Johanna 💜

Man who was a Blackwater Mercenary, 3 times Iraq veteran, who served as a guard at Abu Ghraib, one time Afghanistan veteran, who said he loved it, and got a Nazi tattoo to celebrate it, and was accused a couple months ago of sexual assault and abuse - which the Yankee left were cool with and defended - is also a rapist

I sincerely believe you should go to hell

anonymousmorris

Graham Platner ran on an anti-zionist, universal public healthcare, no foreign interventions, pro labor union, etc.

Susan Collin is running on a pro Israel platform, voted for the original Iraq war, voted for the anti boycott act (the one against bds), and voted for additional ice funding as well as the big beautiful bill.

Ahh yes, the unrepentant vet that happily took 5 tours in Iraq, including 1 as a Blackwater mercenary, and lobbing mortars in population-dense environment, desecrating bodies, among other patently monstrous acts and directly serving to expand the interest of the US and the Settler state, is definitely an Anti-Zionist, who is against US imperialism and interventionism. Trust the war criminal rapist with the SS totenkopf tattoo on this one.

People really need to learn that a lesser evil is a lesser evil. Like yes it's still evil and we should fight for a world where our options arent two evils, but for now we need to pull the trolley lever

How's that strategy been working for you over the last 30 years?

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As the democrats have continued sliding further and further and further right, as the US has fallen more and more into overt fascism, how has the lesser evil strategy been working out?

As a european, all I can say is that the coting system in the US is fucked. The fact there is only a choice of two evils instead of several parties that can get seats is truly insane. Still, if I was trapped in such a system, while I think the true solution to solve this would be to reform voting - I still think it's a shitty idea to let hitler 2.0 win instead of letting a black woman be president

This attitude- that we have to elect the person who literally ran on how she'd be better at killing migrants than the fascist, rather than demanding better from our "lesser evils"- is how we got to the point where that was our only electoral choice in the first place

But it's not like not voting at all is gonna nring that about. If you don't pull the lever, 5 people still die instead of 1. It's not because the 1 person deserved to die, it's because, in this scenario, that person would have died one way or the other.

You can't just look at the trolley and say "I reject this reality", and then not do anything about the trolleys killing people.

Not voting just helps the right wingers stay in power while not fixing anything

I'm not saying not to vote. I'm saying that we spent months saying "hey the blackwater mercenary is a bad pick for a bunch of reasons, so let's find another option while there's time" and we got shouted down about it based on the strategy you're espousing, which is also a strategy that we have decades worth of proof doesn't work

Man who was a Blackwater Mercenary, 3 times Iraq veteran, who served as a guard at Abu Ghraib, one time Afghanistan veteran, who said he loved it, and got a Nazi tattoo to celebrate it, and was accused a couple months ago of sexual assault and abuse - which the Yankee left were cool with and defended - is also a rapist

I sincerely believe you should go to hell

anonymousmorris

Graham Platner ran on an anti-zionist, universal public healthcare, no foreign interventions, pro labor union, etc.

Susan Collin is running on a pro Israel platform, voted for the original Iraq war, voted for the anti boycott act (the one against bds), and voted for additional ice funding as well as the big beautiful bill.

Ahh yes, the unrepentant vet that happily took 5 tours in Iraq, including 1 as a Blackwater mercenary, and lobbing mortars in population-dense environment, desecrating bodies, among other patently monstrous acts and directly serving to expand the interest of the US and the Settler state, is definitely an Anti-Zionist, who is against US imperialism and interventionism. Trust the war criminal rapist with the SS totenkopf tattoo on this one.

People really need to learn that a lesser evil is a lesser evil. Like yes it's still evil and we should fight for a world where our options arent two evils, but for now we need to pull the trolley lever

How's that strategy been working for you over the last 30 years?

?

As the democrats have continued sliding further and further and further right, as the US has fallen more and more into overt fascism, how has the lesser evil strategy been working out?

