I want to believe the Bernie supporters are over here with me on the actual left now, not just pining for brunch and normalcy during a genocide.

eh statistically there's probably more of the latter. One guy I know who could genuinely be described as a gamer bernie bro is still vaguely on the left, very pro-union, pro-palestine (but not very noisy about it, he's mostly touching grass by which I mean working and smoking weed), but he's also super pro ukraine and he's sent me videos from rantsona NAFO freaks so I think the contradictions will have to resolve themselves one way or another eventually and I'm not 100% confident he wouldn't land at fascist if that's the way the wind was blowing and the radicalizing circumstances were right.

Zorhan new bestie

I wish him luck and all but nah. if I was in NYC maybe I'd feel differently but I'm done stanning US politicians.

if you follow the video closely yeah there definitely are 2 people, but the one going in on foot is hovering just as far away when the rocket hits the first merkava as when the second detonates. It does seem like the second explosion is bigger but I wouldn't say there's anything in the video definitively pointing to the fighter being dead. they reach the shadow of a building right as the dust cloud gets kicked up

There's no 100% risk-free option. You should know the effects of estrogen and make peace with them/make a plan for what you are and aren't okay with before starting. But in my book, risk is just life. You aren't going to have boobs overnight, but breast growth, while pretty slow, will start within a couple weeks.

Make of that what you will. If it does make you happy, would it be worth growing boobs? If it doesn't, do you trust yourself to stop promptly before unwanted effects set in.

I want to be a femboy [...] I don't want boobs though

People online have tried and theorized various regimens to achieve what you describe, but nothing is anywhere near well trodden enough to be blanket-recommendable, you'd have to either work with a friendly doctor or do your own research and tread carefully with DIY if you are comfortable doing so.

Some options in that realm are explored in articles on https://transfemscience.org/articles/ (eg here and here) and probably various less reputable places online.

I tend to agree with the sentiment that if you're trying estrogen as a bit you should at least interrogate that feeling further, or just try it. It's not a very cis thought. Its not a decision anyone else can make for you though.

I recently saw a genuinely dispiriting article celebrating a long-time local bowling alley by telling the cute anecdote of how they secretly let regulars in to bowl during lockdown, and then using it as an analogy to segue to an anecdote about the original founder doing some trivial act of transgressing corporate rules 60 years ago.

Like jesus, I know none of you fuckers care now, but the fact that we are retconning the past too? Disgusting. Our lockdown was not strict and lasted like a goddamn month or two, it wasn't a harrowing experience, and it was woefully insufficient, not some overreaction or triviality. I'd say it saved lives but because of liberal cowardice and dipshits like those business owners and their customers, it really only delayed a few deaths.

State and Revolution is SHOCKINGLY clear and accessible, and yes, not a million pages long.

A vast majority of you guys who think you’re “one of the good ones” are in fact not “one of the good ones.”

Perhaps you, the liberal handwringing about american influence on your culture in response to a trans person not wanting to get genocided in america, is "not one of the good ones". Jesus how hard is it to think these things through before you say shit? Honestly, a bunch of white liberals, I get having some qualms, though the cultural influence talking point is far more pertinent in reference to media than via any imaginable number of refugees coming up.

Edit: AND ANOTHER THING, ITS NOT A "GUY"

ironically I feel like it is less likely they will shoot someone compared the goddamned LAPD

straight up this is why they don't give riot cops live ammo. No fucking discipline

the crayon eaters are probably only a marginal improvement on that front though

Sweden’s government has long advised against travel to Gaza

they didn't fucking GO to Gaza. They were the subject of piracy in international waters

Rough headline, I thought they were already arrested somehow.

I've wondered this as well, often out loud in posts/comments. The urge to call our charity mutual aid just to make it "leftist" is a bad one, IMO. But there are some minor differences at least in theory. The idea is that it's a "pay it forward" kind of thing where we help eachother out when needed and then those people help others when they are able. But because of the realities of capitalist life I don't see that happening all that often. The people with the stability to send money regularly to randos from the internet tend to stay the same and the people with serious needs tend to stay the same. I think the only real difference in practice is that much of our donations goes to known community members, not random strangers. Does that make it mutual aid? idk, not really probably, but I appreciate it whatever we call it.

I think about this in on the ground work as well. Many many orgs call their work mutual aid when its really just charity. But it feels very hard to ask anything of people who are destitute, even if involving them in the work sustaining them could be liberatory

god forbid men have hobbies