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rain wrote

Reply to ough... by hollyhoppet

Fascists above stomping you down, the crab bucket below pulling you back in. No way out.

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twovests wrote

Reply to Every day, I become increasingly distraught by the stupidity of the american general public. by cowloom

This is entirely valid and I'm feeling the same.

It's not just frustrating or exhausting, it's this deep existential terror I feel.

Living in a society with near-universal literacy is one of the privileges that come with living in America. And now there's a possibility that becomes a thing of the past.

I love to get in arguments online, and something I increasingly see is something like this:

incomprehensible bullshit

Frankly, this is incomprehensible. I don't understand the point you're trying to make. Surely you'd agree it's never acceptable to poison children?

cringe, you know you lost the argument when you need to break out the thesaurus 🙄

... Come on, I am using common English words in simple sentence structures.

It's so disheartening! It might have been worse, but it makes me miss the time when someone could say "you made a spelling mistake; your argument is invalid".

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hollyhoppet OP wrote (edited )

Reply to by hollyhoppet

actually i'm probably just being repeatedly triggered back to my own poverty-related trauma now that i think about it

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twovests wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by devtesla in tried asking my primary care doctor about getting my tubes tied, was discouraged by skookin

Planned Parenthood is great for its relatively-low-barrier-of-entry.

When I got HRT they were very "no questions asked, but also this is such a mysterious and possibly Dangerous Drug, and we will need a lot of blood from you". Which is a lot better than the experiences I heard to expect from anywhere else!

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cowloom wrote

Reply to tried asking my primary care doctor about getting my tubes tied, was discouraged by skookin

The childfree subreddit on the other site used to have a list of doctors on their wiki page that wouldn't give you the runaround about getting your tubes tied. I'm not sure if it's still there, but if so, it may be worth seeing if your city / a nearby city is on the list, and reaching out to one of those doctors! Don't let one "no" hold you back.

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cute_spider wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by twovests in i actually didn't stop hrt hehe by twovests

no that's going to be illegal in 2025 so for the same reasons in your other post i am not going to start any new gender adventures and in fact going to move from "agender" to "cis+" which is mostly just a marketing move but still.

my internet friend who's big into finnster recommended it and I think it's a good move

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cute_spider wrote

Reply to i actually didn't stop hrt hehe by twovests

I also start to wonder if society would be better if all people AMAB were started on a strict regimen of estrogen actually.

I eat women's gummie multi vitamins and I feel like that's enough

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to can someone tell me how valid a "mental health day" is by twovests

i'm not even doing THAT bad but i do feel like i woke up one day, and they removed the guardrails on the stairs that go up to my apartment on the seventh floor.

hey, the LD50 for flights of stairs is 5. and, hey, does this spiral go to the basement? did we always have that?

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by twovests in haha, "transition"? what was i even talking about. haha by twovests

I want to emphasize what I mean here:

If DIY HRT becomes associated with the same level of illegality as child sex abuse material, then you don't want to be buying that with your credit card. You want to be buying your HRT with the same money that people use to buy CSAM.

(I'm also increasingly worried about how credit card header data can be used, but that's a separate thing)

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