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Idk if you’re also a young millennial, but yeah in my teenage years I secretly devoured content about trans people (especially women) where I saw it and given that that was the latter half of the 00s when the internet was finally connecting communities more broadly and when trans healthcare was going through its shifts away from those systems towards the more “hey they’ll just tell us what we need to hear so let’s just do informed consent and save everyone some trouble” period. This means I got a weird mix of advice, and you know Susan’s place was Susan’s place. So I was afraid I might have to cut everyone off to start a new life (and thus I alienated loved ones for a while), and I knew the old advice to wait until the dysphoria is so bad it’s “transition or suicide” so I waited until that was the case, which only cost me a year or two, but it wasn’t good for me.

I still remember the first time I saw a trans woman like me on the internet, one who didn’t feel the need to be overly performative in her femininity, but could just be a person. I couldn’t hold my egg together after seeing her, and I went from “sure I might transition someday” to “but am I actually a trans woman, and when will I transition” within a week. The early 10s were a wild and exciting time.

Oh absolutely and sorry if I was kinda downery about it, I had it easy, not as easy as some, but those who came before did important work. I just think as someone who transitioned in a different time it’s important to not let our history be forgotten, especially as many who experienced it learned to be less loud about it

V speaks of anarchy as having two roles: destroyer and creator, as he teaches Evey to create and he destroys. Additionally he describes anarchy as the order to be contrasted to the chaos immediately after his destruction of norsefire’s control.

As for that quote, I’m struggling to find evidence it was in the comic (I never actually watched the movie). The wikiquote for the comic doesn’t have that line, but the one for the movie does, and the comic one instead has a lot of V explaining anarchy to anyone whether or not they’re interested in listening.

The comic is very explicitly about British anarchism against British fascism, whereas the movie is a lot more about George W Bush, the patriot act, and the left wing opposition to these things in the America of the early and mid 00s

Oh yeah I’m old lol. RLE is short for Real Life Experience. The long and short of it is many therapists used to make you live as your identified gender full time for a period of time before they would write you a letter of recommendation to start hormones. And back then you couldn’t get hormones without that letter, it acted as a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. The rise of the modern informed consent model is something I transitioned during about 11 years ago and it was kinda a huge deal.

But yeah as an old comic I spent too long looking for before deciding I probably shouldn’t link it anyways said, RLE more or less functioned as hazing for trans people by the medical establishment. Even as late as the early 10s you might be denied hormones for not transitioning to hetero (or bi depending on the therapist) or for not dressing exaggeratedly enough (in the mid teens a friend got refused a letter because she didn’t wear makeup or skirts to appointments).

Kinda, but both are performative maximalism done within a subcultural framework done as both a means to express identity and to have an opportunity to be as flashy and showy as they’d like. The people who go all out for Halloween are a different variant of it.

Show about two hockey players experiencing sexual tension

Oh absolutely, and I’m going into it knowing I’m about to see the opposite of Picard, that’s why I see it as a palate cleanser lol. My expectation for Kirk is what if the Riker we see in season 1 was a captain, but less of a feminist. Like, I’m expecting him to be feminist by 60s standards, but Riker is over here being feminist by 90s standards. And that’s ok, I love Riker as a character as well.

It probably is. There definitely seem to be people best described as cis by default (would have been fine regardless of which gender they lived as), though there’s little evidence beyond self reported experiences (as opposed to the evidence for trans identity where cross sex hormones result in increased happiness and the very case study evidence for cis identity where loss or reversal of sexual traits are associated with development of gender dysphoria). We can also point to the reality that transness does appear to have scaled intensity, where some people hit the “transition or die” stage as teenagers, some hit it in varying other ages, and others never do but still feel transition was the correct course of action for their life.

Idk not having tits made me want to kill myself and I was willing to pay nearly a college degree of money to undergo major genital surgery despite being allergic to opiates. Gender as some metaphysical thing, yeah felt that on acid once while several years into transitioning.

