Amazon Labor Union.

The implication is clear: Secretary of State Marco Rubio thinks there should be a modern-day blacklist of the political left in America. In fact, the report explicitly mentions the “blacklists, McCarthy-era investigations and prosecutions” of the 1950s and their effectiveness at dismembering the Communist Party USA.

you can complain about transphobia without anyone calling your post transmisogynist with this one easy trick: don't include transmisogyny in your post

if every time you talk about transphobia you face, you always end up:

blaming trans women

expressing a sense of categorical entitlement to sex with trans women

centering your own misogynistic resentment towards women

opposing transfeminism outright

mocking transfeminist theory and terms

denying the existence of transmisogyny

then it's not that no one "lets you" talk about transphobia. it's that when you say transmisogynistic things, other people notice and comment on the transmisogyny.

trust me, there are tons of tme trans people who have no issue with sharing our experiences with transphobia.

you've surrounded yourself in such a misogynist bubble of social life that you've forgotten blatant transmisogynistic tirades aren't going to get you instant support everywhere.