call me Adaptus the way Pharma lives rent free in my brain

Nazis/KKK/white supremacists: "So true lol"

Leftists: "Why do the mean Jews keep calling us Nazis :( Clearly this is because Jews are making up oppression and using every example of actual oppression as a way to shield themselves from criticism and pretend innocence."

Nazis/KKK/white supremacists: "People are finally starting to get it after all these years of shitting on us."

Because it's blatantly false, like ffs, what do you think Blitzwing was before being a Decepticon? A senate elite triplechanger guard.

Or Macabre(enforcer for the senate), or Lobe(one of the bug names of the institute), or Starscream and Shockwave (senators, tho with different levels of power) even Ratbat is there tho turned into a cassette BUT JESUS CRIST HE'S THERE as a Decepticon. And there are probably more I could name but it would be redundant.

Decepticons are FULL of ex militaries/guards/cops/memebers of the senate/members of the institute and every type of oppressing force in Cybertronian society.

Like ffs the Autobots also had their problems and we can debate over Orion Pax, his role in society and his shortcomings and yes many of his cop friends/colleagues became autobots because theybwere following him. Yes we can do that.

And YES there are oppressors/very bad people tm in the Autobots too.

But do not justify Decepticons by saying they were all working class revolutionaries turned bad down the road because from the fucking start Megatron accepted his former oppressors in the ranks if it meant seizing power and reaching his goals no matter who he hurt, even his own.

The Demonsbane of Avernus

with the scare quotes around "converted" and preamble about disabled trans men existing In Theory, the implication is that trans men are faking being disabled and faking being jewish for (presumably) minority points. to make people give them sympathy points they don't Really deserve because they're Not Actually disabled or jewish

and if you stretch it further, there's a Huge amount of people in anti-transmasculinity spaces that very much so insist that trans masc spaces are full of fakers who are only pretending to be trans for internet points and never Really suffer. and even further that trans men in general aren't REALLY oppressed the same way other trans people are.

the core of the idea is "these people are lying about the pain they experience, and it's our job to out them as fakers so they don't get support they don't deserve"

There's also evidence that transgender people as a whole are more connected to bodily sensations and therefore more likely to notice an abnormality that cis people might ignore.

There's an obvious answer if you spent five minutes thinking about it instead of deciding "trans men are fakers."

Sincerely,

They're just...an American lobbying group that only accepts money from Americans, is very open about how they use it, and has the basic ideal of "Hey, we think our country should have a friendly relationship with this one particular other country."

This is a bog-standard boring political organization.

The mayor of New York called them monsters. Has he called any other lobbyists monster? Somehow, I don't think so.

New York has a lot of shipping and international business so their mayor paying attention to US foreign relations makes sense. But singling out one particular lobby group who promotes a friendly one to call them "monsters" seems...stupid. Obviously bigoted too but frankly very stupid. "Please do business with us, please visit and spend money here! Unless you're Israeli or dislike xenophobia."

Like, Britain and China both have policies I object to, but if the mayor of New York very loudly said "Lobbyists promoting friendly relations with Britain/China are monsters!" I would think he had lost his goddamn mind.

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.