@maxine Need to leave behind the idea that some people are So Much More important than others that they get to be Kings.
'Cause none of them are worth what they're "Worth".
@maxine Has to do with how people Think.
And no, something really Has changed. Call it the Mayan Long Count if you will, but something's Different this time around.
We have Several generations now who've grown up with the Knowledge we can cause our own extinction. This is for a Civilization, like being a Child and coming face to face with Mortality.
Used to be, Armageddon was an act of God. Now, we can pull that trigger Ourselves.
@maxine And this is Precisely why I'm not having kids of my own.
re: Pol re: Bad medical condition re: vape, weird shitpost
@starseeker@snouts.online @caymanwent@snouts.online Ironically, Vaping physically transformed me from a borderline Fedaurasaurus Rex into the cute enby you see here today.
I don't care what's in it as long as I'm not Stress-eating and drinking mountain dew to cope.
Hot take
Transition is a powerful personal force for good for most of my friends.
But the Active Mechanism here is Questioning, self-discovery, openness to new ideas and a Rite of Passage given by a community based around Shared Suffering, with a chemical Sacrament.
Anyone can do this, but it's Hard. And Cispeople have been Handed their paradigm by Industries with a Vested Interest in uniform consumers.
Like "Here, just wear this AXE bodyspray and this Expensive Shirt, and you'll never have to become a better person or stop your problematic behaviors!"
That's what we're Really complaining about with Cis, straight people. It's not about their Gender, or Sexuality.
It's because they're Boring, Insecure, and they're wondering why They don't have a big supportive community with it's own culture. They're Normies, Yuppies, Bootlickers to the Corporate Machine.
And they're saying "Hey, if Your thing is so Awesome, that makes My thing LESS awesome!" And it isn't true. Their thing has been Mediocre Forever. It's always been culturally bankrupt.
We all decided we needed to change to be our Best Self. A lot of little changes happen along the way. Normies get told they already Are their best self, just keep buying Products to be Sexy and Desirable.
re: selfies, ec, transition timeline
@coda Hey now, for some of us, that's our Preferred gender.
Southern Mass's local machine healer and part time witchdoctor.
Tiny motorcycles, magic potions, machine tools, progressive rock, trance states, and hand sharpened drill bits. Oh, and I read Tarot. Probably 18+ just to be sure.
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