It doesn't improve it. You could argue it makes it worse since I often face social rejection from the left for it...for some inexplicable reason. But I don't simply choose to hate or not hate something, the same way one does not simply chose their sexuality or gender or race or emotions.
After a certain point, you have to realize your bully is either incapable or unwilling to engage in that empty. At which point, your option is beat or get beat
Cold confort knowing we're a minorty and Ill very possibly have to seek asylum by new years
You're letting your heart get in the way of the mind. I got to enjoy knowing my grandparents abused my parents. My maternal side in particular revelled in spewing hate at demographics including myself and abandoning all the values they claimed to hold dear for their pentacostal magat cult. Needless to say I do not have the same issue.
Regardless. If you really care about defending people's rights, you need to be able to look people like your grandparents in the eye and say "No, you're wrong, and should suffer for it".
And old people arent cute, not sure where you got that
You're right, but to play devil's advocate; that's extremely unintuitive and took me to my 20s to figure out
Because that totally won't immediately be abused for transphobia. Like, I get the complaint, but think through the implications for five seconds
I hate them because i have to constantly be afraid of them.
Why is it you think we cant recruit the same way
They'll just abandon democracy and go for force if they lose. We're past the point of law, brawn and control are what matters rn
Why arent you afraid of them though, they really will do actual terrible things
Why the hell do you want them on our side? Why dont you want to destroy them? Thats exactly what Im asking about, where is the hate?
Let me help you, its always all on purpose. They are as deep as the hostile npcs in a video game and worthy of even less moral consideration
Okay but my point is why aren't there nearly as many hateful liberals
I constantly see angry mobs of people decrying "woke", "critical race theory", ""grooming"", and whatever other nonsense they made up this week. They march around with guns, constantly appending lib as a prefix to any word they can use to denigrate. They actively plot violence and spew hatred in the open.
You never see the inverse. There is no ConservativesofTiktok getting churches harassed into shutting down for the day or calling in threats. You don't see cringey boomer memes on the left. And whenever I openly express those feelings, try to create that sentiment; I get shut down. Noone agrees, I'm often shamed and muted. I just don't understand why that parity exists, it's extremely isolating to feel so alone in this
Rapture death cult
Out of curiosity, there a reason you're comparing Rome to present day America specifically?
50% roughly for America, but that's distorted by being immediately after WWII. In the 60s, it was about 25%. Idk about Britain or Rome though
Shame that they ARE the outsiders now then
It's very counterproductive given the two party system, yes. Especially when you consider Congress is restricting a lot of what he can do, he does not have the power to just cut off any foreign power he wants
Sounds like you two have a great relationship. I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and guess she's bi?
I know a little bit of lore, but not a whole lot (I just listen to lore channels at work lol). But the question occurred to me upon thinking about midichlorians. I recall hearing somewhere they connect to blood cells, but I know I'm losing my mind so maybe I just made that up somewhere
Some people feel the term is outdated. They say this while parading around what to me seem oxymorons, like "non binary women" or "he/him lesbians".
When a lot of these people say they aren't comfortable with their gender, I notice they often mention things like clothes, makeup, hobbies. More generally, they seem to talk about gender roles- masculine and feminine- than something to do with their bodies.
Here's the fact of the matter. Bathrooms, pronouns, legal documents; they aren't referring to any of that. They're referring to what's in your pants, or if you have boobs, or grow facial hair. Most people, myself included, don't care if you wanna wear clothes or behave in a way assigned to the opposed sex (there are folks who do of course, and most of us here know they're assholes). But unless you're changing something about that, it doesn't warrent a change in your pronouns or documents or bathrooms. As much as my own rights are under threat, I can't help but sympathize with the folks upset with that, I don't wanna share the ladies' room with what amounts to a femboy or "metrosexual" either.
Sex is bimodal, and I use the term bimodal specifically. There are edge cases, such as intersex people, or those with hormonal conditions like PCOS. I would argue transsexuals, those like myself who seek to change or sex, are among them. And hell, actual enben who seek out procedures like gender nullification too. I don't take hormones because I want to be feminine. I take them to be as close to female as I can possibly get with the medical technology available. That's how I want to be seen, and treated. I plan on surgery to change what's in my pants. If I could get a menstrual cycle out of that, I would, and probably go on to have children (because infertility is another perk of transition).
I don't have anything against the sorts of people I'm talking about- I want to be abundantly clear on that. Same with those who say, dont want bottom surgery. My frustration is more with the terminology, because there is a delineation there that I feel is erased. People decry older terms like transsexual as "outdated", but I feel it's much more apt for my experience. I am transitioning to the other sex (or as close as I can). My gender has been constant all the while
