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Im sorry that happened to you Or im glad for u Aint readin all that tho

Lol talkin shit about based welsh people while being aussie. Ok meight.

Yes, which is where Gay Furry Hackers on Estradiol come in.

Relevant for me; i nearly changed careers out of tech entirely -- being fed up with the state of the industry -- but found some great folks in worker cooperative spaces. Here's what's kept me optimistic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UmU1dSe3n0

Plucked a vid off this channel and let it be known the idea of the channel name is to "reject isms/be your own ism"

Solarpunk has replaced, for me, the plasteel+glass greenhouse skyscraper skylines. Afrofuturism offers a much better preconfiguration than anything of capitalist and anglo origins. Importantly, the dismantling of unjust heirarchies.

I never lost the optimism, i just recognized that the root cause of our pain is not going to be addressed by technnlology (new invention) without an equal-or-greater effort into decolonizing and unlearning on the part of those building, using and promoting a given technology.

The person you're replying to claiming that, for bigots to have won, the true litmus test is if society hates bigots. How entertaining.

My message to you is keep fighting. You can learn angrily, you can teach angrily, you can be braver.

There's plenty to learn and teach about. Wherever you are there are surely folks in need and folks organizing, and the darker things get the brighter our resistance grows.

Take up with, and get involved with literally ANY human rights advocacy. No, you wont change the world all on your own -- but hyperindividualism is something to unlearn (angrily) all on it's own!

What you're almost certain to do, supposing that you go in with the strength to admit when you're wrong, will be to build connections with kindred spirits.

So here's just a few inspiring causes, for which i both encourage online learning about, but topics for which you never have the true picture until youre involved locally with folks who are already saying, for their humanity "Nothing about us, without us"

Drug War Survivors: https://www.crackdownpod.com/

Landback: https://www.indigenousaction.org/

Marooncast: Black and Queer anarchism, ending police (and their) brutality and creating real autonomy for communities of color https://marooncast.buzzsprout.com/

Healthcare: https://www.beatriceadlerbolton.com/ (Has a link to the book and podcast. Other collaborators, and the greater community formed around these, deserve equal attention and credit)

These are a small fraction of what's out there. If you're able bodied and inclined to do so, go link arms in an eviction defense; Stonelink Realty is buying out folks apartments from under them everywhere, and there's no justice, or even any sense, in police throwing someone working two jobs out on the street, just because sillicon valley types are moving into the area.

Be pissed. That is an appropriate emotional response. Know that for many of us, especially those whose intrinsic traits cannot br safely hidden (melanin, queerness, medical or economic condition, ..) that retreat or surrender are not possible.

Since youre still reading: There exist so many anonymous, unofficial rescue workers, engaged offline providing the resources made scarce or forbidden to those forgotten or sacrificed by society. Knowing of them casts a bit of light. Getting closer to that light? Well maybe your experience of community begins to feel a bit less cold. ✨️

Heh, foresaw you getting hung up on "liberation"

It's not complicated nor is it this profound thing: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16007006

It's commisseration, really Can you just let some traumatized autisitic transfems (and others) have that?

No? Yes? Doesnt matter. Thats the point of the video, it's not about you. Thats also part of the point of parody'ing incels (which as an aside: the concept of invcel was originally coined by a woman and was meant to be a supportive, all-gender, friendly place -- before the right co-opted it.

No, i'm posting this for the next tranzqueer who comes along, who might [like I had] be unaware of these things and tend to gravitate to the Narrative of the Johns without reminders that there is so, so much more nuance, and meaning to be found in the world, beyond the limits of what is scripted, shot, edited, produced and published for the target audience composed of Stanleys & Johns.

So thanks for reading. I did not expect you to watch that whole video, but since you did, I hope your life will be enriched by the appreciation that creations, be they AAA titles or shitty memes, dont need to make sense to your perspective in order for them to have great value, both to marginalized audiences who benefit from seeing themselves humanized, but also to the rest, because in order to dehumanize someone else you first demhumanize a tiny part of yourself -- and art can heal that, too.

When you're accustomed to privilege, the liberation of others feels like oppression.

Two genders, men and political Two races, white and political.

So yeah, you're not coming off as defensive or entitled at all /s

Lmao get out you weird bigot

Yeah honestly like idk couple dozen strips in it just totally beat the joke to death. Swing and a miss.

There we are, vitrolic projection, mask off and all. Did that feel good?

Red? No shame in that but more about the pink-and-black, which yes indeed is opposed to state in addition to class and money. Oh, won't someone think of the dehumanizers? Clutch ya pearls!

I am grateful for the community I've found myself surrounded with. I've got the best people I know looking out for me -- Which is not something I could say until I cut ties with the conservative bubble I'd been raised and suffocated by. Long overdue.

Have a nice day :)

Any driver, pedestrian or cyclist/etc knows full well that there is no non-hostile way to interact with others when you're behind the wheel. It's just the psychology of operating a vehicle with enough mass and traveling at such velocities which destroy the human body. Our car culture was groomed by businessmen, and big business never cared about you and me.

So no, when I see a car or I see a highway, i dont see just a tool. I see a system which DEMANDS I give it my fealty, that I internalize it's propaganda that I oWn ThE rOaD and peer out from a tinted window tank with paranoia for all those community members that I'd otherwise meet while walking and cycling in cities made for pedestrians, rather than the hellscape of industry, of commuting from suburbs to be a drone in steel-tower-hives, of just-one-more-lane eminent domain dividing residental areas, dividing neighbors.

I dont like the word idiot. That it is common parlance isnt the defense of it's use we think it is. Eptymology reveals more than just ableism, no oppression exists in a vacuum.

I see the need for fast-transit for medical emergencies. I want an international supply chain for medicine. I see the purpose of transportation as tools.

When I say "fuck cars" I am not talking about "cars" as tools. I am talking about cars as

1. A culture

2. A system (working-class [can't retire b4 40]) americans cant opt out of

And

3. A lingering spectre; I was force fed and helpless to avoid enjoyment of it all: Hotwheels, NASCAR, Cars-the-movie and role models raising me.

Now in adulthood I have seen countless friends, and then eventually a close family member, ripped violently from this mortal coil by some selfish arrogant asshole's impatience.

From there you look to data: 35-45k Fatalities per year in the US related to Car Accidents, and manufactuers can improve odds of the operator/passengers surviving, but forget your neighbors outside the vehicle who are still struck by a massive projectile, right?

When I say fuck cars, No: It's not "Oh shucks i sure wish everyone would be patient and generous behind the wheel"

It's: "We have been boxed into a system of commuting which has alienated us from our neighbors. We must rethink fundamentally our approach to planning cities. Light rail, trains, cycling and walkable cities. I am full of Love and Hope fueled by Rage and Loss. I will make connections with my neighbors to counteract the alienation and hostility. I will do my damndest to drive like a demure grandma when i must be behind the wheel"

We need a change in our culture. Selfish, foolish impatience, drivers insisting they OwN tHe RoAd is exactly what's killing pedestians and cyclists. You can get where youre going fast enough, but it's never enough. Fuck that noise, bunch of drunkards ( be it on alcohol or arrogance)

We all know there's no non-hostile way to interact with others when youre behind the wheel. Its just the nature of such a heavy vehicle traveling at speeds to where collision destroys the human body. Business men made it this way, and big business never cared about you or me.