This bullshit is still ongoing.
Like, there’s this person who I barely knew existed until I heard that they are now on a multi year deep dive obsession with me making a post saying that getting rid of TERFs was akin to getting rid of bedbugs.
I didn’t name this person; I had no fucking idea that they existed, until I started hearing on the grapevine that they are habitually walking around showing screenshots from this server and complaining that “Sarah said I am like bedbugs and pubic lice”. Bit self-important, but whatever.
Apparently recently they presented it as justification for their revolting behaviour towards trans women. “Sarah, who doesn’t know me, said mean things about a group of people which I took to include me, based on my own evaluation of my own behaviour, and I am now VERY OFFENDED”.
Ok, so here’s the thing:
I know you’re almost certainly reading this because you’re obsessed with m
... Show more...This bullshit is still ongoing.
Like, there’s this person who I barely knew existed until I heard that they are now on a multi year deep dive obsession with me making a post saying that getting rid of TERFs was akin to getting rid of bedbugs.
I didn’t name this person; I had no fucking idea that they existed, until I started hearing on the grapevine that they are habitually walking around showing screenshots from this server and complaining that “Sarah said I am like bedbugs and pubic lice”. Bit self-important, but whatever.
Apparently recently they presented it as justification for their revolting behaviour towards trans women. “Sarah, who doesn’t know me, said mean things about a group of people which I took to include me, based on my own evaluation of my own behaviour, and I am now VERY OFFENDED”.
Ok, so here’s the thing:
I know you’re almost certainly reading this because you’re obsessed with me. I fled the country to avoid people like you, so yeah, I don’t like you much. I think you’re objectively terrible human beings. You’re worse than my mother in law, and she steals tips off of restaurant tables.
And the fact that you’re still letting this live rent free in your head months and months, going into years later, and that people you think are your friends are laughing at you for it and then telling me about it, is clearly something that’s bothering you.
So I’m going to try and offer you a bit of insight, and maybe you might find it helpful. I dunno.
Anyway, were some random TERF to liken me to pubic lice or bedbugs, even if they specifically named me (and I sure as fuck didn’t do that; I’m not stupid), I know exactly what I’d feel:
NOTHING
Absolutely nothing. The fuck should I care what some random arsehole I don’t respect thinks about me? It’s not like I’m relying on their opinion for anything.
Maybe if I thought they had a point, I might be upset, and dwell on it tho.
Make u think
Apparently there are ongoing repercussions from a comparison I made some time ago between TERFs and pubic lice.My only regret is that TERFs’ metabolisms keep going if you drench them in dimethicone.
Simon Waldman
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •this was my fear during much of May's rule : that if the tory Party shattered, one of the shards would be Norsefire. You're right, I think, that this is another route to the same.
Actually, the key to Labour getting much done may turn out to be whether they can wrench the Overton window back a bit. This is just another reason why that's important...
Sarah Brown
in reply to Simon Waldman • •@Simon Waldman My fear with Labour is that they don’t want to. We see both with them and the US Democrats that they simply accept the clear and obvious deliberate sabotage to democracy and civil society that the other side do as legitimate and do nothing to undo it when they have the opportunity.
I hope I am wrong.
Simon Waldman
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Sarah Brown
Unknown parent • •@Colman Reilly The Trump regime deliberately and systematically stacked the US legal system, all the way up to the Supreme Court, to deliberately sabotage any and all attempts to hold them to account.
It doesn’t matter whether the press would or would not cover any undoing of this, because the Biden regime has clearly just accepted this state of affairs and the constraints it places upon them.
The guy did an insurrection. Not only is he running around free three and a half years later, he’s about to get re-elected.
This is the exact same shit that the Weimar Republic did with Hitler (actually, it’s worse; Hitler actually did jail time, just not what was warranted). They never fucking learn.
Sarah Brown
in reply to Sarah Brown • •BashStKid
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Sarah Brown
in reply to BashStKid • •@BashStKid yeah. That’s what I think too.
And eventually, not in five years, maybe not in ten, but eventually they become the government.
I’m feeling like this is another Cassandra moment.
BashStKid
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Such a reverse takeover would also get them over the fptp lose-your-deposit hurdle, one more step to normalising them. It also allows them to drop any inconvenient history “that was the other guys” while claiming any positive-for-them Tory legacy as their own.
Tldr, Farage and Tice, political ichneumon wasps.
Sarah Brown
Unknown parent • •@Colman Reilly Trump, the man who tried to stage a coup, is probably going to win anyway.
That he’s even in a position to be able to do that means that “the thing” doesn’t exist, and possibly never did.
Fuck the media. Do the right bloody thing.
It reminds me of Gordon Brown in 2010 when he kowtowed to the media and rowed back on the Mrs Duffy thing.
He was going to lose anyway. He bloody WANTED to lose. The absolute bare minimum he should have done given he had the platform is say, “the things she said are bigoted. People should be ashamed to say things like that. It’s not right, and I’m not sorry”.
Because someone needs to be saying that shit.
Sarah Brown
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