Lurker > CSCA33

Sufferedphoenix posted...

I'd imagine the justification for that is going by whats on file officially their name and sex. And while I can kinda understand that I feel a compromise could be. Bring up the dead name and sex initially but then say they preffered x name and pronoun then roll with that rest of the article.

Anyways this is fucking horrible. Sounds premeditated

Historically and culturally its more of an issue of transphobia and trans erasure. Trans identities not being given any weight, or treated seriously or respected; something to be mocked and derided, like a joke, or costume, deception, mental illness.

SauI_Goodman posted...

To be clear I was talking about the person posting. In case there's any kind of confusion.

Oh okay

SauI_Goodman posted...

I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt and say they didn't mean it the way you guys are making it out to be. Maybe they weren't aware they identified as they.

they were targeted along with another trans student and had been bullied for months based on the reporting, and the school had said trans students werent allowed in the bathroom

these kind of people in charge lecture about anti-bullying, then turn around and misgender trans people and deny basic dignity

The school apparently suspended them for 2 weeks for fighting before they died and another trans student was also being bullied/harassed.

Some corrupt people in charge over there.

Original thread -

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80700563

Dark_Arbron posted...

What got him this time?

Appears to be along the lines of, "follow me to this other site so I can expose you to harmful content that would get modded on gamefaqs"

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/18/2224306/-Libs-of-TikTok-targeted-a-district-then-a-non-binary-student-was-killed-on-campus

This is sickening, the school did not even call an ambulance and the student died

According to the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law: stochas tic terrorism involves the use of mass media to provoke random acts of ideolog i cally motivated violence that are statistically predictable but individually unpre dict able. Self-described stochastic terrorist Chaya Raichik, owner of the social media account Libs of TikTok, has become infamous for her viral harassment and moral panic campaigns targeting minorities with an emphasis on vilifying LGBTQ+ existence. Since 2021, Raichiks posts targeting advocates for and members of the LGBTQ+ community have been followed with a deluge of violent death threats (including lynching threats against the Los Angeles Unified School District).

Childrens hospitals and school districts in the crosshairs of Raichik and her devoted fans have collectively suffered over 20 bomb threats so far, according to various law enforcement agencies. Detective Hanna Dvorak of the Coralville Police Department, who investigated one of these bomb threats against a junior high school in her city, told her superiors that it appears this all stems from a post made earlier this week by Chaya Raichik and her Libs of TikTok account.

Nowhere has Raichiks influence been more visible than Oklahoma, where her anti-LGBTQ+ exploits earned her an official position on the Oklahoma Department of Educations Library Media Advisory Committee by controversial far-right Superintendent Ryan Walters. Under Walters leadership, Oklahoma has been aggressively working to ban books and education on LGBTQ+ issues in schools across the state, with Oklahomas Attorney General Gentner Drummond stating that proposed rules to ban LGBTQ+ books and content were unconstitutional and cannot be enforced. Its been confirmed that Raichiks posts have fueled multiple bomb threats against schools specifically in Oklahoma.

Officials from Oklahoma told NBC News that they believe Chaya Raichiks anti-LGBTQ+ culture warring sparked threats in their localities with her posts on social media that digitally heckle people such as drag performers, LGBTQ teachers and doctors who treat transgender patients.

One of these instances was at the Owasso School District (just outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma). In 2022, Chaya Raichik targeted an Owasso teacher for speaking out in support of LGBTQ+ students who lacked acceptance from their parents. Raichiks post was shared thousands of times on social media and resulted in the teacher getting condemned and harassed until they resigned. The posts Raichik made about the teacher were later deleted, but have been archived. Its unclear what prompted the deletion of the posts by Raichik. We know Raichiks Libs of TikTok posts have contributed to a culture of intolerance against LGBTQ+ youth in schools, and now this hate may be manifesting beyond mere threats.

This month, a non-binary 16-year-old student at Owasso High School was brutally murdered in the girls restroom. According to local news outlets and family, Nex Benedict was beaten by three older female students. The mother of Benedicts best friend told KJRH News that "one of the girls was pretty much repeatedly beating [Benedicts] head across the floor. Reports say Benedict was unable to take themselves to the nurses office after a teacher finally intervened in the brutal assault. For reasons that remain unclear, Owasso High School refused to call an ambulance for 16-year-old Nex Benedict, who died from their injuries in the hospital the next day. A motive for this killing has not been shared by law enforcement, but we know that schools in Oklahoma have been specifically pushing violent eliminationist rhetoric against transgender and non-binary youth a fact exemplified by the states hiring of Chaya Raichik following her incitements of terror against the states schools over LGBTQ+ rights.

