Dude - I'm really sorry, an escape hatch for the rich people who can pay to be onboard isn't a solution. We've been living unsustainably - this, by definition, can't be sustained. We need to change now so we can make that change as comfortable and human as possible; otherwise we're going to be stuck reactively responding to each successive disaster, or crop failure, or ecosystem collapse, or climate migration wave etc.
These people are protesting to uphold the status quo of an apartheid system - I would caution against seeing anyone in Israel (especially and pointedly in illegally occupied Palestinian lands and stolen Palestinian houses) as a moral voice.
Lots of really weird, dogmatic chest thumping in this section... can we not go down this road?
Respect and mutual community is the way we all benefit. Learn from others or leave them well alone.
I know this might shock some Americans but I'm not keen on the burgeoning possibility of seeing a christiofascist theocracy spill out onto society either. My friends are already suffering organised attacks by yeehawdists for being queer - which is the boogie man y'all (royal y'all) fear from Islam, right? Being attacked for existing?
Stop burning books and stop casting stones. We're better than this. We can talk in better dialogue than this.
Then they could refer to it as how she used it, as her stage name - it seems like he still used it as her act title because her brand was her former name.
It's like talking to a performer - when they're on stage or in the artiface of their character, you recognise that by using their stage name or their characters name; when the artiface is removed and they're not performing anymore, you recognise that by using their name.
I'm this way, we're implicitly saying we're mourning her act rather than her. If that's not the case, we should be using her name - not her stage name.
But theres a point here - what does it really matter if she does? People aren't static, we all have constant varying degrees of change in our lives and our perceptions of the world around us - I think it's worthwhile and even noble to try and find words to communicate those changes.
She said so herself, right? Like, we identify with the labels that'll help people outside ourselves understand best where we're at - sometimes we change, sometimes we find a more immediately accurate label that articulates something the last one we identified with couldn't quite reach.
Sure it's reflective work for the perceived and asks a bit more headspace to process things in that frame for the perceiver - but we're people. When we commit to being honest (for lack of a better word), we're never going to live as simple narratives for others.
Brother, that's not how we talk to people. Everyone here is treated like people and respected for their personhood. This isn't a theatre for bigoted nonsense - there's other platforms available if you want to attack people and get that out of your system.
Show people respect or leave people alone - but don't be like that.
I hear you, but it's different here so that isn't inevitable - our scooters have helmets clipped in so unless it's been nicked or something there's usually one there to use and (admittedly because our cycling infrastructure is, on par, outright dangerous) we have laws here that put the onus on drivers. For us, it is their fault - they're legally meant to stay 1.5 metres away from us on roads.
I mean, the safety stuff is pretty essential here tbh, aforementioned infrastructure being what it is - I wouldn't trust Australian drivers (or even the road itself in some cases) with my safety, so I think we might be in different contexts.
Meanwhile, in Palestine...