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1 hour ago, vkxwz said:
The real interesting part to me is what actually causes the dysphoria and gives people the motivation to want to transition, my opinion is that it's a societal / cultural issue where people that don't match the stereotype of their sex are viewed in a negative way.
luckily your opinion doesn't matter, if you ask actual trans people it's an internal mental disconnect from the body, roughly comparable to phantom limb syndrome if that's more understandable to you, and it comes from within entirely. its probably caused by factors like genetics and hormonal conditions in the womb
what you are putting forward is called "social contagion theory" originally popularized by the Nazis as an excuse to exterminate LGBT people. so you should rethink.
even though you are being seemingly civil in your post, you are spreading tons of misinformation and pontificating on things that you dont really have a right to care about this much, it's not a debate topic its others lives
its also not a mystery or something we need to investigate further as a society. it's already settled, but lots of cis people have a newfound pseudo-interest in it created by media narratives
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the biggest issue with the medical establishment that trans people face is lack of access to healthcare, both normal healthcare for normal medical issues, and especially trans healthcare which is now illegal in many places or gatekept so much that you are forced to undergo the wrong puberty for years before you get hrt.
the problem is NOT receiving too much healthcare.
in a world where healthcare is a scarce commodity for the rich, the idea that they are actively giving people too much very expensive healthcare that they don't need is absurd and completely out of line with reality
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6 minutes ago, Summon Dot E X E said:
At what age do you think boys should be allowed to ask for castration?
anyway this is the fundamental issue transphobes like u dont get
they arent boys they are girls, trans girls, that you are talking about here
what is the right age for a girl to undergo male puberty?
no age at all
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2 minutes ago, Summon Dot E X E said:
HRT is irreversible, by the way.
GOOD THATS THE POINT
unfortunately its not as irreversible as you think
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1 minute ago, Summon Dot E X E said:
At what age do you think boys should be allowed to ask for castration?
castration is basically never performed on trans children, they just take hrt? have you even read about this at all? you know they are taking isolated instances of legitimate medical malpractice and using it to push a narrative of taking away trans peoples rights entirely? or do you not? i suspect you dont know much of anything TBH
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remember, when it comes to trans rights, only the voices of detransitioners matter /s
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3 hours ago, Summon Dot E X E said:
I don't read the Daily Wire so I can't speak to whether I think they generally tell the truth, but this is a good documentary.
Chloe Cole was mutilated as a child and now blames the medical industry. She supports this documentary, which I encourage everyone to watch before you dismiss it as "disinformation". Many people are so polarized that they completely ignore reality if it goes against the orthodoxy of their political cult.
le epic cis debaters owning the trans with facts and logic, trans families and children should realize its not their place to make decisions for their own life, its actually the job of bearded right wing nobs to decide, we definitely need to force trans kids to undergo 18 years of misery and suicidal ideation, thanks for sharing your enlightened worldview, if only we could public-debate-ify even more issues of personal freedom until we figure out the real answer to every one and appropriately ban the freedoms that arent safe for people to have over themselves
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i want to see them put tracks in their vocals
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use chat gpt to clean your fridge
use chat gpt to carry in your groceries
this one new trick to use chat gpt to never have to talk to your mother in law again
chat gpt, learn how to sell chat gpt over the phone with chat gpt
teach your parrot to ward off burglars with chat gpt
learn how to get laid with chat gpt (sex edition)
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i would pay as much as they ask, i would encourage them to charge more
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because of marx's labor theory of value
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there is absolutely nothing of value ai can produce
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the innermost essences can at time rove and scan those of others, and as this angelic dance of beauty occurs, vibrational energies can be transmitted
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On 5/13/2023 at 11:53 AM, thawkins said:
Sorry if this sounds a bit jaded, but coming from the software world it's kind of a sad reality that the high ideals of the open source initiative have pretty much been co-opted by profit seeking capitalism.
thats because even the purest Stallmanist FOSS ideals were nothing but liberal reformism to begin with. only through socialism can we achieve true software freedom, or in other words, freedom for software users and engineers to control the means of software production
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12 hours ago, auxien said:
“We ARE the machines! We always were!!!”
in each era the most advanced technology is projected onto the conception of the mind, and of god
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13 minutes ago, GORDO said:
Well whatever I'll just throw it in here that I think the internet as a whole is a self aware entity that has been acting autonomously to influence humanity for some time now.
And that's the only explanation for how Tumblr and Chan culture dominate our socio political interactions as of late.
it is semi-autonomous, it is a vehicle of class oppression, propaganda dissemination, and psychological operations on a mass scale, designed by decisions made by the owning class, and AI designed with their goals in mind
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On 4/12/2023 at 10:10 PM, ignatius said:
literally cant tell whether this is a parody
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2 hours ago, Summon Dot E X E said:
A rather reductionist response, as I expected.
China has a state capitalist economy, every bit as imperialist as the United States or Britain ever was, and it is simultaneously communist in its brutal censorship, repression, attempts at information dominance, and in general, its strategy of 5th generation warfare against every non-member of the CCP on Earth. In fact, they are waging war on the world THROUGH capitalism. By using what could fairly be called slave labor to produce things so cheaply, they have spread their influence and gotten their tentacles in everything. Canadian real estate and NBA celebrities, for instance.
