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Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

This year’s is different. They are now federal REQUIREMENTS, which means there’s no flexibility. As was said previously, the 400 pages are not singularly devoted to being absolute shitheads to trans people. Theres a lot of stuff in there, some of which is the standard dry boring grants stuff, some of which is the horrible ideological warfare outlined above.

This document is issued by the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, which is currently lead by fucking Russell Vought, the principal architect of Project 2025. This is how they’re going to implement all the horrible shit in there that wasn’t covered by Executive Order. Russell Vought is actively coming for my job, my marriage, and my kid, and most of my friends lost their jobs last year because of him. He is the fucking arch villain behind the heinous shit the current regime is doing.

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Yep, truly the TVA has changed.

They've changed their footman into looking even more like Stormtroopers.

As you know, there used to be a very pretty statue of Sigyn in the suburbs of Stockholm by Nils Möllerberg.

Unfortunately, she was removed last year... and it seems she has not yet been placed back...

Was she moved to a museum or will she be back? ^^' Only the Norns know ^^'

i actually had another version in mind where I put gifs where Thor is actually the way Loki describes him but i liked this one better in the end

The scene of Loki, in the above, is from Thor (2011) where everything Loki was saying about Thor was true.

The narrative point of the first Thor film was that Thor was arrogant, reckless, dangerous, and not ready for the throne. With the exception of Loki’s origin story, the entire movie was made to show how Thor took the journey from not-perfect or good prince, to someone who could become better man.

If Thor was not arrogant, reckless, and dangerous the entirety of the first Thor film would be pointless. All of the scenes you used to prove that Thor was not how Loki views him, took place in either a different film, or a day after he was banished for starting a war and disrespecting Odin. They took place after he had discovered there were consequences to his actions and decided to try and be better. Before all of the scenes you showed, he was everything Loki had described.

He marched into Jotunheim, endangering his brother and his friends’ lives. (I respectfully request the ‘Loki manipulated him’ excuse not be used here, since Thor was perfectly capable of reasoning that he should not have gone when ‘it is forbidden’, etc. It is very much up for debate if Loki even intended his statement in such a way, since he could have been meaning for Thor to go argue with Odin. The point remains that Thor could have not gone to Jotunheim, and Loki tried two times to stop them and once to get them out of Jotunheim.) He started a war by attacking a Jotun that had verbally lashed out. He refused to retreat when his friend had been wounded and the situation was growing worse. He nearly caused his friends and brother to fall into a canyon/crater he created when he split the ground of Jotunheim. Even before that, he was extremely angry to the point of shoving servants and flipping tables.

Thor might be trying to improve now (if only the writers would allow him) and prove that he can be a good man and does not wish to have the burden of the throne, but before those days, he most certainly was everything Loki described him as. 

Now, I certainly can’t stop you from making gifsets how you wish, but I am afraid that your gifset makes Loki out to be a liar and intentionally demeaning, when actually he is speaking the blunt truth. 

None of this meta is meant to degrade Thor. The very point of the first film was that Thor was not a nice, careful, or particularly good person to begin with. The movie was intended to show how he did or could become that good person. That was intent.

Chris Hemsworth 2011 interview, starting at 0:41 he talks about Thor being a not perfect guy who needs to learn humility.

Thor is a good character, and that is because he started of as someone who was reckless, arrogant, and unfit to rule. The point of Thor was someone who was meant to learn and grow into a worthy king.