First of all - yes, violence is the Nazi language, and probably the simplest way to get through to them. Pain and hurt is what they signed up for, and I wouldn't mind giving it to them.

But also consider:
https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too

I understand maybe 10% of this post.

I am happy with that 10%.

Just wanted you to know that you've started me on a QC marathon that has consumed my life. I've read like 3000 pages so far.

On one hand, I was definitely using this to procrastinate and avoid critical tasks, and will be facing rather unpleasant consequences soon.

On the other hand, reading multiple character arcs of shitty and/or fucked-up people getting their lives together (albeit in cute, orthogonal-to-reality sitcom fashion), and growing in really beautiful ways, has led me to reconsider my approach to life a bit. I might even try this 'self-love' thing everyone seems to be talking about. Can't hurt, I guess.

If you've actually read this far - I'm taking suggestions on how to start! (If you don't have any, that's cool; thanks for reading my rant anyway.)

In summary - I fucked up again but it might have been worth it. Chaos Theory Butterflies 🦋. Insert obscure QC in-joke here.

The woman in the bottom right... there's a story to how she got there, I can feel it

May I be so bold as to suggest an alternative?
!degoogle@lemmy.ml

You're gonna have to do it eventually. Take advantage of the outrage you're feeling and get it done now. Won't take long for Google to become a direct government surveillance tool.

They are too big to care about user feedback at this point.

Hyprland's community has a history of toxicity: https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html

"I am looking directly into your ear canal" fucking got me

Nah, I'd give those a solid 8/10

What worked for me was to think hard about the reasons why I feel like shit, and what I could do about them - even the big, scary reasons. Especially the big scary reasons.

It's probably the only reason I'm still alive, because while I still struggle to bear living in this world, I can see the faintest glimmers of a new one that waits to be built. I just need to start (or in my case, to survive till I can start). I don't think I could keep going if I was just trying to achieve conventional norms of 'being happy'; those were never meant for me.

This isn't what I started with, but it is a good encapsulation: https://crimethinc.com/tce

It helped me to expand my idea of what it means to 'love' someone, or something: https://gl.crimethinc.com/2024/02/14/notes-on-love

And here's where I hope to be one day: https://crimethinc.com/2018/03/22/we-fight-because-we-like-it-maintaining-our-morale-against-seemingly-insurmountable-odds

Have you considered a third option: Being paralyzed by grief and dread over the ongoing apocalypse. Too far removed from it to directly fight back, and yet the world in which you could see a future for yourself is slipping away. Unable to do any of the things you SHOULD be doing to improve your material situation, because what's the point if you'll die without ever getting to live as yourself, to experience even the basic sense of belonging with people like you that will get cis people through this

...and also not texting anyone back, because nobody in your life knows, and you're dependent on people who are known to be phobey, and you'd lose whatever fragile social capital you still have thanks to male privilege and hiding all the ~~ugly~~ nonconformant parts of yourself, and how are you supposed to talk about netflix shows and the weather when your brain is literally just insurrectionary anarchism and traaaaaaaaans, neither of which you can safely act on

...and being too paranoid even to shitpost or vent regularly on the internet, because you're afraid you'd give out enough info for someone to dox you, and that would be the end

obligatory :3 so i can pretend i'm still being quirky and funny like everyone else, don't mind me, just silli thoughts~

cutie alert!!

Do we have concrete proof of this happening now or in the near future? Does the video provide any? I need to know whether to sound the alarm now, or wait till there's something concrete to show people. (You can probably understand my hesitation to share a scarily titled YT video as my only proof)