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By all means please reblog this post and feel free to expand on the reasons behind your choice.
the liberal-idealist view of 'outing' that i often encounter is so deeply unserious -- the act of exposing someone's queerness, opening them up to (often state-sanctioned) social and physical violence, potentially severing their familial and communal ties, in many cases genuinely risking their lives, is conceptualized as an ontological sin because of some metaphysical and intangible violation, rather than being bad because it is an act of violence, and so you get liberals genuinely arguing that it constitutes 'outing' to tell trans women the person they're asking advice from is cis, or to wonder whether a dead person could have been anything other than cis, or to point out that some people are the targets of transmisogyny and some aren't. just a totally useless way to think of the concept, reducing it from language that describes a specific and targeted type of violence to an superstitious ingroup social taboo
although I find both institutions detestable I think they should force the vatican to compete in the Olympics. let's see what those priests can do
psychiatry is fake, but unfortunately legal psychiatry, despite being more fake, is even more real
it's crazy how Hegel had a nefarious mirror doppelganger (often mistaken in the historical record for an evil twin) named Kegel who wanted to use powerful anti-rational pelvis exercises to annihilate the Absolute
Officials from the UK Foreign Office and the business department held an online meeting with British business leaders in November to encourage companies to take advantage of the “great opportunity” to support Azerbaijan president Ilham Aliyev’s rebuilding agenda.[...]
In the days after Baku’s military operations the UK government publicly condemned the Aliyev regime’s “unacceptable use of force” in Nagorno-Karabakh and warned that it had “put at risk efforts to find a lasting peaceful settlement” in the region.
But a recording of the online meeting, shared with the Guardian by campaigners at Global Witness, includes one senior UK government official encouraging business leaders to take advantage of the financial opportunities in the “huge western chunk of the country that needs to be rebuilt from the ground up”.
“The Azerbaijan government is supporting what it calls ‘the great return’, which is essentially providing the opportunity for the 700,000 [internally displaced people], these refugees, to basically return to Karabakh. So you have this great opportunity here actually,” the official said.
It is not clear whether the official was referring to Nagorno-Karabakh specifically, part of the far larger Karabakh region. Aliyev set out plans in 2020 to rebuild the “liberated districts” of the Karabakh region in western Azerbaijan, which includes Nagorno-Karabakh. The president said it was important that all displaced Azerbaijan citizens return to Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent districts where they used to live.
A second government official told business leaders: “[There’s] a great opportunity here actually. [It was] just an empty land that was ready to be built over from scratch.”
Jonathan Noronha-Gant, a senior campaigner at Global Witness, said: “Behind closed doors, the UK government is calling Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh a ‘great opportunity’. What century are these officials living in? It’s not a great opportunity for the UK, nor for the people who were displaced.”
In the recording the first official said UK companies were “well-placed” to collaborate with the Azerbaijan government to provide infrastructure advice to “a government which has financial means given that it has very large energy resources”. Azerbaijan owns one of the world’s largest gasfields, Shah Deniz in the Caspian Sea, and is a growing exporter of gas to Europe.[...]
A UK government spokesperson said: “These comments from UK officials have been misrepresented. Discussions of reconstruction referred to the UK government’s public work to assist with possible future development in the new towns being built for those displaced by decades of conflict.
“The UK is not involved in commercial activity or reconstruction efforts in the area of Nagorno-Karabakh region recovered by Azerbaijan through its September 2023 military operation.[...]
The Guardian revealed last year that Azerbaijan’s share of two large oil and gas projects operated by British oil company BP had earned its government almost $35bn (£28.6bn), or more than four times its military spending since 2020 when war broke out in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.[...]
BP also plans to build a 240MW solar farm in Azerbaijan’s “liberated lands”, according to Azerbaijan’s deputy energy minister. The Azerbaijani prime minister, Ali Asadov, met with the BP head of production, Gordon Birrell, recently to discuss the Sunrise solar project, which is planned for an area near the ghost city of Jabrayil, which was left in ruin after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.
22 Feb 24
we have to stop letting the usa have such control/influence over international politics
the real horseshoe theory is how both MRA podcast guys and TERFS will insist upon calling women 'females' and thertefore constantly sound like a 1950s alien invader with a head made of two bike lights sticking otu of a bundle of tinfoil
Australia is presented with significant demands when it comes to safeguarding its own maritime interests, including being able to keep highly strategic maritime trade routes open, in the Pacific and beyond. Increasing regional competition with China, as well as the prospect of Australia becoming embroiled in a major conflict in the Pacific in support of various allies and partners, including the United States, are clearly of particular concern to Australian authorities.
Every piece written on Australian defense policy invariably approaches the Joke
my "we fired a former moderator who was openly transphobic and taking bribes" aside is raising a lot of questions answered by my "we fired a former moderator who was openly transphobic and taking bribes" aside
from a 1news article about banks blocking transactions to cuba, despite the government not having any limitations on it. utterly fucking batshit that america can enforce its sanctions in other countries and this is somehow tolerated.
Never not thinking about this old vine
MAN YOU AINT BIG PUP- IM YA BIG BAD BOOTY DADDY INNDIT NON STYOPPUHGH-
hating on polyamory is so lame. you sound catholic
it's pretty funny to see TERFS fall back upon god and his divinely ordained telos to try and keep their soundbite shibboleths coherent
not gonna lie im really feeling the danger in the world rn. this site has really doubled down on transmisogyny. its always been bad but lately its absurd. ppl responding to trans women being sexually harassed en masse by calling us hysterical and crazy to b upset. every week the discourse focuses on a new transfem who dared to be unpalatable in ways that are perfectly fine for tme ppl. the obsession with our sexual lives whether its our kinks or just demanding sexual availability. the revival of a thousand year old slur for "effeminate males" to hurl at us when were inconvenient and loud. the expectation that we all stay quiet and tiptoe around other ppls hangups n discomfort, deny ourselves liberation where it would cause others a loss of privilege. its fucking bleak.
is what you're asking for really "accountability"?? or is it for a total stranger to self flagellate on social media until you feel satisfied that they've suffered enough for their supposed transgression??
it sucks having tumblr beef with someone with a goofy url because you have to in all seriousness say shit like "what yasuosexposednipple said about me was harmful and dangerous" like why cant all the people i hate have serious sounding urls like exovedate or bluemyriad or adulttaxpayer
