Listen, I’m not that old. But I’ve been using computers a long time. It is REALLY not that hard to use other browsers. I have no idea where this hardline comes from for so many people, it…it’s literally all the same. the buttons are all the same. they do the same things. Back button goes back. blank bar where u type website. What’s the difficulty?

One of the things I miss the most about growing up in USSR is not having ads shoved down my throat at every waking moment.

Whoa, really? I mean the no ad stuff makes sense, but I didn’t know you grew up there, comrade.

I am not saying that it couldn’t be better. I’m simply saying that it will never be better.

Do you people read the things you write lol.

I have no interest at all in culture war issues

wonder where I’ve heard this one before

go fucking full Tumblr warrior

you post a lot of stuff like this I’ve noticed and I only come to chime in that it is really not a good look.

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Please tell me what the concept of gender was like in other societies. Be it Medieval Europe or Imperial China or whatever society you are familiar with.

Please provide me documents. I may take my time to research them.

Leslie Feinberg’s Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come is an accessible entry point to this. It is available here and here in full.

I have a genuine question that I don’t think I can phrase in a way that won’t make me sound like a jackass: why not have started with this instead of after an entire thread’s worth of claims and assertions to prove you don’t actually know what you are talking about?

We can accept transgender because we know that, after having transitioned, they cannot fake their feeling and gender identity to sexually harass people of different sex.

I also want to push back against this because the data in pretty much every country in the world will prove that the men who want to sexually harass anyone do not go through a charade of cartoonish proportions just to be able to do it- they just do it. A man will not think about disguises so ingenious and clever that no one would be able to tell he’s not a woman just so he can go into the women’s bathroom- he just goes into the women’s bathroom. I don’t know where this notion comes from but it’s incorrect and, like many things, likely just plays to cisgender heterosexual insecurities.

What is feeling happy or sad? This is absurd.

Everyone lies and embellishes their resumes. Everyone. If they tell you they don’t then they are lying. There is nothing to gain in trying to navigate an inherently ignoble system with nobility. They will chew you up and spit you out and you still won’t have a job.

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We got a live one fellas

Yes, I agree. I had been a lurker for a long time too and I even had an account years ago that I didn’t use much, but the ongoing deterioration of the Internet and the general social contract on the whole really made it clear to me that I needed to take a hard-line stance on shit that I was not OK with being in my periphery. Lemmygrad and Hexbear are genuinely some of the better places for discussion on the wider (mostly Western) communist 'net imo and that really can’t be undersold; believe me, I’ve tried a lot of different forums lol. The folks here put all of 'em to shame.

Call me reductive but I’m starting to think you genuinely can’t. It will need to die a slow and drawn-out death of ideology, if anything. Nothing else seems to be working, not even threats of annihilation on multiple vectors at scales beyond anything in living memory. Terrifying to grapple with.

Nothing ever changes and it is pointless to try- got it

going very boldly i see

How was learning Mandarin for you? I have admittedly not been as diligent as I ought to be but I’ve been on and off for almost a year and still really struggle with it. Most of the resources I know and the common learning methods I read about never seem to stick for me.

This is something I have also thought about, if there’s no chance of emigration within my working years for me. My pie-in-the-sky future is my wife and I (unfortunately burgerland born and raised) fucking off to the mainland and never looking back, but from my research even residency is still extremely strict if not outright impossible for us without a technical “in”- marrying or heritage- and for that matter pretty much no one on earth wants disabled immigrants (thanks life), so I’m not sure I have a hope in hell. I’ve worked in tech for a very long time, so there might be something there, but even that seems rough to navigate. Sure would be nice, thougn.

This is interesting…how do you use this tool? Even though I have read a lot of the foundational stuff my memory and recollection is still sometimes lacking, and maybe using something like this can help me retain more on a re-read.