This is the inevitable result of the anti trans moral panic, said civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo, who shared an article about Benedicts death published by the Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents Blog. This is horrifying, and comes as lawmakers are increasingly spreading fear over trans people in bathrooms, wrote LGBTQ+ journalist and advocate Erin Reed regarding this murder.

Violent attacks on transgender and non-binary youth have been increasing across the nation as a legislative blitzkrieg from Republican lawmakers targets their collective rights to exist. According to a report from UCLAs William Institute School of Law: 33% of transgender and non-binary youth in the United States have had gender-affirming healthcare key to their existence banned by their local governments. Last year, a transgender teenager named Jacob Williamson was murdered after being stabbed and cut over 30 times. Anti-LGBTQ+ hate trafficked by Raichik and others like her have real world consequences. Lives are already being lost in this climate.

According to their obituary, Nex Benedict loved nature and caring for cats (especially their own cat Zeus) and enjoyed a variety of pastimes such as watching the Walking Dead, reading, and playing Ark and Minecraft. They will be sorely missed by friends, family, and the LGBTQ+ community.

This is difficult and disheartening to read about, but we need to stand up for our community, raise awareness, and fight back against these monsters.

TonyKojima posted...

I'm not transphobic at all. And I am a mainstream liberal Democrat.

youve consistently held the position that supporting what are basic human rights for trans people as bad for the Democratic Party, a losing proposition that hurts liberals with mainstream voters

I can also confirm Tony is 100% a transphobic concern troll who fancies himself a mainstream democrat progressive liberal whatever.

Its a really weird gimmick he has kept up for years on 261. Theres been a handful of times back in the day when he would drop the gimmick occasionally but hes been pretty consistent now for a good while

Frostmourne posted...

I like Jack's home style because it is thick and crispy.

Yeah that is a good one, jack used to be my fav place but I mostly avoid them now. Quality is shit on their tacos, rotten lettuce, no hot sauce, and they wont give you sauce anymore without surcharges.

guess I need to find a better location with competent employees, tough when the company treats them poorly tho

Wendys and Jack have gone down hill so I dont eat theirs anymore, Whataburger is my current go-to for spicy chicken sandwich

McDonalds is okay I guess

problem is the patties arent as thick as they used to be or advertise, like sometimes half the sandwich is paper thin meat which gets too dried out because the way they cook them is supposed to be for a patty with actual meat inside. Disappointing

edit: stay far away from daves hot

Yes pls

Tenlaar posted...

This was a horrible act and I don't understand why some of you are immediately weaving your own narratives about it with no basis.

No basis?

The term deadname comes from the historical precedence of police/media / family who misgender and deadname trans people after dying (suicide, murder, etc)

There is also historical precedence for trans people and members of the LGBTQ+ community being targeted for harassment, assault, and murder under the auspice of dating (which continues to this day)

Yes, get a small doggie and pamper them

Humans will never go to Mars

Sad news =(

CONTENT WARNING

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/17/jacob-williamson/

Jacob Williamson, 18, was last seen on 30 June 2023 after leaving to go for a date at the Carowinds amusement park with a man he met online. His body was found by police, near a road eight miles from Pageland, South Carolina, four days later.

Joshua Newton, 25, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and obstruction of justice, while his girlfriend, 22-year-old Victoria Smith faces charges of obstruction of justice and accessory-after-the-fact.

Williamson had been living with his childhood friend, Promise Edwards, at the time of his death, after some members of his family rejected him for being trans.

New details have now emerged about Williamsons cause of death and are disturbing, but Edwards told local news site WSOC-TV 9 that she felt it was important the community knows the nature of this case.

I can never get over seeing that, Promise Edwards told Channel 9s Hannah Goetz. For anybody to have to die that way, especially for a teenager who was only able to be himself for 28 days, makes it even harder, she added. Because I know what I did to try to protect him.

A pathologists report released by North Carolinas Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has revealed that Williamsons cause of death was multiple sharp force injuries. Throughout the report, investigators shared details of more than 30 stab wounds, cuts and mutilations.

Edwards told Channel 9 that Williamson would have turned 19 next week, adding that it would have been his first birthday as his true self since coming out as transgender.

For anybody to have to die that way, especially for a teenager who was only able to be himself for 28 days, makes it even harder, she said. Because I know what I did to try to protect him. In a tribute on social media after his death, Edwards wrote: This world was so cruel to Jacob his entire life. I find peace knowing that in the last month-and-a-half, he found peace.