I said beware false dichotomies, don't pose them to me!
I wish the Chinese people were free. I wish that all people were free. To say and do what they want. I just don't know how to get there. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
communists have the right goal in mind. you can critique historical and present methods. if you have no alternative path, what value is there in that overall position?
the main issue that socialist and communist countries face is vicious reaction from capitalist countries who want to force them into subservience again, and from the capitalists of their own country.
utopian socialists of marx's time wanted to build special compounds with farming and communal labor and hope to just branch off and achieve a peaceful and fair society, but it's not actually viable. so he analyzed capitalism itself and theorized how it behaves and what you must do to fight it, and so far he's been so right that global wars have been fought to suppress those who believe in marxism and socialism. violence perpetrated by the capitalists.
so its not fair to say "both socialists and capitalists do so and so" no you must rather look at the mode of production and determine through theory and practice how it must transform, and the soviet union, china, cuba, etc. show the path forward, even though they have a long way to go
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3 minutes ago, Summon Dot E X E said:
You're right about capitalism. Of course it's been horribly exploitative. That's how Marx's writing was able to convince the intelligentsia in all the places where communism has gone into effect, and how they were able to browbeat the populations in submission. When you're in hell, as millions in the chains of the naked, brutal power of capital have been, an intellectually appealing alternative is alluring. I myself was under that idealistic spell from age 15 until about 28.
However, humanity has certain limits and weaknesses, and history keeps repeating itself. We are prone to so many fallacies, emotional decision making, etc.
What you don't realize yet, or have made excuses for, is the fact that communism is every bit as brutal. It always has been, and it always will be. Just like capitalism, it's a small hegemony which rules vast amounts of resources and people. It also controls thought, which is something we are seeing now in "capitalism". I put it in quotes now because we have long since left the free market and have something more like totalitarian hegemony in virtually every country, in which information is the most powerful weapon.
I spoke to Noam Chomsky about this a decade ago. Regarding what we should do, he said:
Communism has been an attempt to either design an ideal society (that always fails horribly for the same reasons), or it is an attempt to enslave people.
At any rate, the present-day Maoists with their Little Red Books are having fun with their ritual humiliation on the internet these days, and we're getting close to the story of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlik_Morozov, whether it was fabricated or not, with children being turned against their parents through the information they receive.
There's really no precedent for what's happening now with the hyper-connectedness of the internet, the addictive, soul-destroying power of social media, and the god-like potential of AI which will certainly be wielded by those unworthy of that type of power.
Beware false dichotomies, false tribes, false information, manipulated emotions, and manufactured consent.
well chomsky is not a communist so of course he would say that
do you prefer china went down the capitalist road and probably never even remotely reached its current level of advancement, and was just another colony still?
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7 hours ago, randomsummer said:
Thanks for taking me out of context. [...]
I am known to ramble and take things out of context, but I'm not a troll
And no I don't mean imperialism, I mean plain typical capitalism. it was achieved through extremely bloody revolutions and violent theft of resources. and imperialism is anyway a necessary result of capitalist expansion, not something that can even be isolated from it to treat a capitalism as pure until imperialism develops, no rather they are dynamic systems causing one another, resulting in Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism [https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/]
maybe youre right that megacorps are more immoral, and maybe small companies that know employees personal are less bad, but a common experience of workers in small mom and pop owned shops is that they are expected to love and care about the company as much as the owners, despite being nothing more than underpaid wage laborers, and are exploited sometimes even more heavily than in megacorps.
living in communes in capitalist societies is individualistic lifestyle adventurism and not a pathway to achieving communism unless they are a part of a revolutionary anti-capitalist program supporting a socialist movement, not some nudist hippies (who I have nothing against but they are not communist necessarily)
think of it this way, capitalism has a concept of private property as its central principle. but how do you start that? was everyone given some private property and then the capitalism button is pressed and people start competing? no, the richest and most powerful took by force what they wanted, to create their initial capitals. it even continues to this day as financial manipulation bankrups millions, murders others, ruins their government systems, entire public forests are sold for pennies on the dollar to private interests and cut down to create cop cities, etc.
the rosy image of competition is propaganda spread by capitalists and their governments
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On 4/1/2023 at 1:04 PM, randomsummer said:
I'm starting to think that capitalism is great for getting things going
well if you look at how the framework of capitalism itself "got things going" it involves
-mass genocide
-land enclosure
-theft of personal property
-privatization of public resources
nothing about that is great
and once it "gets going", how does it expand and make money? literal theft of the surplus labor value of the workers, each of whom is coerced into working there by the threat of homelessness or poverty
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1 hour ago, Nebraska said:
im embarassed for this guy but simultaneously he has millions of people thinking he's great, it's quite a contradiction, he should not exist, as he does (famously)
Elon Musk's Starman - Is this shit real wtf
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even though i havent researched this for even 5 minutes, i need to share my thoughts on the matter. i must take part in the debate
what debate? well the one they keep talking about on fox news of course