As a european, all I can say is that the coting system in the US is fucked. The fact there is only a choice of two evils instead of several parties that can get seats is truly insane. Still, if I was trapped in such a system, while I think the true solution to solve this would be to reform voting - I still think it's a shitty idea to let hitler 2.0 win instead of letting a black woman be president

This attitude- that we have to elect the person who literally ran on how she'd be better at killing migrants than the fascist, rather than demanding better from our "lesser evils"- is how we got to the point where that was our only electoral choice in the first place

rui-cifer

Ukraine cannot go a year without doing genocidal actions to the russian-speaking region in what they perceive to be their territory. They're bombing fuel depots and fuel tankers in Crimea. This is the region where they cut off the access to fresh water and zelensky himself was doing comedy sketches about thirsty and dirty crimean people during his career as a comedian. How can you support this?

Man who was a Blackwater Mercenary, 3 times Iraq veteran, who served as a guard at Abu Ghraib, one time Afghanistan veteran, who said he loved it, and got a Nazi tattoo to celebrate it, and was accused a couple months ago of sexual assault and abuse - which the Yankee left were cool with and defended - is also a rapist

I sincerely believe you should go to hell

anonymousmorris

Graham Platner ran on an anti-zionist, universal public healthcare, no foreign interventions, pro labor union, etc.

Susan Collin is running on a pro Israel platform, voted for the original Iraq war, voted for the anti boycott act (the one against bds), and voted for additional ice funding as well as the big beautiful bill.

Ahh yes, the unrepentant vet that happily took 5 tours in Iraq, including 1 as a Blackwater mercenary, and lobbing mortars in population-dense environment, desecrating bodies, among other patently monstrous acts and directly serving to expand the interest of the US and the Settler state, is definitely an Anti-Zionist, who is against US imperialism and interventionism. Trust the war criminal rapist with the SS totenkopf tattoo on this one.

People really need to learn that a lesser evil is a lesser evil. Like yes it's still evil and we should fight for a world where our options arent two evils, but for now we need to pull the trolley lever

How's that strategy been working for you over the last 30 years?

?

As the democrats have continued sliding further and further and further right, as the US has fallen more and more into overt fascism, how has the lesser evil strategy been working out?

transmascvoicesproject

is this a safe place to share experiences as a cis man?

yes. yes it is.

if you are a cis man who has experienced sexual violence, coercion, or abuse at the hands of someone who is transfeminine, you are allowed to speak here. you are TME. you face the exact same wall of silencing where the community will tend to rally around your abuser, weaponize their marginalized identity to shield them, and tell you that speaking out is a form of transmisogyny.

abuse is about power, isolation, and control. if a transfem person used those dynamics to hurt you, your trauma is real, and you shouldn't have to carry it in secret just to protect the political optics of the queer community. please submit whenever you are ready.

you five minutes later:

by the way this is the shit you get when disingenuous transandrobro chuds act like we "only" refer to other trans people as TME. they can make bullshit like this that platforms cis people's transmisogyny and then turn around and say when we say TME, we are being transphobic. this is a laughable attempt to co-opt and pervert our terminology

and it's why I love tme/tma so much, because you frankly look ridiculous trying to use them like this. pretty hard to co-opt "transmisogyny affected" and "transmisogyny exempt" without looking like a bigoted loser. massive strategic error on their part lmao

just to be very clear, transmascvoicesproject is a project that platforms anyone EXCEPT for transfems who has a story about being abused EXCLUSIVELY by transfems. they claim that this is a project about addressing "intra-community dynamics," and yet they platform cis people while excluding transfems. we are the ONLY group excluded, and we are the ONLY group whose actions can be discussed

why?

if this is really about an epidemic of queer people being silenced for speaking up about being abused by transfems, why can't transfems speak up here if they've been abused by transfems? why can cis people use this platform? what mysterious unknowable motivations might the creator of this blog have to design the rules like that? 🤔

here they are doubling down on cis people being allowed to make submissions

by the way, the outline post for this project very nakedly copypasted the outline post for transfem voices project, though for some reason they deny this very easily verified fact

here they are trying to justify the exclusion of transfems by framing it like a problem of limited resources on their part, despite them literally allowing everyone else besides transfems. if their resources are limited, why do transfems get the shaft? why not boot cis people?