In addition to the stabbing injuries, some body parts had been intentionally removed, the report said.

The examiners findings also indicated Williamson was killed at a home in Monroe, North Carolina, before his body was placed in trash bags and taken across state lines. Investigators found that Williamsons phone last pinged at an address in Monroe: the address where Newton lived with his girlfriend, Victoria Smith.

The number of wounds and the mutilation of Williamsons body was certainly not typical, Dr. Kenny Kinsey, a forensic and crime scene reconstruction expert and former chief deputy of the Orangeburg County Sheriffs Office, told The State Media Co. Kinsey, added, I dont think Ive ever seen anything like this or worked anything like this in South Carolina, referring to the unparalleled brutality of the act.

An unnamed witness led investigators to the gravesite in Pageland, South Carolina, approximately eight miles from Newton and Smiths home. Williamsons remains were found buried under old car tires and pine straw, according to the report. He had been placed in black plastic trash bags bound together with duct tape.

Videos surfaced of Newton and Smith engaging in a live stream on the social media platform LiveMe, just hours after the fatal stabbing. Newton casually remarked during the stream, It was fun.

The case echoes that of UK teenager Brianna Ghey. Ghey, a 16-year-old transgender girl, who was stabbed 28 times in her back, head and neck in a violent, daytime assault in Culceth Linear Park in Warrington, Cheshire.

In February 2024, two teenagers were found guilty and sentenced for murdering the trans schoolgirl. Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, both 16, were named by Mrs Justice Yip after the anonymity order that prevented the media from revealing their identities was lifted given the serious nature of their crimes.

Justice Yip sentenced Jenkinson to life with a minimum of 22 years and Ratcliffe to life with a minimum of 20 years, noting that they both took part in a brutal, planned murder that was sadistic in nature and motivated by hostility towards Brianna because of her transgender identity.

The Union County, N.C., Sheriffs Department has said that it is not investigating Jacob Williamsons death as a hate crime. This is an ongoing process and both defendants remain in custody, Union County Sheriffs Department spokesperson Lt. James Maye told The State. There are no new charges at this point and all the information we have collected has been turned over the district attorneys office.

Stand up against hate

CreekCo posted...

Why would you report it instead of making a well reasoned retort

Discussions are the reasons for message boards

Because this is nothing more than a disingenuous, transphobic bait-and-switch argument commonly used by transphobes to argue against trans inclusion. What other context is this being discussed?

ItsNotA2Mer posted...

They only have 6 studio albums, and they're all great. Just work your way through them.

Opiate
Undertow
nima
Lateralus
10,000 Days
Fear Inoculum

Also their live album Salival should not be missed =)

Particularly the live version of Pushit from that album, it's my fav

Aenima is their best album, but they're all great albums full of great songs.

https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/state-of-the-planet/the-end-of-the-world

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/6bcf3731.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c1f11da3.jpg

The explosive rise of population is tied to our technological growth, with fossil fuels as a foundation. Its not about solely blaming overpopulation, but that our trajectory is unsustainable. We can observe this from microbes in a Petri dish to the reindeer introduced to St. Matthew Island -

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/aeeb3d24.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d78c40c8.png

And this is what is happening with people on our planet, as we use more resources and continue to grow until we run out of those resources to maintain the population, and overshoot the carrying capacity.

https://www.theworldcounts.com/

this website has real time tickers you can view about all sorts of stuff going on

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/ca755d1b.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/af76f69b.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/2c9eb811.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9689d604.jpg

KanWan posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4086ef61.jpg

Cant say Im not disappointed with his transphobic rants =(

Text based mmorpgs still have attractive women

inb4 bigoted rhetoric from conservatives about the "sanctity of marriage" and "religious freedom"

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/280cdcfd.jpg

bump for trans visibility

Corbenik posted...

the concern trolling in this topic is crazy

trump thinks they all want him so badly he can just grab them by the you-know-what

no bueno!

Get a dog instead, a nice dog.

This is fascism.

Im not a fan of anybody who gets high off power trips

Gritty posted...

The British Isles, about to be a frozen wasteland

Not so much this go around, what with the end of the holocene and the loss of arctic ice. We're in uncharted waters. The collapse of the AMOC will be after the arctic ice is all but gone. Right now it's showing early signs of collapse (slowing.) This process will occur over timelines more like a century, rather than a few years.

