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Idk I just have no patience for trans men/masculine people who refuse to acknowledge transmisogyny. Like. The worst experience I ever had with transphobia was when I was mistaken for a trans women. In a culinary program, I was cutting bell peppers, and one of the other students, a really big dude in a student leadership position, walks in and accusatory goes "so are you trying to be a woman, or something?" And I'm like. Well I'm trying to small dice these peppers. And I tell him I'm not a she and he says something to the effect of "Yeah I know that much." He makes some comment abt how whatever I'm doing doesn't make sense and he doesn't get it and when I tell him he doesn't have to, that he just has to respect it, he says "I don't have to do shit!" And gets real mad! Like actual threats mad! Tells me he could bash my skull in and to meet him outside for a fight and yeah it was fucking scary! The entire interaction I'm reminding myself that I'm the one currently holding a knife, if he tries anything.

Fast forward a few days later and my period is kicking my ass. Just absolutely destroying me. I'm in the dish pit, and I am visibly struggling, I'm nauseous, I'm in pain and bracing myself against walls. I'm not walking straight. And the same student leadership guy who was so aggressive with me when he thought I was transfem?

He tells me I look like I'm going to pass out. He says it's obvious I'm in pain, I shouldn't be in class, I can go sit down and if nobody can replace me he'll do the dishes himself.

Like. Do you get it yet. It's not just that he felt comfortable openly threatening me in a room full of other people when he thought I was a trans woman. It's that he did a complete 180 and was not only willing to support me, but actually pick up my slack once he knew I wasn't "that kind" of transgender. As soon as one of our classmates confirmed to him that I wasn't the wrong type of trans person I suddenly became someone who actually deserved care and compassion in his eyes. The "bigots think we're all the same and hate all of is equally" rhetoric isn't fucking true. It's just peddled to deny the privilege we have over other members of our community so it's easier to ignore how inhospitable supposedly trans-centric spaces are for TMA people.

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This is not sane, nor normal. Azerbajian is once again displaying it's racism and inhumanity against Armenians. Now to see how little the international community cares about other ongoing genocides as usual.

If you actually care about human rights and lives outside of those that are trendy to talk about, please give this a read.

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taking away a clowngirl's makeup telling her she doesn't have to be a clown she can just be a normal silly billy and correcting her any time she tries to juggle until she gets sadder and sadder and eventually stops talking altogether and just communicating via gestures and realizing with horror you've created a mimegirl

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its so awesome when they just come right out and say it

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What this past year should have taught every "leftist" in the US is that unions in the US primarily serve Imperialism, and most skilled labor in the US will eventually end up serving this goal. They want a bigger cut of the imperial superprofits, not any actual worker's rights. Yes, even wobblies.

This is such a great example because it like, says the quiet part of American jobs being worth Palestinian lives out loud.

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Do not listen to IOF propaganda. This happened last year and it contributed to near-total silence on the suffering of people in north Gaza: the occupation claims civilians are gone, and the world believes them out of defeatism. The IOF once again claiming there are no civilians in north Gaza does not mean they have all been killed or expelled, it means the IOF is lying. There are still thousands of innocent people in north Gaza. They still deserve to live and they still need you to loudly fight for them. Buying into their lies makes it even easier for them to commit atrocities with yet more impunity.

Do not look away from north Gaza.

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Hey Jeff why did you use 'stan' at the end like that

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Top 5 women?

bro i can't even top one woman ha ha h[two drums and a cymbal fall from the ceiling killing me instantly

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107 years ago today an organized group of workers in the Russian Empire decided they had had enough of war, misery, the oppression of women, and of a corrupt democracy that had promised much and changed nothing, the Tsar still in his palaces, the workers still giving their life for a cause foreign to the working class of Europe and the world. Most bolsheviks were industrial workers, with an insufficient formal education, precarious salaries and conditions. The working class in the Russian Empire had tried liberal democracy, had seen its hipocrisy in the months following the election of the provisional government, and understood their historic goal of progressing further beyond the democracy of the landowner, businessman and aristocrat. It wasn't the first time the proletariat had attempted to take power, both worldwide and in the Russian Empire, but this time they were ready, educated, an organized enough.

The armies of 14 imperialist powers combined could not stop the will of a mass of workers that had realized their worth, their potential, and most importantly, their dignity. They no longer had to bow down to paternalism, electoralism, and the capitalists to whom they sold their labor, no armed intervention, no amount of propaganda, no adventurist distraction, could take away from that fact. This isn't a fantasy, it isn't idealistic, it's a historical fact, that revolutions are possible, have happened, succeeded, and that the opportunity presents itself sooner than most expect. The only task at hand is to organize towards it. Agitation, education, an actual dual power structure predicated on a unified will, not on voluntarism and horizontalism.

