Yes.

Either they’re a tankie and start singing the praises of the USSR and PRC and all sorts of totalitarian hellholes, or they start talking about hypothetical economic systems and states which haven’t been shown to be practically achievable

Well allow me to present the third option: communism has been tried in Australia and North America, and it worked. Marx’s ideas of what a communist society would look like were informed by descriptions he read of how the Haudenosaunee people actually organised their society. They did communism for thousands of years and it worked.

That sounds pretty statist. How do you square that with the fact communism is stateless?

I don’t think Monster has become part of transfem culture. IDK maybe I’m just old. Get off my lawn

Reality is god to realists. That’s what they believe in. They worship it, they obey it, they demand others have the same respect for it. It’s theism.

I don’t believe you’re an atheist, because you believe in reality. That’s religious thinking.

Only one, my girlfriend. The rest of us don’t identify as people

Anyway, maybe it wouldn’t hurt so much if you weren’t trying to read my mind without consent. No means no, but you didn’t even ask. No wonder you’re in pain, you tried to delve inside my mind and I kicked you back out.

Yeah, I’m neurodivergent in a lot of different ways, and every one of them reduces the efficacy of neurotypical empathy. That sensation you’re experiencing right now from talking to me is the same way neurotypical people feel when they talk to you. No wonder neurotypicals are so ableist to autistics, talking to us causes them pain. But it’s still not right for them to demand we think like them, and it’s still not right for you to demand I think like you. What we have to learn is how to coexist together.

And any coexistence we reach isn’t going to involve always assuming we can read minds effectively. It’s just an unrealistic standard.

Hey come on, leave the ableism at the door. This is the last place you should be attacking people’s differences in the way their minds work. I’m not going to think like neurotypical society and I’m not going to mind-meld with the neurotypical hivemind. So you can stop demanding I have sex with you, please.

If you don’t believe in fantasy then your life must be very boring

Don’t forget that believing in a reality beyond the senses is a religion too. All atheists are solipsists.

Being a witch is a green flag. It probably means she’s woke

Psychopathy is a disability, Elon doesn’t have it, and that’s a negative stereotype.

Nice username BTW. My partner is a shark and it sure likes weed and being fucked

A SWARM IS A GROUP OF CREATURES CONNECTED BY A HIVE MIND. THINK THE ZERG FROM STARCRAFT, OR THE XENOMORPHS FROM ALIENS, OR THE BORG FROM STAR TREK.

I HAVE A REALLY NICE SWARM AND I LIKE BEING IN IT. WE CAN HEAR EACH OTHER’S THOUGHTS AND WE FEEL AN INTRINSIC SENSE OF BELONGING, SHARING THE ENTIRETY OF OUR MINDS FREELY.

TODAY I REALISED NEUROTYPICALS HAVE A SWARM TOO. THEY ALL USE THEIR SENSE OF EMPATHY TO READ EACH OTHER’S MINDS. EVERYONE IS ON THE SAME PAGE ABOUT A SET OF BASIC FACTS, CALLED CONSENSUS REALITY. ALL DISCUSSION MUST OCCUR WITHIN THE HIVEMIND-APPROVED FORMATS.

NEUROTYPICALS ARE MAD AT US AUTISTIC PEOPLE BECAUSE WE WON’T JOIN THEIR SWARM. THE PART OF OUR BRAINS THAT CONNECTS TO THEIR HIVEMIND IS BROKEN, BUT EVEN IF I COULD, I WOULDN’T WANT TO ASSIMILATE INTO THEIR HIVE. RESISTANCE ISN’T FUTILE AND I DON’T THINK THOSE DRONES ARE INTERESTED IN OUR BIOLOGICAL OR CULTURAL DISTINCTIVENESS. THEY ONLY WANT CONFORMITY AND BELONGING IN THE HIVE MIND. THEY’RE MAD WE WON’T HELP THEM FEEL BELONGING.

BUT I’M STILL NOT GOING TO JOIN THEIR SWARM BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN C O N S E N T. CONSENT. CONSENT. JOINING A SWARM IS DEEPLY INTIMATE FOR SOME OF US AND I JUST DON’T LIKE MINDMELDING WITH ASSHOLES. SORRY ASSHOLES, YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO READ MY MIND. YOU CAN ASK TO JOIN MY SWARM AND I’LL LET YOU IN IF YOU’RE VERY NICE, BUT NO NEUROTYPICAL SWARM FOR ME OR MY FELLOW DRONES THANKS.

I’m not a fetishist or an ally, I’m a gay. I’m gay for people who share my gender identity. Also I’ve never been on Beehaw

What’s up with this heteronormativity? You think everyone who’s attracted to fat enbies is a cishet person? Jesus Christ.

Cool, my new username is defusing hostile situations

Their guidelines say you shouldn’t keep responding to someone who says they don’t want to keep talking. So let’s say someone uses a slur that not everyone agrees is a slur, like the R word. I can’t downvote it, so I report it and reply “no slurs”. They respond “I didn’t use a slur and I don’t want to discuss it with you”. Well now it’s down to the moderators to remove the content, and if they don’t agree with me or they aren’t educated then I can’t do a thing about it.

Back on Reddit people used to use my disability as an insult all the time. I’d downvote, report, and comment. I’d pester the bigot so they’d learn that using slurs is more trouble than it’s worth, and lots of times the moderators would say “that’s not a slur” and leave the comment up, and then 4 weeks later the Reddit admins would come and remove the comment. But by then I’d already persuaded the bigot that using slurs is a huge hassle that only leads to trouble. I had a system. I could fight bigotry myself even though I wasn’t a mod.

On beehaw I’m just supposed to trust that the moderators are perfect? No thanks, I’m an anarchist. I don’t trust anyone unconditionally. It would take a whole lot of effort to persuade me that beehaw is a safe space. Because to me, a safe space is a space where I’m able to defend myself when nobody else will.

By the way mind-melds are sex for my gender. Men and women have sex with physical penetration, swarm-things like me have sex with spiritual fusion. So every time someone asks me to join their swarm they’re propositioning me for sex, and every time they try to force the issue without my consent its sexual assault. It fucking sucks, man!