throwback!

Not all of the countries problems can simply be attributed to ‘the enemy’ on the other side of the planet. The dysfunction I’m pointing out is home grown and enabled on both sides. The republicans are obviously worse, the democrats prevent anything better.

Russia is affecting those things in the us though.

People being unhoused, going hungry and without healthcare is bipartisan consensus in the US and Russia has nothing to do with that.

MS-13 or Russia

neither of those are real concerns tbh. Americans should be concerned about housing, feeding and providing medical care to everyone before worrying about external threats.

accidentally waste their time making mean comments that I can’t see

making comments people don’t see or acknowledge is one of my favorite pastimes

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book

I read bookchin in college, and re-read this one recently. He will make some decent points, but he was also a zionist, him holding that position really made me lose interest in his other political prescriptions.

it’s what people used before things like discord, that and teamspeak

that external opinion is usually either bigotry or supporting US empire from my experience. Other Lemmy spaces are just as likely to ban for wrongthink ie: not being pro genocide or whatever war libs are supporting this time.

hexbear is heavily transfem and bans aggressively for misogyny/transphobia. Spending some time there when their recent domain crisis defederated from the rest of Lemmy was actually quite relaxing

for me I couldn’t even recognize my face. I hated the shaving so much -both the touching my face and the feeling of stubble on my skin as it grew back I just opted to just let it all grow for years before realizing how much I just wanted it gone. Some portion of that was personal neglect, also just being busy working for years and burying my disphoria under that and supporting my partner. I told myself it wasn’t a good time for it and waited way longer than I should have but at least I didn’t have to get sectioned.

I tested first by shaving for the first time in years and looking at my face not covered in hair made me start crying from joy right then and there. So I went and spent many, many hours getting electrolysis done because the pain from that is pretty much insignificant compared to how waking up to hairs growing out of my face made me feel.

My parents never got cable TV and we would always mute it reflexively if an ad came up.

was a bit strange when I went to high school and everyone had cable TV, and watched the ads! I still get a visceral reaction to advertising to this day

make sure to block me too so I don’t have to see your shit

the Commie Triad

lmao turns out this whining has always been red baiting

It’s about time they showed up, during trans day of visibility no less 😌

If I react to a message with a 👍 it’s innocuous, but if I reply to a message 👍 it’s actually me being passive aggressive like I can’t be bothered to type a real response

I hadn’t seen this one:

‘the party should embrace patriarchy, jingoism and reactionary values’

• centrist democrat strategy

not surprising that’s why all the online followers of these people act like such assholes and treat anyone on the left like an enemy. great coalition.

I would point out that the system we live in now is also maintained by violence and a lot of bloodshed, all alternatives are aggressively opposed, many people live in awful conditions already, and more often they tend to be the people on receiving end of US weapon systems. The actual death toll of capitalism is extremely high if you include social murder and neglect too.

I run into this being ace spec, in college I even had friends trying (successfully) to set me up with dates and they never went anywhere because it was never something I cared enough about to prioritize.

I don’t really find myself sexually attracted to anyone, but having an emotional connection makes a big difference in wanting a romantic relationship for me.

It would be nice if crossposted threads shared comments sections. I’m not sure what the technical hurdles would be, but I could see it leading to increased moderation workload for smaller instances.

Beware the fake communism, “tankie” triad of hexbear.net (or wherever they moved to, after they forgot to renew their own domain name)

they managed to keep the domain in the end, I think they transferred to a different DNS landlord

Also it’s not fake communism, it’s pretty normal for anyone outside of terminally online circles, like I’m active in anarchist organizing and I’ve had plenty of comrades who would get called a tankie by you lot like it’s some thoughtcrime