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  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool.
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    Disclaimer: the obligation should not fall on a marginalized person to educate those ignorant. As such, when i have patiently done so, and I get met with “UH ACTUALLY DEBATE ME BRO”, I meet their bad faith and pseudoscience with “ok nazi, get blocked”. First they came for the trans and the disabled, THEN the socialists and trade unionists. I am just fine being indiscriminate with those who prove themselves to be intolerant. Protect yr energy fam.

    The reply: That’s like saying an epileptic person should go without life-saving seizure supression medication

    HRT is no different than any other medical intervention that allows a person to have a better quality of life by influencing the already existing systems of hormones and neurotransmitters for the given conditions/issues/wellbeing.

    What’s more, in the event that the human being making the choice with their doctor to use hormone blockers changes their mind, puberty resumes AND compensates such that the overall outcome is near-entirely unchanged compared to if had they not used blockers. (And are much less likely to self-harm or take their own life overall)

    The misinformation about trans kids and puberty is honestly audacious, such that anyone who actually cares about Trans People’s safety, well being and happiness would recognize such if they so much as scratch at the surface of current medical knowledge.

    Trans people are not your science experiment.

    One’s medical choices are noone’s business but that human being and their doctor. Parental ownership over children is quite a flawed institution when many parents are absentee, and that’s before you figure in the lack of educaction about, misinformation about, and outright internalized bigotry for trans people – which many parents fail their children by not confronting, unpacking…but instead making the problem of the small human being who has no legal standing in our rancidly unjust systems. This society believes itself more civilized than barbarians or cro-magnons or marauding vikings or australopithecus…which only multiplies it’s vicious indifferent violent tendencies.

  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool.
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    8 hours ago

    Chopped off, mutilated, never enjoy life again.

    Lmao tell me you’re a bigot who’s never met a trans person, without saying so.

    Thats not how any of this works.

    • Surgery is almost always for adults, does not work by “chopping” anything. It is a delicate and complex medical and surgical procedure. (You’re fine with the mutilation of intersex infants genitals and the mutilation that is circumcision being forced on infants, tho, I bet, as your Daddy says that’s ok, huh?)

    • Quite the opposite from never enjoying carnal-consensual-interactions again, I and many of my trans cousins are simply listening to our bodies tell us that it needs to change to properly experience it. For most, it takes the form of revulsion-from-the-incongruence of having been born with parts that make them want to dissociate.

    BEING A TRANS PERSON IS NOT A MENTAL ILLNESS

    This is such victim blaming. It is impossible to go through a world that seems like it wants to drink your blood, just because of your intrinsic traits – without accruing trauma.

    Trauma and being open about it is not “mental illness”. In fact, it’s the only way to heal from that externally-caused burden.

    I guarantee you’re not an expert on the well being of the meeting of the mind and the brain, or “mental illness” to take the thinking of ableist, nazi-originated, antiquated past-medical-thought.

    And you’re certainly no expert on anyone else’s body.

    So dont be surprised when this kind of thinking turns you into someone that people dont want to be around.

  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool.
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    8 hours ago

    Idk why OP feels it neccesary to conflate trans people with school shooters.

    Three components im enthusiastic to educate about on that note:

    1. https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/mar/31/no-evidence-growing-trend-trans-radicalization-or/l

    And 2) Shooters have been overwhelmingly men, overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly boys-and-men. A majority of manifestos have direct mention of Right-wing extremism, oft inspired by the Turner Diaries and the like.

    1. What causes violent crime in society, and are there existing societies we can look to?

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/jp3q4p/comment/gbesw1p/

    the short version is that it starts in the home.

    Much violent crime can be traced back to cultural factors. Violent crime, such as murder, would probably decrease dramatically in an anarchist society because most of its causes — poverty, televised glorification of violence, prisons and police, warfare, sexism, and the normalization of individualistic and anti-social behaviors — would disappear or decrease.

    The differences between two Zapotec communities illustrates that peace is a choice. The Zapotec are a sedentary agrarian indigenous nation living on land that is now claimed by the state of Mexico. One Zapotec community, La Paz, has a yearly homicide rate of 3.4/100,000. A neighboring Zapotec community has the much higher homicide rate of 18.1/100,000. What social attributes go along with the more peaceful way of life? Unlike their more violent neighbors, the La Paz Zapotec do not beat children; accordingly, children see less violence and use less violence in their play. Similarly, wife-beating is rare and not considered acceptable; women are considered equal to men, and enjoy an autonomous economic activity that is important to the life of the community so they are not dependent on men. Regarding child-rearing, the implications of this particular comparison are corroborated by at least one cross-cultural study on socialization, which found that warm, affectionate socialization techniques correlate with low levels of conflict in society.

    https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works

    As for the re-emergence of hierarchies, I think that the notion of anarchism is essentially ‘checks and balances’ turned up to 11. You get to a society that’s an ecosystem of fluid social relationships, and an anti-authoritarian culture which makes it impossible in a million ways for anyone to accumulate power. If we could get there, I think it would be more robust than current liberal democracy, where the branches of government can cooperate and you need buy-in from less people to enable power to be accumulated.

