revelrous

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[–] revelrous@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

'Woke' schools adding litter boxes in bathrooms for furries.

[–] revelrous@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I have relatives with master's degrees that work in education that you can not convince that cat litter bathrooms are not a thing.

[–] revelrous@sopuli.xyz 44 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

This usually places undue burden on women, poor and generally anybody not a white dude.

Say you are a woman, okay you've got your certified copy of your birth certificate $10-but wait the name doesn't match because you got married.

Now you need a marriage certificate, thats another $10 and the trouble of contacting another municipal office.

Oh were you married twice? Thats tracking down another 2 municipal offices, another $10 marriage cert and now a certified judgement of divorce which will cost-ooh was your children's custody agreement a part of that? $40. Did you not remember your divorce file number from 30 years ago? It'll be an additional $5 per name per every 2 years searched.

I've seen women spend like $200 just on certified copies to get a realID driver's license. Has a chilling effect on registering, to solve a problem of voter fraud that doesn't really exist.

[–] revelrous@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

Progressives have been dropping the ball since before 2010? Why yes I agree.

[–] revelrous@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ah, so you were. Ngl wasn't following usernames and somebody's 'y tu Bernie' had me rage posting

[–] revelrous@sopuli.xyz 17 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Progressive policies are popular. But progressives have done a shit job of turning that enthusiasm into political capital. Waiting every four years for a nationally appealing, ideologically perfect candidate to magically fall in our lap seems to be a winning strategy—for republicans. Too many would be progressives give up if they can't have the whole cake handed to them instead of rolling up some sleeves and learning how to work from scratch.

[–] revelrous@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago

Books. Cspan. Try again. I can't spoon feed you 30 years worth of politics in a lemmy post. Nothing you posted was in the parking lot of the stadium of truth.

[–] revelrous@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

I personally love the city watch books the most, which starts with Guards! Guards! and circle around themes of justice and social inequality in a way that will be satisfying if you are working class left of center. There's a sort of a timeline, but I read them wildly out of order and didn't feel the worse off for it. Pratchett really found his voice after writing a few books, so I think it's generally suggested not to start at the beginning. Each 'series' has a core motif it pokes at, but if you were only to read one to see if you liked the style... I think Going Postal?

[–] revelrous@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It might be US only, does anyone know if a VPN would work?

[–] revelrous@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah. None of what you said it true tho? For the border I'd recommend this book Everyone who is gone is here by Jonathan Blitzer. And they can't codify without the votes? Remember Obamacare? To agree with you I'd have to only become political aware a couple years ago and never read more than headlines. Pick up a book, watch some cspan, try again.

[–] revelrous@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Equal parts timeless social commentary, fantasy, and comedy. Not too grim, not too saccharine—always juggling the big existential questions, highjinks, and word-play it'll take multiple re-reads to catch. The personification of Death is a cat ~~lady~~ skeleton.

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39 titles for $18 and up. Good for another ~2 weeks. DRM'd but, uh, doesn't Calibre just have the neatest plugins?

[–] revelrous@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sigh. There was a moment when I first joined lemmy that I was impressed how liberal of a space it was. And then I wandered into the comments of posts concerning gender. Fuucking depressing. Really, people would benefit from a gender studies class, or even anthropology or family and society, but for some everything is an attack and I doubt they'll listen.

 

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