Necronmon posted...

https://interestingengineering.com/science/atlantic-oceans-current-system-exhibits-early-signs-of-collapse

I mean...this should be a really big deal but it feels like pepole are not even talking about it...these kind's of things should be major election points but everyone's just keeping there head's in the sand till the tidal waves crush them...damn it all.

We cant stop the collapse of the AMOC anymore than we can prevent the arctic ice from disappearing at this point, nor the Thwaites glacier and the rest of the west Antarctic ice sheet that will follow. It has already begun.

They gradually introduce their ideology, indoctrinating people to be homophobic and misogynistic over time

Just another lame attempt at re-branding homophobia and misogyny to make it more palatable to youth.

animebop posted...

The Governor of Utah almost managed to get a reasonable (from Utah) approach done with the legislative before chuds blew it all up.

The Governor is still trying to impose restrictions on healthcare for trans people (not just minors) that contravene established best practices for gender affirming care. He is not an ally unfortunately

Tyranthraxus posted...

Must be hard for Joanne to write books with all that blood on her hands.

agreed

Nasty stuff

Male fragility was a prominent facet of the archetype for Roy's character, along with highlighting to the audience how domestic abuse can manifest in different forms.

Dungeater posted...

setting aside physical traits for a sec, how bout this

i got into a discussion yesterday in which my partner was adamant that, if completely equalized for life and opportunities, anybody could achieve *anything*

he said the opportunities are out there, so if life allows them to take those opportunities, anyone could succeed at Dream X

i disagreed, i said that i think even if all things are equalized, there will be ppl who __cannot__ do whatever Dream X is

This is a bit like two different ideas talking past each other, perhaps. If someone does something that another cannot, there is some difference there, while your partner has a generalized qualifier of "everything" is equal, which can also be true.

Dungeater posted...

So to be clear, if you take ten people, make the details of their life and upbringing exactly the same, down to the level of care, meals, etc. everything

a couple of those people will still be inclined to be better at thing X than the rest of the group?

obv this is a silly and completely unrealistic hypothetical. just tryin to zero in on what ppl think

I'm not sure how this is even a question of natural talent existing.

That doesn't necessarily mean that makes someone better, where there is not much difference in skill between someone naturally talented and another who has achieved the same level through great dent of effort in mastery of something.

rexcrk posted...

Yup lmao people seem to forget that The Office is a
c o m e d y show and like to make it about all their issues instead.

Which is a very Michael thing to do tbh lolol

In that context as a comedy show, I remember a few times Michael crossed the line still. It's okay to examine the characters in different context, I think, like if they were real co-workers.

It's been awhile since I've watched!

Roy was an archetype of the jealous insecure man who isn't ready for a long term healthy relationship with a woman

A teenager has been charged with attempted murder in the UK -

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/transgender-harrow-stabbing-wealdstone-charged-attempted-murder-party-b1138889.html

A teenage transgender girl was rushed to hospital after being stabbed 14 times, a court has heard.

The victim, 18, was attending a roller-skating party with friends when she was allegedly attacked by a group and subjected to slurs, it is said.

Summer Betts-Ramsey, 19, appeared in the dock at Willesden magistrates court on Tuesday, accused of being involved in the stabbing.

She has been charged with attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon in public.

Prosecutor Bunsri Bhuwa confirmed to the court that the victim is a transgender female.

The stabbing happened in Masons Avenue in Wealdstone, northwest London at roughly 7pm on Saturday.
The court heard the victim had arranged to attend a rollerskating party with friends at Harrow Leisure Centre that day.

It is said she sustained 14 stab wounds in the alleged attack and was rushed to hospital for treatment.

Betts-Ramsey wept in the dock as she confirmed her name, date of birth, and her address in Cricklewood, northwest London.

She did not formally enter any pleas after the charges were read out to her.

Wearing prison-issue grey clothes and with her hair tied up into a ponytail, the teenager was flanked by two guards during the 30-minute hearing.

She was remanded into custody until a plea hearing at the Old Bailey on March 12.

After being told she faces the next month in custody, Betts-Ramsey tearfully asked to speak to her mother through the glass front of the dock. Afterwards, she called out I love you when she was led away to the cells.
The court was told Betts-Ramsey denies being involved in the stabbing.

The Metropolitan Police has said the victim of the alleged attack has now been discharged from hospital and is being supported by her family.

Detective Inspector Nicola Hannant, who is leading the investigation, appealed for witnesses to the attack.

Sad news - thank goodness she survived the attack.