captainlezbian @ captainlezbian @lemmy.world

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Would this be epistemocide?

Ok but all Americans benefit from affordable fresh fruits and vegetables. If they need subsidies they need subsidies, but if they get subsidies their workers shouldn't be impoverished and worked to the bone. We can take the money out of oil subsidies.

Yeah it will indiscriminately hurt Iranians and Americans and not our rulers. We were both already suffering under our leaders before the American government decided to go to war with Iran.

I may need to go reread Jingo…

Wow sometimes I see something and am just struck by how America is a Mammonite theocracy

No your missiles and natural barriers.

That's a fair assessment.

I've only seen the before and afters and I'm a lot more experienced in watching the psychic collapse of people getting more and more cosmetic surgeries than I am with specific procedures, and I'll acknowledge her behavior and the circles she runs in have biased me towards thinking suicide by thousand cuts rather than a few ill advised procedures having unfortunate effects and it not being worth it to try to undo.

If your theory is correct then I'm somewhat sympathetic to that scenario. Especially as its increasingly common for political commentators and figures to have work done.

I think it's more likely to be unregulated dysmorphia. Maybe they start with a bit to get the fox news look, but cut by cut wind up like that trying to fix every "flaw" with a procedure.

People getting hooked on cosmetic surgery looks really similar to how dysmorphic anorexics wind up.

Sometimes a surgeon can do an amazing job, and many will consistently do so. Much like how people can look much better by loosing weight. You probably couldn't tell if someone had their abdominal adipose tissue injected into their butt or breasts if it was done well and you didn't know. But then they're likely to decide it isn't enough.

Dealing with dysmorphia is hard. Changing to body neutral attitudes is hard. Seeing your body realistically is hard. I struggle with weight based dysmorphia myself and I know I possess the capacity to starve myself emaciated and still think I look fat because I have organs.

I find it ironic in a way, that Ms loomer is a transphobe who probably thinks we need therapy to deal with dysphoria, while being clearly at the mercy of her dysmorphia.

There's a question I've seen posed in some circles before: "Do you need a boob job, or do you need to read some feminist theory?" It's not meant to be accusative, the answer can be either and thats ok, but it's important to actually consider that your perspective of your body and of other bodies may be skewed before you surgically go changing things based on your insecurities. Even if you pick the boob job, you're more likely to go in with realistic goals and less likely to keep getting another procedure if you've seriously thought about it before.

She looks worse than the vast majority of trans people I've met

Oh honey, some changes we have to purchase from micronations ourselves

Im not currently impressed but may change my tune within the year

Oh no. Anyways I still hope he gets the Gaddafi treatment and still don't want America to go to war with Iran.

It was long and slow and by the time it was clear what was happening it was well underway.

I'm someone who grew up in ohio as it happened and it was subtle. But we eventually passed constitutional amendments banning gerrymandering, but congress ignored us. And as it happened bit by bit we left. I stayed until it was clearly about to get unsafe for folks like me (I left a few months ago), and democrats are still fighting there. But political polarization is strong and a lot of coastal Republicans have moved in because its nearly impossible for them to lose there at this point in anything except single issue votes on constitutional amendments

Any American balkanization would likely go very similarly to the partition of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The liberals would be given a period of permission to move to the coasts, and the conservatives to the red states, and in this process communities would shatter and a lot of people would die, but it's better than a civil war and/or white terror.

In American balkanization I imagine yall would be a battleground of the literal variety. Colorado and new Mexico would want to join Pacifica and Nevada, Arizona, Wyoming, and Montana likely won't. But also you're valuable enough to justify putting up a stink for

Its part of why I moved out west. That and fear of persecution in the Midwest.

There were the German Sturgeons

By 2000 more Americans had died of AIDS than any war but the civil war. Though I will admit I was surprised we still didn't care when it wasn't just undesirables dying. Turns out we're able to be ablist enough to declare anyone who dies of disease basically already dead beforehand

Fair warning with that one, its really cool looking but mostly popular with trans lesbians and terfs.

Camels are also native to north America, and similarly went extinct here after spreading to Asia then later got reintroduced