I understand the topic at hand for the last 2 days and many more to come will be the results of the US election. But the US is not the only liberal democracy that increasingly creates disappointment among the social majority. After all the posting about the various liberals that make up the US electoral environment, it is imperious that nobody falls into despair. Not in a self-care way, not in the way most left-liberals have been talking about, referring to an abstract sense of "preparing", but because of the simple necessity for this election to further erode any popular faith in reformism, whether it's Trump's reforms, Harris' reforms, Bernie's reforms, or Stein's reforms. Wallowing in despair is as useful as placing yet more stake into whoever is wheeled out next to promise even less, in what will most certainly be also called the most important elections of our lifetimes.

Return to the working class of the Russian Empire, of a fractured and hungry China, to the colony of Indochina, to the plantation island that was Cuba. And I urge you to exercise some perspective. These masses of people had suffered more than you for longer than you. Nobody's asking you to feel guilty about your economic position in the world, we're asking you to realize that, for as long as there have been modes of production predicated on the exploitation, division and discrimination of a producing class, there have always been options, better options than sinking into despondent depression. They have managed to cast off their yoke and build towards a society not based on exploitation. They're not utopias, and mistakes have been and will be committed, but they all realized and understood that it's better to commit our own mistakes, than to toil under the rational oppression by another class for any longer.

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American liberals are the most self centered people on this fucking earth. Look at the amount of likes on these posts.

They said they'd hold Harris accountable if she won the election, and yet they've turned around and condemned Palestine to ashes out of rage and resentment. Genocide is okay and excusable to these people since they didn't get their way.

Never again wonder how the Holocaust was allowed to happen. You witnessing one be committed right in front of you.

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“We won’t be able to organize/ protest under Trump”.

People in the Global South have been organizing and protesting under dictatorships that America has installed as puppets for decades. You will be fine.

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white usamerican liberals are so fuckin dramatic oh my god. of all the people in the world you will be the last to be rounded up in the camps you delusional fucks. the people who are currently literally in cages are just not real to these people

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I reckon the whole HalimedeMF thing was a funny enough bit by itself, but it's a really grim sign that so many people completely missed the point. Like you've got this comical exaggeration of a Chaser "ally", someone whose "support" for trans women is clearly nothing but the product of dehumanising sexual desire, and yet Trans Women are such a viciously marginalised demographic that so many girls will latch onto every illusory shred of support and "acceptance" they see. It's especially miserable when you think about how that's more or less the way real chasers operate too; exploiting our vulnerability for their own gratification and half the time getting thanked for it

Your average HalimedeMF post was something like "It's so sad that Trans suffers when she should be giving me dick. Dick specifically. Did I mention the dick?" and so many people responded like "Wow she actually thinks it's sad when Trans suffers? I need her so bad". Like girl this isn't someone you're meant to want around this is the caricature of someone to be laughed at and blocked.

And I know a lot of girls were just playing along with the bit but there was consistently a scary amount of sincerity to that sort of thing. Like seeing girls so desperate to feel wanted in any way that they develop positive feelings towards the shadow of an exploitative creep really reminds you of just how dire things are. Living under societal transmisogyny really does make you feel like a lower form of life; even scraps of decency seem like a privilege

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screaming "we can push them Left!" when all the while they've been pushing you Right.

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Hi. Now that I have your attention, I'd like for you to consider sending some money to my friend Mohammed (@ahmed-0-khalil). He's only 19, his father is diabetic, his brother is autistic, another of his blind, and his youngest brother (who's name the account and fundraiser are made in) is just 6 years old. Mohammed has spent the past year taking care of them and trying to raise enough funds for them to evacuate, all while dealing with a shrapnel injury in his leg. If you can, sending even just 10€ would help.

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Hello everyone My name is Wissam Murtaja. I am from Gaza, 42 years old, married, and have 4 children, 3 girls and a boy My house was destroyed and I was injured in the aggression against Gaza, and we live in very dangerous conditions Every day, every time and everywhere. There is no safe place to go. There are no hospitals for treatment and I do not know where to treat my wound. Destruction everywhere. There is no clear water. There is not enough food. Life has become very expensive for all the people who have lost their jobs like me. I am asking for help for me and my four children To get food and a safe place for them. live in. Our hope in the free world To donate to people who have lost everything they own. God bless you all. Thanks