Notices by Rayne is really cute as a girl (salad_bar_breath@todon.nl)

Respectability politics never works. It never has. It never will.

3. If you're an openly trans person who is running as or is a politician, or you are organizing as an out trans person, or even if you're an out trans person just existing around trans people more vulnerable and/or junior to you, you have the moral responsibility to protect them to the best of your ability, to fight for them, and to lift them up and make them big.

Like, I'm sorry we live in this fucked up world where we are forced to fight, but we are. So get with the fucking program.

Like sure, pick your battles, and find moments of joy and softness away from the world with each other...

But do not be a fucking coward and do not teach these trans people out here to be cowards.

I get that I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about, but I do know these things:

1. Cis people are not going to save us. Cis people are not going to protect us. Cherish our allies, but it's gonna be us doing most of the work.

2. Cis people do not become better by us taking some L's, like letting them deadname or misgender us, letting them say transmisic shit, or conceding that you should use the wrong bathrooms. Every inch you give them does not make them think, "oh, maybe I should be better", it makes them think that these are things they can continue to not give a fuck about and oppress us on, and that transphobes have a point actually. What nudges them to work on themselves is giving them shit about it and letting them know this isn't okay.

(Con't)

Like, imagine having the opportunity to go down in history as "Freedom Fighting Piss Mommy" and squandering it.

@Jason_Dodd that's why you get Hoopla through your library, not just the service by itself, so it's free. But yeah, Hoopla is a bit limited in movie selection, but it's great for audiobooks. Kanopy is much better for films.

Pluto and Tubi and shit like that has ads, so they're effectively not free. Which is a fine option I guess if being annoyed with ads are more comfortable to you than pirating.

@Jason_Dodd what do you mean "communal funds"?

@Jason_Dodd oh I gotcha...

Well, if you hate wasted taxpayer money, wait until I tell you about the military and cops lol

Not that I would ever entertain some sealion asking me a bunch of questions of what socialism would actually look like...

But if I did, then it would be simply that there would be a library, for everything.

I feel like I've already shared this video on the Fedi like, 5 times lol.

But I will, again, because if you want to see how "libraries for everything" would work, this is the most incredible primer in the idea ever.

https://youtu.be/NOYa3YzVtyk

A lot of libraries also offer digital book collections.

...also you can just exist in a library without havening to buy anything.

Though going into the library is really cool! You can check out a lot of really cool books, physical movies, and probably also video games and consoles, board games, and sometimes even power tools, cooking tools, garden seeds, exercise equipment, and probably all sorts of other weird cool shit that you wouldn't of imagined.

Pirating is cool. But, if you're in the US or Canada, also remember that you can access a lot of really cool media on Hoopla and Kanopy, which almost all libraries offer a free subscription to with a membership.

@AnarchoNinaWrites I'm glad it's all good, cause that apology was simply so I could nest another parenthesis *evil laugh* lol

@AnarchoNinaWrites what pisses me off the most about their replies is like, they were basically asking you to just not simply use a word that describes something, but to put extra intense labor into painting an elaborate word picture that (they feel) will invoke some revolutionary pathos in the masses (which to further frustration, you actually do a lot (and is much appreciated 💜 (sorry for the hella nested parenthesis))).

@hannu_ikonen I don't think it can be repeated enough that Nazis are absolute cowards. The best way to deal with them is to be scary enough to keep them that way.

LB: in addition, I bet if that billion dollars would have went to people in need of mutual aid, and came from people who were all Harris/Walz 2024 af, then it probably would have got more votes then signs of middle class white former Trumpers voting Democrat, ads during our YouTube videos where you tell us you're going to be just as fascist at the border as the fascists, or paying people to spam us with texts about how Israel "has the right to defend itself" 😮💨

Daily affirmation:

As I've been loving myself more lately, I have learned that I am a joy to be loved by.

Remember that the prices and supply chain issues are not the striking dockworkers fault. They are the fault of greedy corporations that have no problem making everyone's lives hell to get a bit of a stock price bump, and the government that has shown them that they will always intervene, especially before elections.

All your issues are with corporate greed and the violent state they use to enforce their will. They always have been. Don't be a class traitor and buy into the propaganda.

Maybe it's about time I start loving myself for real...