On a scale of 1 to a lot, how much do you love your trans comrades? :thonk-trans:
Will you be bringing back the daily trans love thread? I missed it.
We'll see. I've missed doing them too, but I'm still not really sure how I feel about engaging with the site on that level again
Don't have any questions, just wanna say welcome back, however long or short that may be
I've had my ups and downs. Certainly think I'm in a better place than when I left, but progress is finicky
Of books that I've read all the way through, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is definitely my favorite read. In terms of ones I'm partially through, I'm really enjoying A People's History of the United States and I have a sick fondness for Capital. Maybe I'll get through the whole thing someday
All I know is that 10 makes up a coat, but a coat is worth 20
Coat sized cloth. If it rejects a hug, I'll just cry uncle and hope an uncle shows up to help
On a related note, are you going to do any more of those (audio) readings?
Probably not. Those took up a lot of time and energy that I just don't have these days
That's fine, I was largely asking so you'd know that people remembered and liked when you did that.
What are your go-to funny videos when people are sharing funny videos in a group?
Fuck if I know. The arms are never at a good height for me, so I just use them to sit even gayer than usual
No question, just wanted to say its nice to see familiar folks.
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One of the most insightful things I've read on this site was a comment you made. It was something along the lines of "if you are solely acting to survive under capitalism, you have effectively been integrated into its function" only way more succinct and poetic but also with a sympathetic twist. I didn't favorite it because I'm dummy fickle and forgot that was a thing.
I think it might have been last November or December ish; I was thinking about it right as I was starting a new job. So uh... do you know how I'd go about finding that gem of wisdom?
That would appear to be from my goodbye note when a bunch of trans users left the site
Now, this is the part where people typically drag up specific examples of why they’re leaving, but honestly if you don’t get it by now, it isn’t worth my time to try and explain it further. Instead, I’ll say this: your ideology is determined by your actions, it’s not something you can ascribe to yourself. I don’t care how well you understand the works of Marx, if all you do is put your head down and exist within the capitalist system, the value you bring to the world is wholeheartedly capitalist. So, I don’t care how hard you believe that you are a socialist or a communist or an anarchist, the cis users on this site tend to fall into one of two ideological camps. The users who have actively made this site more hostile to minority groups are reactionaries. The users who have sat idly by as this has happened are liberals. If these camps are what pass as “left” these days, we might as well [redacted].