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Yes I am aware

I was posting for the void

Basically what I said in the original thread… Why we’re screenshoting and recommenting is beyond me

You could’ve just said you were an elistist shitbag from the beginning and saved everyone time.

Edit: you clearly don’t know what real life is like. Enjoy your privilege. Gfys

Where is it implied that people won’t be working? Just because they are not forced to?

Yes I am willing to take less for myself if those in need receive more.

Most people will work if they are able. Maybe we need more incentives for “shitty” jobs, but few people will want to live at such a base minimum level and do nothing. It is however, infinitely more humane than letting them die in the streets

Do you not have a burning desire in your heart to labor? to derive some meaning out of your life? For nothing but your own enrichment or accomplishment?

There is already free and public media access through libraries.

What?

I don’t have any sympathy for those who joined from a position of privilege. I acknowledge that is likely the majority of service members.

There’s also the many, many poor rural children that join for nationalistic reasons, already far down the path to fascism.

Same as joining a gang. Participate in violence and you get a roof over your head and maybe a couple meals. Wether or not it makes them “bad people” or “class traitors” doesn’t change the pressures and incentives at play. There are few alternatives and fewer viable ones.

For many it is their only hope of escaping poverty or owning property. “Convenient” for the state that this is the case.

Desperate people are willing to do horrible things. To what extent are they to blame for being exploited? The state’s policies allow and encourage poverty, destitution, and desperation, then exploit it.

I don’t think one is just or even absolved by their exploitation, but I can have empathy.

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The state doesn’t treat veterans much better than dogs. Some get to leave with work experience, savings, and education, others get to crawl in the streets until they starve.

Yeah, it’s bad to ask if your friends are comfortable being viewed as gay because they might have insecurities from toxic masculinity 🙄🙄🙄

Read it again because that’s not what I’m saying

There’s no way to definitively tell but you can still make assumptions based on appearences? Fuck off ffs

No, I’m more saying that those traits vary from person to person and you can’t know until you ask. Assumptions and preconceived notions are how we deal with not having definitive information

Yes, but that’s all social and varies person to person, region to region, etc. Even if there are typical differences, that’s not a rule. Which is the point.

What does the implied perception have to do with your own wants?

Irrelevant to the discussion at hand

If you’re not comfortable being perceived as lgbt+, are you an ally?

I think that’s what this post is asking.

There’s no difference between a gay man and a straight man, outside of specifically who they’re trying to fuck. Suggesting someone might be one or the other isn’t harmful, since there’s no real way to tell without asking.

Telling a man they didn’t pass is rude af.

I don’t see how those can be equivocated. Sexual preference and gender identity are different things defined, characterized, and experienced in wildly different ways.

I don’t see how those two are related at all and honestly treating them as interchangeable is… cringe.

There is no harm in suggesting you thought someone was gay or straight, especially because sexuality has nothing to do with outward appearance and can be kinda nebulous to infer at all. If you’re not comfortable with the idea of being lgbt+, how are you an ally? Nothing differentiates a gay man from a straight one, outside of attraction to other men.

Whereas so much of trans struggles and validity relate to how they’re/we’re perceived. Do I pass enough to shit in the restroom that conforms to my identity?