“I don’t have gender dysphoria, I just feel like shit all the time, constantly imagine myself as a different sex, and would do anything to make that happen. But like, I don’t qualify as trans”

Mind you back when I was doing this I was mostly just terrified of RLE and being denied hrt over my sexual orientation, both of which were real possibilities (though drastically lessening over my teenage years)

Incompetence isn’t a crime outside of specific licensed and regulated roles. Willful disregard for human life is a crime

Yes and it’s to the 2020s what Florida was to the 00s, a swing state with a reputation for the elderly and the crazy

See, that’s what I love about Picard. He’s a man who deeply believes in the value of morality and the difficulty of maintaining it and effective leadership. It shines through to every aspect of who he is. We see a man who was once a rambunctious youth, once was an overly ambitious officer, and now is tempered and weathered by mistakes and failures and knows that starfleet succeeds or fails on the behaviors of people like him. I find him incredibly relatable and eminently admirable in this struggle.

I haven’t gotten to ds9 or voyager yet, but this thread is making me glad I’m going to tos after I finish tng. It will serve as a palate cleanser

It’s the Arizona of New England.

Yeah this is a fascinating phenomenon I’m noticing that people who experience it seem to keep using ai, even though it caused them to lose touch with reality

It also assumes the seller has options. It’s true when the field is equal but Amazon and Walmart both famously squeeze their suppliers to pain and everybody screws their laborers

She encouraged him to invade. She’s kissing the ring not sacrificing dignity for country.

I don’t think it’s dementia that did that, I think it’s a very specific type of psychological abuse that results in thinking that way. I suspect it’s from his father encouraging him to be a bully, placing high expectations, and not caring enough to watch him actually earn awards, just checking that he has them. This is all in line with the childhood his niece described in her book Too Much and Never Enough.

A childhood like that could easily shape one’s understanding of achievement away from “doing the thing” to “having the rewards/symbol of having done the thing”. And if someone thinks having the trophy is more important than having won the competition I don’t see any reason they would feel the divine would think any differently. And I think even pre dementia he’d slowly drift from “I have the 2025 Nobel peace prize” to “I won the 2025 Nobel peace prize” slowly reshaping his memories until he doesn’t remember how he got it.

They’ll gloss over a lot of it just like they do with Hitler. You hear about the big things like the beer hall putsch, maybe the street fighting, the Nuremberg laws, kristalnacht, maybe the nighr of long knives, the concentration and death camps, the blitz, the attacks on western and Eastern Europe, and the seige of stalingrad. That’s a lot, so they often don’t address stuff like the bizarre structure of nazi command (it was far more about who could claim to have the ear of who than a rigid structure), the fact that Goering was an opiate addict from the time he joined the party to the time he was hanged for it, the fact that the party was super anti drug and Hitler and his wehrmacht were on meth, the fact that anti semitism basically gave the united states nukes thanks to brain drain, the insistence on spreading efforts into many super weapons rather than committing to a small number given all the resources they could possibly need, the fact that Himmler was a weird nerdy loser whose power came from being the least obviously threatening option to many party members…

Or we could go to WWI Germany, because Kaiser Wilhelm was barely discussed in my history classes other than just him being in charge and having been largely led by the actually competent Bismarck, but this guy was a weird crazy little motherfucker. And I mean that in a “this guy was attracted to his mom” way.

Ooh or you could look at the Roman Empire, the whole empire is largely glossed over with a bit about the Julians then Constantine and Justinian and the fall of the western empire. But like, a decent portion of the roman emperors were some variety of bonkers according to the history (but roman historians are much more like highly partisan propagandists than dutiful recounters of happenings).

In short, people already forget his scandals from a year ago, much less last term. Many books will be written about him, but ultimately his primary strategy is “flooding the zone” ie keep doing controversial shit that gets your name in the news so nothing is able to stick, and if it does then who cares, that means nobody’s reporting on your current bad thing. The internal crackdowns will be condensed and simplified to major turning points and the external aggression will be condensed and simplified similarly. And in that way the next fascist movement will involve the “you’re exaggerating” for years before it becomes “yeah, so what”.