I have Hexbear and some discord servers too. I dont move on from them easily like you but my friendships are entirly online. My irl freinds werent all garbage (though I will note, I am ok with being friends with a lib who’s not too obnoxious about it) but they either lapsed, or yeah they were garbage and I had to dfistance, but also there was my one big irl friend I had left that cut me off for some petty bullshit and yeah Im without real life connections entirly now.

Thank you for the excellent analysis

The ahistoricality of this post does not prevent me from finding it funny.

Would Marx have liked Balatro?

Tbf I am compelled to correct that there is in fact a sizable ML and otherwise left wing contigent on Tumblr and last time I browsed tumblr there was quiet a lot of anti-Biden/Democrat sentiment. But people there tend to just stick to their own corners outside of the occasional clash.

Idk I have reservations about this attitude because I have close friends on discord who are definitly not Blue MAGA. They’re like, soft baby leftists who think a revolution would be good but are also trans people in red states who are scared as hell of certain things. They seem to genuinely believe that Biden is better on all or most things, pretty much everything except immigration which they will admit he’s been worse, and consider voting for him and other Democrats to be a matter of simple self preservation. I try telling them our talking points on here but most of them bounce off. But they are like, sincerly well meaning, not trying to manipulate things. They just want to live lol. I take a more empathetic stance I guess because of my experiences there.

In particular I’ve found that our points about Roe being lost under Biden and the ratcheting up of anti-trans legislation happening under Biden are total flops with them. Not because they don’t care about those things, the second thing is the main reason they’re scared, they just absolutely cannot see why we blame him for that. They’re caught in certain mindsets and just… cannot seem to break out. Not in the way I’ve communicated it anyway.

And these are fairly intelligent people as well. One of them is the person I’ve had the best talks with about her Jewish identity vs Zionism and she is actually like, radically anti-Zionist. But the one thing that she seems stuck on despite her growing radicalization everywhere else.

The other reason I am a bit more empathetic is like, basically up until the Gaza genocide started in earnest I was sorta still in their mindset? I wasnt going to vote for Biden only because I don’t live in a swing state. Gaza made me reconsider some things, particularly my stance on lesser evil voting.

Like yaknow what? I was totally fine with them saying that the ONLY qualification, as the rules are supposed to be, is trans ally or transphobic. I read their rules thoroughly and thats supposed to be it. So I was fine with the fact that I have to deal with liberals who (inefectivly obviously) are “pro-trans”. I was fine with seeing Charlotte Clymer shining green. And I didn’t mark her otherwise because I was actually following the rules.

But if Shaun’s losing his green its clear the liberals who use it are not. Because theres no way he can be marked neutral in good faith. Either the moderators are proactivly liberal or they made an algo that is open to manipulation by them.

OK I am now 100% convinced there Shinigami Eyes is either run by liberals or the way they decide things is easily infiltrated by them removing people’s Green just for being leftwing. Ive seen a few leftist accounts that used to be green on twitter go to neutral over time. And I was like hmmmmm for awhile.

But today I saw Shaun’s twitter had gone neutral and that was the final straw lmao. Half the guy’s Youtube content is in support of trans people but people probably removed his green because he doesn’t support Democrats.

Elissa Slater from Big Brother 15

ETA: sorry special interest triggered lol

I don’t think its cringe to have the hots for Tifa

Teenage looking?

Maybe I just have no radar for this but as usual when this accusation is thrown out I don’t see it.

not an example of us losing

Not sure about this bit

Bowman’s not a comrade but soft criticism of Israel lost to full throated support of Israel in an election. I think that demonstrates a loss of some kind.

Oops yea this was for the Corbyn post about the mascot.

Lmao at the commentor saying “Yeah we know youre not a Spurs fan” to imply Corbyn is an antisemite when “Spurs fans are all jews” is actually (apparently???) an antisemitic stereotype.

Jack Gleeson

And the sad thing about this is that the kid is apparently a fucking angel irl lol.

Yes I think thats the correct take on the situation.

Ah I think you just identified my problem with it lol. Like I have no doubt Kevin Spacey is genuinely gay, but the way he came out it was literally a criticism shield

Vaush isnt doing it in DIRECT response like that or as forcefully, and was out beforehand, so “lite” is the right term I think.

That depends do you like just neutrally dislike them and refuse to interact with them (or if its a public figure, engage in whatever they do) or do you like actively treat them badly over this.

Becuase I’ve seen this rhetoric used to defend actually harassive behavior so it gives me pause lol.

You won’t have seen this if you wisely stay off Twitter, but like

I’ve said before that questioning people’s stated sexuality and calling people fake queers is a bad road to go down, and that bad people can be queer, but I do admit the way V**sh has started being more outwardly queer-acting ever since his controversy is… offputting.

Like my hesitation around “fake queer” discourse comes from the fact that I realized I was bi shortly after being called on my bullshit (and changing) like a decade ago and like noone ever CALLED me that but it does make me THINK about that.

But like regardless of whether he’s actually into men or not there’s something really offputting about like pivoting to being more queer acting immediately after being called out for some shit even if he ID’d that way beforehand.

And like yeah he’s started like, openly associaitng with other queer people more, talking about queer issues more, and most noteably dressing in queer-seeming ways and taking selfies thereof. Its just. Like. its offputting man. I dont have as much animosity in my heart towards him as most of you but it just makes me uncomfortable lol.