He's one of the very very few (or only?) of the so-called New Atheist movement in the late 2000s and early 2010s who didn't turn into a weirdo reactionary, and kept his channel name the same from that era. Unfortunately he's still quite libbed up, but he has his moments.
I guess this is what it felt like for oldheads to watch the USSR be dismantled 
I'd rather be miserable and alone than do that to another person.
That's the neat trick, these types don't see women as people
feels cliche at this point but it literally looks like a frame from a comedy sketch
Every time I've been in a hospital the past several years, the emergency room has been packed and emergency beds are overflowing into the hallways. People are putting off healthcare until it becomes a literal emergency. It's grim out there.
Despite the college tours, boomers were actually his primary audience as far as I know.
Irredeemable shit hole island
Yes but they also did things like this to launder their reputation and give themselves just enough credibility as an aid organization to get their foot in the door of other countries to then facilitate the CIA stuff.
Russia has the opportunity to do the funniest thing by hitting SBU and GUR targets with any captured Ukrainian drones they have
Apologies for the late reply, had some stuff come up.
Sorry to get you excited, but I was referring to the Lombardi-Nash translations, not the original texts. I wish I was fluent enough in German to read the sources directly. When I ever get to that point, top of my reading list would be Das Dritte Geschlecht, which is a modern reprinting of a magazine of the same name that ran for 5 issues in the later Weimar years. It consists of a lot of work written by trans people themselves, as well as medical experts in the field, plus a variety of photographs.
You bring up some really interesting questions about the text itself that I haven't thought about before. I haven't read Rockhill's book but I have listened to a couple of his talks about it, so I'm vaguely familiar with his thesis, and applying a similar lens towards the topic of trans medicine is very interesting. Based on my scattered reading, my guess would be that the answer is tied to the John Hopkins clique of physicians who eventually ended up inventing gender to "save binary sex from conceptual collapse". Embarrassingly, I have not finished it, but Histories of the Transgender Child is an excellent resource on that group and their work. The preface in the first Lombardi-Nash volume mentions that anti-German sentiment surrounding the First World War played a role in limiting Hirschfeld's reach outside the German speaking world. That, plus the infamous destruction of the Institute along with the fact that the vast majority of material (particularly the 'informal' stuff like patient notes) was never published abroad, meant that his work was buried under the other monumental historical events of the time. It's been a long while since I read it but I remember Heike Bauer mentioning in The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture that a lot of his surviving work was only unearthed recently.
Thank you for the interesting lines of inquiry, it's given me a lot to think about and an interesting direction in which to take my research, other than just reading Hirschfeld for the sake of it. I'd like to be able to bring a Marxist/communist lens to all this, but I am hesitant to even call myself those things because I am guilty of the classic sin of Not Doing The Fucking Reading. You're right though, his politics are generally glossed over from what I've read. Heike Bauer makes mention of some of the topics he was curiously silent about, but the only indication of his actual politics I've come across in my reading was an off hand mention that the Institute would occasionally house members of the Comintern who were staying in/passing through Berlin.
Anyway, not sure how to conclude, but thanks for chatting with me about this, it's given me a lot to think about! 
Close enough, welcome back black_mold_futures 
Stumbled upon this band recently and it's such a fun combo of black metal and dungeon synth, and the "late night cable access fever dream" vibe of the music videos goes so hard. Usually recommendation algorithims are shit, but sometimes they serve up absolute gems. 
dudes rock 
https://xcancel.com/ratlimit/status/1965945538903421439 
absolutely incredible snapshot of our current era 
yet it still scrolls me to the comments. curious 
i feel like there's a bingo on the vertical right side but i don't know what counts for those two open spots bingo!
i did not make this, i pulled it from the news mega at the beginning of the year
petition to rename the site infinitybear 
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