I'd read again just to double check.
erin
joined 2 years ago
As a trans person, that absolutely isn't how I or other leftists in the spaces I'm in use this phrase. It means to avoid letting disagreement over method or end goal distract from a common cause. Just because a candidate doesn't run for my specific brand of leftism doesn't mean I won't support them over a neoliberal opponent.
You could try a Lemmy app that gives you a more reddit-like experience. There are several. I use Sync, but only because it's what I'm familiar with from the reddit days. There are plenty of alternative (and often better) options. I can find communities from instances my instance federates with in the search bar, and I even have several different accounts in different instances (world, beehaw, hexbear, etc) to see content my instance doesn't federate with which I can switch to with a dropdown menu easily.
Edit: I assume it's been explained, but not every server/instance talks to each other instance, called federation. This is often for political, spam, or harassment reasons. It may be worth using alternative accounts or using Lemmy from another instance logged out if viewing content from those communities you don't federate with is important to you. The big instances federate with mostly everyone, but there are always exceptions.
Fig 53: Risk of Rain's "Huntress" has eyes perfectly positioned to gauge the velocity of arrows she fires.
Look it up. It's not my job to educate you. Facing danger in real life is a real problem, having every conservative politician focusing on banning your healthcare and reducing your rights is a real problem. I have to believe you're an empathy lacking troll or a bigot, and likely both. Discrimination is a "real problem,' and even if pedophilia was the number one political issue in our country, extrajudicial violence isn't going to solve it. And I block bigots, because I'm not going to debate someone who acts in bad faith and says something like
there are people with real problems at the moment
Insane thing to say.
Right. My lived experience doesn't matter, nor the statistics. I'm not seeking attention, I, like the majority of people reading this, am alarmed. I'm seeing people I care about and the community around me hurt every day, and you think "gender rules my life." Not a person worth listening to. When was the last time you got harassed in public for something intrinsic to yourself? For my trans wife, it was today. If you seriously think that trans people aren't currently at the front of the culture war, you're deaf, ignorant, or lying. Watch literally any pundit speak, any newscast, or any political debate around the country. Then tell me trans people shouldn't be concerned about violent rhetoric aimed at people they're increasingly being lumped in with. Bigot or stupid, I won't debate you on the reality plain around me daily.
Likely, or are likely to mistakenly target a trans person who happens to be around while they're hunting the person they cat fished. The people who are okay with extrajudicial violence are mostly conservatives. What's to say the people willing to go to such lengths to hurt someone wouldn't take the opportunity when they see someone they believe is a groomer and pedophile simply for being trans? It's easy to expand the definition, and we've seen it happen in the past. It's happening right now in rhetoric. Violence against trans people is already statistically high.
If someone shows up with the intent to fuck a minor, absolutely, but I guarantee those aren't the only targets vigilantism catches.
Except sometimes "pedophile" actually means "trans person just living." The right claims all trans people are groomers.
The "women are always screaming" stereotype is sexist. It's a direct extension of the pseudoscientific hysteria diagnosis that used to be commonly accepted. "A women," as you put it, might scream, and you might find that annoying. Women as a category have higher pitched voices on average, and the line between "reasonable yelling" and "hysterical screaming" is often just one of pitch, even when the cause for alarm or injury is the same.
Additionally, neither I nor any of the women in my life "scream" in response to injury. We yell in pain just like someone with a masculine voice, if a bit higher pitched. Some may, but it's not common and is usually reserved for situations of extreme alarm or fear, or occasionally excitement. Any time a woman does scream on video, you always see someone in the comments complaining about how annoying women screaming is. The same is never said about men screaming, unless they scream "like a girl."
9/10 times. How out of touch are you?
The part that had me "tilted," as you put it was
everyone is to blame for this situation even being possible. You had 8 years.
It shows a general misunderstanding of the political situation in the US. This hasn't been 8 years, or 20. This has been happening since at least Reagan (the 80s), perhaps the entire history of the country, depending on how you look at it. I don't even blame every person that voted for Trump for more than being ignorant, depending on the case. Some people genuinely don't know anything but what their TV tells them and the team they've been voting for for 60 years. That makes them ignorant and misinformed, but the real evil, the source of the problem, isn't them. It's the establishment and its propaganda machine, which have been doing their thing for longer than any of us have been alive. I can't blame the average person, because that worldview is one that doesn't see a good ending where we learn and improve. Most Americans aren't stupid, they're powerless, or feel like it, and the majority of the stupid ones are being lied to and misled, not writing the culture war bullshit.
I'm the most hopeful type of person when it comes to the future. For my entire life, I've been fighting for something better and truly believing it will happen, and even I'm looking into leaving the country. We're in a dark time, and it is affecting and could continue to affect the rest of the world too. Blame isn't solving anything but our own hurt feelings. No one, when blamed, changes their mind. It entrenches them and makes them hide their heads in the sand. We need to, as a class, not as any one nation, band together against the ruling class, globally. Pointing fingers misses the point and is what the ruling class wants.
Would love to. I'm too poor.