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  • Some large-scale surveys suggest that about 40% - 41% of trans people have attempted suicide at least once in their life. There are studies that report even higher rates, and I’ve occasionally seen transphobes also use “43%” instead of “41%”, but the latter estimate is the most famous one.

    Of course, such a high rate of suicide attempts isn’t met with any empathy or concern from conservatives, but with false claims that gender affirmation is harmful for trans people, and often outright glee as well.



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    This also reminded me that in his short story “The Jaunt” Stephen King felt the need to include the following lines for no apparent reason:

    Ricky and Pat were watching him seriously, his son twelve, his daughter nine. He told himself again that Ricky would be deep in the swamp of puberty and his daughter would likely be developing breast by the time they got back to earth, and again found it difficult to believe.










  • Funny how there’s a bunch of people in the comments essentially just unironically repeating the meme: “Well this must be wrong because I believe this and I’m actually a centrist!!!”

    That’s the point, buddy. You’re the butt of the joke. The idea that the far-left and far-right are equally bad or warrant the same amount of scrutiny and criticism is a right-wing belief.

    To make the point more obvious instead of using “left” and “right” look at specific political beliefs that the far-left and far-right have:

    1. Equality across social and demographic groups vs. State-enforced racism, sexism and other kinds of bigotry

    2. Abolishment of bourgeois property and money vs. Complete privatization, oligarchy and corruption

    3. Globalization, peaceful relations and a right to live where you want vs. Complete isolationism and xenophobia

    4. Right to self-governance and no government with a monopoly on violence vs. State sanctioned violence against those considered undesirable or traitors

    Hopefully I don’t need to explain which one is obviously worse. To equate what the far-left and the far-right advocate for one must misrepresent the left, so both-sides-ism inherently has a right-wing slant.







  • I vaguely remember reading that some dude created 8chan because he thought 4chan was too heavily moderated or smth, which considering the little I saw while perusing 4chan ages ago, makes me wonder the depths to which 8chan can go.

    Also it’s kind of funny but fully expected that Kiwifarms would attract the most extreme among the extreme considering it’s literally just the “harass and dox queer people” website.