I know. You're missing my point. :)

My point wasn't the coalition. My point was that we had 21 days to cobble something together and not only did we do it, we managed to win with it. It's not about the coalition, it's about building a campaign. You have months to do so.

And you're about to say that Trump had way longer to do so. Yes. So did the far right in our country, which barely even campaigned because all of the media were doing so on their behalf for the last two years and we still managed to outnumber them.

Trust me, my faith in the Democrats is barely existent. But still, I think it can be done.

People. We, the French, pulled a left-wing coalition out of our asses in less than a week and managed to "win" an election. You have months. Hope is permitted.

"I'm in this picture and I hate it" moment

Well, this is some terminally online bullshit if I've ever seen some.

Listen. I understand that we all want to be inclusive and I completely support this. I use this instance for a reason. But at some point, we have to draw some sort of line in the sand in cases like this. If you look at OP's history, you'll see that this is not a moderation problem, this is an attention seeker problem.

I've said it before in a comment that the moderation removed two days ago. Actually, it was removed for misgendering OP, I believe (didn't capitalize the pronouns), BY THE PERSON OP IS CALLING OUT HERE, too! So accusations of transphobia against that person are ridiculous, but anyway, I'm going to repeat it here: This isn't the first time I see this user post something, and I can't help but notice a pattern of aggressively dictating the way people should act. Not only this, but OP's already tried to pull something similar on Beehaw.

This has been on my mind ever since I first read the initial post a while back and I'm finally going to spill it. OPis literally the only person I've ever seen use "capitalized pronouns". And I mean, on it's own, that's not a problem. Lots of people have their own special pronouns, whatever. No, what I question here, is the motive. Because here is the thing: OP identifies as a god. This isn't coming from me, this is quoting from Grail's Medium profile. "Nonbinary Goddess" and there isn't even more details in this post. And I mean, yeah, that carries a ton of baggage, no wonder people had a problem with these pronouns.

Can we stop pretending that people are being transphobic because they question the fact that someone is self-identifying as a god, please? Let's all be honest with ourselves here: Being inclusive is not the same as enabling entitlement. And making accusations of transphobia for something like this is quite frankly disgusting.

Some of you need to log off, because transphobia is real thing. You can't just throw around this term like that. A few days ago, I was at a memorial surrounded by fellow trans people, grieving actual victims of transphobia, people who died for simply being who they are. Some of us are dying, some of us are being kicked off from their family, some of are being actually discriminated against, some of us are being harassed. This is what transphobia looks it. I'm sorry for being dramatic here, but come on!

If it can be explained by: "I'm was more focused on making my point and forgot to capitalize the pronouns", then I'm sorry, I refuse to call that "transphobia".

Hey, failing at being a human being while trying to highlight where the bicycle starts and end on the picture is my job! You won't take that away from me, you fucking robot!

Until they start pulling their weight? What? I think this reveals a lot about the way you think. Being queer is not a social club. It isn't a giant apartment in which we're all living in and therefore, if someone doesn't do the fucking chores, they need to be kicked out. No.

It's not a either stay and fight or leave situation. We are born in a society that happens to be queerphobic as queer people. There is fighting it, but there is no escaping it. And not everyone wants to fight. I don't blame them. Because they already have to deal with the fact that they are queer in a queerphobic society, which is already a fight by itself.

Listen, Grail, this isn't the first time I see you post something, and I can't help but notice you have a pattern of aggressively dictating the way people should act.

Yes, I am pissed off at the people who are completely "apolitical" while being queer. When I'm talking to people in my country who don't seem worried about the imminent coming of the far right in power, while being queer themselves, while sitting with me, a trans woman, yes, I want to slap the shit out of them and tell them to wake the fuck up! I fully agree. However, I don't care about the people who are not being actively militant though. Not everyone wants to make their queerness their whole identity.

They are not the enemy. Calm down. You know which queer people are the enemy of queer people? Those who fought for themselves and said fuck everyone else, like the people who are specifically LGB activists and hate the T, for example.

But those who don't want to actively fight, those who don't want to be militant? No, leave them alone. Let them be. And fight for them. Not everyone can or want to. Yes, it can be tiring and I get it, but you don't know what's going on in people's mind.

Especially trans people. Our whole lives is already a fight. People don't understand us, they don't want to make a single effort to do. When we have to change our name, change our legal gender, it's so complicated to do in some countries and it can take quite a toll on us. HRT is sometimes a mess to get access to, sometimes it's impossible. We have to fight for every little things.

I have trans friends who are just politically conscious but don't really participate in the political things. They don't go to protests and anything. And I don't blame them. Being trans is already such a constant fight.

What about the people who aren’t interested in fighting, and who actively work to create spaces antithetical to fighting for queer liberation?

What do you mean by antithetical to fighting for queer liberation? Because from what I'm reading, it just sounds like apolitical spaces. And if so, well, you don't know that!

I frequently go to spaces that are made for and by trans people, where we avoid politics deliberately. Because we want to talk about other things, we want to talk about our lives, our own personal struggles. And not politics.

Because a lot of people want to take away our rights and we are all aware of that. How the fuck can we not be aware of it? It's all over the news. Trans people are getting killed, trans people are losing their rights and some of us want to think about something else in our already overly stressful lives.

It's like some content creators who talk about politics and the second they don't talk about anything real related they get half the views and they're burning out on their own identity because that's all they can think about.

Again, we don't choose this. None of us chose to be queer. None of us chose to be gay. None of us chose to be lesbian. None of us chose to be bi. None of us chose to be pan. None of us chose to be trans. None of us chose to be intersex. And so on and so on and so on. None of us chose to be this. And some of us just want to live our lives trying to think about something else than the fact that we are queer.

Thank fuck I'm not American. Now, if you'd excuse me, I must get ready for the potential imminent arrival of fascism in about 2 days in my country (France). Can't wait to see the US fall as well! Wow! What a wonderful fucking world awaits us, huh? 💀

They always do this. Every fucking time they want to make policies about us, they contact transphobic activists instead of actual experts on the question. What fucking expertise does she have?! And even more, haven't you done enough against trans people already? Like, you need to justify doing more against them, seriously?

The internet has often talked about how some of the states in the US are run by people who are absolutely deranged about trans people, but the UK is just something else.

"Pride month? Oh no! How can I make this about me?"

We love our FtM kings!

Just read the whole thing. It's dead serious.

Gotta love American politics.

So, what's your choice? Centers right? Or far right? You can only pick one.

Imagine having a world view based on such fragile bullshit that two animals fucking can shatter it...

Has anybody tried Revolt? It looks really cool. Like a proper open source alternative to Discord. But I never had the opportunity to try it with anyone, so I don't know.

1. "Alright guys, it's time to leave Slack for a better alternative!"
2. Proceeds to migrate to yet another proprietary and centralized piece of software.
3. It happens again.
4. "Alright guys, it's time to leave [insert software name here] for a better alternative!"
5. Proceeds to migrate to yet another proprietary and centralized piece of software, again.
6. It happens again, again.
7. Clown moment.

It's what's going to happen. It's what always happens. And on a side note, by the way, I guaran-fucking-tee you that it's what's going to eventually happen with Discord as well. I have zero doubt about it.

I'll give him credit on this: It's not dead yet. I'm genuinely surprised about that.

NOW INTRODUCING: Public transports! But private! And dIsRuPTiVe!

Having a flag of your country hanging outside your house is the most US American thing I can think of.

Thank you. It really means a lot to me. 🩵🩷🤍