Id say go to local events and talk to the people around you. I'm sure there are pro Palestinian rallies somewhere by you. I've met so many cool people just talking to the person standing next to me at a rally or march. Sometimes the main point of a "do nothing" protest is actually be a reason to bring like minded folks together.

I'm really worried all my questions end up being answered by your last line there. I'm hoping that I'm missing something though.

I was under the impression zionists made her cry?

I agree with the sentiment in here of don't worry about labels too much. Just try out different stuff and play with it until you find what fits for you.

Personally, I'm a 35 year old trans woman. When I was growing up trans women were only the butt of jokes in shows and movies. I didn't think people actually were trans so I wrote off a lot of my obvious feelings as "everyone feels this." I had a tough time identifying it because as I aged, masculinity didn't feel right but I'm autistic so nothing ever really felt right.

It didn't all click for me until I was watching a trans youtuber's coming out video. I can't find the transcript for it, but the line that just SHOOK me was something along the lines of "I looked in the mirror and I saw myself aging into an old man and I was terrified". I had those feelings before and then the rest of her experience really clicked into place for me and all the egg-y shit I had felt and thought really came into focus. It took a while to actually publicly transition, but in the meantime I would dress in feminine clothes at home to try and find my style. And expressing my gender more just resonated deeply with me and I ended up having to publicly transition.

As an aside, I think the book Whipping Girl really helped me understand my gender better, but that might just be because the author's experiences lined up with mine really well, my cis wife says it really helped with understanding her gender too.

Can I ask how much you paid for the surgery? I've been wanting it for a while and I've just heard it's so overwhelmingly expensive I haven't had the energy to confirm that.

I shot guns this weekend for the first time. If you're able to find a leftist gun club in your area I'd fully recommend doing it. I feel so much more comfortable with the amount of training I've gotten already and am now considering purchasing a gun for myself at some point.

I had someone say it to me verbatim is the only reason I said it 😭😭😭

...I'm the biggest Hillary supporter. It's her turn.

My mom visited me from out of town this weekend. She's been mostly supportive but also really boomer about everything up until now, but recently she has been talking to people who know trans people and reading books to understand me better. I have never felt so seen and so understood by my mom. We talked the harm we've both done to each other candidly, and she accepted responsibility as the parent for all of it.

Before this, i was sure that she'd never "get" it and that our relationship was always going to be at arms length but she switched it up on me. And now our relationship is going to be difficult again but it's a very different difficult and I'm really excited for it.

You're right. I'm sorry, I'm sure the work you've done after while being committed to leftist ideals has outweighed all the crimes against humanity you either committed or enabled while you were enlisted. I'm sorry for implying that the data reflects that your personal story is an outlier when it is actually the norm and we have tons of ex military out here doing the work of undoing the harm they caused.

I wasn't saying it was genetic. I think my argument must've been unclear because I'm getting a lot of responses like this. I was saying those survivors set the groundwork for anti communism of today.

Not even Mao or Stalin treated enemy soldiers as harshly as this.

And now the world is run by Nazis. Thank you for pointing out their failures.