No

Assimilation is eradication

Besides you lot seem to be the most trans supportive instance (nobody is erasing people's queerness here because they got confronted on their idiocy)

We had an early struggle session about whether or not it was okay to misgender Caitlyn Jenner for being a reactionary piece of shit. In true tankie fashion, dissenters were purged. (I’m an anarchist btw)

That’s the historical root of the term, but “barbaric” and “barbarian” also have long histories as diminutive due to colonialism.

I believe several animemes mods are comrades who post here

And the bus stop somehow involved more bureaucracy to achieve

So I don't know if I was "holding myself back" or if I just needed to develop the strength and resilience I needed in this cursed society.

I super feel this. The first thing I worked on in the beginning of this was validating my own feelings and actually paying attention to my own desires. I just felt like I wanted nothing, didn’t care what happened to me, and whatever attempts I would make to make myself happy were just going through the motions so that I wasn’t making the people around me miserable by proxy. I really had no self worth, so the idea that I was allowed to add stress to my support system by doing this difficult and confusing thing was just not in the cards.

Early in transition here. I always feel like I’m really bad at being a man. I hate being expected to follow the conventions that go along with being a man. The specific handshakes, referring to each other with terms of endearment like “bro” or “dude”. Not to mention the constant expectation that I’m dumb, lazy, or belligerent. I hate wearing suits (yes, even stylish ones that are fitted properly). And yeah, I’ve had a hard time relating to most guy stuff throughout my life.

I used to say I didn’t hate being a man. But as I stopped repressing all these feelings and allowed myself to feel the decades of gendered rage and discomfort, I came to terms with the fact that yes, I do in fact hate being a man.

I’d imagine it is. Literally everyone I’ve known who has used it has been unhoused and didn’t own a phone, so

Materially, there are a lot of ties between Russian capital and right-wing American think tanks which support the GOP. But I doubt it’s that nuanced for most Republican politicians. I think, for the most part, being opposed to whatever the Democrats want on a hot button topic is more than enough reason for them to be pro-Russia.

This is the point, no? That these factions were described accurately prior to the propaganda machine shifting into full gear.

One of the most disgusting trends of the last 5 years has been western militaries and intelligence agencies doing liberal identity politics to whitewash their crimes. In the case of Azov, you can just see the playbook operating in real-time.

Mine didn’t do any upkeep for 2 years, including refusing to clean up black mold and then threatened to sue us when we left the place a mess when we moved out. Sorry, our place got kinda messy what with the floors flooding regularly and filling our possessions with mold.

I am basically an expert on federation and also I am really high. I think only local users should be able to take my tempurature.

We used to have a way more vaporwave vibe to our whole instance. All our theme colors were named after party drugs and a lot of our admin announcements would come paired with trippy artwork. Not sure if the person who made those left or just got busy but it was a cool vibe that’s carried over in things like some of our emotes.

This isn’t OC. And this is the exact version I’ve seen in the wild multiple times since 2019.

Liberals: Whoooaaoooaaoooaaazz

You know how American cities give homeless people one way bus tickets out of the area? I live in one of the more common destinations because we’re the poorest county in the state and we have really extensive welfare infrastructure here. Because homelessness disproportionately affects people of color and the most common white settler ethnicities here are Swedish and Italian, our area becoming more diverse has literally coincided with state programs to bus people of color into the projects here. It’s really hard to talk to white fascists conservatives around here and show them all these facts and have them not see it as proof of the exact worldview you’re talking about. Especially because they think I’m a liberal no matter how much I tell them I’m not.

An Obamaphone is typically an old refurbished android phone. It’s provided by private companies who require you to fill out the paperwork that allows them to qualify for the subsidy to make the phone free. The max income threshold is super low. You get a predetermined number of free calling minutes each month for a year and then you have to recertify.

As your income rises, it quickly becomes cheaper to spend less than $50 on a Tracfone from Walmart and load the minutes as needed. If you are unemployed, don’t have an phone, are looking for a job, and taking calls from employers is the only thing you’ll use it for, it is indeed free and can be a pretty nice thing.

But the people who designed the program made damn sure people weren’t gonna be “abusing” the program to make a bunch of personal calls for free. The phones are capable of running WhatsApp and Messenger, though, so I do know people who have them, didn’t recertify, but will bum people’s WiFi to keep in touch with people. I’ve had several people stay at my house overnight because they didn’t have a place to go for the night and on two separate occasions people have booted up my PS4 and installed Messenger on it to talk to people. It’s definitely a thing.