Well you brought up up the matter, not me, I don’t have any interest in sex lives of incels or anyone else really, I don’t think it’s wrong to discuss such subjects on the internet though, there’s really nothing to be ashamed of, I didn’t lose my virginity till 20. It’s really all okay.

The multiple of “trans woman” is “trans women” just like with “cis women”, not “trans-woman”.

There’s also no dash in either “cis women” or “trans women”, it’s not half-cis half-woman like Spider-Man, it’s just a descriptor adjective, like “cis woman” and “trans woman”.

“Cis” and “Trans” of course come from the Latin prefixes meaning “this side of” or “other side of” such as in Cislunar Orbit or Translunar Injection (TLI) in astrodynamics, or the Cisalpine/Transalpine Gaul in historical geography or in Cis/Trans isomerism in Chemistry.

“Transmaxxing” is primarily used by incels that believe transition can be a way out of their inceldom, similar to gym-‘maxxing’ etc., while I’ve never heard of anyone actually transitioning for such silly reasons as it’s a helluva thing to do, I doubt that this would work out in their favour.

Additionally while many cis women do hate trans women, statistically speaking they are less likely to be against trans rights than men, especially on issues like trans women using the women’s bathroom or gyms or other issues that upset some cis people like healthcare access for trans children via either hormones or puberty blockers.

Source from surveys carried out on TERF Island in 2020 and 2022:

https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/43194-where-does-british-public-stand-transgender-rights-1

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/30906-where-does-british-public-stand-transgender-rights

Let me know if you need further help.

Lmao nice try rightoid.

Why yes, famously trans women hate the word women so much they use it on themselves /s

You remember how everyone just used to say women 10-20 years ago? I guess that’s woke now. So much for conserving.

Nah just put it in ~/.thing-config.d/01-0x45- 110100100-main.options-extra2cache.swp along with three godzillion other files like it’s normal and very sane for users who edit such files to have the big picture of the default configuration dreamed up by some utterly deranged lunatic be spread across enough files to represent all known stars in the galaxy, standards are for losers amirite ^/s

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Or you could just type your interest into the search bar.

Y’know. You could just actually want to be here and look for things you want to see, not be spoonfed by some shitty algorithm or tag system, not get upset that you missed content when you could just sort by Top - All and catch up like a normal person finding a new forum.

You could take some intellectual agency.

Already back

TIL. I never had a contract handset so never knew ngl

Isn’t this what mobile service providers do in America/US already? Contract that includes both the SIM and data/calls/minutes and the telephone on credit? Wacky either way 😂

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I fully agree. I’d be the first to defend the rat as a victim of the system, but fucking hell he didn’t risk losing his job or death by just looking the other way, doing what you need to do to survive isn’t an excuse to outright aid the bastards and that same logic definitely extends to xitter employees etc. who’d have every other tech company fight for them if they left.

I’m starting to think The Matrix had the right idea. Until someone is “awake” they can easily turn into an agent of the system, a dedicated defender of it, and as such we can’t think of them as friends.

I’m not losing an identity, I’m gaining one by rejecting the one my birthplace wanted to force on me and everyone who can should do the same rather than allow themselves to be brainwashed by governments into nationalist fervor and pride in what piece of land they happened to be born in.

And if that happens to be - by choice - a cultural identity of that birthplace, that’s okay too, so long as that is an independent choice, and not brainwashing done by “culture” and pressure from lunatics like you.

I’m switching to a language that is more useful because more people speak it, especially where I currently live, there are no further implications to language than that.

I didn’t say anything about “especially minorities”, in fact I specifically carved out the exception that people suffering persecution are not able to escape their identities as defined by their ethnicity or any other innate characteristic above, I fucking know, I’m transgender. I would like to not be defined by that because I’m also a person, but whether I like it or not, sometimes I am, and therefore can’t escape it, not yet.

It’s pretty clear that I’m not saying that gay people shouldn’t have pride or that black Americans shouldn’t know their history and have solidarity towards each other, yet you keep trying to paint me as racist using minorities as your motte, but really you’re the one who’s racist if you think people being individuals free to choose their own path without being defined by or hurt because of their ethnicity isn’t the goal.

