Honestly you are best off blocking the Lemmy.ml instance. They are Tankie authoritarian boot lickers that keep showing up in abusive mod communities and they have their own community dedicated to their brigading: [email protected]

red scare never ended lol

it seems such a stupid waste of my time and I’m afraid I might just end up blocking real people who happen to express themselves in a strange way

I definitely get accused of being a bot a lot, I’m just like this

they already hit the independent thought alarm years ago https://lemmy.nz/post/1227237

I’ve got this goober tagged as “tankie” in my app

lmao

the op meme is about the US space program publicly vaporizing a bunch of astronauts

I always see you calling people tankies and saying that they’re actually right wing

The irony of getting called a conservative based on your own behavior is sending me

NH Retail economy is sustained by all the burnt out healthcare workers from MA going there to buy liquor tax free

there’s also hexbear, I go there for the megathreads mostly

I got the opinion piece is that some folks in the gay community worry that wanting to transition can also mean being attracted to the same sex and being confused about it at a young age.

My experience was that I was not attracted to men at all, but because I liked sailor moon and painting my nails people would just assume that I was. It just strikes me as a very paternalistic attitude to be worried about misguiding poor gay people who are simply “confused”.

Because transitioning is a decision, but who you are is not. And I believe that when you’re so young, it’s really hard to know who you are.

Being trans is very much a part of who you are. However while there has been a tremendous social pressure to repress over the years, trans people are not a recent development.

I’m a trans woman, I transitioned later in life, but I knew from a very young age that I was uncomfortable as a boy and I didn’t have the words to describe it until much later in life.

I grew up in the 90s’s/00’s and back then the gatekeeping and lack of information was pretty bad. Unless you were presenting with an acute mental health condition you really weren’t getting taken seriously. I was able to hold my shit long enough to go to a college and land a career because throwing myself into work (and drinking heavily) was my coping skill.

Meeting and working with another trans person after years of repressing that feeling was all it really took for me to put it together and transition myself after 10+ years of denial. That’s also what happens when trans people are erased from daily life.

I think it’s a good thing that kids actually get listened to when they say what they want. It’s not ‘ice cream for dinner’ but that orientation does speak volumes. None of these transition decisions get made flippantly, this is a process that takes years and plenty of oversight.

Nine people get on a bus, but it is decided that only votes cast from the 3 people sitting at the front of the bus will get to decide the direction.

Why shouldn’t people trapped at the back of the bus with no sway over the vote express their opposition to the system itself?

I really don’t understand the issue people have with individuals who are in safe red or blue states voting in protest

Homura Akemi 😌

I had to laugh at this ridiculous line from the opinion piece:

staff members had a dark joke that at the rate they were going, there would be “no gay people left.”

The whole idea that transition care is “getting rid” of gay people is ridiculous, I was into girls way before I transitioned. The other trans people I know are all extremely gay.

You are concerned about a child making a decision that they may regret… so you think the decision should be made for them?

What I have a major problem with is that voicing an opinion, or have any form of meaningful debate, is met with immense aggression, trolling, cancelling, intimidation

So, trans people, I support you to exist, be happy, live a meaningful life. But unfortunately there’s a group of loud people who are honestly behaving like psychopaths who are making it hard to stay sympathetic. Wake up.

“I get aggression and trolling”

“people being mean to me are psychopaths who make it hard for me to stay sympathetic to trans people”

The only person I’ve encountered waving Stalin flag at a protest said they were a Maoist when I asked

red scares have been a global phenomena, not one isolated to the US. Pointless red baiting in response to what Trump being a fascist is about what I’ve come to expect from Bernie, the guy who can’t call it a genocide.

Declassified CIA documents from the time even say that Stalin was not so much of an autocrat as commonly mythologized.

I dip my bread in pickle brine, had no idea I was being profiled

I’ve been saying this about people supporting the US for ages.

US empire is a world historic evil so maybe supporting them or their proxies just because you don’t like their enemies is black and white tribalism?

Incredible that people are protesting trump waving US flags, he’s the most American thing ever

I dunno Count Dooku was kinda cooking until the states theocratic gestapo stopped him

hihi it looks like it is working!

reddit being manipulated by information campaigns!?