Just you don’t miss it, the frame is also worthless and towing is a bad idea. The tow ball isn’t even attached directly to the frame, it’s wild.

It’s true that we all deserve to be treated with respect and dignity but we equally have understand how much easier that is for one group compared to the other. Us cis people have all the power, and trans people are basically forced to exist in a constant state of fight-or-flight.

I remember the kind of person I allowed myself to become when I spent 40hrs a week at a job that didn’t value me. I was overly defensive even outside of work, and my self-esteem was already crappy enough, and this led to judging others too harshly as well. I didn’t even have space to fully recognize that my now ex-girlfriend really did care for me and didn’t have the patience to realize that she was going through exactly the same shit. And that was just my job! Imagine if nearly every waking moment made you constantly ready for a confrontation.

I was ultimately let go because I “wasn’t a good fit”. What really happened was that people with more power than me were mad that I didn’t kiss the ring. I wasn’t mean, but I made the mistake of thinking these people were different because on the face of it they really did seem better. I thought it was safe to talk to them about pay and they led with gaslighting me and trying to devalue me, and any attempt to push back was “rude” and they had the gall to say “I don’t know why you feel you can’t talk to us about stuff”.

Now bring that into this space and you can see how unbalanced everything is. Of course we feel safe around them, we have all the power, and we have to understand that it’s not the same in the other direction. Just being trusted enough to be allowed to be present is a fucking honour we should be proud of.

Yea, it’s like going to a christian household for dinner and eating before grace. They don’t expect you to participate in the prayer but the least you can do is not start eating before they’re ready in their own home. And if they do a little grace for themselves while at your house you leave them alone. Sure it’s a little weird to sit their with a bowed head while they leave their magic diety a voicemail but it’s not harmful and they aren’t asking you to convert in order to eat supper.

The same can be said for being even vaguely accommodating for a vegan friend who’s visiting and not making them feel like they aren’t allowed to eat. They won’t stop you eating meat and the least you can do is make sure that forks for meat and vegetables remain separate.

I have several trans friends these days and two of them were friends all the way back in highschool, in a different city. They’ve recently found themselves distant from one another because there is a clash in ideologies.

One lays lower, goes about their business, and goes to queer events and all that stuff, though they’re still out there visibly trans. The other is very much an activist and will straight up yell at people on the street, I hear, and protests they organize have had at least one physical clash, to my knowledge. I can’t blame either of them, really, for the caution in these volatile times or the aggression when they’re pretty much the only group of people reliably standing up for their rights. The specific issue that came up was a whole thing, but suffice it to say there was a disagreement on tactics similar to what you mentioned.

Ultimately I think the no interaction thing is not a bad play. Allies or no, we aren’t them and while some communication is good sometimes it’s important to be reminded that we’ve entered someone else’s space. Not only someone else’s space, but space belonging to people who are constantly harrassed and feeling cornered just by existing and who will understably defend what little they do have with a maybe…overzealous approach. By the stories here are they handling it well? God no, that sounds wild, but my point still stands.

It goes for any margainalized group, I suppose, that by nature of being pushed aside one lives in a world where they must speak multiple “languages” and learn about how to live in more than one way. They end up generally being better people for it, but that doesn’t at all mean that every single one is better. For all the supportive, kind, and otherwise chill trans people there are still a very small handful who do things like forget who their allies are or even who go way off the deep-end and support the GOP or whatever equalivalent in their country.

That’s literally what a stereotype is, bro. I’m sorry, I didn’t realize I was speaking with an idiot, that’s my bad, I’ll let you go.

And I don’t think calling someone a perfect stereotype without any apparent justification leaves you with any legs to stand on, especially when you went first and how she looks has nothing to do with the post.

So you really don’t have anything for why you called her out on a sidewalk post, huh? And what were you trying to do calling cruel, have a friendly conversation?

Ok, buddy.

I’m a fairly generic looking person, we are more than our looks. She has nice glasses and isn’t unattractive or anything it’s just there’s basically nothing there to tell you where the picture is taken. There aren’t even visible brands anywhere.

Other than maybe being able to guess the pacific northwest based those maybe being barefoot shoes, which is still a reach, what else is there?

Also damn, going after me for being “cruel” while reducing her to a stereotype of her city? On a post about sidewalks I mean fuck, who asked you anyway?

A fairly generic lady and that’s what you took from that guy’s comment?

Bro I’m from Ottawa. The issue is that it’s an AI image. But go off.

Eagle with no wings, goose with four. Well, I love the message but wow.

When Odeh requested to know the titles of the seized books and the names of their authors, Malka responded: “I cannot answer. We will confront [the Munas] with the books when I receive authorization … It will take time to go through them, which is why we are here requesting a several-day extension of the [Munas’] detention … Most of the books are in Arabic, some are in English, and some in German. I can’t go through them one by one.”

They don’t even know what the books are about yet but they’re more than happy to bust down a business’ doors and arrest the owners because some books have a palestinian flag. I swear to god I hope these people experience only misery for the rest of their, hopefully short, lives.

If he’s saying Ukraine started it then Putin would want him to be saying “war”.

My favourite three:

1. Migrants feed the US. He’s scaring them all off from going to work or physically removing them without any system to have anyone replace them.

2. He’s trying to scare us here in Canada with tariffs. We also supply them a bunch of crude oil and potash(for farming) and they’d be in shit without us. Lumber, too, I think.

3. He’s threatening companies like TSMC with tariffs on semi-conductors and then saying that if they make stuff in the US they won’t need to pay extra. But right away it’s obvious that he needs them more they need him, and the money will still just go to foreign executives at the end of the day.

He’s so bad at making deals, so bad at putting himself in advantageous positions. It’s mind-boggling that there are people who can’t see that.

And, failing that, if the US doesn’t like all these refugees they should maybe not cancel USAID to help develop other nations and keep those people there! And maybe all those palestinian refugees wouldn’t have had to leave their homes without the US giving the IDF a bunch of weapons.

The US loves to position itself as THE place to be while destabilizing as muchbof the world as possible and then bitches when people show up asking for somewhere safe to stay. So many of these people don’t want to have to leave their homes in the first damn place!

Do you have to ask? Why do you have zero desire to share anything with your friends? Dry isn’t the word I’d use, but “bothered” sure is. You text like you want them to piss off and you want them to know it without saying it.

And the best part is that you’ll start and join a community and meet a bunch of people who started even later than you still having a great time. Also, at 19, 5 years was more than a quarter of that dude’s life. I’m not even 30 yet but realized a while back just how slowly the years really pass when you’re out of school and finally paying attention and able to have a vague level of control.

He wasn’t even president when found guilty of so many crimes and they still let him go. That country is a joke and its rules mean nothing.

I hope that, when you have a struggle, someone sitting on their ass yells at you to add even more onto your plate.

You never did respond to my comment about what you’re doing about it. Stay useless, bitch.

The people suffering the most from debilitating health issues are not your fucking cannon fodder.

Go, go do it your damn self.