Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

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Whe... where did everybody go? Didn't we have our weekly headtenant associaton's meeting scheduled? Did I miss a memo?

*puts down mug of catnip tea and reads lengthy note from tigress scrawled in gazelle blood* "Terrans... Bernie... Reade... Biden... GRU... not gonna vote... discourse... frothing rage... entire antelope..."

"Bastdammit."

*sighs and rests forehead on conference table*

I... I could just eat a whole snowshoe hare cheesecake right now.

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*roused from slumber* Huh?

*peers outside* Oh, fuck me.

I'll be in the Vile Curses section of the Great Library, frenetically trying to remember how to pronounce Enochian, if anyone wants me.

You're *not* gonna want me.

[🦄​] Are you kidding? Even I'm pissed off. If anyone needs me, I'll be in the HOOFING DOME.

[​] Yeah, no, me too. I'll be in the Rabiesdome. Fuck all this.

[🐯​] The remainder of today has been canceled due to thunderous rage. If you need me, I'll be in the Biteydome.

(and if you think that makes me a bad feminist, well, i wonder what Pussy Riot would have to say about the feminism of someone who suddenly become a putin loyalist...)

OK, fuck it, I'm gonna come right out and say it:

I am completely agnostic about whether Joe Biden assaulted Tara Reade.

I think it is EMINENTLY possible that he did. Men in positions of power do these things. And they lie like motherfuckers about it.

But you know who else lies? Foreign propagandists. And here's the thing: I don't believe that there's anything at all so sacred about our--extremely laudable--ethic of trusting every woman's assault story that the Russians would not exploit the ever-living fuck out of it.

In fact, I think it's a huge gaping psychological security hole. It's practically got a sign hanging on it saying "PLEASE EXPLOIT THE GOOD FAITH OF LEFT-LEANING FEMINISTS FOR AMORAL POLITICAL GAIN."

And I am REAL willing to listen to evidence against Biden. I would not be one bit surprised to discover the accusations are 100% true.

But I've also read the evidence about Tara Reade, and her background is Sketchy. As. All. Fuck. Like, it would read like a shitty "24" plot even if you took out all the anti-Biden intrigue.

People have tried to tell me she's being discredited for "saying some nice things about Russia." That's bullshit. As far as I can tell, she went from vocal opposition to Putin's regime to writing op-eds about how oppressed and misunderstood he is and what a wonderful place Russia is under him.

I'm sorry, I have my limits, and if there's a reason I should not be EXCEPTIONALLY suspicious of such a person given the current historical context, it is extremely important to me that I be shown it.

'Cause what I've seen so far sure as hell looks bad. I'm entirely willing to believe the other accusers, and it's a fine reason to hate Biden.

I don't know if I can even really blame people who can't vote for him because of it, even if I think it's a TERRIBLE tactical idea that will probably sacrifice Roe v Wade at a MINIMUM.

But Tara Reade? Hell, maybe she was assaulted AND is a Russian agent. Reality is complicated. But if she's not a Russian agent, man, she is the victim of some real, real weird circumstance. Like, Repo Man did not have that thick of a coincidence web...

@zx3 Please don't be long. There's a Christmas pudding waiting when you get back. *hug*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STzgXXU6GpI

despite the tantrum du jour, biden is still way up in the polls, and however much i hate him, that is a glimmer of hope for me

i have never been more grateful for the utter ineffectuality of my fellow marxists

I genuinely believe that the Biden Bros and the Bernie Bros were manipulated to fight each other by Russian and/or GOP agents.

And I genuinely hate life a little bit more because of you if you're facilitating Trump's re-election by staying out of the election. And I WILL blame you. I'm so frustrated, watching us fall for this shit, that I am not unwilling to end friendships if I have to.

Please, please, please, let's get Trump out of office first. We can do whatever you want after that. I'll protest against Biden, I'll support a full investigation of the Reade case, I'll support his immediate impeachment, hell, I'll shelter his assassin in our crawlspace*. Just for fuck's sake get Trump out of office.

*we don't actually have a crawlspace but maybe we can get the cats to reveal some of their bigger hiding spots

@Austin_Dern

M E

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B I G G E R

B A L L

*thundersqueak*

@Austin_Dern That reminds me of a story that might amuse you.

I have a plush rabbit acquiantance.

She's only an acquaintance because we have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA where she came from. Didn't purchase here AFAWK. No idea if she belonged to someone else. Can't remember when she showed up.

Head-canonically, when asked where she came from, all my other plushies say, "Uh... we thought YOU knew her."

We have done everything we can to welcome her, but I haven't even had the nerve to ask her her name.

@xinjinmeng DAMN. So much for FFF being the comedy option... *wallflower sweat*

[🐯​] Oh god our stomach is upset. That's a virus thing, isn't it, we got the virus, we're all gonna die.

[​] Uh... cat, what did the human consume so far today?

[🐯​] ...

[​] Thiiiink...

[🐯​] coffee

[​] OK, how much coffee?

[🐯​] ...5?

[​] Wow! Anything else?

[🐯​] cookie

[​] Yeah. We're fine. Order the human some damn food.

[🐯​] !!!

[​] In fact, no, *I'll* order them some food.

​ meh ​

@hystericempress It's pretty good, isn't it.

@spacewastrel@yiff.life Hey there. <3

actual current mood: wishing i didn't have so much to live for right now so i could go all sendero luminoso* and avenge you all against the landlords, bosses, and politicians that are fucking my friends' lives up

*my old LJ-era euphemism for "throwing everything away and going on an extremely foolish adventure as an explicit last-ditch alternative to suicide"

pootrockets

@Oneironott NOW YOU KNOW MY SORROW