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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My sister’s AMAB friend likes to look like a girl and even said she wanted to be a “Japanese woman”, why would conservatives think using she/her pronouns for her is forcing an agenda?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the behaviors your describing dont seem “obectively” problematic whatsoever, but there are two things here that matter:

  1. This goes against typical conservative ideas about gender roles (especially the more sexist conservative ideas)
  2. There is a label for this behavior: “Transgender” This label both allows people to defend “trans people” as a group of people or category, but it also allows one to demonize the group and endlessly produce lies and propaganda about a group of people that is frankly pretty small. And importantly a group that holds no social or political power, meaning it is the perfect target for far right figures who want to sell the people a scapegoat. Honestly, you could argue the existence of this label(or maybe its prominence as an identity) is only the result of “normal” peoples need to have labels for behaviors viewed as “weird” or different from the norms. Our existence as “trans people” fundamentally makes us people different from the norm.

  There are other reasons too though.

  By the way, I am not saying that “the category transgender is oppressive and we should stop using it” but i do hope for a future where queer people live in such peace to the point where there is no need to rally behind labels, where we can just exist with our behaviors, being ourselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GARBAGEOLOGY⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  randomly choosing a random outgroup to collectively hate on is funny sometimes (see: the fr🤮nch) Genuinely there is no other reason. sometimes people will create justifications/other explanations for it but really its just absurdist humor with a pinch of tribalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gottem. :)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if they were to, there is still the deep biosphere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets corrected⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I view “guys” and “dudes” as gender neutral but when its directed towards me i start feeling like shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Performative Perp Walk⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Our systems and hierarchies do often support the oligarchy, but that does not mean every single individual supports the oligarchy, or that every single thing our systems do are meant to advance the goals of the ultra rich. Sometimes individuals who participate in these systems do malicious compliance, sometimes they don’t comply at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  kyle hill is interesting to me because when he is making videos about nuclear it is either the most terrifying nuclear horror story yet or facts and statistics about how safe nuclear is. I personally believe nuclear to be a super safe and efficient way to create energy, its just something funny I noticed. Makes me think about how common coal accidents are and how little they are covered compared to something supposedly scary like nuclear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The dangerous radiation disappears much much sooner then that. And if its millions of years, life would adapt, more then it already has. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nonviolent action has accomplished many things, it is just that nowdays the ruling class is mostly desensitized to protest. If you want to change society through nonviolent action, your action needs to convince others to support you. You need to convice the ruling class and all who help them to give in to your demands.

  Modern day peaceful protests do nothing because they dont have any credibility. The rich rightfully believe that they can ignore you and nothing else will happen. Nonviolent protests are just one way to send a message

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There isnt a secret group of evil lizard people planning out society. The evil in our society comes from the ways our oppressive systems shape people.

  Our culture and systems believe(or at least act like) it is perfectly fine for a police officer/rich person to do murder/social murder.

  So many people base their morals on what is legal/what the state penalizes, meaning if a police officer’s or ceo’s actions result in the death of innocent people, it is perfectly okay because they’re dont get in trouble. This normalization of violence done by the state and the rich means that more people are going to feel okay doing shitty things.