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why did they make this world so hard for autistic weirdos

Listen, if a Bad President can come in and take away our rights and we're dependent on a Good President replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, then we do not have any rights.

If politicians can take or distribute them, then they're not "inalienable" and they're not "rights."

We don't have inalienable rights we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins.

And if we want to have actual rights, then we must build a system in which no one has the power to take them away to begin with.

i'm going to make a life i love even if it's not the one i expected or thought i wanted. and i am going to let myself be proud and grateful of what i do have. i am allowed to be proud of it without other people realizing the gravity of what i have accomplished in scale to my life and abilities. i do not need permission.

Sooooo few people are actually willing to defend the basic human rights of people who have committed crimes. Like I know it's not fun but if you genuinely believe in human rights as a concept you can't be okay with the state violating them in prisons I'm sorrrrry. Having moral principles is not always a fun time.

Sometimes... you gotta make peace with it

Also btw trump recognizing only "the two biological sexes" harms intersex people too. I am a researcher of sex and it's affects on disease, and sex is far more complicated than "two sexes" and it always will be. Sex is multifaceted and there are far more than two binary sexes. Keep that in mind too. Don't fall into bioessentialism as you fight for trans people and intersex people.

Having experienced both, I gotta say the difference between men's bathroom and women's bathroom in bars is hilarious. Like the girls are there borrowing lipstick from some lady they just met and having a full-on three-to-one therapy session for someone crying on the floor. That none of them have met before just now, either.

In the men's bathroom it's full Dark Forest Theory. It's quiet as hell in there, nobody's going to look at you for long enough to contemplate whether you should be there, to avoid the risk that you might look back, catch eye contact and take it as him wanting to fight you. They're just as scared of you as you are of them.

i beg to sniffer