whoa Lowkey mentioned! yeah, that’s the kind of politically conscious hip-hop I meant. Immortal Technique was even moreso, but he’s been inactive for a long time and the extreme homophobia makes it hard for me to listen to, which is a shame.
well, it worked out for him but it didn’t really work out for him.
they look a lot like old Soviet children’s dolls/characters to me. like Cheburashka and Nevalyashka.
thank you for writing this up. ❤ I’m also trans and spent time in that particular community because I have very intense dysphoria/bdd and found other spaces to be toxically positive. it wasn’t a healthy place, and I picked up more brainworms, but I felt like I could vent and not feel so alone.
it’s really easy for people without crippling dysphoria to sit back and judge you for going to /tttt/. it’s unhealthy, I know it’s unhealthy, but sometimes unhealthy outlets are the only way I can make the hurt get better for a while. I can’t just be all uwu skirt go spinny when my body feels like sewage.
most fascists don’t call themselves fascists. so YouTube censoring the word “fascist” tends to muzzle people calling out fascists, not the fascists themselves. it vexes me.
lemmy.ml (used to?) automatically replace “bitch” with *removed*. I’d see people call themselves a “basic removed” or say “removed please” and it was very confusing. it applied to every message.
“cunt” wasn’t censored, though? or maybe they removed the filter at some point.
I’m not a tankie so I left and never looked back.
yuck. he apparently groomed a 14yo he was tutoring and eventually got her pregnant, and later preyed on a 12yo (per Wikipedia.)
never meet your heroes.
this is sounding sketchier and sketchier. so every website that serves 18+ content in Denmark will need to check tokens against a central database upon login? forget censorship and surveillance, that sounds like it plain won’t scale well. also does Denmark really expect every website to implement this? what about Lemmy or other fediverse services?
why is this needed at all? why not just use parental controls on devices? why is this such a crisis now, for the first time in 20 years?
I feel like they could just, you know, not do this.
yo mama’s so gullible, she participated in an interactive zero-knowledge proof and believed the prover was literally the mythical Merlin.
yo mama’s so dumb, she brought poker chips to a Monte Carlo simulation.
what prevents you from leaking your token on the internet, so everyone can use it? it has to be revokable somehow. to be revokable it has to be correlatable, so you can tell where the same token is used across multiple sites. which leads to easy deanonymization.
ZKP is window-dressing. it’s still a major privacy intrusion. don’t fall for it.
(also, it paves the way for lgbt issues, sex ed, harm reduction and activism to be censored behind the 18+ barrier, but that’s a different matter.)
I’m trans. I hope Newsom falls off a cliff. But if he had been running against Trump instead of Harris I would have held my nose and checked the box, because strategy isn’t about throwing a fit until you get the scenario you want, it’s about doing what you can with the hand you’ve got.
I’m trans too, fwiw. I’ve reached a slightly different conclusion, though I respect yours:
I am going to pre-commit not to vote for Newsom. I’m going to encourage as many people as I can to pre-commit. If Progressives pledge not to vote for him, and the DNC knows they’re serious, Newsom will lose the primary. He’ll lose because it will be apparent to DNC superdelegates that Progressives won’t show up for him, and that without the Progressive vote Newsom will not win the election.
Basically, it’s like nuclear war: if you’re nuked, you shouldn’t retaliate, because nuking back would wipe out all of humanity, instead of half. But your enemy must know that you’ve pre-committed to retaliate, otherwise they will nuke you.
It’s a stupid game equilibrium but inevitable, IMO.
Being trans has nothing to do with anything. How do you know what I’ve experienced or not?
Are you trans?
Are you a member of any minority group that Gavin Newsom has pledged to crack down on? (I’m referencing the Charlie Kirk interview (you know, the Turning Point USA guy) I linked on a sibling post, where he said he was in “100% agreement” with him.)
If not, you fuck off. It’s like asking a Jew to support Röhm so Hitler doesn’t get reelected führer.
I’m trans. fuck off with calling me a Trump supporter. you’ve never had to vote for someone who calls you slurs and promises to take away your rights.
long live GrapheneOS! also congratulations to her!
hugs
DM me if you need a friend. being isolated sucks.
You know, I bought this in 2016, 2020 and 2024. I don’t anymore. Biden is a clear example of why this argument fails: He got elected because everyone held their nose and voted for him, to be rid of Trump. His Presidency was spectacularly lackluster, basically four years of a lame duck as the Democratic Party withered into gerontocracy. It was like watching Brezhnev try to hold the Soviet Union together.
Four years later, we got Trump II, and this time it’s so much worse. MAGA completed its takeover of the Republican Party, he has a cabinet of True Believers and total loyalists, corporate America groveling, a huge budget for ICE, and a comprehensive plan in Project 2025 to dismantle the state and reshape it into fascism.
Did Biden save us? No! Biden fucked us, because the DNC refused to reform, alienated progressives and turned Congress into a retirement home. Resentment built, the wheels fell off, and it turbocharged the MAGA movement.
The DNC is dead. Neoliberalism is dead. The centrist strategy is dead. We need an actual vision, not just Nancy Pelosi playing the stock market and selling bombs to Israel while we’re crushed under mountains of debt.
Moogie 2028!