I made a lot of my unconscious conscious, but now I willingly give it control because it actually knows what makes me happy.
Wearing thigh high socks underneath pants traps body heat, making it uncomfortable unless it's cold out.
That sounds awesome! With global warming, maybe anorexia is the strat.
I was more talking about other things like projects or stories I write. I try finish my drinks.
Where do you live that's cold enough to do this right now?
6'2", so not the height of the original Vader actor (6'6"), but ironically the same height as James Earl Jones.
It was mostly not knowing that I would like being a girl. Before I was an adult, I never considered that being femme would be something that I might like. Even when I considered it to be an option, I legitimately couldn't figure out how I felt about it. I don't recall ever thinking that it was what I wanted, only being very interested in other people crossdressing.
Thanks to my autism, I need to observe myself like I'm observing another person to figure out what I'm feeling or what I want. I look at my behavior, physiological responses, thought patterns, and the context to figure out how I feel. I have wants, but I struggle to know what they are. I knew I hated something about myself, but not what it was.
I questioned myself so much because I didn't want to be a girl consciously as a kid, but after enough experimentation, I finally realized what I wanted. It took me longer to realize that I fucking hated being male. I feel so much happier as a woman than I expected would ever be possible. I never really felt alive until I realized who I was.
The enlightened way is to treat everyone as sincere, even if they aren't. Trolls who pretend to be bigots are actual bigots. I try to give correct answers that would also offend the poster if they were a troll.
Things look really bad, but I ultimately realized that dwelling in doom has no benefits when compared to hope. I don't blindly hope things will work out, but I never write off the future. The future will be best if we think we will win.
In part, killing capitalists is not killing capitalism. We need to make a society where people cannot wield that much power over others. Retribution is only a proxy to practical justice, not justice itself. The rich should be forced to give up their wealth, not punished for their actions. They should only be killed for resisting. Violence is necessary to deal with the violent, but it will never be inherently good.
At first I was just going to duplicate the top house and say it's what we actually want, but I liked this more.
Those are the options they offer based on how much they pay us. Of course we need to buy our boxes; they aren't commies!
Is this about the 4 meanest little shits in town? Propaganda from the beef lobby? Propaganda for child labor from the beef lobby?
Chivalry was about being loyal to some rich asshole. Samurai were the same. The main advancement of capitalism was the rich handing their knights to the state. The knights no longer fight each other, mostly suppressing peasant rebellions and protecting property. The wealthy fight each other through the law, which is less costly and dangerous than fighting with soldiers you often pay to train and can potentially die.
essay on empire/capitalism/power
However, the rich still give up a lot of power under capitalism, mostly giving up the ability to use violence outside of the state mechanisms. If effective regulations get put in place that hurt their power, it usually isn't worth resisting. They have a social contract with a monster not even they can fight directly. Instead, they buy politicians and weaken the state's ability to regulate. Over time, they both extract all the wealth from workers and make the state incapable of restraining or resisting them. Late stage capitalism.
However, the driving force behind feudalism falling off was the rise of states who throughly monopolized violence. Empires had risen and fallen, with lords varying conversely in strength throughout history. Industrialization coincided with a rise in that state domination, with power centralizing more so than ever before. Strong central governments and world shrinking technology allowed capitalist states to become the most powerful empires.
Even when anticapitalist empires emerged, capitalism remained in the form of social and political capital. The exact same power dynamics played out in those cases through informal systems where single players dominate the entire system. Cults of personality equal to kings effectively become the real state, the real empire. The dictators often hold power for a single generation, splitting the bureaucracy into multiple competing factions, risking state fragmentation as they try to build a throne.
Fascist strongmen rise to power in late stage capitalism due to the weakening of the state as an institution and the instability caused by competition. Unethical behavior compounds upon itself in an unregulated market, creating discontent in the workers who seek radical change. They're prime targets for fascist movements, allowing a strong leader to dismantle and become the empire.
This is where the state dies and capitalism actually might end. The leaders and their supporters crave power and domination, driving them into conflicts with each other. In the past, total wars of conquest between empires were possible to win, but now they aren't. No one really wants WWIII, but even institutions know backing down from an empire means defeat. They refuse to appease, endangering the entire human population through famine and unsurvivable explosions. The entire global capitalist system might break, leaving smaller agents to fight each other and rebuild it all once more.
Inspired by this comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/10249443
I paid 5 dollars for this meme on faceapp bc I had Google play money I never used, but faceapp is honestly worse than it used to be. There are fewer options than I remember, and no notable new features. Don't be a bimbo like me. I should've waited till I got home instead of trying to do it on mobile. Not as happy with the result.
This is the background picture, from the same Photoshop battle as the posture meme:
For the next month, you must take your daily dose of GAYTM or a kitten will cry. You may keep your straightness should you so choose. Feel free to kiss your pals a bit, as a treat.
Also, fuck WPATH for being over a decade behind research.
Original comic made by ShaveYourEyebrows
No gatekeepers with valid opinions at least.
I made this meme to challenge my own doubt in 2022, and I'm honestly proud of it. However, I wanted to wait till I was more certain before coming out, so I tried to affirm myself in subtle ways. Unfortunately, I didn't realize how much dysphoria negatively affects me, so my mental health plummeted to the worst it's ever been.
Don't be like me and wait for impossible certainty. You won't magically have a moment where all doubts disappear. Logic can't help you, you need to listen to what feels most comfortable. I only knew I made the right choice after I took that leap.
BFFs with benefits 🥺
Manga: Josou shite Off-Kai ni Sanka shite mita
The clueless character in the comic is a femboy, but the person he's talking about is a trans woman. It has surprisingly good trans rep by manga standards, and is actually pretty funny and sweet in general.
This is an edit of these two pages in the manga so it fits in one image:
Even more amazing is what the transfem thinks about the relationship:
😫 I DON'T WANNA B UR HOG!!!! 🐗
🥰 I wanna b smol n cute 💗
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~also a deadly menace that sleeps all day >:3~
