Aliens invade: "EARTHLINGS, WE HAVE KILLED YOUR LEADERS, DESTROYED YOUR ECONOMY, AND ARE HERE TO TAKE OVER YOUR GOVERNMENT"
Humans: "oh thank fucking god"
Aliens: "wait what?"
honestly a real big reason I love queer as a term is that way too many people treat LGBTQIA as mutually exclusive little boxes that have no overlap and as if they should have no interaction
hot take but dunking on the looks and physical attributes of shitty people is a bad tactic and hurts people that are on your side by making them feel self conscious about their own body
An anti-sex work argument I've stewed on for a while is that sex work is the "only job that leaves you feeling violated and with PTSD"
I used to be a dishwasher and it left me in crippling pain and with an intense fear of ever being forced to work a corporate job ever again
@OrdinaryGamers
politics aren't an honorable battlefield
right wing ideas prey on fear and emotion and are actively harmful to minorities
right wing ideas should always be gated from ever getting a chance to influence people
dear young/exclusionist queer people, please fucking realize that you're being manipulated by the right wing into attacking other queer people
no, other queer folks aren't trying to "steal everything" from lesbians
no you're not being attacked by other queer folk
Kojima's writing sways between "Here's a villain named skullface who made a virus that kills you for speaking english" to "Capitalism when applied to warfare causes constant pain and suffering" to "She has a parasite that makes her have to dress like sexy lady at all times"
"if biology is maleable can you change your age?" is a question I've gotten from three transphobes who don't seem to realize that EVERYONE'S AGE IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING
the worst thing capitalism ever did to the queer community is making us think of it as separate factions instead of a group of folks banding together to support eachother against the oppressive cishet government
"rich people are good with money"
Elon musk impulse bought a website for 44 billion dollars because of a rumor where a trans woman was fucking his ex wife
yall should be immediately suspicious of any policy or moderation that tries to vastly hide NSFW across a platform "in the name of protecting kids"
because
-It's almost always actually to appease corporate interests who hate sex
-it almost always paints queer people as NSFW
That job was so intensely miserable that it fucking broke me, I would cry and limp around the restaurant and I would get so much shit for sitting even when I had the rare moment I could wait for more dishes to happen
It wad gross and my body got calluses and scabs from it
I slipped on wet floors, burned myself on hot water, and I was always unable to even walk by the end of my shift
And I got paid $10/hr for it
It was truly the most miserable point in my entire life
Now? I have a creatively fulfilling and immensely fun job where I get to set my own terms and give myself breaks if I need one
Being a sex worker is truly my favorite job, and that includes my twitch and erotica work
Occasionally you get ex-sex worker swerfs who are super intensely into banning sex work because they personally hated their job, but, like.
If I like my job, why should I have to quit just because you hated it
Gotta love how america's version of freedom is just giving fucking everyone Main Character Syndrome and telling them they never have to give a shit about their fellow human beings
"but capitalism is"
the
world
is
dying
the rich are fucking killing everyone on earth
all to get some more money
no matter how much you like capitalism it's still destroying the entire fucking world in the pursuit of profit
They always just fucking loathed all of their clients too and treat it like the worst thing ever like, friend you just were in a job that wasn't for you
I get that you got hurt but you don't see me calling for an end to professional dishwashing
Stop fucking attacking queer people over their identities being something you're not used to, or their identities not making sense to cishets.
I know things seem weird and hard to understand, but yall are still using the cishet mindset you were indoctrinated into
it has been only 6 years since gay marriage was even made fully legal in the USA
we are still under large scale attack from the right wing, they try to kill us, shame us, throw us out into the streets and abandon us. They do everything they can to alienate us from society
trans cat girls: "hehe, wouldn't it be cute and sexy if I pretended to be a kitty? meow meow hehe"
trans dog girls: "I am literally a dog, I might look like a person but no, I'm a dog, I am an actual dog"
Person: "I love your writing"
Me internally: "please give me an exact, detailed breakdown as to why because I have trouble processing a compliment unless I full understand where it's coming from"
Me externally: "oh?"
every queer kid really should be taught the golden rule of "If a sexuality/gender doesn't make sense to you, then you should accept it anyway" because this shit is getting really tiresome
Leftists: prison labor is slavery
US law: prison labor is slavery
Ethics committees: prison labor is slavery
Prisoners: prison labor is slavery
Americans: "it's insulting to call it slavery!!!"
The reason "politics is getting polarizing" is because we're all being shown the failures of capitalism and authority and the only possible responses are to accept the horrors of the world or violently lie to yourself to make life seem easier
people in marketing are like "when an ad happens during a video you like, you begin to like the product by association"
no it fucking doesn't, it annoys the shit out of me and makes me never want to buy your product again
the idea of sex work being bad because "you wouldn't consent if you weren't getting money" is so ridiculous
that's how a *job* works
are you telling me you would stand up at a restaurant flipping paddies in a cramped hot kitchen all day just for fun???
Even if you don't like rioting, RIOTING GETS RESULTS
Seriously, it's probably one of the most effective ways to get your demands heard, because otherwise those in charge will just ignore you since they don't have a good reason to listen
Rioting is a good reason to listen