Fucking awesome response, thank you so much for it. I get how you feel now much more.

I think an important point to make as well is that these legislations are not even made by trans people, so they have no authority on telling you what to do. Fuck them all.

I want to learn more about the LGBT community and since I'm a cis white guy living in a post soviet country, who grew up in a conservative family, I know jack shit.

So I want to ask this question, is it okay for minors to have an opportunity to make surgeries on themselves? Like, we have age gaps for a reason, is there something that I'm missing here? Should there not be any regulations regarding this?

Like, minors are notoriously not great at making decisions or being reasonable, I wouldn't trust myself doing something this big, that's for sure.

Well I'm not going in completely blind + I can't know everything about every topic. But I'm seeking more knowledge, thus the reason why I made a post.

Thank you so much for the links! Started with Another View of Stalin

Thank you so much, comrade! While it is stressful, especially for her, and I have no doubt the psychological impact won't be fun, we are in a pretty safe spot compared to the region of the country we fled from. It's much safer and not as dangerous and we hope it stays that way.

His response is interesting.

It also leads to racial hatred and division and doesn’t actually address the issues. It’s like Nazis saying that black people commit so much crime because of biology. It’s false, leads needlessly to hate, and nothing gets done.

He basically created a straw man because I rarely/ever see "woke" media that is genially racist towards white people. But then he's trying to compare "white struggle" in the MEDIA to a real life struggle of black people, which is really fucked up. And what's funny, he's saying that "Nazis" say that, when people that are generally on the right are keen to be racist and make those claims, but he doesn't want to associate with them, to not seem like he is battling one racism with the other, so he says that exclusively Nazis say this shit.

To be honest, my claim was a bit hyperbolic, because essentially Cyberpunk as a genre is anti-capitalist, just CDPR doesn't really want it to be.

It boils down to how you want to view this game and art in general, with the original intent of developers or without it, making assumptions based on the contents of the story. And I rarely can choose the latter.

The whole game tries to tell you that corporations are the main (and only) issue, Johnny Silverhand literally says: "I've declared war not because capitalism's thorn in my side...", implying that it's not capitalism that he has problems with, but Corpos who: "Have long controlled our lives..."

But I don't view anti-corporatism as a synonym to anti-capitalism, and neither does CDPR. That's why they chose to paint a Marxist ideology as complete nonsense of some ai bot fortune teller (I'm talking about Bartmoss collective) and that's why there's not a word from Johnny criticising the system that let corporations become as powerful as they are today.

"Read theory", to me, is a first but very important step. The more people read theory, the more people really understand why the movement exists. Unfortunately, after we actually read it, not everyone can put it into practice.

Person who read the books might not have union in his workplace, or being a communist in his environment is really unpopular and could harm him physically or mentally. In this situation, what can he actually do? How can he put theory into practice? And that, to me, the question majority of communists deal with all the time.

In this situation, the best way to utilise knowledge we got is to share it, try to push our ideas into masses because red scare didn't go anywhere, myths about USSR, China, communism are still here and although they look more like a rotten corpse than actual arguments, people still fucking use them.

And that's what most of us already do, which is great. I personally do it all the time, but it is not easy, even family members (or especially them) could be really hard to convince that communism will not take their food or make them all use the same toothbrush.

Trying to make people understand, or even listen, is not an easy and a very lengthy process. Some give up, some push forward, but if you don't have any other means to help the movement, what can you actually do?

That would be awesome to have something like that because random comment sections can be really chaotic.

I get you, I'm surrounded with this narrative and even have people who openly hang the OUN flag in their bedroom and showcase it in online classes... no one speaks out. Why? Because they were forces who "fought against both sides", even though it's proven that it's not true, it doesn't matter, because government propaganda supports this narrative (you can already guess where I live).

Don't be upset, you are not alone. Don't let them discourage you. We are with you, comrade!

That's sad. Was it intentional or something happened to the server?

Nope. That's the guy, Ukrainian soldier, who was on that famous video where he was shot by Russian soldiers and his last words were: "Slava Ukraini".

I don't know anything about this story, so it could be just another war fake, a beautiful lie to demonize Russian Army. Could be a real leak with Russian war crime. For people it doesn't really matter anymore.