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my name is Max / Cecil. Over 20. Trans. Suffering with chronic pain so i depression post a lot.
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You know Elon probably saw this and was super mad he still can’t fire Halli.
I’ve already had one person in the notes claim dropping the bombs was the “only option” to end the war.
No.
Shaun has a wonderful breakdown of all the nuances surrounding the Japanese surrender.
If you do not have 2 hours to spare (or you can’t watch it at 2x speed), I will give you some bullet points.
Several American leaders of the time felt the bombs provided no assistance in ending the war.
Japan was already defeated. They wanted to surrender but were stubborn and wanted conditions.
Their only concern was their god-like emperor stay in power and not be executed.
That was their concern before the bombs. That was their concern after the bombs. Nothing changed in their minds.
They didn’t actually care that the bombs killed people. It took them several days to even have a meeting after the first bomb dropped.
The idea that dropping the bomb would save millions of casualties was invented *after* the bomb was dropped and was pulled out of someone’s ass to cover said ass.
There was never going to be an invasion.
People think we dropped the bombs and the Japanese leadership was like, “Oh shit! We give up!”
But in reality, we dropped the first bomb and they were like, “I’m busy tomorrow, can we have the bomb meeting on Thursday?”
We dropped the bombs to show the world we had the bombs.
Japan was a convenient and timely excuse to that end.
Red means stop. No more negotiation, something has crossed a line (too painful, something bad that wasn’t negotiated, etc.)
Yellow means that you need a break or that something is too much, or that if the top continues then you’re going to “red” soon.
Green means that things are going well and you want to continue if not ramp it up a little.
While a bottom might blurt out red or yellow, I’ve never seen a bottom volunteer “green”. It’s usually said in answer to when a top is checking in to make sure everything is okay. Asking “How are you?” and getting an answer of “fine” or “okay” might mean the bottom is just on autopilot and reflexively answering. Asking “What’s your color?” and getting “green” or “I was very close to yellow when you stopped” is much better.
One of my favorite doms to watch at parties was doing a pre-scene negotiation with someone he hadn’t played with before and said something like “Now, just between you and me here ;-) , my favorite color is yellow. It’s not about taking anything I can dish out. I promise you, I can always go harder. I want to know how you’re doing. I’ll likely yellow you, on purpose, a few times, just to find out where your limits are and then aim for a little below that. I don’t want to hear ‘green green green, green green red’ because then the scene’s over. I want some indication of how you’re doing and when you’re getting close to what you can handle, okay?”
And then, whenever she yellowed, he praised her. And why wouldn’t he?? She gave him vital information that allowed the both of them to have more fun!
Recently I have heard some discussions on also adding BLUE to this system for medical issues. It would function like RED but also in one word alert your partner you are having a medical issue, e.g. asthma attack, body cramps, low blood sugar, dizziness or some other sysmtom that is a problem for you. If you have already discussed medical issue with you partner, which you should do, blue might key them into something they can respond to with that knowledge to help rather than red and having to explain further.
Example: if I have asthma and communicate with my partner that it’s been bothing me recently and here is where my inhaler will be during a scene and I start having breathing issues and can’t stop coughing or catch my breathe to make out long or multiple words, I can say blue and they would know to get my inhaler. Or they would know to ask medical related questions in relation to stopping rather than thinking they pushed too hard.
I hadnt heard of the BLUE addition, but that’s great. Thanks for spreading the word about it.
Too many people are forgetting these things too quickly:
-SESTA/FOSTA passed. Despite the many, many warnings of sex workers.
-A bunch of apps started their censorship policies because Apple directly threatened their revenue if they didn’t promise to cut down on the amount of porn on their sites
-MasterCard and VISA tried to outright stop processing OnlyFans work SPECIFICALLY because of the association with sex work, and no other feasible financial reason.
There is not a sudden regressive movement among individual people. Free The Nipple didn’t fade into obscurity because people didn’t care. It was stopped. By policies. By laws. By arrests. By censorship. These things have been purposefully put in place by companies and politicians. They saw the work we were trying to do wrt bodily autonomy, sexual liberation, and sexual freedom, and they forcibly put a stop to it.
This.
This is ALSO why TERFs get so much play in the media that many ppl now associate ALL feminists with trans-hate, even though 1)TERFs have been an isolated minority within feminism since at least the 00s, and 2)most “TERFs” are actl just conservative activists claiming to be feminists so conservative pols can pretend conservative antitrans bigotry is feminist-thought.
100%. TERFs are getting bankrolled by conservative to boost their voices. See also: why the same 3 destransitioners that are virulently anti-trans are the ones who always get articles and interviews.
message to cis allies: buying your trans friend lunch will do much more good for the trans community than debating transphobes who will not change their minds publicaly on social media and making all your trans followers see how much people hate them over and over again
if you base your trans allyship more on fighting with idiots than supporting and loving the trans community you may want to rethink things a little. bc i tend to get sick of when my cis friends want to talk more about how many people hate me than anything else about my transness.
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