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squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone 1w ago

Meanwhile in the real world...

Wall Street’s Favorite Trades Collapse After Market Selloff

US companies announced most job cuts for any January since 2009

Some older Americans are ‘unretiring’ to keep up with cost of living

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squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2w ago

Wir dachten sie wollten uns fressen, dabei wollen sie einfach nur mit uns rumhängen.

squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone 4w ago

Yeah, people have to understand that right-wing politics considers science merely a tool to accumulate wealth and power. Thus right-wingers will not acknowledge that science pursues scientific truth, but rather insist that science that contradicts them must be a challenge to their interests that aims to embolden their political opponents and thus must be expunged.

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squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone 1mo ago

We all know what is going to happen...

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squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2mo ago

For those who aren't aware of it: "Shinigami Eyes" has become far less reliable and in some cases outright harmful due to the creators of the extension flagging people (yes, even trans people) they personally disagree with. One example is the creators denying the existence of intersex people, thus many advocates for the rights of intersex people are now flagged by Shinigami Eyes.

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squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

The whole ceremony. I need to show off that dress.

squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

🫂

squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

Probably an enemy to lovers plot line...

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squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

For those who are not familiar with Brianna Wu: She has tried to be a left-wing grifter, before she discovered that it got her nowhere and thus decided to be a right-wing grifter instead. She tried to the right-wing's "good trans woman", agreeing with everything they said, until the above message. And yeah, she is already trying to spin this yet again...

And if you think that all of that is rather weird, she is also the creator of this masterpiece.

squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone 4mo ago

My pleasure.

squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone 4mo ago

To add to what SpookyBogMonster already said: On an international stage the big proponents of these views nowadays are Xi Jiping's faction in China or North Korea, while even Cuba (which had upheld these views for a long time) have now abandoned this position.

In the US and in Europe, it's a fringe position among leftists, mostly popular with those who also hold favourable views of Xi Jiping's China and North Korea. It's a very vocal minority though and infamously one of the key developers of the Lemmy platform is one of those.

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squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone 4mo ago

Because it is not a coherent political standpoint, the justifications are all over the place. Ultimately people are being bigots and they come up with slew of explanations to justify their bigotry. So the arguments vary...

One of most popular argument goes something like this "Only rich capitalists engaged in homosexuality and transsexualism because of degenerate bourgeois ennui. True Workers(TM) are never homosexual and transsexual. Therefore any homosexual and transsexual must be a member of the bourgeois class and cannot be a True Worker(TM)." (Which is just circular logic.)

There are other arguments in the vein of "China (or another socialist country of choice) is queerphobic, China is socialist, therefore socialism must be queerphobic." (Which fails to acknowledge that other socialist countries like for example the GDR were remarkably progressive in comparison to its capitalist neighbors.)

Then there are other circular arguments like "Capitalist societies are rotten to the core. There is more queer visibility today. Queerness is proof of capitalist rot."

Appeals to queerphobia of the past like "The Soviet Union criminalized queerness. The Soviet Union is the socialist ideal, therefore we should do like them."

Or there are appeals to the authority of some queerphobic socialist writer of the past. As well as riffs on the argument from the screenshot which boil down to "Individualism is bourgeois capitalism. Queerness is an individual choice. It cannot be allowed under socialism where collectivism reigns supreme."

squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone 4mo ago

The official reason for me getting fired were budget cuts, but I knew that the new department head actually wanted to hand my responsibilities to a buddy of theirs they had brought on board. Despite being there longer at the department than the new head and their buddy, as well as excellent performance reviews I had no chance to keep that job.

squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone 4mo ago

Your submission in "trinity" was removed for "Please no AI-generated images".

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squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone 4mo ago

I recommend adding one, two or more plushies. 😉

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squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone 4mo ago

Whenever dysphoria rears its ugly head and attempts to make question who and what I am, this is what I remind me of: I no longer feel restricted by masculinity, I am free to be soft and vulnerable and indulge in cute and feminine stuff as I always wished I could. That never fails to remind me that my transition was the right thing to do, even on a bad day.