Honestly, (trans)misogynistic transmascs are a pain in the ass, but in the end they're just incel ideologues or liberal chauvinists like any other masc person with problematic views, and the reason is largely the same, they latch onto male privilege to lord it over women. As people navigating a masc-aligned gender role, they intuitively get how to center yourself in conversations, how to silence women and how to be a petty, power-grabbing piece of shit in general, because our society provides ample role models, material and ideological incentives and culturally ingrained leeway for that. It has to to maintain patriarchal property and power relations. Trans men are men and sometimes, some of them are men in the worst ways possible, it comes with the territory when you live in a society that enables male violence in all kinds of ways.

The main difference is that they are people i run into in supposed safer spaces, but it never sat well with me to give them their own trans-specific label, i honestly don't think these dinguses deserve it. They're just misogynist swine like all the other misogynist swine. And i wouldn't say that all transmasculine people are united by a shared lived experience of not experiencing what i go through, trans experiences are a bit too diverse for that. I get a feeling that there's a neo-binarist essentialism to the TME and TMA labels, and i do not use them when calling out (trans)misogyny. I do that a lot, i had to do that with somebody in a trans space just yesterday, but i did not need to call dem TME for that. If i needed an expression for that person, i would go with transmisogynist, joyless pile of spite and insecurity, that seems more fitting than TME.

Yeah, i wouldn't say i could strongly identify with it, either. Relate to many of the themes, yes, but emotionally i'd say it was more like giving me a feeling of a hard to pinpoint weariness and melancholy. There's a lot of media that makes me cry, there's a lot of often much more vaguely trans-related horror that either fills me with abject terror or makes me feel empowered in a positively monstrous way and that film didn't do any of either.

::: spoiler spoiler That's in spite of me coming out in my early 40s, so i spent about as much time as an egg as the protagonist has at the end of the movie. I still wouldn't say it really captured my experience, although i get that feeling of never being fully there that is referred to as "just narrating your own life" or smth like that in the movie. And there's other stuff throughout the movie that makes me go "yeah, i understand that", but it doesn't feel like the story of my past. It's not the way i survived, not the way i repressed things and often not the way things broke through and bubbled up to the surface, either. But that's fine, people are built differently and have different experiences.
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I just saw I saw the TV glow and fully expected to hate it, but it was actually beautiful. Also mildly painful to watch, but there is a sad, haunting wonder both in its visuals and its themes.

i don't wanna start a struggle sesh here, but a giraffe very clearly looks like an antelope image that has been stretched without regards for proportions

I can't stop calling this guy Furzgesagt

Yeah sure, the guys who would fall for "hey, we do not give a shit about your material problems, do you want to pick up a rifle and be a murdering tool of our empire instead?" will pick fascism with lanyard cringelord aesthetics over mask-off fascism. How far does this ridiculous dork have his head up his own ass to convince himself this plan could work?

pretty sure he's with Trump, I've never seen even district management dress like that.

Yeah, that guy looks like SS to me (still can't believe Amerikans literally call the personal guard of their political leaders the SS)

Particularly bad episode of Kitchen Nightmares meets the energy of Frittte Girl from Disco Elysium

The modus operandi is less West Bank and more cult compound, or just large parts of the nazi scene in a Western city buying cheap, abandoned houses in an almost-ghost town in the East. I can dig up sources, but i don't know anything in English about this.

As a card-carrying weirdo sex German, i object to being compared to Rammstein.

But yes, it shouldn't surprise anybody that people who spent their youth as punks and goths in East Germany regularly got into fights with nazi skins, the fash basically tried to conquer that place immediately after the DDR fell and that has always included lots of street violence. Basically every leftist space there has been won by punching nazis in the face until they mostly gave up on the area, and after more than 30 years of fascist organizing and downright settlement policies, and tons of leftist or just not-fascist people moving away from dying towns ravaged by neoliberal shock treatment, there aren't many of these places left.

a woke dog that sprays me in psychoactive chemicals to tell me things like "the working class needs you" sounds like a pretty cool pet, ngl

The US literally thought they could win the war by just slaughtering their way to a better KDR.

"Container, container"-Song from Disco Elysium intensifies

"Who does your gut tell you the source of Revachol's problems is?"

1. • woke
2. • woke
3. • woke
4. • woke
5. • I thought you were my circulatory system?

"Uhm ... the wokes?"

"Yes, them, but also ... Wöjacks."

"Wöjacks?"

"Yes, Wöjacks. Jacks of Wö."

there's maybe not that much going on there besides "i identify with whatever some doctor said when i was a baby and they briefly looked at my junk" and "that forest fire at the gender reveal party kinda kicked ass"

I have no idea what goes in the heads of cis people and i'm unsure if i want to know, what i'm saying is just that they keep doing it if you don't push back on that.

I agree. I've grown less allergic to getting they / themed over the years, i understand when it is used by people who do not know my pronouns, i stick to using gender-neutral language whenever i'm talking in general or about people i don't know the pronouns of, but when you state your pronouns are she / her, that's not optional. People have to stick to your pronouns if they want to treat you with just the barest minimum of respect, and when these pronouns do not include they / them, you do not use they / them.

The problem is that people who do not respect pronouns in my experience do not get better on their own. You have to keep reminding them, in some cases that's enough, in some cases you need to escalate things and shame or ridicule them or make a scene to drive the point home that they're hurting you. What of this is appropriate depends on the people and the context, but when you never correct people misgendering you, they will assume it's ok. A lot of trans people are understandably overwhelmed with this need to assert themselves, and it is tiresome to have all these struggles and fights, and you obviously have to pick your battles sometimes, but with people you will deal with again, there's really no way around calling them out on their BS.

Because they're committing war crimes against Italians:

A primary cause of Italy’s reported embargo and Meloni’s open declaration of it is Israel’s recent attacks on peacekeepers in the United Nations’ Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL), to which Italy is the largest contributor of troops.

Before this, Italy kept signing arms deals with Israel in spite of the war crimes in Gaza.

That's actually less complicated than how weed legalization works in Germany. I can legally light up a splif when i step out my back door, but not when i step out of my front door, because smoking in public has extremely specific zoning restrictions and you constantly go from a "fine to smoke" to a "smoking is a misdemeanor" zone. There are interactive maps that show you were it's legal to light up and everything.