OP is definitely wrong about rich people not dating middle class people or poor people, etc. - rich people are sorta immune to giving a shit, they are insulated. Aristocrats may have been forced to marry strategically rather than for love, but that’s not really about being rich per se.

Maybe some middle-upper-class people try to emulate aristocratic norms about not mingling that way, tbh I feel like the middle class in general is all about proving they aren’t poor, it’s ironically very typical of poor culture to work so hard to not seem poor - rich people aren’t like that and even try to intentionally blend in around others and not show their wealth.

I guess your authoritarian regime starts to look good when the Americans slaughter an elementary school full of your children?

I don’t understand the need to paint everything in black and white, not every conflict has a straight-forward “good guy” or “bad guy” - the US is self-interested and hates Iran because the current regime challenges US hegemony and deposed a US-backed autocrat to get in power. Meanwhile, Iran is a horrible, authoritarian theocracy that engages in medieval criminal punishment spectacles. It’s all bad.

when you really think about it, since there are really so few rich people, you start to realize you don’t personally know any rich people, and you may have never even met a rich person, and then you realize everything in your life is for poor (i.e. not-rich) people

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• roads
• grocery stores
• movie theaters
• gas stations
• libraries
• hospitals
• water treatment facilities
• sports stadiums

everything is built by us and used by us - rich people have their own doctors, live on their own compounds, hire their own chefs, and transport themselves mostly by private jets, etc. - they don’t wait in line for TSA, they don’t cook their own meals, they don’t drive places, etc.

on the flip side, you also start to realize how wealth and power has influenced the creation of the society you live in, like how US colonial food culture was influenced by major agricultural trusts, how drinking at bars became one of the only “third places”, or how US cities were destroyed by parking requirements under the influence of the auto industry

even if that’s true, telling them this doesn’t help them or solve their ignorance - just a thought that we can have more or less useful reactions to ignorance, we don’t want to incentivize doubling down on false beliefs for example

EDIT: I thought you wrote “you’re an idiot” in response to the person claiming the US defeated the Nazis, nevermind.

Most Europeans in 1945 believed the USSR toppled Nazi Germany, it really is only after the USSR collapsed four decades later and the US took global supremacy that people started to say things like the US defeated the Nazis.

https://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5814270/the-successful-70-year-campaign-to-convince-people-the-usa-and-not

tl;dr in 1945 nobody was confused that the USSR defeated the Nazis, it took until the 1990s for this perception to shift to the belief the US defeated the Nazis.

I find smaller dogs are much less chill, but why adopt a dog in the first place?

the content of the proposed emails were never fully disclosed 😏 much is left to the imagination, is allimsayin

much luck! I wish I was able to help more, but I don’t use Mastodon and I’m not too familiar with this issue unfortunately 😞

could be however you’re making the posts is configured to default to NSFW? 🤷‍♀️ I don’t know what platform you’re using, but based on the tags I assume Mastodon?

did you mean to mark this post as NSFW?

why do anti-abortion women get abortions?

I think this just shows the way socially ingrained attitudes are not total, i.e. there is lots of room for variation and breaks - exceptions exist even to people thinking in terms of stereotypes or generalized patterns.

this is so ironic to say about The Shield, one of the rare TV shows known for portraying cops as corrupt pieces of shit

you might not grow much even on normal HRT levels, then; at least anecdotally, most skinny trans girls I know struggle with growing breasts because of their low body fat.

That said, yes - on estrogen breasts will absolutely become more shapely and nipples will usually become larger and more noticeable; if you are trying to boymode still, you will have to find strategies to hide your breasts & nipples (even if the breasts are small). You might not be able to wear tight shirts or clothes, you might have to wear a tight sports bra with pads, or a binder.

low-dose HRT is a common strategy taken by enbies to achieve these kinds of results:

https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/low-dose-hrt-and-you-sage-cotugno/

Facial hair removal and low dose estrogen might work for you - I know one enby IRL who was taking low-dose E for years (they were DIY, though).

That said, I have no idea to what extent low dose cross-sex hormones is healthy or how stable you might find it in terms of impacting mental health. (Generally you need some kind of dominant sex hormone for your bone health and so on, and I don’t know how the body responds in general to introducing low-dose cross sex hormones - it might impact your testosterone production, or it might be fine.)

until visible mold and / or bad smell

depends on whether it’s a store-bought with preservatives or something I made at home - fresh stuff lasts maybe a 1 - 2 months max, store-bought could maybe last 3 months at most?

I find pizza sauce and other red sauces like that don’t tend to last like 4 - 6 months, they tend to get mold growing on the top. Even my tomato paste gets mold, so I like to put a little vinegar on the top (like you would add lime juice to guacamole to prevent it from oxidizing and browning), and that usually makes it last much longer / prevents mold. (Yay for acetic acid!)

EDIT: the numbers of months are low-quality guesses, take them with a grain of salt

what is the goal at this point?

fair enough, I’ll just delete the suggestion 😅

you can always post in a larger community and then x-post to a dead community, too! (or vice versa)

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Hm, my point wasn’t that reparations is unfair to both sides, but that there are better and worse ways to go about it.

Regardless, I think measures that aim to fix economic inequality and wealth distribution, and particularly efforts that are rooted in morally defensible arguments about repairing the harms caused by slavery and racism are noble and worthwhile. I’m even happy for imperfect versions of this where the US government pays reparations using tax money - it’s a much better use of my tax money (whether I personally benefited from slavery or not) than a lot of the villainous stuff the US currently does with my tax money.

Besides, the positive outcomes are alone worthwhile.

Typically I think of reparations as being sent to those who can show their lineage goes back to African slaves in the US, in which case it’s usually African-Americans who are the primary beneficiaries of reparations, not bureaucrats in Africa.

The way you are thinking about reparations makes me think you are not very keen on projects of social justice in general. Maybe you’re just jaded or cynical about the possibility for justice to be handled fairly, but I think we should be motivated to supporting and finding paths forward that help people whether they are perfect or not, and I just don’t get that vibe from you.