Shinhoshi

bUT [insert US talking point] is [insert State Department stance]!

Sorry to hear that. Hopefully you can open up a little more with your partner but I understand there's a safety risk to you.

as well as feeling mildly endangered due to how one of them spoke freely of wanting to kill fascists, in a town with a fascist problem, while none of us had weapons or ways to defend should someone overhear and follow us.

That's a legitimate concern, hopefully you are able to let them know about this

is invidious still usable with youtube trying to ban instances or are you running your own?

It's usable but using https://redirect.invidious.io/ to find active ones is a must

Women (and men) who express themselves feminine will get those prejudices worse than women (and men) who express themselves neutral or masc.

This is a real issue to the point it literally changes language. To loosely paraphrase from this queer guide to Japanese, there's a stereotype at least within Japanese that masculine language is more "assertive", so women tend to use it in the workforce when they are a gender minority to be taken seriously with male colleagues.

Do you have a safe space in private where you can just be yourself?

Have you considered gay hair? /s

supportive measures failed to spur a meaningful recovery in the property sector

I think the supportive measures did exactly what they were supposed to. First places of residence should be extremely easy to attain. "Housing as an investment property" though should be difficult or impossible.

I understand why you might say that but I don't think delineating between "socialism" = attempting to achieve communism the ideal and "communism" = the ideal is always a meaningful or necessary distinction.

I don't think anyone here would have a problem if it said "(Bothering to even attempt reaching) communism doesn't work" but that kind of thing just leads to leftist memes becoming unnecessarily long. I think all of us here know what the intent is, and that is to critique propaganda by capitalist states that AES or any movement outside capitalism towards something better is futile, when the reality is that they are doing everything they can, including that messaging itself, to supress it.

I don't personally think there's much value in doing the liberal word game thing about socialism and communism, especially when it's obvious what is being referred to.

We could play that game that there's only a capitalist mode of production and not such a thing as capitalism or that "true capitalism" has never been tried, but that would be ridiculous.

It's worth pointing out explicitly that there's no option that runs like:

1. Establish fully automated luxury gay space communism
2. ???
3. Profit

The anarchists talk about abolishing the state and hierarchies, but the theory isn't very helpful if you don't have a mechanism.

Evil genie: Granted. Capitalism never existed because society has remained in feudalism to this day.