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Impeachment on its own I can't bring myself to care about. It needs to come with "and removal" for it to matter.

And even then that means president Vance. It would still matter because Vance is a weaker villain lacking the full undying support of the MAGA death cult but shit would still suck, just suck in a way where there would be more hope.

Jokes aside, is Mastodon still tech nerd dominated in 2025? This was from 2022.

I'm introverted, I liked them immediately.

They aren't nearly as motivated to go as fast as I am, and they can only bag one person at a time and have lines, while usually there are 4-6 machines wide open for me to jump onto immediately.

I fucking hate going to the grocery store though.

EDIT: also lonely old people will stop and chit chat sometimes slowing shit even more.

My hatred for this person is a thousand burning suns.

Like, I agree with the tit for tat. But don't let your cat outside.

Trans people seem to have a knack for hating men huh.

I'm not trans. I'm a cis male. (edit: well, mostly. TBH on a higher rational level I might as well be genderless, I'm a cis male by convenience)

Go on, try it there’ll be no tolerance for people who advocate for this levels of evil

Evil? I'm suggesting such not to punish males. Its to minimize loneliness and sadness in the world.

Trans man here to say that nobody needs to give any extra cred to MRA bullshit just because a trans person is saying it. I have also been through the full dude experience including profound loneliness. I likewise thought I was prepared but wasn’t. Its hard. I miss how things were before too.

I don't think the author was giving credit to MRA bullshit. MRA's seem to often hate women and I don't think the article implies any hatred, if anything he still tries to essentially that men are the ones that need to put in the effort to push past toxic masculinity. Describing it as a problem to be fixed at the individual level rather than at systematic level. Saying "If I could advise men, it would be first to look inward. "

I also know that in general, in 2025, all people are more isolated than 20 years ago. Furthermore, it is a known phenomena for a longtime that friendships are more difficult to cultivate as an adult. I doubt how different things would have turned out for me had I not transitioned.

Suicide rates differ for a reason. It is far more painful to be a lonely man than a lonely woman. Men are very quick to self loathing.

I also know that the “distance” I now experience from women is a direct result of 20,000 years of patriarchal violence. Of course women relate to me as a potential threat; I am one. And without the presumed vulnerability I possessed as a woman, men relate accordingly. Of course.

We should have fewer male babies. It seems like it'd reduce the amount of fear and alienation in society. (I'm saying this in good faith, I'm serious.)

At some point, as a trans guy, you need to stop leaning on your experience “as a former woman” to compare your life to, especially in the negative. Being 22 is not the same as 42 no matter what your gender presentation at any point. Many people experience nostalgia for their youth.

Based on my own reading/discourse, trans women usually seem to feel very little youth nostalgia in comparison. They might complain that they're older now, but that's usually more of a melancholy over "what could have been" had they been AFAB.

Just as when cis guys make these complaints, I question this person’s definition of “you dont get to”. In fact the article describes him making a career out of doing so. Even specific instances of “going viral”, and the affirmative feedback he received. It seems that you do get to.

I'm pretty sure he was talking about social pressures. Sure, he got to because he was very motivated to push against that societal expectation, that doesn't really mean that average men can get away with that unless they dedicate their whole career/life to it.

Which leads to pointing out that the whole thing is an advertisment for the author who is “a Professional Corporate Speaker and Stress Management Coach”.

I think calling it an advertisement is a stretch based only on that, but even if it was that doesn't invalidate the point being made.

And it has anti-trans hate material suggested items in the middle of it:

I think that's just because those are controversial yet related articles on Newsweek so their algorithm picked them. But yeah, those do seem to be especially trashy and obvious anti-trans articles. Its kind of gross that they ever ran on Newsweek to be honest...

Yeah, I try not to let things go unsaid myself because I don't really post memes much and I do try to fight against the toxic mentality of "men don't share feelings" shit.

But I feel a sort of mental "sting" every time I talk about something that makes me sad in front of people. It makes me worry I'm being pathetic, unlikable, or unattractive.

Transitioning to a point of passing in my understanding (mtf or ftm) comes with pros and cons.

I often think about this article as well when it comes to trans men's negative experiences once accepted as men: https://www.newsweek.com/trans-man-broken-men-1817169

My point exactly.

I mean, perhaps a bad use of word "fix". Its not like I was endlessly doom scrolling or watching short form videos. I was mostly playing Halo, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3, and GTA 3/Vice City. And when I was allowed to be play on the Xbox I had friends over and we split screened all the time. I miss split screen.

What’s a D in internationally understood scoring? Like 40%?

A 'D' is 60%-69%

What the fuck.

lol I mean, that shit is happening way more frequently these days than they were back then. I was probably an odd one out in that age group in the late nineties seeing as the internet was still "a place you visited".

I work in an after school program (one man IT department, paper pusher, and bus driver mostly) and there have been numerous times when its been brought to my attention that some of the kids had seen stuff they were not supposed to on the internet at home which they'd then talk about here getting themselves in trouble.

I once heard an 7 year old boy say loudly "I have a great sweaty gyatt!" on the bus, in a way that clearly indicated that he knew exactly what that meant. I decided to be lenient and told him that someone else had gotten written up for using that word around the youth counselors and that was my warning to him to not say it unless he wanted to get in trouble.

Bah.

I know a lot of kids end up messed up and addicted to screens or whatever but my parents let me use computers and the internet as much as I wanted and I'm sort of glad they did. My dad only (attempted) to refuse any access to my Xbox one summer after I got some D's. I pretended to not use it but I was still waking up like 5-6 hours before him so I'd get my fix every morning anyway.

That said, I stumbled into seeing DBZ hentai when I was like 8-9 on the internet. I did not let my parents find out precisely bc I was worried about them taking away the computer from me. I don't think that meaningfully negatively impacted me either but obviously its hard to know.

Unless... it keeps dropping...

It depends on the context.

In the context of our current government, it doesn't seem likely that its hopeless. The fascists are so laughably incompetent that what they are doing is unsustainable even in the short term.

When it comes to certain other things, like my personal perception of the average American following this election, it indeed is hopeless. There is almost nothing that I could fathom that could make me fully sympathetic to the average American again.

This blog isn't written by a bot right? Its literally a blog called "post human posting"...

If Valve was planning on releasing hardware soon they're going to postpone given the tariff threat.

The majority of the voting population answers this question based on name recognition alone.

Yeah I read the article, that headline is almost misleading in its support for Harris if anything. AOC has the best net

NOT complain and whine that everything isn’t handed to us on a platter.

She’s in second place and we have 3 years to move her into first, that sounds worth a shot to me. But go ahead and throw your hands up in the air, tuck your tail, and say there’s nothing we can do.

I shouldn't have to educate grown adults on shit this important they ought to desire to learn on their own. They should know who the hell AOC is JFC. So I'm still disgusted, just significantly less so. And like, I'll inevitably try to promote AOC, but I don't owe this country shit. I want to leave, I only can't thus far due to money/resources.

I jumped the gun, its still bad but AOC has the best net favorability out of them all. Harris has the most support by sheer name recognition. Its bad that people don't know who AOC is though.

The important takeaway is that AOC, and presumably progressivism more generally, is getting more popular.

Embarrassing (for me)... upon actually reading the article, the headline is almost misleading. AOC has the highest net favorability of them all, and Harris is only past her due to name recognition.

I'm baffled how there is that many people unaware of AOC though.