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: meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

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

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”

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

reddit being manipulated by information campaigns!?

hell yeah participation trophies

I had nothing to do with that, but this made me laugh

Too many overtly emotional blue haired folk in moderating positions there

can you elaborate? you have a double negative in there and it’s hard for me to tell what you’re trying to say. is this your attempt at sarcasm?

my position is that it’s harder to do a genocide if you’re not being given unlimited weapons and political and military support from the world hegemon. do you disagree?

late to the party pugjesus

it would be different because the conditions would be different, they would be needing to buy their own thousand pound bombs, protect their own shipping lanes and collect their own intelligence.

with US support every step of the way they are able to ignore pressure from the rest of the world and have been absolutely depraved as a result

hey look another genocide apologist

Person with the Luigi fan account is suddenly concerned about a balanced viewpoint when it’s about not about their healthcare system.

the history starts before 1948.

20 months since Palestine attacked Israel setting off a war.

which is it? It’s almost like you’re just another westerner defending a genocide via selective reading of history

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