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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

?? If you go through insta reels and comments you will encounter a metric called "n words / minute", I don't think meta cared about moderation at any point

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

They always did because their moderators didn’t act upon old rules anyway.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mark was never a source of good in this world.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago (7 children)

This is a good thing.

Let people say what they want. If you don't like it, you can always ignore them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Me when I like to spread disinformation on the internet

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's how disinformation works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It also strives in the world of censorship, it just serves the dominant force then.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Hard disagree.

If one person's rights negatively affect another persons rights you can't just rule one right to be more important in every situation. There's gotta be more nuance than that.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I see what you're getting at - if we're gonna allow our citizens freedom of speech, this is part of what it looks like. For the record, these dumb ass takes on my LGBTQ+ peeps do NOT align with my own personal feelings. However, freedom of speech is objectively a good thing.

Problem is that entities like Meta and X are suppressing the voices of people that are making comments against the status quo and challenging the uber rich, and elevating the voices of the bigots.

All that to say I think that's why people are downvoting you, but I agree with you.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I thought it's widely-agreed that gender dysphoria is a mental illness. The debate lies in how to treat it—try to realign the body with the mind or the mind with the body.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It depends on the "science of the times." Crazy concept, I know.

It's why psychology is considered a "soft science" and doesn't deserve the authority that hard sciences have.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (5 children)

It's a crazy concept to apply "science of the times" to only psychology, but not every other branch of science and medicine, as there are huge holes in understanding everywhere.

I have no idea what sciences would be considered "hard" in this definition.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Math is pretty solid

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Actually that's a common misconception - while gender dysphoria is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) - it's not actually a mental disorder (similar to how the DSM includes physiological and environmental issues like Insomnia or Social Exclusion) - main reason it's there is for admin purposes and to facilitate treatment access.

However, a condition like body dysmorphia (think Anorexia Nervosa) is considered a mental disorder because the issue is the mind incorrectly perceiving the body - therefore it can be treated using psychotherapy which enables the mind to correctly perceive the body and prevent harm.

People who experience gender dysphoria on the other hand - actually correctly perceive their body (that's where the distress comes from) so psychotherapy doesn't work to alleviate this - as you can't therapy away an accurate perception (think gay conversion therapy)

Which is why after many decades of research the only treatment that's been found to work is aligning the body with the mind - as at that point the mind continues perceiving the body correctly but this time it's congruent with it's mental model which alleviates the distress.

Hope this helps :)

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When we start to say "bad things" about the oligarchy watch hoe fast they shut that down

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The problem with western oligarchs is that they rarely step foot on public land ....so it's really hard to track their schedules let alone get a shoot shot off.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

A fun non-lethal approach is to just try to sabotage their planes while they're on the ground. Shooting a hole in the window of a flying aircraft, generally frowned upon. Shooting a hole in a billionaire's sky yacht while it's empty in it's hangar...well that's just property damage that happens to prevent them from poisoning the atmosphere.

[–] [email protected] 126 points 2 days ago (5 children)

greed is a mental illness.

billionaires are greedy.

the rich are a plague upon society and must be quarantined.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No what you do is rapidly freeze them and then use a little file to break them apart.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

At a certain level ($10 million?) they stop being a symbiote and becomes a parasite.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I like how he went from the Caesar cut and bland shirt to the style of what current-day 16-20 year old guys are rockin.

And by "like," I mean that I'm glad he still looks uncanny despite how normal his new style is, because he's a POS and nobody should sympathize with him.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Now he just looks like Andy Dick.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not really, although we should.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you don't let them speak up, how are we going to find the racists? They're all old so it's not like they just suddenly appeared when Obama was elected. They've been hiding and hidden. Bring the assholes into the light, and let's get out the dildo of consequence.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You can think trans people are mentally ill without being racist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The venn diagram of transphobes and racists is very nearly a circle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I'd argue that most racists are transphobes, but most transphobes are not racist. Can be wrong.

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