gender-critical activist

Well, that is taking trivializing transphobia to a whole new level. What's next, calling fascists "democracy-critical activists"?

Not surprised. Rich capitalists benefit from directing the majorities' hate towards minorities so that we cannot build focus towards the few who are in power and want to keep it.

That's what I don't understand about many U.S. lefts. I do understand that the Democrats ain't perfect and that they have some weird positions. But your elective system (which is kind of screwed from the start anyway) only has two possible outcomes, dems or reps. And the two of them are not equally bad, so why take away votes from the by far not that bad option, strengthening the really bad option?

I feel more includet in the Progress Flag than the standard Rainbow. That's just me, but why should that be less valid?

Fuck Peterson. Don't spread his queerphobic BS.

Honestly, who cares? The best system is what you feel most comfortable with. The fact that we have options and everyone can choose and tweak to their liking is the most important.

IMHO you're kinda right. There's a trade war going on between the US and China, and data is damn valuable so it's just logical to prevent the enemy access to your own citizens' data, specially since we know how it's used to manipulate elections (Russia's been proven guilty of it for the 2016 US elections), but also Facebook was at least paid to do so.
Now I do agree with you in that the ban is probably due to the wrong reasons though. But it kinda doesn't matter to me.

Yet I am not US citizen either, I'm an EU citizen, so my opinion on US politics ain't quite relevant. I just wished we would do the same here in Europe and more consequently. Both the US and China do have laws that require companies to hand over there user data to their respective country's agencies, which is technically illegal under GDPR for EU citizens' data (they shouldn't be able to leave the EU). So we should ban all social media that stores data on servers belonging to US or Chinese companies (leaving basically only fediverse instances on european servers).

That's just wrong. The Rainbow Flag represents LGBT Pride and does not include BIPOC.

I don't know why you don't like the progress flag, but it's not racist and it's not transphobic and it's not segregating. It highlights the diversity of human rights movements and points out that all human rights movements have the same goal and should work together.

And especially that research about transgender was among the first books to be burnt.

Fair enough. I always perceived the term 'alt right' more of an umbrella term for 'gender-critical', 'democracy-critical' and 'all-that's-not-hardcore-conservative-chistian-critical' 'activists' though.

I disagree. TERF is not a slur, nor is cis. If someone chooses to be offended by a term that is not offensive in any way, it's not my fault. 'Gender-critical activist' is nothing but trivialization, and if we start to use it, it gets validated.

Even from a German POV this is funny because the former Secretary of Health, Jens Spahn, is attending this convention and he's openly gay (don't ask me how gays can cope with Republican policies, but Spahn even is connected to DeSantis).

I can absolutely imagine someone trying to find answers about themselves, reading terf bigotry, and getting forced way back into the closet to become the trans version of the “everyone gets crushes on their friends” lady.

That's a sad image. I personally feel quite privileged by having grown up in a relatively (for the time and location) queer-friendly environment and now living in a quite accepting bubble (including my employer, coworkers, family and friends), yet I consider myself an egg that's not guaranteed to hatch due to personal insecurities and stuff.
I can't imagine how tough and gut wrenching it must be to not be this privileged and wonder about the things I do.

Oh, you think the sources aren't relevant? Yeah, I'm sure, that's how a reasonable, unbiased discussion should work. Just think other sources don't matter and the argument based on them just magically gets dismissed. Wow.

I think they were quite calm. Tiktok is cancer. And I'm not talking about the content.

Yes, "queer" originated as a slur and mostly got adapted as a self describing term for the community. I use it to describe myself and the community, partly because it rolls off the tongue more easily and partly because it's a nice and easy term to describe everyone not cis heteronormative.

The term "punk" has a similar story, btw. It came into being as a slur for people that didn't quite behave as expected by society and punks then took it as a name for themselves, saying "Yeah, I'm a punk, there's nothing wrong with it and you can't do shit against it," which is also why I like to use the term "queer". Because there's nothing wrong with being queer and people can't do shit against that.

They do. They are by far outnumbered by most older generations though.

Do I read you right that you equate having many crushes and/or falling for 'love at first sight' with being a shallow idiot?

I am just saying that the acronym RICE hasn't got anytging in common with the racist slang "rice burner"

But that's where you're wrong. And the sources provided prove that.

I am not trying to have a debate or another bullcrap. You, like me are free to think what you think

You started a discussion. If you don't want to discuss, don't post a comment arguing a point.

Looks like the built-in window organizing thing Win11 comes with. When you drag a window to the top edge a little menu pops open for tiling your open windows.

