Two neighboring countries with a deeply entwined history and the prize is named after a Swede who lived his entire life with them being The united kingdoms of Sweden and Norway

I’d be with you if someone guessed it was Hungarians or even Finns deciding who’ gets the Nobel prize, but like it’s a reasonable guess that the prize named after a famously Swedish inventor is decided in Sweden and not Norway. Also it looks like the other 5 are in Sweden.

That’s a fair assessment.

I’ve only seen the before and afters and I’m a lot more experienced in watching the psychic collapse of people getting more and more cosmetic surgeries than I am with specific procedures, and I’ll acknowledge her behavior and the circles she runs in have biased me towards thinking suicide by thousand cuts rather than a few ill advised procedures having unfortunate effects and it not being worth it to try to undo.

If your theory is correct then I’m somewhat sympathetic to that scenario. Especially as its increasingly common for political commentators and figures to have work done.

I think it’s more likely to be unregulated dysmorphia. Maybe they start with a bit to get the fox news look, but cut by cut wind up like that trying to fix every “flaw” with a procedure.

People getting hooked on cosmetic surgery looks really similar to how dysmorphic anorexics wind up.

Sometimes a surgeon can do an amazing job, and many will consistently do so. Much like how people can look much better by loosing weight. You probably couldn’t tell if someone had their abdominal adipose tissue injected into their butt or breasts if it was done well and you didn’t know. But then they’re likely to decide it isn’t enough.

Dealing with dysmorphia is hard. Changing to body neutral attitudes is hard. Seeing your body realistically is hard. I struggle with weight based dysmorphia myself and I know I possess the capacity to starve myself emaciated and still think I look fat because I have organs.

I find it ironic in a way, that Ms loomer is a transphobe who probably thinks we need therapy to deal with dysphoria, while being clearly at the mercy of her dysmorphia.

There’s a question I’ve seen posed in some circles before: “Do you need a boob job, or do you need to read some feminist theory?” It’s not meant to be accusative, the answer can be either and thats ok, but it’s important to actually consider that your perspective of your body and of other bodies may be skewed before you surgically go changing things based on your insecurities. Even if you pick the boob job, you’re more likely to go in with realistic goals and less likely to keep getting another procedure if you’ve seriously thought about it before.

She looks worse than the vast majority of trans people I’ve met

Im not currently impressed but may change my tune within the year

Oh no. Anyways I still hope he gets the Gaddafi treatment and still don’t want America to go to war with Iran.

It was long and slow and by the time it was clear what was happening it was well underway.

I’m someone who grew up in ohio as it happened and it was subtle. But we eventually passed constitutional amendments banning gerrymandering, but congress ignored us. And as it happened bit by bit we left. I stayed until it was clearly about to get unsafe for folks like me (I left a few months ago), and democrats are still fighting there. But political polarization is strong and a lot of coastal Republicans have moved in because its nearly impossible for them to lose there at this point in anything except single issue votes on constitutional amendments

Any American balkanization would likely go very similarly to the partition of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The liberals would be given a period of permission to move to the coasts, and the conservatives to the red states, and in this process communities would shatter and a lot of people would die, but it’s better than a civil war and/or white terror.

In American balkanization I imagine yall would be a battleground of the literal variety. Colorado and new Mexico would want to join Pacifica and Nevada, Arizona, Wyoming, and Montana likely won’t. But also you’re valuable enough to justify putting up a stink for

Its part of why I moved out west. That and fear of persecution in the Midwest.

I wish he had black lung instead of just his employees.

There were the German Sturgeons

As an American I think we have the capacity but neither the will nor the leadership to do so.

Americans are still reeling from 20 years of pointless war in the middle east where we gained nothing, lost a lot of lives, money, and reputation and came back with credible accusations of war crimes. This is a bipartisan exhaustion. Trump tried to claim to be the peace candidate in 2024, and “America first” is claimed to mean neither war nor aid should be given to anyone.

So yeah, consent is being manufactured at the moment, but I suspect it won’t endure much loss. And I fear for American Jews once that happens because they’re likely to be blamed for the actions of the Israeli government. Especially given how little attention the “not in our name” movement is receiving.

By 2000 more Americans had died of AIDS than any war but the civil war. Though I will admit I was surprised we still didn’t care when it wasn’t just undesirables dying. Turns out we’re able to be ablist enough to declare anyone who dies of disease basically already dead beforehand

Fair warning with that one, its really cool looking but mostly popular with trans lesbians and terfs.

Yeah, I’ve seen how little cops care first hand. In fact, they managed to focus more on the race of the perpetrator, while ignoring the footprints that clearly indicated that they were wrong about how he got in.

If the justice system actually cared about victims of sexual violence they’d focus on tried and true known methods of reducing recidivism and they’d actually test rape kits

All rights stem from bodily autonomy.

And yeah, with black men being the objects of white psychosexual fears this has a lot of opportunity to become yet another means of disproportionate suffering of black men at the hands of the justice system and for eugenics.

Fair but thats not what happened and you know it. A Christian nationalist got mad at the dlf leader of Minnesota and killed her.

Two countries that notably spent rhe past four years in a cold phase of their war.