… Can we bring back dueling for our representatives?
Also, can someone with more of a history education tell me if the House has always been this much of a clown show or is this bad from a historical perspective too?
I was hoping one of you nerds with the modded Nerf stuff would try this out. The guys I went to school with who did HvZ and had modded Nerf stuff are exactly the same ones who would be curious and foolish enough to try this. This is great, thanks for sacrificing your darts.
In case you weren’t aware, !wisconsin also exists and I haven’t really gone and looked but I did run into one of their mods on Reddit a couple months ago and he seemed cool.
My dad had a coworker who was Homer Somethingorother the third, and apparently he always complained about how much he hated his name. But his son is Homer the fourth. Apparently there was a lot of family pressure to make that happen.
I’ve always known I wasn’t “normal” but I was a child in the 90s so trans women were punchlines and I had no idea trans men were even a thing, and there was no path forward as a trans kid back then. I heard about intersex conditions in elementary school and I’d hoped puberty would go differently for me (because, even if I hadn’t fully pieced it together, I knew on some level I didn’t feel like my AGAB), it didn’t. I fought with my parents to let me cut my hair short in middle school and lost (and in hindsight I regret not grabbing a pair of scissors and doing it myself). In high school I realized I was bi and quietly started exploring proto-non-binary identities like androgyne. I briefly identified as a butch lesbian from 19-23, then at 23 realized I’m a bisexual trans man. That was over a decade ago now and while I’m still figuring out some of the specifics (I might be gray ace and trans masc non-binary) I’m mostly set on the big picture stuff and transitioning was the best decision I’ve ever made in my life - testosterone completely cured the suicidal ideation I’d struggled with since the wrong puberty. My only regret is not being able to figure things out and transition earlier.
That said, trans people who haven’t always known are still valid.
Trans people on HRT may have a slightly higher mortality rate (the suicide rate declines significantly with HRT), but OPs statement is true because most people on HRT are cisgender and old - estrogen is a common treatment for menopause symptoms and products like androgel are specifically marketed to cis men with age related decline in testosterone.
Could we maybe get Cory Doctorow (and is he worth getting, I don't actually know much about him as a person?), in all of this I saw his essay on TikTok's enshitification getting passed around quite a bit, also he actually knows what the fediverse is.