TotallynotJessica

TotallynotJessica, 2 months ago

Us trans people truly have the ability to melt the minds of middle-aged white people.

TotallynotJessica, 4 months ago

It’s true!

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TotallynotJessica, 6 months ago

First off, that’s only a fraction of the PowerPoint, and she might have made those slides to not reveal personal info to the internet. Hell, this could just be a joke with dozens of empty slides below the visible ones. However, the person almost certainly still has trauma. I’ve met a ton of people who cope through comedy, and a lot of them would laugh at this meme.

More importantly, gatekeeping trauma is not ok. Someone having a more traumatic life than you does not invalidate your own trauma. You could have trauma from common experiences, like parents divorcing or the death of a loved one, and it can affect you in serious ways. Many people never seek the help they need for their trauma because they invalidate their experiences. Someone always has it worse, so if trauma is making it hard to live your best life, don’t feel guilty about seeking help for it.

TotallynotJessica, 6 months ago

Just like fascists, tankies could theoretically hang out here without getting the boot. It’s just that genocide denying authoritarians cannot be tolerated in a tolerant, democratic society. The reason tankies and fascists get the boot is because they can’t resist trying to bully and intimidate those that find their views abhorrent. They simply can’t resist being terrible.

They’re cultists with views that can’t stand up to scrutiny, so they need use other tactics to spread their shit and gain power. They use the real downsides and weaknesses of democracy to argue we need an even worse system. Then they argue you actually hold the worst views of their enemies, even though they usually support exactly the same things that make those enemies bad. Tankies claim you’re a free-market liberal for opposing them, when the countries they support are state capitalists. Fascists claim you’re against freedom of speech, while they are always trying to ban ideas they hate. Some of them are misguided and believe their own lies, but others are just awful people.

TotallynotJessica, 7 months ago

I fucking hate tankies and ML cultists, but I’m always skeptical of anti-communist movements. The fear of communism can bring economically liberal people to your side, but the real threat isn’t extreme or radical ideas. It’s authoritarianism and tribal selfishness. That’s what made Nazis and Soviets so terrible. They centralized power, killed opposition, and valued certain people over others. They pursued the strategies of taking from others by force, often using genocide and imperialism.

Global capitalism and imperialism are terrible things that should be changed, but even saying that is an extreme position that most people in imperial countries would oppose. Most Russians support their terrible war. Most Americans supported Bush’s war on terror, mostly souring because it didn’t deliver. A majority of Israelis used to support imperialist actions against Palestine, only now turning on their terrible leadership. People support exploitation because they often don’t see or feel the consequences, and even when they do feel the consequences, many don’t connect them with the actual causes.

TotallynotJessica, 7 months ago

Hamas is a monster fed by Israeli antagonism because feeding those trying to coexist peacefully prevents colonization. They build a monster to fight in order to get more support from people who simply want the monster to go away. All the while, they move to accomplish their real goal of getting rid of Palestinians like other evil empires have attempted to do to Jewish people for millenia. It’s a fucking tragedy to see people that should know the pain of discrimination more than anyone, perpetuate the cycle of violence. Theocratic nationalism is a sin against humanity.