#not lost on me that that justification is also an accusation of us taking up too much space lmao #hey gals idk I think this guy might have some issues about trans women to work through

transmascvoicesproject is now attempting to explain this problem by saying the project would absolutely be flooded with transfem-on-transfem violence if they allowed it

ask yourself. how good does an excuse have to be for you to accept the validity of a project that allows everyone outside an oppressed minority group to submit stories of that group's crimes? is there an excuse good enough?

if the project eventually started accepting submissions from that minority so long as they were still about the crimes committed by that minority, would that make the project ok? are those circumstances under which you would accept such a thing?

closet-keys

if someone is cultivating an endless publication of 'crimes' (I'll say especially sexual crimes) with the only criteria being the demographic who committed them, you need to know that is wildly fascist behavior.

people who do this never care enough to vet whether any of it is real and you should assume most or all of it is bullshit, but it is important to stress that even if someone could ensure with 100% certainty that every single instance of sexual violence listed actually occurred in exactly the way they presented it, the fact that they are choosing to present these accounts only because of what demographic committed them means that it functionally exists as propaganda against a demographic. it is incontestably a tactic for manufacturing consent for violence against a group of people.

people who give a fuck about survivors of sexual violence care about the survivors. they might (for example) make a project elevating experiences by survivors of a given demographic (which is what transfemvoicesproject did) no matter who their aggressors were.

transmascvoicesproject

why did you copy-paste transfem voices project's intro post to make it your intro?

i literally didn't.

i modeled the layout and the general structural framework after that project because it was an existing, functional template for a survivor submission blog on this website. i was having a severe trauma relapse and wanted to set up a similar space for people who went through what i went through. mirroring a format is not "copy-pasting an intro."

you are actively making things up just to find a brand new reason to be mad at me. if you actually bothered to compare the two posts instead of just blindly repeating whatever misinformation you read on your dash, you would see they aren't the same. but you don't care about factsyou just want to treat every single thing i do as malicious because it's easier to paint me as a thief than to admit that non-TMA survivors deserve a space to speak

finetalpies

I stopped believing you were even remotely genuine a while ago but this is absolutely the funniest lie yet. Like why even. "It's easier to paint me as a thief" lmao

#why would you even lie about this

soap-is-an-artist

drew this on my phone cause i was pissed. block transmascvoicesproject NOW

estrogenesis-vaporeongelion

i think this is honestly giving the creator of that account way, way too much benefit of the doubt

takofukkatsumi

Reblog this and tell me what was your biggest crying over a piece of fiction. You can be vague if you don't want to spoil.

#marielda #and listen to me close #for a while I hoped-I prayed- that there was something above #that something would rescue us #and that day all those years ago when the stars first showed up in the sky I thought #maybe just maybe we would be saved #but now I have seen the stars too #and they will not save us

you know I hear a lot about trans men being mistaken for trans women, but not a lot about trans women being mistaken for trans men

am I just not hearing about it, or is it maybe something to do with the fact that transfemininity is more scrutinized and presumed? like, I wonder if people are more inclined to try to spot it because we are so fearmongered about

revelware

I have been on multiple dates where they assumed I was transmasc, and was ghosted when they realized I was transfem. I know it happens when I am inexplicably treated with dignity and respect on accident

stone-d-butch

I've talked to a lot of lesbians, and most assume (because I am butch) that I'm transmasc. Also because I have a deeper voice, a lot of people assume that I'm on testosterone. When they find out I am not, that's where pleasant conversation ends. Queer people are fine with a masculine woman, except when she's transfem.

