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The racism subject aside, I DO think a the majority of them are gonna give big wtf’s when they’re told to do that to American citizens on American soil, regardless of skin color. There will be some who enjoy it because they’re scum, but I definitely know that even the craziest motherfuckers with the most PTSD who enlisted in several branches would tell you to go fuck yourself if you deployed them to New York and said beat the shit out of or shoot these civilians. They may be dumb as fuck, but they aren’t all that stupid. And yes I know this is naive and optimistic.

And that’s probably still relying HEAVILY on a pagefile.

False.

16gb is maybe enough for a phone these days.

32gb is the bare minimum baseline, and if you want to game AND use a browser you should be seriously moving to 64gb

And if you’re a power user of ANY kind, go straight to 128.

The only people who need 128 or more do not need to ask.

So, if you only browse the web with a few other programs, and you have less than 20 tabs in a browser, 32gb.

If you go over 20 tabs and want to game at the same time, just go to 64gb.

Every other browser uses chrome and just puts their stuff on top. So you either use actual Google chrome, a rebrand (I know it’s not exactly that nor that simple), or you use Firefox.

Or if you think about what the actual end goals are for each quadrant

Conservative is what, auth-right…right?

Which is militant and hierarchical, without rights for anyone but those at the top. With dissenters shot and killed absolutely. Fight for this ideal with any means or join the army Nazis.

Auth-left is the exact same, but rights for everyone. With dissenters shot and killed absolutely. Fight for this ideal with any means or join the army rebellion.

Lib-left is rights for everybody, but with chaos. Nobody gets shot. No militancy. Fight for this ideal by talking and loving and making everybody smarter and wiser and more peaceful and cooperative.

Lib-right is no rights for anyone but those at the top, with chaos. Nobody gets shot and no militancy, they’ll just take away your rights with economic power and selectively withholding education. Fight for this ideal by taking resources from those who you believe who are at the bottom of the ranking of caste because it’s the natural order and has no consequences. May only the strongest survive. Don’t help anybody else, unless they’re a threat, then grovel, unless you can murder them and take their money.

Own.

Yes.

Because money and the future.

I know that real estate and investing in a home shouldn’t be a thing and actively corrupts the economy. But, unfortunately, the herd does what the herd does, AND the real estate class is charging rent like never before. So, you survive. Plus owning land is always nice.

Lmao it’s platonic. Plutonic sounds like you’re radioactive or something.

Also, dysmorphia is when something is “morphed” differently and it is dis-tressing, a la shape or physical attributes. Like seeing yourself as overweight when you’re not, or obsessing over your nose being too big or too small. In usually unhealthy, obsessive, and inaccurate ways. Think: anorexia.

Dysphoria is the opposite of euphoria. It’s very different. When somebody has gender dysphoria, it’s a fundamental opposite-of-euphoria about ones gender. Trans women do not want to be men (because they’re women), trans men do not want to be women (because they’re men), and enbies don’t want to be whatever it is they don’t want to be (because they are actually chaos and you should definitely go on that journey with them, I guarantee it’ll be interesting ^.).

All LGBT and queerness and liberalism is doing is trying to make the world suck less for people who are actually different. It’s not some weird, alternative lifestyle crazy people. It’s just that some people didn’t fit into the stupid little boxes enough (trust me, nobody fully fits into them) that they said “fuck you and your little boxes, this is stupid and I’ve had enough. Why do we even have these stupid little boxes anyway?” And proceeded to examine why, and what they found was a deeper and deeper and deeper rabbit hole of bullshit that infected everybody’s brains and was hurting EVERYBODY needlessly and only served the billionaires and the string pullers of society at the top and was in various forms around the world, perpetuated by almost all religions and, while having various times in history where it was seen and less an issue, keeps having resurgences because it is so fundamental dismantling of so many tools of control that the billionaires fear.

It’s like, seeing through all of it (the bullshit) leads to asking too many questions about our existence and fundamental social structures, which leads to loss of power for the billionaires over generations.

