I like political movies like Star Wars. Political books like The Hunger Games. Political music like Enter Shikari. Political games like Frostpunk.

For Me, politics isn’t the same as fighting. That’s your worldview. You’re the one who thinks politics is being angry and hurt. For Me, politics is life and joy. And what you are doing is resulting in people forgetting that all that joy they feel comes from politics.

To Me, that meme is political and it’s fun, and as a trans person, I would hesitate and worry about posting it on your community. Because the message you are sending, regardless of your intent, is intimidating to people like Me. You can’t control that except by admitting that politics is fun.

I love gathering around the board game table to play Secret Hitler or Coup. I bet you like politics too, and you’ve just forgotten it. If you’re not a centrist, then admit that you’ve had an absolute blast with politics some of the time.

I don’t have a choice whether My gender is political. Whether My species identity is political. Whether My neurotype is political. The truth is, everything is political.

But people like you want to transform politics into a dirty word, one that can be used against My gender, My species identity, My neurotype. You want to encourage people to fear and hate politics. That’s the complicity. That will always create a breeding ground for fascism.

According to the dual process model of grief, healthy grieving involves oscillation between loss-oriented and restoration-oriented behaviours. Basically, you need to sit with the feelings some of the time, and pursue new experiences some of the time.

The important thing is to be able to switch between the two when your mind needs you to. If you get stuck in one or the other, the grieving process stops getting better.

So if you need to take a break from thinking about it, take that break. Just as long as you can come back to thinking about it when you’re ready.

Everything is political. Apathy is complicity.

Thanks for crossposting this comic out of that silly centrist community, OP.

A bit transphobic of him to turn her down just because she’s wearing the lowercase t transgender symbol /ref

I’m really glad I made a PieFed instance, because it means I get to ban people like you who obstinately push realist authoritarian points that were rebutted several messages ago, like you’re on some kind of script for exhausting the enemy. MULTIVERSE’s rule about limited authoritarianism is something I’m really proud of in how it specifically bans these kinds of tactics which are optimised to exhaust and/or intimidate the left wing opposition.

I mean I know you by reputation, I’ve seen you do this kind of thing before. But I still gave you the benefit of the doubt today, and it’s making this tankie ban feel just so much more satisfying.

It’s also what Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jewish Holocaust survivor did.

“What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.”

A Holocaust survivor is calling people like you Nazis. Stop and think. Take responsibility. Stop reacting, stop defending, and use your head to tell right from wrong.

They’ve been asserting their personhood for a long time. Check out !transspecies@lemmy.blahaj.zone. I’m not an animal, but I’m not a human either, and I have had close relationships with many therians. But even if therians didn’t exist, you should still choose to be kind. This slaver mentality of expecting marginalised groups to stand up for themselves by your standards is a catch-22. You’re in control of your own standards. You can’t make everyone else responsible for your own choices.

That’s our choice, personhood is a social construct. Don’t be a realist, take personal responsibility for your worldview. Choose whether animals are people.

I bet when Jeff Bezos hunts people for sport on his private island, he takes a minute to respect their sacrifice. And if the first shot doesn’t kill them, he makes sure to shoot them in the head so they don’t suffer.

You’re right that transphobes are misinformed, but what I’m opposed to is not knowledge itself. Rather, it’s the conviction that objective answers exist and can be known. Transphobes believe they have the answers to the objective nature of gender. There are no such answers. Nobody can say for certain whether another’s gender is valid, because gender is just an idea. It is the transphobes’ realism that motivates them to uphold the gender binary.

Also, Pope Urban II called for the crusades to distract Europe from internal strife among the church. Nobody should have the power to tell an entire continent what Deus wills. They believed him because they thought religion has objective answers, and that those answers come from the Pope. Again, people’s conviction that anyone can be objectively correct is what caused the problem. If Christianity were antirealist, there could be no pope and no crusades.

Truly, the belief in an objective reality is history’s greatest problem.

I have terrible news for you. That meme is an antisemitic dogwhistle

I’m great at cooking, I just refuse to cook meat. It’s gross.

I worry that the belief in and pursuit of objective reality has negative social ramifications. For example, transphobia is usually motivated by a belief in objective sex. We also see racism from belief in objective race, and religious genocides such as the Crusades and the colonisation of Latin America from belief in objective religion. While we have made significant strides in all these areas recently, people have not extended the same empathy to otherkin and plural systems, still convinced of objective species and objective personhood. I fear that an antirealist approach is the only way to ensure people seek continuous progress on these issues.

I’ve never cooked lamb, I only ate it as a kid. And the last time I spent My money on dead chordate, I was recovering from invasive surgery.

Given these limitations, our goal should not be closer and closer adherence to some unknowable objective reality, but instead more and more useful models in terms of their effect on the happiness of ourselves and others.

I agree with Tiktok, lamb is disgusting. It’s tough and chewy and slimy and made of dead baby

Anger is a great attitude for situations like that. My favourite story from the Halo universe is about a dad like that getting what he deserves.