memes CommunistCuddlefish • 3mo ago • 97%

Capital is a Horrifying Eldritch God (OC)

I don't know where exactly to post this but the memes comm seems fitting. I've gone from finding the capitalist Democrats offputting and funny in how pathetic they are to genuinely horrifying and terrifying. There's something -- a lot of things -- fundamentally *very* wrong with them. If you look at the actual impacts of their actions it's clear they are murderers, and I feel like I'm going insane when people act like they're these friendly folksy wholesome heroes. I can see something that others can't! Isn't that insanity? But I'm the one who sees clearly, sees the truth, and they are the ones who are deluded and have their vision clouded by Capitalist lies: the lie that it is safe to get Covid over and over, the lie that genociding Palestinians is good, the lie that America is a force for good in the world instead of the most evil, tyrranical, and murderous empire to threaten the world since the Nazi Third Reich broke its teeth trying to take on the Soviet Union. The King in Yellow imagery is perfect, and crossing that with king charles' beautiful bloody portrait that reveals what blood-stained eldritch monsters rule over us makes for a good effect. Biden's smile is not the reassuring smile of your cozy safe grandpa, it's the creepy smile of a serial killer.

chat CommunistCuddlefish • 4mo ago • 87%

I do not care about Project 2025. Am I wrong?

I mean I do care about it in the sense that I care about not wanting the US to become even more of a white supremacist Christian fascist imperialist genocidal autocracy than it already is. But I don't see anything I can do about it that would be even remotely effective. And more than that I just don't see anyone else who actually cares about it enough to even try to do something about it so what good is me "caring" even supposed to do? Now I do see a lot of white liberals (and "progressives", and even some white people who consider themselves leftists) panicking about it. But then when pressed about what is to be done to stop it, their solution is always, *always*, **ALWAYS** just "vote for (Genocide) Joe", which tells me they don't *actually* care about Project 2025, they just want to use it as a cudgel to get me to vote for the same ghouls who are blowing up Palestinians and who have let the spooky scary Republican Party get this powerful. But when I point out to them that they obviously don't really care because they aren't interested in addressing the roots of fascism or doing anything real to stop fascism, they get all indignant and upset at me, call my takes "disturbing", "monstrous", "privileged", "psychotic", and after getting that a bunch I do have to wonder if maybe I just have some massive blind spot and am getting this wrong. But they won't tell me what is actually factually wrong about what I say. Besides, what do they want me to do about it? They can't seriously expect me to back a party that loves genocide, but they won't suggest anything else. Idk I just feel like the majority of people I see raising a fuss about Project 2025 and the threat of a "Trump dictatorship" are comfortable, privileged white liberals, usually white queer liberals, who have never had to worry about the government targeting their demographics until the last few years. I and every other queer poc I know is like, "oh, they're going to go after me for *another* thing? Sure whatever, put it on the pile of other shit they throw at us, what's one more? Now let's get back to trying to stop the fascist Democratic Party from stealing money from our paychecks to bankroll a genocide against some of the *actual* most vulnerable and oppressed people in the world. If Project 2025 actually lands here we'll fight that too, but we will NEVER throw away our solidarity with the wretched of the earth to preserve what comfort we do have." Please Hexbearians, tell it to me straight: Is Project 2025 something we actually need to pay attention to and if so what can we actually do about it? Or is the furor over it just a bunch of fragile white people panicking because they might finally be lumped in with the rest of us and finally get targeted for oppression too?

traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns CommunistCuddlefish • 4mo ago • 100%

MTFs who can't afford the side-effects of hormones, how do you deal with transitional steps? [CW: discussions of dysphoria, dysmorphia, sex and sexuality]

Turns out I’ve got major gender problems and wish I had been born a girl. [Removed as it was pointed out how problematic and doomer my sentiment was] I'm well past puberty and am very masculine-looking. The dysphoria’s gotten worse over the years though, or maybe the gender affirming feelings have gotten more tempting as I’ve stopped being in denial so much and have explored a bit of transitional stuff — shaving, doing my hair different, less masculine clothing. But I just don’t know what to do next. I’m terrified by the idea of trying to hormonally transition, mostly because I have a very high sex drive and am very attached to it. Dysphoria about the shape of my genitals aside, I do want my dick to keep getting hard, I want to still be able to orgasm from using it, and I want to still produce cum for my partner to enjoy. From what I’ve read hormonal transitioning would eventually disable all of those, and I feel for me that would be even worse than not transitioning. I’m also pretty strong and muscular, and I don’t want to lose that muscle and put on a bunch of fat from going on estrogen, which I’ve seen happen to couple friends who’ve transitioned. So, hormonal transitioning looks too risky for me. Still, I thought maybe I could still achieve a good degree of comfort with non hormonal transitioning, maybe getting rid of all the body hair for a start. But when it comes to non hormonal transitional steps it all feels so incredibly daunting. I’ve been “blessed” with prodigious masculinity, the ability to grow hair all over my body like a beast. Shaving is a pain and I grow hair so fast that my face turns into stubble in less than a day after shaving. Nonhormonal transitional steps I’ve considered: Shaving all over. Problem: I’ve only shaved a bit of my body and it gets really old and time-consuming really fast. Laser hair removal. Problem: Supposed to be very expensive, and it works better on people with white skin and light, fair hair, neither of which have I (EDIT: CORRECTION: works better with dark hair so at least I have that going for me). In particular the at-home DIY machines do not work as well in those use cases, and without training there’s more risk of damaging your own skin trying to do it. Electrolysis hair removal: I had a bit done in the past on my face. It was not super effective, takes a lot of sessions, and was *very* painful even with a local anesthetic cream. On top of that, while I might be able to have it done on much of my body it is impossible to have done on my face because of Covid — I’d have to take off my respirator and that’s not happening unless I could find a practitioner wearing an N95 in an isolated room with heavy air filtration. More drastic nonhormonal steps — facial feminization surgery, breast implants — are even more inaccessible because at this point very few healthcare practitioners give a shit about Covid so it’s nigh impossible to see a surgeon or even get to a gender care clinic. Regardless, the uncontrollable hair is a big barrier — I wouldn’t want to consider other options before getting it dealt with in the first place. Everything seems so painful, risky, and dauntingly expensive to the point where idk how I could afford it anyway. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you, comrades.

chat CommunistCuddlefish • 5mo ago • 100%

Don't know where to ask but what is our affiliated Mastodon instance?

I remember seeing someone mention there is a Mastodon instance for Hexbear, but I don't remember what it was called. I got kind of bothered by the one I was on (kolektiva.social has a lot of cool rad people but it also has too many unserious people with "tankies fuck off" in their bio), and someone I want to follow blocked the entire kolektiva instance because he was getting harassed by too many racists from there, so I'm looking to make a new account. Hexbear has proven to be the best part of the fediverse I've found so far and it'd be nice to make my new Mastodon account there too.

em_poc CommunistCuddlefish • 9mo ago • 95%

Liberal racists are the worst

On a different Lemmy account I forgot to switch to local and was subjected to the cesspool of Lemmy World. There I encountered libs being seriously condescending toward Muslims in America for boycotting Genocide Joe. Shit like "don't they realize Trump will be worse for minorities" and "that's shortsighted and a failure of Muslim leadership" and even the incomprehensible "hate is a bad long term strategy" (this just in folks, opposing genocide is Hate, supporting genocide is Love! But Liberals aren't fascists! /s) Fuck Liberals. I almost respect Conservative racists more because they're open about being evil scum, whereas the libs are too deluded to even admit to themselves that they're racist.