Why DO they fear trans women so much?

That’s strange. Not saying right or wrong, but in my head, dude is like a cowboy, overly masculine, like literally more masculine than calling somebody a mister. But then it got appropriated by guys (meaning men/boys) over the years and eventually got used for referring to somebody else that was a guy, and never girls. Like a good ole boys club that all men were a part of. And over time started getting used on tomboys and masc women, and I guess that and ‘bro’ started getting used on girls, too. Which is, optimistically, great. Except homophobia still exists and a lot of guys who would hear “bro that likes to help out their bro” is still commonly used to mean something homosexual.

Bud or Buddy, or pal are the same vein, they’re still absolutely masculine, could be used in place of friend but are still masculine or desexualizing. A LOT of language is crazy homophobic.

I think a large part of the issue here may be actually the homophobia, and that calling trans girls bros or dudes, and why that’s invalidating, may be because of homophobia and how by coding them as a traditionally desexualized name and that being more comfortable to most guys might be because they’re uncomfortable with seeing trans women as women, and thus a sexual option. It validates the trans woman as a chill friend person, but says no I refuse to see you in any way sexual, be it straight OR gay (but especially straight/het) because transphobia and homophobia.

I then presume the question(s):

Is there correlation with those trans girls okay with being called dude and whether or not they are interested, sexually, in men?

What about, then, if there’s a correlation between being about to intuit that deep connection? There are also many connections in that logic on the way that simply may not exist.

Or maybe a free mind, free from self imposed homophobia or transphobia?

Or, one that DOES have those self impositions?

An alien, new to our language, culture, and existential limitations would not know or care about such nuances of being called “dude” unless they had previously been subject to categorization and the bigotry of human culture. So, what then, is the difference between an entirely ignorant alien - a seemingly blank slate, and those of us that feel something’s off when being called dude, even when the speaker professes beneficence?

To answer that, would require a sample of considered answers from various trans women to why they’re offended by it, and then drilling down to see what lies beneath.

Unfortunately, this platform is not the place for said incredibly private and sensitive affairs. So this conversation effectively must come to an intellectual dead end, replaced by an alternative, shallower treatment of minimizing collateral invalidation and emotional minimization: if somebody says you’re doing something that truly bothers them, you should stop. Don’t try to justify why it shouldn’t bother them, that’s intrusive, controlling, and hurtful, and is an attempt to invalidate their feelings.

Only if both people want to continue to drill down, respectfully, examining the values of their own perspectives and value in pursuing continued use or dislike of use of the term, should that happen.

But like… definitely don’t trample somebody’s dignity. That’s bullshit behavior and is worth punching somebody for.

I don’t know about any of that other stuff, but y’all is absolutely you+all, and to me is explicitly referring to other people, meaning more than one. You could do y’all for somebody who is a DiD system maybe.

Are you kidding? You do know that basically anything is hackable, right? And that’s why old people put tape and stuff over their cameras if they don’t just outright unplug them, right? It seems silly, but like… They’ve always been right, with their insane passwords and avoiding using their real names and stuff.

Oh, I like this. Americans should all convert to Canadian out of distaste for what’s going on in America.

Lol this does insinuate that previously, Canadians were less desirable hahahaha I love you Canadians but I’ll never get tired of teasing youuuuuu <3<3<3

Asking and respecting the answer is true big brain <3

Yeah for me, just she/her, thanks.

If you wanna borrow from old gang verbage, you can call me girl, I suppose. Like “whaddup, girl” or babe is nice too. Like… Maybe call me something sexy and degrade me, don’t nullify me by making me into a man. I would rather be a sex toy, a literal object, than be a man.

I appreciate your sense of trying to do right, but you should really not degender people, as that’s a thing that transphobes do when trying to not be seen as a transphobe. Degendering is very similar to misgendering, btw, in that it doesn’t respect the person’s pronouns, and thus is attempting to discredit their gender.

