Hi Dr. Nick!

Being boring and straight-passing won’t spare you when they come for you.

I mean, I’d prefer an evening gown but okay…

Hm… that sounds too hard. Best to just make it the problem of everyone around me.

I don’t know whether I’m more obsessed with planes, ships, cars or rockets. I’m paralyzed by the options.

Planes, trains and automobiles

Oh, so this is what we’re doing now? Just going online and calling me out like this? Okay then…

“What’s your gender?”

“International pan-Atlantic military cooperation.”

My first impression:

Funny how 15 years ago there wasn’t €800 billion to help common citizens in the face of global recession. Instead we all had to go on an austerity course that allowed everything that helped the average citizen to decay, if it wasn’t outright cut. And now all these mainstream parties are running terrified of the far-right that seized on the fertile ground they left with these actions. But when it comes time to dump more money into massive industries, then there’s always more to be found.

Even in Germany the Holy Grail of politics that has kneecapped any effort to widen social services or address climate breakdown can finally be done away with. In order to dump money into the armaments industry, which (speaking non-ideologically and purely from a practical perspective) at least in the German case is massively putting the cart before the horse. The Bundeswehr is a joke, and has been for at least 15 years. They’ve been trying to reform it, which it needs before anyone throws money at it.

As far as wanting to feel safer, well I would contest the idea that dumping money into weapons actually makes people safer. We have seen such periods of military spending before in history, and they usually don’t make the world safer. Rather they make politicians feel more confident that, since they have a thousand hammers, everything must be a nail.

I hate that calls for peace have become hijacked by far-right parties that are only interested in either business with a kleptocratic irredentist authorianism in Russia or want to mirror that polis in their own countries. We need to work out a new perspective that doesn’t fall into blind militarism while also avoiding becoming targets for neo-imperialist forces. I don’t know what such a movement would look like practically, but perhaps we can take inspiration from anti-imperial movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Do you know about the ridiculous TOS you agree to in order to buy one of their suits? They put all kinds of restrictions on what you can do with it and don’t even allow you to sell it without their approval.

I’d be curious to know how they can even enforce things like that.

The funny thing is the only products I know that are restricted from being sold on like that are military weapons, so now I’m also imagining a military-grade fursuit.

That’s a risk I’m willing to take

So everyone who credited Trump with securing a ceasefire will now blame him for this, right?

In my case, probably mostly depression lol.

I was wondering if I am a femboy, and then realized the joy of being genderfluid means that I sometimes am I guess

The ones I purchase myself are missing that certain jene sais quoi of the breakdown

Don’t forget his combat pug

Right. Leftists are simultaneously so irrelevant as to be not worth embracing and so numerous as to cause the loss of every election. It’s like the Dem version of “lazy migrants stealing all our jobs” cognitive dissonance.