Doesn't work with every window though, but browsers and spotify can be arranged that way.

True. In Germany, there are still criminal procedures held against and sentences passed on former guards of concentration camps, even though they are close to a hundred years of age. Because even though it was "normal" and even legal back then, it was never okay and always crimes against humanity.

For sure. Whatever your position is on this topic, it's a good thing we talk about it and the discussion should be more civilized.

Yes it is. Fun side fact: transgender is a common theme especially in cyberpunk, definitely worth looking into if you didn't yet ;)

Is it at least painful enough so one could imagine getting no hair tattooed instead?

Goes well along with that MS Office icon right in the middle.

I am very aware of the dystopia. Maybe that's part of the appeal for me, the contrast.

Great, I just wanted to have that set. At the latest since Cyberpunk 2077 became big, the subculture and the artistic genres are all to often reduced to the aesthetic, basically ignoring all the punk elements.

i have not heard of the matrix having any trans relationship, other than the directors.

There's more all over the movies, but central in the first movie is Neo's transition of Thomas Anderson, someone who builds an online persona, searching for something he cannot quite get a grasp of, taking the red pill (sad but ironic how that term is used nowadays) which symbolizes the first steps on learning the truth, waking up from the Matrix and climaxing in the death of his old persona, then being reborn his true self, Neo.
Of course, this can be interpreted in many ways, but then you see the context of who made this.

That video sounds interesting, I'll try to watch it tomorrow.

The perfect system is what you feel the most comfortable with.

I don't know if there's a right label for me and honestly, I don't think it's necessary.

I'm very lucky that my closest social circle is very open, and I only felt the need to out myself to my parents and my three best friends, and it was more an outing to myself.

Also, while I do have some preferences here and there, a person's sex and/or gender is simply not a factor for me when I try to figure out if I'm attracted to someone, so why not just lose labels altogether?

What's that system monitor? That's hot

The trans community, or any other community of marginalized people for that matter, is not a threat to any one person but to conformity and the status quo.

Throughout history, very similar people held the most power and wealth, and power and wealth were passed on not by means of merit but through connections.
But this power was always fragile and dependent on others, on servants, the lower casts and classes. Every now and then though, the lower classes unite, revolt and force the ones in charge to make concessions or straight up replace them.

The rich and powerful obviously want to limit these occasions and the most effective way to do so is to make the lower classes believe that they are not the enemy and someone else is to blame for the misery, someone else wants to take the few breadcrumbs the lower classes have, someone else is the villain. As longs the lower classes have another enemy to fight, they'll conform to the class system bestowed upon them by those who hold power, serve the system, consume the goods sold by the rich.

But you cannot vilify just anyone. If you make the majority and enemy, they'll resent and ultimately revolt. You have to pick those who are few and have limited capacity to fight back. Refugees, Sinti and Roma, Jews, the LGBTQ+ community.

Thank, but it's just a DHCP address.

Nah. I want to build something up from the ground.

It depends on the media you prefer. The classics would be The Matrix, 1995's animated Ghost in the Shell (though the transgender theme is more accidentally AFAIK) or William Gibson's 1988 book Monalisa Overdrive.

Monalisa Overdrive also inspired Janaína Overdrive, a brazilian short movie by Mozart Freire (which is still on my watchlist though).

There is then Martine Rothblatt's From Transgender to Transhuman: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Form (again, still on my list), and the general theme of transhumanism, which is often a stand-in or expansion of transgender.

However, something you should be aware of, cyberpunk is generally dystopian and can be pretty depressing. The shiny neon aesthetic is just the sugar-coated topping. There is another world beneath it. The real world.

nor what the rest of the world did to us once World War 2 ended.

There's a reason jews and dissidents are the only holocaust victims publicly talked about. I am german, went to school in Germany (history lessons about the Third Reich, Holocaust and WW2 are super extensive here and take up basically 3-4 school years), yet we only ever talked about jews and dissidents of the nazis. No Sinti and Roma, no queers, no nobody else was ever talked about during these lessons.

I'very been to a psychosomatic rehab for the last weeks and the actually had restrooms marked with the standard "male/female" stick figures but each restroom also had a stick figure on it's sign being half "male" and half "female".

Props were given.

In reality it's more

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Sure.

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To be fair, at your age I was sure I was straight.

What's jeans memes?

all I'd really recommend right now is installing a nerdfont of your choice so you get the icons appearing correctly on your waybar,

Thanks, I'll look into it!

and if you want a more customizable terminal emulator I use alacritty with alacritty-themes.

I'm happy with kitty so far, actually I just have it because it's the default terminal with keybinds in Hyprland