If you’re truly gender-abolitionist and (I will optimistically assume) race-abolitionist, and don’t want to have gender be part of you, congruently, maybe don’t use dude or bro at all anymore? Would you kiss a dude or a bro? Or did that question make you mentally imagine a masculine person?

I dunno. If I met a person in real life that truly never used he or she pronouns, and included me in that, I would probably be okay with it. But if they weren’t consistent and they just used it around me or with other trans people, I would have a huge problem with it. Because the crux of the problem would be whether or not they are truly trying to change everything, or if they just cannot see me as a woman and are trying not to be hurtful without trying to understand.

I notice a lot of corporate-like personalities try to do this by hedging their language. It always feels spineless and shitty, they are NOT trying to change everything, they’re just trying to manipulate everybody so that they can HAVE everything.

Changing behavior, and behavior in language, especially when you have a connection to it from your youth, is really, really hard.

I’ve been transitioning for over a decade, and I still say dude and man and stuff. Verbally and in text.

I know better, it’s just so ingrained in my online wannabe 90s/00s attitude/culture from growing up.

Which is why the outward and vocal resistance to memes trying to change the behaviors and standards is so irritating to me. It isn’t gender neutral, and only exceptions to the rule exist. Maybe if you acquired the terms/phrases in gender neutral contexts is it actually okay, but then THAT conflict of honest perspectives is a different subject, akin to using words like queer, and how they differ between generations.

Like when I was really young, saying things were gay was just a part of language. Teachers would get mad and tell us not to say it, but like… We didn’t hate gay people, we were just ignorant, and thought it was fun trendy language. And I see a lot of that and stuff like that in a lot of people still today. Did using gay just as a synonym for “bad” closet-ify a lot of people? Looking back, ABSOLUTELY, myself included. But I want to believe that most other people ALSO were too ignorant to be knowingly malicious about it and just got caught in a shitty culture, and thankfully that culture has changed today (for most people, I still occasionally run across a dinosaur still calling everything gay and it’s quite a sight to behold, they look straight out of saved by the bell, but 30 years passed and they never stopped smoking).

It’s so forced that we’re kind’ve getting used to it. Tell people that think it’s gender neutral to “have sex with dudes” and see how they react.

It’s always just been about stubbornness and the unwillingness to change, despite being extremely contextual, at best. Force the overall culture before changing a shitty perspective of seeing your trans friend as masculine person that fits into your group of guys. It’s really toxic, selfish, and manipulative imo. And because boys are hot and I’m dumb and weak, I excuse it sometimes, but I really shouldn’t, we should all know better.

Using a validating, non vaguely-male term is great, though!

Most of the terms are like: “these are MALE terms and also girls can be ‘one of the bros’ in certain circumstances”… but that’s just not what transition is about.

We don’t want to be “just one of the bros”; you gotta understand that:

a) that’s NOT what a lot of us after,

b) the world doesn’t revolve around men and being men and being masculine (and perpetuating that male chauvinism perspective is shitty),

and c) it’s okay to call girls, girls, and to be a woman. That isn’t a negative or lesser or othering l thing, despite how much of society raises us to believe.

I’m also not saying that we don’t want to be included wherever we feel comfortable fitting in, we absolutely do. And I think a lot of allies understand that. But just as many allies understand that trans women feel left out from being included in feminine spaces, as well. And sometimes, while we may fit in better with the bros, way more than the girls, that itself can feel awful and really get the dysphoria going. Sometimes though, some of us realize that the dudes that are bros we realize are hot and dumb and we want to be closer to them for… different reasons.

Personally, I’m poly and pan and just want everybody to get along and not have weird stereotypically forced gender segregated hobbies, interests, and cliques anymore because that’s weird and uncomfy. I don’t even know what I’m talking about anymore I haven’t eaten today yet. Homie is fine, I guess, but borderline, personally. I don’t know a better replacement.

My weird ass gifts have kept me from dying, I guess. I’m just waiting for my medal now.

… Any day now…