knightly the Sneptaur

I don’t want them dead.

I want them working minimum wage jobs with no benefits.

It’s reversed for me.

You probably meant “dissonance”, but I love the phrase “Cognitive Dissidence” and I’m going to use it all the time now.

There were only 428 total votes for DNC chair election. “Enough people” is apparently about the same size as a school board election.

I’m not proposing anything because there’s nothing to propose.

Either party leadership will realize the error of its ways or it won’t. Maybe they’ll listen to the folks flooding their phone lines and town halls and maybe they won’t. Maybe some of those folks will run for office and try to change the system from the inside, maybe they’ll just become another part of it.

In any case, the next election is a long way off. So long as the only acceptable opposition to the Republicans has to be mediated by Democrats, then we don’t get don’t get to have any real input 'til voting day.

Why would anyone have bothered to waste money running against the presumptive nominee? Especially when the party went out of its way to conceal Biden’s unsuitability for the position until the first debate of the general election made the illusion impossible to maintain.

No, the non-primary was on purpose. Biden didn’t want to have to pass the torch at the end of a single term and the party let him have the nom because he was president.

So we didn’t have a primary because Biden was the presumptive nominee… who was later removed long after it was obvious he had no chance.

Sounds very Democratic.

Is the “Not Perfect” party even going to hold a primary this time or does Harris get it by default like Biden last year?

Asking for evidence of illegal activity is totally not what a spook would do, right?

Spotted the bootlicker.

Go on strike and block Republicans from entering congress.

That’s an extreme take that I honestly can’t take seriously, communities are defined by either geographic boundaries or some property that their members hold in common.

You wouldn’t say that it’s exclusionary to recognize that a short person isn’t tall or that a New Yorker isn’t a Texan. That’s just nonsense.

The point on humor/irony or “evil” as you framed it is fun as well. In my simple understanding it’s akin to a statement of empowerment much the same as being a bad bitch. Love it. Be the Dr Evil you want to see in the world. Cpt Hammers be damned. (Not that a villain needs permission). I hope one day the status quo catches up to your virtue and you are all able to find new paths of decadent evil to engage in.

Honestly, I had to come back and respond on the last bit of this specifically, because your well-wishing really hits at the heart of my personal feelings on the matter:

As a person-of-villainous-character, the ultimate apotheosis I seek is to not be merely defeated, but vanquished utterly by the absolution of obsolecence.

As long as queer folks are othered, we will always be villainized and in so doing the queer villain identity will be perpetuated. Those who imagine themselves heroes for opposing the existence or dignity of LGBTQIA+ people cannot reject us in any meaningful sense, for queer people exist regardless and it is their opposition that makes us villains.

So, let us take pride in their scorn and wear their shame as a badge of honor until the day that there is no more scorn and shame to be found.

Feet have non-zero surface area so there’s still room for an electric potential between the near and far side of the foot. It’d be smaller so that isn’t an entirely terrible idea, but it is by no means foolproof.

There’s nothing ironic about queer outcasts sharing a bond of unity and common cause with non-queer outcasts without giving up their identity as queer folks.

The venn diagram of Metalheads and Queer Villains is neither a circle nor entirely separate. Indeed, some of my favorite queer villains are also metalheads, punks, and/or transgressive rockers.

There is intersectionality here, and your feeling of “separate but equal” about it is merely a product of a society that abhors the complexity and ambiguity that allows us space to thrive.

People can be more than one thing, we all contain multitudes.

People can also appreciate the uniqueness of a group of folks without themselves being of their number. I, for example, am not a metalhead because I have only tangential interest in the genre, but I have much respect for the way the Metal community makes an effort to reject Nazis and other fascists that try to weasel their in among their number.

Part of the problem is that we have two feet. When lightning strikes the ground nearby, it creates a difference in electric potential between the foot that’s closest to the impact point and the more distant one. If that potential is great enough, then an electric currect can jump through one’s shoe, go up into the body then down the other leg and back to ground.

Laying down only increases the surface area in contact with the ground, so the best thing to do is get inside.

Had to come back and share a comic that hit me pretty hard recently:

https://www.tumblr.com/welldrawnfish/746506639642951681/to-be-trans-is-to-change-for-the-better

Solidarity, my friend! I’m always happy to share with open minds such as yours!

I am more than happy to engage in good faith! Though, please excuse me if some of my commentary is provocative. That is, in a very deliberate way, part of the ethos.

This seems exclusionary to an entire group of allies

That’s intentional, because queer villainy is fundamentally about the building community amid the shared struggle of outcasts rather than bridging the gap between outcasts and wider society.

We have no desire to integrate, to debate the merits of tolerance under an intolerant regime, or to seek acceptance from those with normative perspectives. Our existence stands in direct contravention of those norms and we will not apologize for rebelling against them.

Is this in jest to keep with the villain motif?

No, it’s fully sincere. Queer Villain Pride is a non-cisheteronormative space. Allies can be allies and as individuals we welcome whatever support is offered, but only queer people can be queer villains.

Is it a brand of humor and irony that I’m not privy to as a person outside of the community?

There’s an aspect of that, but it’s mostly centered around our self-styling as villains and the irony inherent to finding power and a sense of aesthetic identity in one’s exclusion from “polite” society. “Evil” but only in the narrowest sense of rebellion against an intolerable status quo.

Should I just accept its gate keeping as empowerment and move on?

That’s likely the healthiest response. Queer Villain Pride isn’t an organized group with membership rolls and the like, there’s nothing preventing a straight cis person from pretending to be one of us other than their own sense of hypocrisy.

It’s a pride flag specifically for villainous and/or villain-coded queers: https://distressedegg.fun/qvp