Is this a joke? Show me one present delivered without the parents involvement and maybe I'll see the rest of your argument, assuming you have one. I know it's not exactly confirmed by any authority but it's pretty easy to see he's doing everything Putin wants and there are obvious conflicts of interests, to say the least.
Thats fucked, I'm gonna look for that story. I've been seeing lots of stuff (even locally in a relatively progressive state) about trans folks' documents being confiscated and/or destroyed when they try to leave or get a new or updated passport or sometimes other docs iirc. Please don't come here, to anyone thinking about it. Period. Unless you're planning to stay a while and help us out, I don't recommend it but we will be needing all the help we can get :(
Man this hits home. I'm so sad that I feel like I get treated like a crazy person for actually talking intentionally I.e. for talking about things that are important to me and what I think is important to who I'm talking to, for choosing my words intentionally and not playing games and picking up or putting out coded implications in my speech, and not wasting time having lengthy conversations to nobodies benefits or worse, that are just causing harm. Setting boundaries has been an important part of surviving while staying as consistent with my values and beliefs as possible, but it gets so lonely and difficult and exhausting, I'm constantly on. If you look through my comment history you'll see what I mean, I'm frequently leaving long replies requesting to connect with folks who seem to share interests or sometimes just I'm just making what I feel is an important point, and it seems like hardly anyone engages what I'm saying in good faith and actually hears me, and nobody at all actually reaches out
Jesus this is all there is for gender/sex/race/immigrant/etc discrimination, if you can even say it's about that
The link about "travel and your identity" idr what it says exactly but it isn't anything specific to US and certainly not much help in the current scenario
Holy fuck that's grim. I didn't pick up what you meant at first my bad but I get it now. You're saying if this is their tactic for the birds, and "let 'er rip" is policy for covid for humans then it's going to be somewhere between "many if not most folks have multiple nontraumatic brain injuries now and autoimmune conditions that are [as I understand it] equivalent to developing AIDS in much shorter time and more" and "we will forcibly cull the herd to protect the future of the project".
I didn't like the rebuttals in my link above. One of them says that the best thing for you/chickens is "to have a central authority decide to cull you minimizing for a balance of cost and your pain, instead of giving you the chance/choice of either surviving, or far more likely, suffering before death." I would choose the 2nd option, but can only do so under central authority that has already decided what it prefers.
Like what? Who is saying this to the person that is "you" in this scenario? Wtf? Absolute fucking non starter. I'm not choosing shit, fuck that we're not doing that.
We only didn't know because this type of authoritarianism requires an ignorant, sedentary, and fearful populace and so we're not taught the crucial skills it would take to resist as we waste away and treat each other and ourselves like shit, because what we are taught is a zero-sum, individualistic, hierarchical way of life that teaches us the system is perfect and we're not doing it right if we don't get the results we want, and fools us into perpetuating harm in a self sustaining, cyclical manner. It's very sad but all the more reason to try something new. It seeps into everything, it's quite literally a death cult.
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Nah. There's good people here and even the people who voted for this deserve to have their needs met, many of then are only personally responsible for a tiny fraction of the immense harm caused by the systems of power. And they may not have caused any harm in the first place if they lived in a place where people are always taken care of as well as is reasonably possible. there is immense pressure to shed empathy and embrace individualism and forego the many benefits of community such as efficient and effective collaboration, for example to prevent a disease from spreading or at least reducing the harm it causes. As many of us can see, especially obviously in the US, the goal and function of the system isn't actually to stop causing harm in the first place, or even reduce the harm that must be caused for your society to function, the cruelty is often very much the point. Non-absolutely essential needs are less and less profitable to meet the less common it is to have the need, and the amount of wealth that can be extracted from the people with whatever need is the only thing that really determines what gets things done, and subjugation and not giving folks a chance to think critically and question their circumstances by completely overwhelming them with horrible information (including dis- or misinformation) about the world and making them think they're threatened by whoever is opposing efforts to make line go up. Most folks don't stand a chance without direct intervention and time spent with someone directly affected by the system in an obvious way, including possibly the person themselves.
At the very least I owe it to my family to stay and be as helpful as possible to the people who have supported me and hopefully others who don't deserve what's coming if a major effort of community organization doesn't happen
You: says obviously racist, idiotic shit all over the place
You: gets called racist
You: "racist is an insult but literal slurs arent"
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