I personally don’t trust my own perception of myself and wholeheartedly believe that I can’t know how I look. It’s much easier to not compare myself to other people when I have nothing to compare them to, as for all I know I look exactly like the person I envy.

This isn’t to say that I don’t pay attention to parts of my appearance, but I limit it to very specific things that are in my power to change. For instance, I might focus on shaping my eyebrows, but not trust what I see in my jaw or browline.

I liked when Codsworth from Fallout 4 called me by it. I had liked the idea of a lot of names before, but it was the first one that really clicked. When that robot first called me Assface, I knew it would be my name.

Wait, you weren’t already out as trans? I swear you’re not the first person on blahaj.zone who hatched after I took for granted that they were trans. I guess my transdar isn’t good enough to tell eggs from chickens.

Anyhow, congrats on finally finding a path forward! You have so much to look forward to 💖

I’m not gonna repeat exactly what I said last time about your appearance, because that’s not what this post is really about. You’re being hopeless and annoying right now by complaining that you might as well detransition, despite it being unlikely that you’ll ever do so without external pressure.

I think deep down you know how miserable it’d make you, and you only wanna detransition because you feel like hurting yourself. It’s not that your struggle isn’t valid, as this struggle is worth talking about in more constructive ways; it’s just that you’re not helping yourself in any way by complaining about it on social media.

Nothing we say will fundamentally change that being the right gender isn’t a cure all for all mental problems. Before I transitioned I grappled with the fear that I just wanted to transition as an escape from my mental health issues. Eventually I realized that while transition was necessary to help myself, it was not everything I needed. It makes them solvable and worth solving, but it isn’t the ultimate solution.

Their strategy is to give into Trump’s demands in the hopes that it prevents him from destroying their precious institutions. They hope to be able to take over from an unpopular Republican party after Trump dies without really undoing the damage he’s done. The problem with this approach is that it will prevent the system from needing to be properly rebuilt, effectively legalizing most of his abuses of power and prolonging the instability of our country. A big part of this will be institutionalizing the blatant corruption and oligarchy while further rigging elections to make it impossible for popular movements to ever legally gain power.

A Gavin Newsom or Pete Buttigieg presidency will see them ruling as a weaker feudal king than Trump, but only to promote business activity and interests. Relying on the honeymoon period following Trump’s removal, they will position themselves as the saviors of “democracy,” yet they will do little to actually undo a lot of the election rigging that Republicans are installing right now. They will suppress workers rights and throw the most disposable minorities under the bus, deregulating and burning through all the goodwill they have. They’ll parade the corpse of liberalism around as long as fools will believe it, but it will be a cynical gesture.

In order for actual liberal democracy to exist again in this country, the liberals would need to have shown a backbone and resist Trump no matter how much he destroys institutions. They would need to risk temporary jail time and potential assassination to invigorate long term support for a rebuilt American dream. Instead they’re showing that they never cared about liberal ideals, only the goodwill liberalism afforded their power.

Your faith in winning games you fabricate is what truly makes the mindset of a troll the mindset of a fascist

Nah, it’s a depressing reality mostly, because like I said, the mindset is common. It doesn’t lead anywhere good for anyone, with even those at the pinnacle being sad and pathetic, but that doesn’t make life any better for those who aren’t like you. Life just ends up sucking for everyone. No meaning behind any of it.

Lol, of course not. That’s not why a troll trolls. They try to inflict pain and suffering on others in the most meek way possible. You’re not trying to impress us, only yourself.

“Average” really is the worst insult you can imagine. Self report

It’s always so satisfying when you have no better response than pre baked strawmen that are totally disconnected from anything I was talking about. You desperately want to go back to your safe space, but watching you degenerate into a parrot is the whole reason I respond to bait like this

Nothing is more in line with our current economy of landlords and venture capitalists than middlemen who add nothing of value. As right wingers usually do, you position boring ass unoriginal parasitism as countercultural. Like a mold being proud of growing when it’s damp and dark.

I’m convinced at this point that you so called nihilistic ragebaiters are just fascists 99% of the time. Taking joy from acting like an absolute piece of shit is typical behavior for people who only ever care about winning. You set yourself up in a position where you can’t possibly lose because you’re a weakling. It doesn’t matter that you never actually get anywhere in life when you’re high cruelty.

It’s under general>other>default feed. I don’t think that’s what’s causing it, but it does mean I see the list of subscribed communities as soon as I open the app, which I otherwise prefer. Swiping a community to the left unsubs from it, no other action required.

On Android with my default feed as “list.” Like I said, I do not browse by “all,” “subscribed,” or “local.” I go to a community sorted by new to catch up on every single post there. I don’t enjoy missing posts or scrolling indefinitely, so I make sure to see everything in the specific places I frequent.

A Hitler youth founder was killed recently, so maybe -7 years

It honestly fits tho. It was an era of rising neoliberalism and technology, establishing the cyberpunk critique of the world we’re currently living.

Wait, isn’t Mephala the prince of lies, spinning a web of them like a spider spinning a web?

Again, are you respecting someone’s identity? I don’t care what you think you’re doing; if you aren’t recognizing a person as the person they are, then the conclusion is that you’re mistreating someone. The world isn’t a place where your self perceptions overwrite the person you actually are.

There are plenty of respectful debates about trans issues, and tolerance of people genuinely not understanding queer topics. What cannot be debated respectfully is whatever or not to respect a person"s identity. No amount of polite language can make such a conversation respectful, as you’re refusing to do the bare minimum required to speak to that person as an equal.

Creating a tolerant space requires not tolerating intolerance. This is not an authoritarian insight, but one centered on maximizing the freedom of everyone. If you demand a space where you can debate a basic fact about myself, then that is not a space in which I am free.

It is, but the bubble mustn’t burst or the grifters will stop making money selling “the end of skilled labor” to braindead capitalists.