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So, if any trans men are being told about this, it’s not true!! Smoking will not change your voice, at least not until you’re about forty years down the line and you’ve already irreparably destroyed your lungs and throat and mouth and pretty much every other organ in your body. When you hear heavy smokers with deeper, scratchier voices it is literally because their vocal cords have been ruined. This is not a passive effect of smoking, it is a very very damaging one!

It’s simply not worth it! There will be no meaningful changes except terrible ones. Voice training will do a lot more for you than cigarettes will, I promise that the people urging you to start smoking as a voice training method do not have your best interests at heart!

(And you know what, this also goes for not eating due to the idea that starving yourself will decrease your chest size. Like with smoking, there will be no meaningful changes except terrible ones. Your body is worth so much more than that and there will always be healthier alternatives!)

(Btw, afaik smoking only has this effect on estrogen from HRT. Estrogen that AFAB bodies produce naturally is not affected, so smoking is still bad for trans men)

I think also in that conversation, I had a couple people tell me that the book The Easy Way to Quit Smoking is, despite the gimmicky title, genuinely helpful.

If quitting for yourself seems too abstract and it’s hard to care, think about everyone around you. Someone with asthma or migraines will breathe easier if they’re not risking an attack from standing near you.

Lastly, some queer history: a 90’s tobacco marketing campaign that targeted gay men was literally called Project SCUM. That’s what they think of us. Don’t give them your money.

Posted by House of Common Sense to Facebook on May 23, 2026.

So why does "indigenous vs. colonizer" almost always mean Europeans, and almost never Bantu, Turks, Arabs, Slavs, or Han Chinese?

A few reasons, in descending order of how much they actually explain:

1. Recency and documentation. European expansion happened in the era of the printing press, photography, census records, and treaties.

The Bantu expansion left no paperwork.

The Arab conquests are 1,300 years old and mythologized as religious destiny rather than conquest.

When the receipts exist, the case is easier to make, and Europeans left receipts.

2. The winners wrote the framework. Modern human-rights language, postcolonial theory, and the very category of "indigenous peoples" were built in Western universities after WWII, primarily to process European guilt over European empires.

The tool was designed for one job.

Asking it to evaluate the Arab conquest of Egypt or the Turkic conquest of Anatolia is like asking a tax form to diagnose a disease. It wasn't built for that.

3. Christendom is critique-able; other civilizations aren't.

You can write a bestseller attacking Western Christian civilization from inside a Western university and win awards for it.

Try writing the equivalent book about Arab-Islamic conquest from inside Cairo or Istanbul.

The asymmetry isn't about history. It's about which societies tolerate self-criticism and which punish it.

So the critical literature piles up on one side and barely exists on the other.

4. The Soviet inheritance. Cold War-era anti-colonial framing was deliberately shaped by Moscow to delegitimize the West while giving its own empire and its allies' conquests, a pass.

That framework outlived the USSR and still structures a lot of academic and activist vocabulary today.

5. Race makes it legible. European colonizers usually looked different from the colonized. Turkic conquerors of Anatolia, Arab conquerors of the Levant, and Bantu expansionists in Africa generally didn't look dramatically different from the populations they absorbed.

The visual contrast made European empire easier to narrate as racial, and once a story has a clean visual, it travels.

6. And finally, Jews.

The framework's selective application reaches its most absurd point when a people indigenous to a specific land, with continuous presence, language, religion, and archaeological record tying them to it for three thousand years, get labeled "colonial settlers", while the actual seventh-century conquerors who Arabized the region get labeled "indigenous."

At that point the framework isn't describing reality. It's laundering a conclusion.

Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.

Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.

And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?

THAT THIS POST IS FALSE!!!!

I previously debunked it, with sources and additional research and verification by @i-add-sources, right here.

And from this I’ve always drawn two conclusions:

To always distrust Mr. Beast and his ilk who always want their acts of charity done on film, because the people who really want to do good and have no motives to do it besides the doing it never want recognition for it, and

Part of the reason they've grown so much in the last 10 years is they were boosted by trumps elections

And of course, they stagnated when Biden was president

Trump will not be President after Jan 2029 (probably sooner), vance is a wuss, and whoever the republican president after that will be someone who can act fucking normal in public, the sense of danger that has boosted the dsa will lessen, especially if Democrats win in 28 and 32

They are gonna implode just like the republicans will when the best day ever comes

This was a historic Black cemetery in Florida and people vandalized and destroyed the graves. That level of hatred does not come from nowhere.

So if conversations about racism, accountability, and protecting spaces from people who have shown they are racist or harmful make you uncomfortable, this probably is not the page for you, and that is fine.

Because every single day there is another story. A racist influencer hurting somebody. A Black child being called slurs. A Black family targeted. A graveyard destroyed. Every day Black people are reminded that simply existing can make us a target.

