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[aevios]

Yall REALLY should be looking into any anti trans bills in the works in your state and fighting back against that... Don't wait until it's already passed to get upset or take action. This is spreading and snowballing don't let this get past you. And if ur in the north don't u dare sit back and chill thinking it won't happen to you, that it's just an evil conservative south thing. It will and probably already is in the works. We're your fucking canary. Do something about it.

[aevios]

Legislative Tracker: Anti-Transgender Legislation Filed for the 2022 Legislative Session

View a list of legislation, organized alphabetically by state, in the below chart. Click on the bill to read more information about it, incl

Freedom for All Americans

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[thecryptkeeper]

inspired by school house rock

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[phoenix]

I need to pay my taxes by the 30th, that means I need 250 dollars by Wednesday, so it can transfer to my account in time, for me to write a check.  And even that is really pushing things.

Any help is appreciated, be it with a few bucks, or spreading the word.

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[enby-life]

By the way legislators aren’t making laws specifically targeting the LGBTQ community because of pansexuals or trans people without dysphoria or aces and aros. They’re doing it because they hate queer people, and want to make us existing openly illegal.

No amount of “but but but the new labels are making us look bad and people won’t take us seriously” will ever change the fact that you are putting yourself on the side of people that want us dead. So stand by your community, or put a damn sock in it.

[enby-life]

This is your community. There is no circumstance that you should say “well, the oppressor is right on this one” but that’s what SO many of you are doing!

When politicians mock parts of our community that they know you won’t bother to defend, they’re using it as a foot in the door. They are using it as a way to make their next action seem less extreme, and they will continue until they have achieved what’s happening in Texas and Idaho. And you are allowing them to.

Other queer people are not your enemy. And once again if you still can’t see that, you’re on the side of the oppressors.

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[antifascistelmo-deactivated2022]

No matter how progressive or well-read you are, there are always going to be moments in your life where somebody pushes back against something that's so culturally ingrained you never even considered it before. And you'll say "Huh, it never occurred to me to challenge this but you're right" and that doesn't mean you were "morally toxic" before, it means you're a non-omniscient human capable of growth.

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[quasi-normalcy]

It’s not that we don’t have the science and technology to solve major global problems; it’s that we don’t have the science and technology to solve major global problems in a way that allows private capital to make money off of it.

For some reason, we’ve decided that that’s a necessary constraint on things like “avoiding mass extinction”

[zenosanalytic]

I’d go further than that. The 2020 IEA Roadmap lays out directly how to achieve what’s necessary to have any chance at all of avoiding passing 1.5C, and it can be done while ALSO maintaining current growth-trends; the billionaires causing this just don’t like the idea of being told what to do by their “lessers”. Banks could divest from carbon TODAY, and put that money somewhere else, with only minor hiccups in their bottomlines, but they don’t do it because they don’t WANT to do it. This is ENTIRELY a political problem.

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[itsokaytobeme]

I'm not sure if this will come out right but:

Being loved is NOT a reward for being beneficial or useful in any way. You don't become less deserving of being loved if you aren't productive for a day or if you have a bad day and can't get out of bed.

I promise. Being loved has nothing to do with how you "help" the world or those around you.

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[mathiasandthefinntrolls]

Please return us to a world where Notp and squick are used for a ship you don’t like instead of just making up a load of bullshit about how immoral it is or w/e lol 

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[pruane2]

Insanely hilarious and exactly why crypto is such shit lol.

whole article is only like 5 minutes long and definitely worth a read

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[one-time-i-dreamt]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Remember when Jeff Bezos, who is worth 181 billion USD donated 690k to stopping Australian fires? Yeah, me too.

[s-s-s-senp-p-p-pai]

McKenzie Scott is literally proof that these fuckers can donate HUGE sums of money to EVERYTHING and still live a comfortable life…. But nooO someone HAS to justify the pitifully small donations the richest men on earth make every year for their tax write-off

[a-slut-for-smut]

Originally posted by ilyciri

[tehriz]

Some also important context (this is June 2021, after her second round of grants was announced), as well: 

[image description: tweet from Dan Price, the Seattle business owner who doesn’t take a massive salary and pays everybody at his company really well: “Two years ago, she had $36 billion. Since then, she has donated $8 billion - more than anyone in the world. She is now worth $60 billion. I think people struggle to understand just how fast wealth accumulates for the super-rich. She literally can’t give it away fast enough.”.]

[anam-writes]

She’s trying to singlehandedly redistribute the wealth she took back from Jeff Bezos and is failing at it because the economy is built so that wealth travels from the bottom, accumulates at the top, and then stays there. She literally cannot give her money away fast enough.

Think about this. This is our current capitalist economy at work. It is working as intended and designed by those who benefit from it.

Her story is incredibly revealing of how and where the system is failing.

[animeengineer]

It also means that we can, indeed, tax the hell out of billionaires and they will not suffer at all.

[anarchistmemecollective]

this thread is proof it works

[maid-of-timey-wimey]

Here’s Who MacKenzie Scott Donated To So Far In February

The billionaire philanthropist, and ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, has given four organizations $172 million so far this month.

Forbes

In case anyone was curious what she’s been up to lately. (She has stopped publicly announcing the donations, saying that too much attention was going to her instead of the organizations she chose. Recipients are welcome to name her as the donor when they announce whatever they’re doing with the money, however.)