bite-my-grimy-fleshy-ass

Happened to me a few times earlier in my transition when I presented more non-binary. Stubble also grew out disgustingly swiftly and contributed to these kinds of misunderstandings. And yeah the amount of people who ghosted me after finding out I was a transfem was all but one of the people with the misconception (and that one still stopped seeing me as a viable romantic partner after realizing)

doyoulovethewayzeylily

at some point after I started E, I started getting he/himmed in the same conspicuously-supportive way that I had been getting she/hered. took me a while to figure out that that people were thinking I was transmasc. I didn't understand why they were conspicuously supportive but, when I corrected them to she/her, they'd give me this politely strained smile.

only-half-ghost

happened to me at a bike mechanic when I was getting my wife's bike fixed. They seemed to intuit me as transmasc until when I had to give my name for their billing system - since we got a free repair and tuneup if something happened in the next few months, they needed to record a name. <Fem name> I offered. "Nah, you can use your real one." "Yes, <fem name.>" (bike mechanic gets moment of realization and starts treating me like I don't know what fucking pedals are, after I've spent the past hour talking shop about bike and electronics repair)

My then-gf and I were going through airport security. I got misclocked as transmasc and the security lady asked my pronouns and asked if I'd prefer a man to do my pat down. That same security lady then got to my gf who she accurately clocked as transfem and said vile upsetting transmisogynistic shit to her that frankly I don't think it's my place to repeat. The difference was so unbelievably stark

sometimes i get a glimpse of the scale of the fucking. ISFF hateposting cottage industry and it's all deeply connected to a bunch of kiwifarmers and none of them seem to notice how deranged it is to do all of this. just post about a trans woman 24/7 set up multiple blogs to screenshot and track down everything on her. i wish you all a very happy crack your head on the pavement

no i don't think this random internet trans woman has ties to fucking jeffrey epstein are you all fucking shitting yourselves

tamamoland-of-destinys-demise

it's like people nominally understand that minorities are subject to a lot of additional scrutiny, and like, if you pressed them on it they'd understand it's a lot harder to grow into a healthy well-rounded person under all that extra scrutiny, but if you point out that they're part of that process they're like. well she's a pedophile groomer menace to society [citation needed] we can't just like, NOT stalk her continuously

maidslime

remember how for a month or two someone kept saying isff ran an entire child trafficking business and was trafficking children to a bunch of other tumblr trans women and screamed about having proof, but whenever anyone pressed for proof, they'd never post any? And, tons of people just. Believed it? That a super poor trans woman somehow ran this Epstein level trafficking campaign to other trans women that lived in completely different continents?? it was so. obviously bullshit and transmisogyny. like, it's so obviously fake and transmisogynistic but all these "we're all faggots in the eyes of the state" people refused to see it that way.

you gotta remember, this all started cuz isff said misandry didn't exist. they called her a pedophile for months just because she said transandrophobia doesn't exist. all these posts people post as reasons to hate her were from december, she had been being called a pedophile throughout the summer and fall! she only made those posts to address the transmisogynists already calling her a pedophile!

if you are "anti-isff" you are a transmisogynist. You hate trans women.

i have the screenshot of that and importabtly it was specifically claimed by someone who sniped one of her urls to turn it into another harassment blog and yeah literally all of this started because of birthday boys being mad that it wasn't about them and i am not exaggerating that in the slightest i fuckin watched it happen from its inception i fuckin watched as they just started tacking more and more random accusations over whatever they could twist into one and everyone just rolled with it every time because you all just hate trans women so much whether or not you realize it or are willing to admit it

sometimes i get a glimpse of the scale of the fucking. ISFF hateposting cottage industry and it's all deeply connected to a bunch of kiwifarmers and none of them seem to notice how deranged it is to do all of this. just post about a trans woman 24/7 set up multiple blogs to screenshot and track down everything on her. i wish you all a very happy crack your head on the pavement

no i don't think this random internet trans woman has ties to fucking jeffrey epstein are you all fucking shitting yourselves