We will still laugh, joke, create, and enjoy ourselves. But when it is time to speak seriously about what is happening to us, we are going to do that too. And if that feels “too political” or “too much” for you, then this space probably is not meant for you.

My nephew is very allergic to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame. Last year my sister discovered all hot dogs and hamburger buns now contain sesame. Not "may contain", but listed in the ingredients. This year basically every brand of sliced bread also now contains sesame, making it very difficult to find bread items he can eat.

They're just adding it to their products, so they can just list it as an ingredient and not bother with worrying about cross contamination. And they aren't even bothering with telling anyone. Capitalism is going to kill us all.

"Which brings us back to Kellogg’s. Back in 2016, the company found a way around the added burden and expense of complying with the FSMA: they simply began adding trace amounts of peanut flour to their cracker products. Doing so allowed them to list peanuts as an ingredient of the product, freeing them from having to prevent cross-contact.

It is once again a thing that was good in a certain situation and then leftists beat it to death.

It comes from "silence equals death," WHICH WAS ABOUT THE AIDS PANDEMIC WHEN RONALD MOTHERFUCKING REAGAN WAS REFUSING TO MENTION IT EXCEPT TO LAUGH ABOUT IT

It literally meant "we, the affected community, have to talk about the fact that it exists because a generation is dying"

Presumptive Democratic congresswoman Darializa Avila Chevalier's opposition to interracial relationships has earned her words of approval from a surprising source—David Duke.

The former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard turned Louisiana lawmaker said he agreed with her desire to keep the bloodlines pure.

“Well, I think that people have the right to preserve their particular heritage," Duke told the Washington Free Beacon after being reached by phone. "And if she's concerned about preserving her heritage if it's Somali, or whatever she is, she's certainly got the right to do that."

Chevalier's position on interracial relationships stems from a now-deleted social media post from September 2019 in which she criticized black and Arab men for "fetishizing ugly colonizer women." Chevalier, who describes herself as "Afro-Latina" and has said she operates "within the black queer feminist lens," is not Somali.

Duke and Chevalier have more in common than may meet the eye. Duke's insurgent 1991 Louisiana gubernatorial campaign—where he was effectively the GOP nominee—caused an uproar in the national Republican Party, which ultimately supported the Democrat (the famously corrupt Edwin Edwards, who won). Chevalier's extreme left-wing views, including those on race, are today causing similar ferment and embarrassment among Democrats, but so far, the national party has yet to disavow her.

The political journalist Mark Halperin on Monday quoted an unnamed "Democratic Party stalwart" fretting that, "Chevalier is our David Duke. She is poisoning the possibility of a Democratic majority."

Duke has in the past found common ground with far-left Democrats over their shared hatred of Israel. In 2019, he called Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.)—who, unlike Chevalier, is Somali—"the most important Member of the US Congress" after she accused Jewish lawmakers of dual loyalty to Israel.

Duke has in the past justified his position by arguing "I want to see the continuation of my heritage go on" and that "I think most black and white people in America believe that way."

In his call with the Free Beacon, Duke said he also found much to like in New York City's socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose support of Chevalier was pivotal to her primary victory.

"I think that the new mayor of New York was a step forward," Duke said, even while noting his disagreement with Mamdani over immigration.

"I do believe that there are bigger fish to fry, and I do believe that the immigration policies we talk about were orchestrated by the same elite that has given us these wars.

"His views on Israel are critical, because there's no more important political issue than the fact that a tiny minority of America … the oligarchs of the Jewish people, that they are controlling our foreign policy," Duke added, echoing the antisemitic rhetoric he has espoused over his decades in public life.

In the past, Duke has called Jewish people "a blight" who should "go into the ashcan of history." And much of his public commentary today remains focused on Jewish control of governments and official institutions.

The former Klansman has spent decades in public life, running notable failed campaigns for president and governor of Louisiana. He also ran to represent the state in the Senate and House. In 1989, Duke managed to get himself elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives, serving in the job until January 1992.

In December 2002, Duke pleaded guilty to felony mail fraud and was sentenced to 15 months in prison. In 2006, he spoke at an infamous Holocaust denial conference held in Iran where he asserted that the Nazi use of gas chambers to kill Jews had been a myth, according to Fox News.

In 2005, Duke received a doctorate from the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management in Ukraine.

"I am a historian. I have a legitimate Ph.D. from the largest university in Ukraine," Duke boasted in a recent radio broadcast.

Sony just deleted over 200 movies from their library meaning everyone who bought them no longer has them. They shut down two of their digital storefronts meaning those bits of hardware can only be used to play physical games now and if they were digital only they would be totally useless garbage.

Piracy as a form of digital preservation is also nearly impossible to do with Sony hardware, but trivial on the PC.