With everything happening in my country (America) I have not really been able to enjoy any media for months.

Especially recently.

I learned that ICE is now deporting foster children.

They’re targeting children.

They’re setting out to take children away from their parents.

It’s kinda hard to give a shit about video games or tv shows while knowing that.

Do not send pictures of your body to strangers.

Unless you want to give strangers leverage to social engineer or blackmail you.

Touché stranger.

Looks like I have some research to do 🙂

The problem with outright socialism is it always gets toppled, because your success is a threat to the entire world order, and foreign governments can make offensive decisions at a faster rate than you can make defensive ones, since your big decisions have to filter through more eyes and hands in the name of fairness.

When we’re talking about entire countries, we have to be more pragmatic than idealistic, or our plans just don’t work sadly.

Pro-tip: Channel your frustration into positivity for better reception.

Nothing you said was unreasonable per se. It was just how you said it that’s getting you flak.

You may not give a shit, but if you do… I’m just sayin’

I want democracy that works for the people and not just the people with the most money.

Socialized Democracy.

Basically democracy with robust safety nets, strong regulation on business, strong labor unions, and socialized healthcare and higher education OPTIONS.

Capitalism is good for competition and innovation so we can’t really ditch it completely, but we live in society, not the jungle, so we should have safety nets and socialized options for poor people to gain independence and social mobility.

I agree.

I guess there is some contextual utility since parents do “assign” gender roles to their children based on their sex, but the doctor has nothing to do with that, so I agree.

Unions didn’t decline.

They’ve been systematically busted for the last 5 and a half decades.

That depends who you ask.

“Transsexual” is an antiquated term that’s considered exclusionary by some and thus bigoted in a sense, as it implies that one must experience body dysphoria and seek medical treatment to change their body’s sex traits in order to feel more comfortable with them.

“Transgender” simply refers to someone who identifies as a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth.

“Non-binary” people identify as something other than the two “genders” that are typically assigned at birth, so technically they fall under that same umbrella of transgender.

But also… we consider sex and gender to be different technically speaking. Sex is considered to be a biological thing, and gender is more of a social/cultural thing typically based on sex.

… Which would mean doctors don’t really identify (or “assign”) genders at birth, they assign sex, which kind of contradicts the notion of transgender people, aka someone who identifies as a different gender than their “assignment” at birth.

I personally think transgender is too broad a term and causes a lot of confusion, and that we’d be better served by once again referring to people as either transsexuals, or gender queer/non-binary.

It’s complicated. Some non-binary people do have body dysphoria and do seek medical care to change their body’s sex traits, while not identifying as either a man or a woman.

Unfortunately in LGBT+ spaces, it’s often seen as social suicide to make these distinctions, as when you make distinctions you necessarily make divisions and thus exclusions, which feels bad if you or someone you love is the one being excluded.

Other trans people would probably call me “Tru-scum” for thinking this, because in their minds what I’m saying is equivalent to saying “there’s transsexuals, and there’s people who play with make-up and clothes and expect other people to refer to them differently”…

Except I’m not saying that, and I don’t think gender queer or non-binary people are “playing”, or are less valid in any way.

I just see the ways that people are similar, and different, and I refuse to blind myself or bite my tongue about it.

My girlfriend thinks capitalism is fine and doesn’t care about billionaires existing.

She’s never had a minimum wage job or worked in the service industry 🙄

Become a rich jacked sociopath.

That’s most manly thing you can do apparently.

She should have been born in a comic book instead of real life.

Classic mistake.

In the Star Wars universe celibacy is canonically heroic.

If you fuck and reproduce you’ve given someone else power over you and you’ve created your replacement/successor… almost like a Sith Lord and their Apprentice…

Don’t you have to register to vote?…

Illegal immigrants don’t even have social security numbers…

Cuz I don’t have a ring camera and I’m not watchin’ my door all day lol.

I wouldn’t know they were there until they were THERE iykwim 😅

Most people on earth will never see $100,000 a year, and almost all Americans will never see $200,000 a year.

Even making $1,000,000 a year is fucking incredible and life-changing and lets you go anywhere and do almost anything you want.

Anything over that is just dick measuring money.

They are making $25,000,000 PER DAY.

A million dollars is chump change to them.

More money than we’ll ever see in our lives is chump change to them.

Currency is just quantified social power.

If someone has essentially infinite social power compared to everyone around them, there is no world in which their interests don’t directly and explicitly involve (at the very least) keeping that power.

So relevant now lol

When they’re at your door with masks, guns, tasers, and hand-cuffs, I don’t think there are any other options.

If you’re aware of one please enlighten me. Don’t say call a lawyer or present a birth certificate. People have done both and been deported anyways.

DEI hire is basically just the socially acceptable combination of all derogatory racial terms rolled into one at this point.

A terminological “Swiss Army N-Word”.