    IMO, good anarchist praxis is to 1) encourage and popularize anti-authoritarian parenting methods and 2) build strong community groups and mutual aid networks.

    I concur with this analysis and conclusion.

  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.world•How long will it be until we realize AI is detrimental to society?English
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    Distracted by media and a market of commodities 
    We’re just resources, units for their economy

    And they want technology that’ll make us obsolete 
    I mean why pay for workers when you can automate machines
    yeah we’re being ruled by other human beings 
    who seem to have forgotten what that means

    we’re hamsters on a wheel we’re a human fucking farm
    And they’ve worked us to the bone we’re all weathered and worn

    https://ludlowpdx.bandcamp.com/track/times-new-roman

    Every Empire on this Earth has fallen…and Floating very much is not flying. 🎵

    And so as to not leave you with a Gordion Knot:

    The structures of our state economies are going to matter in terms of protecting democracies, and by that I mean if you look at economies that were based in the kind of small producer economies like New England was vs states like the South and the American West that were always built on the idea of very high capital using extractive methods to get resources out of the land either cotton or mining or oil or water or agri business, those economies always depend on a few people with a lot of money, and then a whole bunch of people who are poor and doing the work for those Rich guys – and that I’m not sure is compatible in terms of governance without addressing the reality that you know if people have more of a foothold in their own communities, they are then more likely to support the kinds of legislation that Community [Education, Healthcare, …] and that may be the future of democracy, if not a national democracy.”

    ^ https://youtu.be/D7cKOaBdFWo?t=2139 Heather Cox Richardson, professor of American history

    “Practicing mutual aid is the surest means for giving each other and to all the greatest safety, the best guarantee of existence and progress, bodily, intellectually and morally.”

    Mutual Aid By Pëtr Kropotkin https://thereitis.org/kropotkins-mutual-aid/ https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-mutual-aid-a-factor-of-evolution https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarcho-mutual-aid-an-introduction-and-evaluation

    Solidarity Economies, and Mutualism, will be the way forward.

    To follow Corporate and their bought-out state institutions is to to walk willing into one’s own ruin.

  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Decentralised social media ‘increases citizen empowerment’, says Oxford studyEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    Tbf “dumb” is ableist. You’re shaming anyone who isnt “high iq”, and IQ, and measuring intelligence in general, is doing the nazi’s work for them.

    Tbf you can insult someone’s actions without resorting to personal attacks. “Voting for drumf is tantamount to shooting yourself through both feet and still managing to pierce your ear with the bullet…but hey at least it’ll match your furher’s ear” (See how i use the opportunity to be creative and provactive with a hint of dark humor?)

    Aaaaand tbf “wrongthink” absolutely gives off qanon/kekistan" vibes so dont be surprised when talking like this turns you into a person people dont want to be around.

  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations
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    3 days ago

    Fwiw (I sure hope this is not an empty platitude), as a trans woman who’d love to be able to feel safe outside of cities in blue states, who very much knows and experienced that it’s not free:

    You’re absolutely right.

    I read this back early 2016, been reeling from it ever since: https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/

    We have been divided by the american mythos of “pinko city slicker vs rugged indvidualist rednecks” and the truth is it’s all so the boss can take the whole plate of cookies, while scapegoating your brown/queer/whatever co-worker “He’s gonna eat your cookie”

    I refuse, at least for my inner child anyway, to surrender the love I have for my fellow common person, regardless of where you’re from. Sweeping generalization.

    There’s lots of blame to go around. Big Pharma, Politicians, the way in which the midwest and south’s entire economies that were always built on the idea of very high capital using extractive methods to get resources out of the land either cotton or mining or oil or water or agri business, those economies always depend on a few people with a lot of money, and then a whole bunch of people who are poor.

    I blame them, not you. I see you. We are not alone. There has got to be a better way.

  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoNews@lemmy.world•Migrants hope Trump mass deportations only 'for criminals'
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    6 days ago

    Where was the solidarity when the choice was an obvious fascist or literally anything else?

    Im not being condescending here:

    In every city.

    It even happens to exist outside of cities!

    You can find mutual aid groups wherever you are. If you’re asking, you need to engage beyond the bare-minimum of electoralism.

    Here’s a short vid from like past 48? hours about finding yours:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcZjj0NGIaY

    Now go re-read and find me where I’m telling you to go cozy up to a maga-hat of any life-experience at all, and strike up solidarity with them.

    No. Quit with the doom obsession. It is a distraction so as to avoid doing something more meaningful about the root causes.

    To quote a friend: (speaking on such quislings)

    many people will unfortunately need to learn this the hard way it seems at the expense of those who take the time to see the writing on the wall those ignorant to their exploitation will seldom listen to those who try to tell them how horribly theyre being fucked “if it were really so bad id notice” theyll say “this isnt so bad” theyll say, standing on the peak of the mountain that is dunning-kruger unknowing all we can do is wait, and watch to find out what what it is that throws them into the valley of unfathomable uncertainty in the meantime we must work for each other, for those who do see how good things could be. maybe then, our greener grass will coax them into giving us a fair listen

    So, I repeat: Quit with this dopamine loop. You feel so strongly? Then go be about it.