Edit: Don’t just downvote and run away, make your liberalism known. If you have an issue with either of these, please let them be known in the comments. C'mon, let's duke it out. :)

For the libs shouting "but muh anonymity", you should have zero issue using the "any pronoun" tag as you will be addressed with any pronouns regardless of whether or not you have it set. The point of having them sitewide is for everyone to use them to normalize explicitly stating one's pronouns as a means of not forcing trans people to request to be addressed with basic respect. The amount of pushback on a meaningful step toward trans inclusivity in this community is pretty fucking disheartening, not gonna lie.

Folks seem to be using the NSFW tag for the spoiler effect on memes, and while it's a funny use of it, it's causing the intended use of the NSFW tag to lose its value. This isn't r/WatchPeopleDie. Personally, I was exposed to that sort of content at a younger age and am desensitized to it now, but not everyone is like me in that regard and I'm probably more fucked up than I like to think for having been as exposed to it as I was. We currently don't have another way of tagging content, so please be considerate and put "[NSFL]" or content warnings in the title so people know they'll be looking at some heavy shit. Not a lot to ask. Please do not start ironically putting "[NSFL]" or other content warnings in the post title. You're more creative than that, I promise.

get fucked lmfao

fuck the feds

State-by-state guide on getting started with firearm ownership

Since this is at the top of active, take notes on how the alt-right radicalizes casuals. We could stand to learn a thing or two on how they reached casual right-wingers to help us with radicalizing liberals. :P

NOTE: In past groups I've been involved with we'd send our volunteer hours and donation receipts to the person organizing these efforts. This is something I would absolutely love to keep track of and update weekly in the sidebar of the mutual aid and donating comm for us all to see a quantified amount of objective good we are doing for our communities and others. So please send me censored receipts redacting all personal information and hours volunteered! <3

Alright, libs, here we go again with some organizations providing relief for the victims of Hurricane Laura in the Louisiana and Texas area that you can donate to and volunteer with, along with tips on digging into financial statements of non-profits to ensure your money will actually be used to help others and not going solely to the pockets of greedy executives. As laid out in the mutual aid and donating comm mod call post, for all non-profits I slap my stamp of approval on and regurgitate to you all here, I am including links to their financial records for you all to look at and make your own decisions as to whether or not to donate. As someone with a background in accounting and finance (Yeah yeah, flame me in the comments for this if you want. Post hog, liberals.), here are some basic, high-level things I look for in the "Financial Audit" and "Form 990" reports before giving my own sign off:

As always, please consider donating directly to Feeding America. For every dollar donated they are able to secure approximately 10 meals by working directly with major manufacturers, retailers, and farmers. I've looked into their financials and they spend hella... bread... on food procurement (Fuck you, that pun was sick). Feeding America and its partners are already on the ground working with local food banks in Louisiana and Texas along with other organizations such as the American Red Cross and the FEMA National Response Coordination Center to provide people with the resources they need. I realize I'm coming across as a shill for Feeding America, but I do have food drive experience with them so I'll shill all I want. I dare you to flame me in the comments. Post hog.

The Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana has activated a relief fund for Hurricane Laura that you can donate to here. Please please consider donating if y'all have change to spare.

Please send me receipts with personal information blurred if anyone donates too. I would love to keep track of these things for the community like we did on the Discord.

Hurricane Laura map and times of arrival

UPDATE: Up to $920! Thank you to everyone who has donated and sent receipts so far! <3

EDIT: As we do not yet have the ability to pin comments, please sort by Top and upvote the continued post in the comments so they remain at the top near the rest of the post. Thank you. <3

This post is primarily for my fellow trans and non-binary comrades. Quite frankly, I'm fucking tired of seeing news reports of my sisters being murdered in cold blood for nothing more than being trans and the time for us to arm ourselves is long overdue. But this post can also be used by any person here who doesn't currently own a firearm and maybe doesn't know where to start with purchasing/building one or isn't educated on their particular state's firearm and concealed carry laws. By the end of this post, you should have the information you need to get started.

The first link of each state is literally the exact same website, but I saved you damn liberals the time and strenuous effort of having to find your state on the map and click it by straight up linking you to your state's gun laws summary page in particular. You're welcome. The summary pages do a phenomenal job of linking to .gov websites for laws pertaining to gun ownership and any forms necessary in acquiring a concealed carry permit, therefore providing direct links to government resources is redundant. The summary pages should provide you with a solid foundation to self-research any questions you may have. Included are also a few links to gun related forums/classifieds dedicated to your state.

When visiting any of the forum links, keep in mind that most of these places will be filled with more right-leaning people. However, in my experience with right-leaning gun enthusiasts out in the wild, they are more than helpful and respectful in helping you arm yourself if you just keep politics out of the discussion. They care more about the fact that you want to exercise your 2A rights than about who you are as a person or what you're about politically. Just saying.