I don’t know if you’re being dense on purpose or what, I’ve explained it every which way I can think of, but I don’t think you’re acting in good faith, I thought you were a misguided liberal, but I think you’re outright a genuine fascist and genuinely believe everyone belongs with their ethnicity and nationality categorized by culture etc. because you sound like fucking Mussolini, especially with that “modern world” dogwhistle.

Either way, Blocked.

I am literally not being assimilated by the majority of any kind, I don’t know where you’re getting this from? Just because I don’t identify with being Russian doesn’t mean I identify with being British.

All of those things are just nation states created in bloody battles, borders carved onto maps and now recorded in papers for use by violence monopolists. I identify with no nationality or national identity of any kind, I am my own person and i will mish and mash cultural artifacts as I find them to my liking.

I understand that there are many people who cannot escape their ethnic identity due to systemic racism and I am firmly anti-racist for that very reason amongst many more, but even then, it’s their material circumstances that create identity, not voodoo spooks of “heritage” or “culture” or any other irrational nonsense, all of that is aesthetics that should be appropriated when useful to sway to the cause, nothing more.

No gods, no masters. We must cooperate because it benefits us, not because of borders or what food you eat or anything else.

If anything, shame on you: talking down my experience because it doesn’t fit the current westerner conception of progressive thinking. Your motivation comes from a good place I’m sure, but it’s not nice to shout down others with different viewpoints or experiences.

I can’t argue against what something “sounds like”, only what is, and the fact here is that culture and identity formed as a member of an ethnic group or someone born in a nation-state is all fundamentally about nationalist pride and connections with others under a nationalist context, it’s all about judging people based on where they’re from and categorising on assumptions, just because someone isn’t beating their chest about revanchist urges to reclaim lost territory from past centuries doesn’t mean they don’t think along the same lines and that’s the real majority, and me thinking in different terms to that already makes me an outlier from not just my birthplace, but every group. As pompous as it sounds this is a sincere belief.

It’s a good thing, imo. People shouldn’t grasp at things like which nation-states they were born in and allegiance to them, such things only create a docile nationalist populace that empower warmongers like Putin etc.

Just because I was born Russian doesn’t mean I have to be a bloodlusting orc beating my chest in jingoist fervor, that culture is just some shit I saw, it has no power over me, and no effect on me, I’m wholly independent from it. This is of course - a good thing.

People should craft their own identities, choose their own families and make connections based on reason and material circumstances or love. Not anything superficial like borders or language.

It’s quite unfortunate that neurotypicals seems to struggle with being independent thinkers so much and instead resort to religion/fascism for identity because a flag says they must be one way or a computer tells them or their social circle etc. So many of them do things and they don’t even know why, they play games others were into, as if thats somehow a reason, they want what others want, etc.

Now thats if anything - is sad, and i wonder how we fix this and force them to craft their own identities.

We need diversity of perspectives, of views, of ways of life and priorities. Languages are tools, and yes we should preserve them and their history and evolution for what it tells us, but it’s not surprising that in the long-term, people simply drift towards the most useful tool.

It’s not sad to me.

Who cares, it’s just sounds common on a piece of land I happened to be born on. To care about heritage/nation/state and most of all the creepy cult of “culture” and it’s ensuing framework of bioessentialism, transphobia, homophobia, hard r racism and the sheer anti-intellectualism that comes through the simplicity of stereotypes, it’s all stupid jingoist nationalist shit that doesn’t matter, it’s all run by the rich to fuck the poor.

Be your own person, carve your own path, don’t live or die for ‘the man’, make your allies based on reason and material circumstances, not spooks of crumbling empires.

Live, love and die for your reasons, and fight those who try to make it any other way for you or others. Don’t expect a sermon and don’t long for one. That’s real nihilsm for ya.

I always speak English with all my friends who also speak (and are by origin) Russian because we live in England and find it easier since it’s the language we use more. Plus everything else is in English so it’s just extra effort to find words to talk about it in Russian, like translating a movie quote instead of just quoting it.

It’s not there to upset you by being “global”, it’s a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

What does that even matter anymore really? Only corpos worth slaving for are global, with a good WFH gig you’ll have colleagues from all over the globe and you ain’t gonna be speaking Swedish to 'em. Globalization means countries also want to be open to other nationalities. Sure it’s good to learn other languages, and I like it, but most everywhere knowing good English will open more doors than good of any other language, provided that you have at least a basic utilitarian grasp of the majority spoken language of where you live