Azarova [they/them]

If you’re ever forced to use windows for whatever reason, your college should have computers in a library or something that you could use. As far as office software compatibility goes, the office documents themselves are likely to show up with formatting errors if opened in another office suite, but there’s no such issue if you export to PDF though, so I always did my work in LibreOffice and then turned in a PDF and there were never any issues. For group work, I always found it easier to just use one of the browser-based office suites for file compatibility or for working on the same document together.

Did we ever find out if Ansarallah actually hit the carrier like they claimed?

iirc, they were directly told to fuck off by the new government

I regret to inform you that you are also an animal.

Puberty is not something that is “inflicted” on anyone.

It is when we have the safe medication to make it avoidable for someone who would be harmed by it, but “”“moderates”“” are tying themselves into knots trying to find ways to subvert the medical consensus because the existence of trans children makes them uncomfortable or whatever fucking justification they tell themselves.

I don’t think your “fuck off and die” attitude is going to convince very many people to be accepting of trans people.

Do you think maybe that attitude is the result of being one of the primary political scapegoats for fascists for several years now, while liberals have largely sat on their hands and done nothing while hundreds and hundreds of discriminatory bills flow through state legislatures every single year? While liberals like you gradually adopt reactionary framing (the “dangers” of puberty blockers and the alleged commonality of trans surgeries for children) on the issue, ceding ever more ground to their rhetoric?

You’re providing a perfect example of the kind of attitude that will get fascists elected.

And then victim blaming as the cherry on top. Very cool.

life altering drugs

Puberty blockers are not life altering drugs and have been used on cis children for decades with no issues being raised about it, let alone of this scale. Any stance other than this, one based in actual reality, is caving to right wing framing of the issue.

permanent surgeries

So exceedingly rare among trans children that it’s not worth talking about. Trans children rarely get access to puberty blockers, let alone surgeries. Editing to add: Most surgeries are done to reverse the effects of a wrong puberty. If trans kids got the blockers/HRT they needed, they wouldn’t have a need to undergo surgery, except for maybe GRS, which is not a universal desire among trans people.

until they are adults that can make those decisions

This is also caving to right wing rhetoric on the issue. Trans children are not walking into gender clinics and saying “One gender-affirming surgery, please :)”, this process typically involves multiple doctors, usually a therapist of some kind, and obviously the kid’s parent(s)/guardian(s). Just like the abortion issue, it should stay that way and be free of state intervention, because to say otherwise would be to contradict the overwhelming majority of medical evidence from the past several decades that indicate that transition leads to the best outcomes for trans people.

I want to be able to tell them that the trans issue is being used to divide us and get people to vote against their economic interests.

As Outdoor_Catgirl said, this issue is not a fucking distraction. To be free from discrimination and the very real threat of violence that often results murder should ostensibly be an issue liberals would care about. But even with the most selfish framing, trans issues are directly related to the lack of adequate and affordable healthcare that plagues this country even after it socially murdered over a million people with the lack of COVID response. So, trans issues should not be seen as a “distraction” or a “culture war”, because increasing discrimination and stochastic violence against a vulnerable minority should be issues that even liberals care about.

yup

banking app already don’t let you root or otherwise flash your device

It’s unfortunately only developed for the Pixel series of phones, but I’ve been using my banking apps on GrapheneOS with no issues.

watching the ukrainian version of the ‘stab in the back’ myth coalesce in real time has certainly been something

this movie is so insanely good. the final dialogue between Nadyenov and Fedotov was so prescient

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Dp7ght2fMR4

im just excited about all the new stickers tbh

just one more sanctions package bro. i promise bro just one more round of sanctions and russia will be finished bro. bro. just one more sanction. please just one more sanction. one more sanctions package and we can balkanize russia bro. bro cmon just let us sanction russia one more time bro. please bro i need just one more round of sanctions and russia will collapse, i promise this time bro

I feel like they’re all doing that or campaigning for cabinet positions. I would be surprised if any of them were actually deluded enough to think they could beat Trump. That, or they’re holding out hope that his legal troubles stop him from being the candidate.

Not only that, but they are visual reminders of what happened to those that came before. Must be pretty damaging for morale.

It seems sort of weird to say, but almost everything but also nothing at the same time? A lot of my reactionary/liberal opinions were just regurgitations of points I had picked up from family/friends/school/media/etc and hadn’t really thought through and didn’t hold nearly as strongly as the positions I have now, so much so that I hesitate to even call them opinions (except for a few things like queer rights, since I was aware of my queerness relatively young, though my thinking on the topic has certainly evolved). Once I started becoming actually politcally conscious, I gradually started to realize all this and began slowly unlearning pretty much everything I had been taught and passively absorbed about socialist states, much of history (US history especially), how American politics actually function, etc. It’s honestly a little embarassing how flimsy the foundation was for a lot of my liberal/reactionary beliefs. That all being said, this process started shortly after I started to transition, an experience that shattered a lot of illusions I had been sold about capitalism and liberalism. Seeing my rights on the chopping block with the 2016 election, and then seeing the liberal response be the pussy hat march and then… just about fuck all else, made realize socialists and communists were the only ones who actually gave enough of a shit to do something. Once I realized who my real allies were, everything else followed after that.