Yeah, uh, that hasn't stopped them from going after people in blue states.
Edit: that's a valid question, though. However, I'm concerned that it won't be enough.
MossyFeathers
joined 2 years ago
God I'm so tired of this shit. I swear the intent is to downplay the danger that many of America's marginalized communities are in. That way trans people don't have anywhere to run. People with disabilities have no where to run. POC have no where to run. Most, if not all, of y'all have laws specifically forbidding refugees from the US. This is because the US has traditionally been considered a safe harbor for refugees. However, the US government is now sending immigrants to Guantanamo and threatening to do the same with trans people, people with disabilities, and so on.
We need your help. Not by stepping in and correcting course, but by giving us safe refuge. Most of us are already in very serious danger and sweating bullets while we watch the gun slowly move to point at us, but we have nowhere to run because no one accepts US refugees.
I'm trans. I'm living in Texas. I voted for Harris. I'm watching the gun as it attempts to murder my friends (I have some birthright citizenship friends) as it slowly drifts ever closer. We need your help, because right now I'm expecting that our expiration dates are less than a year away. They gotta find something to do with us once they start running out of space in Guantanamo c::
The entirety of MBV's Loveless. Like, damn, turn that shit up and let it take you away.
Can anyone speak to the VR experience on Linux? I mainly use my desktop PC for VR nowadays, steam deck for everything else. From what I've heard, however, VR is still steaming garbage on Linux.
I may be misunderstanding what you're saying, but it absolutely is not an obligation to remember one's family (unless we're specifically talking about chosen family and not bio family). I have many friends who have been disowned, kicked out, physically/emotionally/verbally abused or even raped by their biological families as a result of being gay, trans, bi, pan or something else. It would be abusive and highly immoral to force them to keep their biological family in mind when making decisions.
They have no obligation to remember the trauma inflicted on them by their family members, except, perhaps, in a legal context against said family members; but once said legal context is fulfilled, they have no obligation to continue to remember. To state otherwise is to demand that they relive their past trauma, and for what? So their tormenter(s) can continue to torment them?
No. They have no obligation to continue to allow themselves to be tormented. Nor do they have any obligation to remember their biological families.
Now, if you're talking about chosen family, then you might be onto something, but as long as their chosen family is taken care of and does not need assistance from them, should they not honor their loved one's desire to one day be forgotten? Should they not allow the photos, keepsakes and whatnot that document a person's life, someone else's life, to be destroyed once they're no longer in use by anyone? To do otherwise would be selfish; if I am going to die and my best friend wished to not be remembered, I would allow them to go through my things and remove themselves once I had passed. After all, it is unlikely I will remember them once I've hit my expiration date and my things will no longer be of any use to me. If they wish to purge themselves from my mementos, then they may do so.
The only exception I can think of is if someone was exceptional in some way. The kind of person who gets a paragraph or more dedicated to their life in a history book. In that specific case I believe they should be remembered, but done so respectfully; perhaps with a pseudonym.
Honestly, you might not have to move back with the rate things are going.
How'd you move to the UK without having a job lined up?
~~Edit: also on the subject of her friends, where were you living before you moved away? I have friends in a number of states, they miiiiight be able to help, no promises tho.~~
Edit 2: I'm dumb and can't read.
"You're complaining about a genocide that hasn't happened yet when there's genocide going on right now in Gaza!" The reaction to that link: "That isn't genocide and you're making light of genocide if you call it that."
Oooo... I got that one from a furry on discord. My jaw hit the floor when they said that to me. Granted, they were European so they may not be keeping up with the news, but it was still shocking to hear that from a furry of all people.
In my case, the most recent fuckwit told me to never move to Europe because I wasn't wanted there.
(Do you want a furry trans-girl pet? I'll be your pet if you move me out too c:)
(I'm joking. Unless...)
Careful, people might try to tell you that you share responsibility too. I've had waaaaay too many people try to tell me that I, a trans woman who voted for Harris, must somehow share responsibility for my own oppression and the oppression of others at GOP hands.
Fucking disgusting.
Edit: one person has gone far enough to compare me to Martin Niemoller, a Nazi supporter who switched sides after his face got eaten by leopards.
Damn, that sounds awesome. I'm gonna have to try that.
gasp that's a wonderful idea! I should try that.
Basically everything. I'd be completely devastated. Unlike many of the people who've replied, the things I care about the most can't be saved from a fire. My plushies, my records, my shirts, my collars, that'll all burn or will be so smoke or water damaged that they'll need to be replaced. And some of them can't be replaced. I have a lot of limited edition stuff that you literally can't replace without considerable effort.
Even if they could be replaced, that's ignoring the emotional attachment that I have with my plushies (as well as one of my collars).
Weirdly enough, I actually care more about framerate on "pancake" (non-vr) games than I do on VR games. I can deal with 10fps in vrchat in a crowded instance. I need more like 20~30 for non-vr games.
That said, I get mentally exhausted when the framerate is <30 for an extended period of time in VRChat.