Dagadashko [none/use name]

God knows the US is evil and puritan but this doesn’t feel like it’s grounded in a material analysis. Seeing one news article and saying “this proves the whole culture loves incest” isn’t a really worthwhile take, and I think is also insufficient to explain the US’s weird purtianism. Also focusing on the spectacle of the act ignores the more genuinely crazy thing that you can get arrested for adultery.

[To the tune of Galway Girl]

My op’ning artist went to take a stand

But human life isn’t worth my brand

Kicked him out my act and then I lost all of my band,

Said baby, I don’t take a stance

With Israeli acts of gen-no-cide

According to an Obama advisor:

Haven’t had something like that, but it’s not really weird imo. In my experience, hormones and blockers can definitely affect your mood and change how emotional processes are balanced.

Above and beyond that though, I think that transitioning is a process that provides an extremely potent context in which one’s experiences are framed. Transitioning is, necessary a potent assertion of one’s agency against societal and/or biological assumptions. In day to day life, very few decisions are as actively consequential in how our lives play out as choosing to pursue transtion, and that means that your life isn’t going with the flow, but is the product of your will.

Based on the combination of that and the exploration of new dimensions and depths of feeling, I could definitely see how that could lead to your current understanding of yourself being hard to emotionally relate to your past. Idk if this rings true to you but its my best assessment based on my own experiences.

WHY ARE THEY USING AI THEY CAN JUST TAKE A PHOTO

Acknowledging that the USA using nuclear weapons was not necessary, and then blaming it on the USSR is insane mental gymnastics.

Blood fiend from the Blood Institute: US should pursue more slaughter, bloodletting

Genuinely. The whole framing of “being blamed just for being men” is so disingenuous. While the actions they take that alienate women are informed by their social position as men, it’s not like they have some essential quality that they are being blamed unfairly for.

Genuinely what is the point of this. Idk why this particular instance has me so tilted, and I don’t think that this is a very politically salient criticism, but when she says,

Violence is not a cause. Murder is not a message. And a killer is certainly not a hero

It just feels utterly meaningless to me. Literally who is she to set the bounds of those terms, why should I care what she thinks, what’s the point of all of this. Obviously cops don’t like it when someone kills a CEO. Why speak at all?

The bigger they are, the harder they fall

This biggity boy’s a diggity dog

100% chance they’ll kill someone with a pacemaker if this gets deployed.

radically pro-transgender ideologies

kill or maim Americans

They’re going to characterize gender-affirming care as terrorist activity against transphobic parents

Gotcha - apologies for misreading intent to your message, that’s definitely a failing on my part. I’m sorry that you feel isolated that way, and I do hope you can find some friends who you can connect to on that level.

Sis I’m envious too but the comrade who posted this added “I can see why birthrates peaked in the GDR in the early 70s”. The post, in general, is obviously leering at these women.

Edit: also, even in centering one’s relationship to the subjects as envy, this indicates that the way this post works sees the womens’ (attractive) bodies as the central content, and historical context as pastiche which can project meaning onto it.

I hate to be a downer but I feel like this genre of post is pretty gross. It feels categorically similar to the classic reddit post of Iranian women in bikinis under the shah, where the idea is that we awooga at women’s bodies (and it is almost always women) and, in doing so, implicitly support the government they live/lived under.

Is it a cool historical fact that the GDR had company saunas? Absolutely. But I feel like that’s not really what this post is about. There have been beautiful people in every time and culture, and the GDR has far more salient successes by which we can laud it without gawking at women.

Democratic strategists have been quoted calling it “a plan so ambitious, it’ll transform the country’s relationship to the brunch menu”

Means-testing at gunpoint

Bruh wtf that sucks so bad. Like, I don’t wanna blame ur partner for something they might not be able to control, but at the same time, having that pressure looming over opening up about how you’re feeling sounds incredibly bad.

Do you have any friends or other close confidants you can explore your feelings with?