Transitioning helped a lot, I do still feel depressed occasionally, but it’s more passing and related to hormones.

Switching from a career where I was on call nearly all the time for immediate issues for one where I have more flexibility and don’t have to drive as much was a big help.

I still mask and feel really alienated being around people who don’t, but that sentiment was not new to me being vegan and trans and an anarchist. Those orientations don’t always lend themselves to being understood by others who aren’t.

I don’t spend much time online. Organizing with like-minded individuals in real life is way better for my mental health.

I do smoke a lot of weed, but it’s because I enjoy it rather than because I feel bad or am trying to self-medicate.

misleadingly doubted the existence of russian bot networks

don’t get me wrong, I know these exist. I am just expressing skepticism because people on the English speaking Internet will act like every reply they don’t like is a bot puppeteered by foreign intelligence.

It’s just more likely to be a normal person and any state actors are probably going to be focusing on the corporate-run social media spaces

I didn’t take offense! in fact I was making a joke of sorts, I understood your initial meaning.

I view my time spent talking politics on social media with people I don’t like as self-harm, I try to minimize it generally.

the distinction I’d make for hexbear is that by user base it’s also one of the major LGBT instances

not sure what “ultra-tankie” means in this context, because ultras tend to be less into lenin

gotta agree that the instance feuding is pretty toxic though

you: “It’s impossible to have a serious conversation here, so I wish you luck!”

me: okay, I won’t bother responding

you: “woe is me, nobody responded, only downvotes”

idk what you expected tbh

Seems like a caricature rather than someone that’s actually around.

I really don’t see anyone of consequence on lemmy being like ‘no Putin is good actually.’

One example, I was reading a hexbear (allegedly tankie central) thread a while back where they were shitting on the CPRF for receiving praise from Putin for their support of the SMO. (ie saying that they were losers that lenin would have had shot, and that they’re not communist)

Can you elaborate? has tankie been reduced to pejorative shorthand for ‘isn’t repeating the approved narrative’

Oh I see, it is I who have to “welcome a different option”.

reread my comment, not what I said. Maybe if you’re less quick to call people tankies you might not get called a liberal in response.

I consider a workers dictatorship to be a lesser evil compared to the dictatorship of capital we live in currently.

I also does not know what that has to do with anarchism?

To put it simply, anarchists want to abolish hierarchy, communists want to abolish private property. They overlap when you want both. Liberals tend to oppose dismantling both of those things.

you have been pretty anti-communist every time we’ve intracted, on top of calling me a tankie. not surprised you’re having trouble with people welcoming your different opinion

It was the first lemmy account I set up and I haven’t bothered to change it! I had figured the developer instance would get updates the fastest. I like that it can access hexbear db0 and blahaj and I haven’t run into any issues beyond the occasional sectarian post.

I’m not a fan of the infighting either. It’s a very online kind of tribalism. I’m pretty active in anarchist organizing where I live and routinely have people from all sorts of tendencies showing up to help out without it devolving into a struggle session over factional infighting from a hundred years ago.

Just from the time I’ve spent here it seems like it’s specifically the people occupying the centrist liberal positions who are most invested in fostering a culture of leftist infighting

US propaganda doesn’t exist, idk what you’re talking about. It’s just russian botlords controlling everything

“I have to admit, I’m always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up,” the CIA agent says.

“Thank you,” the KGB agent says. “We do our best but truly, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them.”

The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. “Thank you friend, but you must be confused… There’s no propaganda in America.”

realistically speaking our own governments are way more involved with manipulating our media than the ‘foreigners’ as people love to fearmonger about

Russia is clearly to blame for the people you don’t like online

The Democrats and Republicans do differ on the timescales for the social murder they promote, as well as the out-groups they view as acceptable to target.

I can agree that Republicans are causing more harm in the moment. However rather than blaming commenters online for rising voter apathy I blame that on the Democrats for their warmongering, suppression of internal opposition, genocidal ‘foreign policy’, and their utter subservience to capital when it comes to improving things domestically.

title:" you can’t make the system better by voting"

image: “you can’t vote fascism away”

seems pretty consistent, voting is not going to make the US less fascist

The rest is just assertions without evidence so I’ll have to pull Hitchens’ razor.

Neocon Iraq war supporting Christopher Hitchens? weems like a weird guy to quote if you’re opposed to the state murdering people but ok

Obviously not. Not sure what you’re trying to get at here though.