[wamesjilson]

gosh, people (leftists) point at fascists and blame their extremism on their alleged lack of empathy. not only are you wrong because someone’s ability to feel others emotions doesn’t lead to violence but you are hurting people who simply have lower empathy, especially disabled people. you target disabled people. you “condemn fascists” at the expense of disabled people.

[byjove]

This take has a lot of nuance but I don’t think you should have a baby with someone who doesn’t want to have a baby. I think that is extremely unethical. Not just for the baby’s other parent but for the child themself. And this happens so fucking often like every other week I see a post that’s like “I told my hookup of 2 months that I’m pregnant and he’s not happy but I want this baby! What do I do?” I would say cop the ‘borsh. It is not about you. Genuinely, it is not. Hopefully you are financially and emotionally prepared to be a single parent and even if you are you’re going to have to look your child in the eyes and say “Your father didn’t want you.” which is fucking awful.

And of course there are additional factors that can come into play in this situation like abortion availability and reproductive assault/coercion. But like. Generally speaking it is a terrible fucking idea to have a child with someone who doesn’t want it.

Also if you broke up with a guy because he is straight up evil or his family is unhinged, SPEED TO THAT ABORTION CLINIC. That is NOT a good situation to bring a child into.

[wamesjilson]

I apologized for eating because im running out of food. I am fine and can fortunately afford groceries but being reminded that I am alive and that I have needs is an unpleasant experience

[anglaised]

“idk country music makes me feel uneasy, uhhh i never really liked disco tbh, something about house is off to me…..jazz is just so annoying, why would anyone want to listen to the blues? i cant stand rap its a little too scary“ you are displaying a pattern here, these thoughts you are having are not original or formed in a bubble i promise you, theres a underlying reason you somehow have a knee jerk reaction to all of these genres and its not just “personal taste”

[beardedmrbean]

[im-out-of-the-blues]

[girlrustcohle]

love when i say "i think texting while driving is bad" and someone acts like im a reactionary conservative

[romehbo]

booktok YA n smut is one of those things where it’s rly hard to criticize it publicly for serious things like misogyny or racism or homophobia n how it enforces capitalism bc 99.9% of the backlash is ppl proclaiming the death of literature is coming bc women like to read porn. like I hate this as well but I hate it for a better reason that these ppl do.

[formerlyashkatom]

Results from calling about the refusal to process payments for adult work on itch.io and Steam:

My script in each case hit the points of 'I'm a cardholder calling about the recent refusal of this company to process payments for works deemed adult, particularly in regards to the Steam and itch.io games marketplaces. This has been in response to protests made by a small religious group in Australia. Frankly, I don't find it [company]'s place to dictate how I spend my money, and I'm very concerned that this is in response to protests from a religious group that should have no legal power over me. If this continues I will be seeking an alternate way to make payments and will no longer be a customer of your brand.'

Visa

heard me out, thanked me for the feedback

asked me to email my feedback to '[email protected]' so they can track it

advised to not include any identifying details such as card numbers etc in the email

Mastercard

the phone tree did not have a complaints section so I navigated the options as 'current cardholder' -> 'a question about benefits'

happily took my feedback after confirming my customer details (full name and contact number)

let me know that they had already received significant feedback about this issue and it had been 'escalated' and registered my feedback to add to the pile

I was concerned about feeling awkward about calling a company and basically being like 'yo I'm mad you won't let me buy porn' in terms of I don't think a poor customer service rep should have to deal with that, so I was planning on sprinkling in 'and LGBT content is frequently mislabelled as adult' in my script but I Forgor and it was fine. Each call was <1:30 and minimally painful. If you needed a sign to call, call today! Or, well, maybe email Visa.

Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372

Mastercard (Int.): [phone]

Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911

Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440

PayPal: [phone]

Alternative Mastercard numbers:

Mastercard (Aus): 1800-120-113

Mastercard (US): 1-800-307-7309

Mastercard (UK): 0800-96-4767

[strawhatmasc]

Whenever someone tries to hypothesize a bad faith scenario in which trans mascs have male privilege they always reveal their lack of knowledge on the trans masc experience.

"But what if your name on your application says John", well what if I chose an anti-assimilate name? What if I never changed my legal name? What if my name identifies me as a minority of another kind? What if my appearance doesn't match my name? What if my gender marker still says F? What if I don't pass? What if everyone already knows I'm trans because it's a small town and people gossip?

When people create these scenarios, they're imagining a trans man with no complication. His transition was successful in assimilating him into cishet society, no one knows who he was prior, all his documents were successfully changed, he has no other axis of oppression to hold over him. He's basically THE Chad trans man, the Chads Man, if you will.

The problem obviously is, this man basically doesn't exist. And even if he did, the security of his entire existence would require him to keep his mouth shut, don't advocate for himself or other trans people, and to be so deep stealth that he never allows himself to be vulnerable with another human being ever again. If he opens up to anyone about being trans, he immediately loses all those privileges.

All this meant to say...

Pease Stop talking about Chads Man. Chads Man doesn't exist. Your local trans man is most likely a disabled punk with stick n poke tats who doesn't believe in documentation lol.

[arinz-wormteef]

i think an easy solution to the whole "internet/credit card censorship bullshit to save children" is to 1) not give your 7 year old a phone and 2) not to give your 7 year old a credit card

[emiko-matsui]

YouTube is implementing an AI policy that tracks your watch history and determines your age with it. The only way to be able to continue watching the videos you want on YouTube if you've been falsley flagged as a minor by their AI is to give YouTube your government ID. This is being implemented in the US right now. It is essential to rage against this and put YouTube in the fucking ground if they continue with it—that may be the only way to make them backtrack. But damn isn't that hard to do when responding to this announcement with a polite but negative comment flags you for violating community guidelines and bans you from even posting it?

[beardedmrbean]

[epsilonhybrid]

[maxknightley]

an underrated part of the Flash Game era was the sheer amount of copyright infringement going on. you could straight up have mario murder koopas with a shotgun and nobody would stop you. nowadays if you make a fangame perfectly in compliance with their brand standards Nintendo will send a deep web hitman after you

[spreadassholesdotorg]

[burdarian]

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