Homura Akemi 😌
I had to laugh at this ridiculous line from the opinion piece:
staff members had a dark joke that at the rate they were going, there would be “no gay people left.”
The whole idea that transition care is "getting rid" of gay people is ridiculous, I was into girls way before I transitioned. The other trans people I know are all extremely gay.
You are concerned about a child making a decision that they may regret... so you think the decision should be made for them?
What I have a major problem with is that voicing an opinion, or have any form of meaningful debate, is met with immense aggression, trolling, cancelling, intimidation
So, trans people, I support you to exist, be happy, live a meaningful life. But unfortunately there’s a group of loud people who are honestly behaving like psychopaths who are making it hard to stay sympathetic. Wake up.
"I get aggression and trolling"
"people being mean to me are psychopaths who make it hard for me to stay sympathetic to trans people"
The only person I've encountered waving Stalin flag at a protest said they were a Maoist when I asked
red scares have been a global phenomena, not one isolated to the US. Pointless red baiting in response to what Trump being a fascist is about what I've come to expect from Bernie, the guy who can't call it a genocide.
Declassified CIA documents from the time even say that Stalin was not so much of an autocrat as commonly mythologized.
I dip my bread in pickle brine, had no idea I was being profiled 
I've been saying this about people supporting the US for ages.
US empire is a world historic evil so maybe supporting them or their proxies just because you don't like their enemies is black and white tribalism?
Incredible that people are protesting trump waving US flags, he's the most American thing ever
I dunno Count Dooku was kinda cooking until the states theocratic gestapo stopped him
hihi it looks like it is working!
reddit being manipulated by information campaigns!? 
ooo has the redbaiting found a new target?
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Hi all, thank you for reading my post. modlod link
Clocks got banned first after suggesting that the OP try to be a genuine friend and try to find some common cause in real life rather than alienating people over abstract geopolitical factionalism:
[> The original post feels like bait, but here is an authentic response.
Maybe genuinely be their friend instead of alienating them based on political flavoring. Perhaps you can be better working together to help others in your locality or communities than squandering over geopolitical matters. Swallow your frustrations, being annoyed is a part of being in a community. You can move on. ](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/modlog?commentId=13347091)
I raised the issue that censoring earnest advice as 'tankie apologia' and preemtively writing off any common cause/ isolating people is no way to win people over either as friends or comrades.
I then got banned for this one, for continuing to find 'the tankie triad' extremely silly:
yeah that's the context, I was just laughing because:
- only Lemmy users with an axe to grind call them that
- it sounds really silly, like they're a nemesis to dr venture.
- I'm supposed to be the melodramatic one yet every day I get one-upped 😔
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I'm not here to tell them how to run their comm, my position is that this is way more draconian than anything I've run into in any of 'the tankie triad'. The same groups of people loudly complaining about censorship on 'tankie' run instances don't seem to have a problem enforcing vague/arbitrary vibes based censorship in their spaces.
found/translated from xiaohongshu
Get our asses
stolen from xiaohongshu
I don't expect this to play particularly well here, and maybe I'm just being conspiratorial, but here goes:
I banned [email protected] from [email protected] earlier today- he literally posted a matt walsh youtube link and was being otherwise transphobic in a space where that gets you banned. (link)
one of jordanlunds removed comments w/ matt walsh video:
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the reason I put down was 'trolling about neopronouns' I stand by that, it was violating instance rules and was unacceptable behavior from a moderator of another instance.
Shortly after that I got banned from [email protected] for 'trolling'. To be clear, jordanlund does not moderate [email protected], but the timing struck me as an odd coincidence.
The .world thread in question (link)
I was expressing my actual opinion/position on this, if anything the post I was replying to should be considered a rule 1 violation implying leftists are russian/under russian sway:
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The removed comments that I was banned (permanent) for were just me being earnest about my position, which you're welcome to disagree with.
I don't view protecting my rights as something worth sacrificing other people for, even if they're on the other side of the planet. You can be mad at me or hate me for that, but I'm not trolling.
People replying felt it was reasonable to call me an idiot for example, yet another example of selective moderation. on .world.
I don't have any conclusive proof that my banning Jordanlund and then getting banned are related other than the suspicious timing, I welcome clarification.
Anyway in the interest of neutrality and transparency I submit both my ban and jordanlunds for review.
Americans in the comments: I get 2 holidays a year
My experience was that I was not attracted to men at all, but because I liked sailor moon and painting my nails people would just assume that I was. It just strikes me as a very paternalistic attitude to be worried about misguiding poor gay people who are simply "confused".
Being trans is very much a part of who you are. However while there has been a tremendous social pressure to repress over the years, trans people are not a recent development.
I'm a trans woman, I transitioned later in life, but I knew from a very young age that I was uncomfortable as a boy and I didn't have the words to describe it until much later in life.
I grew up in the 90s's/00's and back then the gatekeeping and lack of information was pretty bad. Unless you were presenting with an acute mental health condition you really weren't getting taken seriously. I was able to hold my shit long enough to go to a college and land a career because throwing myself into work (and drinking heavily) was my coping skill.
Meeting and working with another trans person after years of repressing that feeling was all it really took for me to put it together and transition myself after 10+ years of denial. That's also what happens when trans people are erased from daily life.
I think it's a good thing that kids actually get listened to when they say what they want. It's not 'ice cream for dinner' but that orientation does speak volumes. None of these transition decisions get made flippantly, this is a process that takes years and plenty of oversight.