Fucking awesome response, thank you so much for it. I get how you feel now much more.

I think an important point to make as well is that these legislations are not even made by trans people, so they have no authority on telling you what to do. Fuck them all.

I want to learn more about the LGBT community and since I’m a cis white guy living in a post soviet country, who grew up in a conservative family, I know jack shit.

So I want to ask this question, is it okay for minors to have an opportunity to make surgeries on themselves? Like, we have age gaps for a reason, is there something that I’m missing here? Should there not be any regulations regarding this?

Like, minors are notoriously not great at making decisions or being reasonable, I wouldn’t trust myself doing something this big, that’s for sure.

I think meanings of words just change. Liberal 100 years ago is different from a liberal today, so usually when we say liberal, we probably mean neoliberal. Is it academically correct? No, but it’s an internet forum, we don’t need to use as precise language as possible.

But don’t take my word for it. I could be completely wrong and there might be another reason.

Wonderful, now I get to speak in my second language, but ironically, not the first…

Did you try to change sort type in settings?

What app are you using? Or is it on the website?

It’s not that hard to switch browsers since most of them are pretty much the same. Sure, you need some time to adjust, but I think it’s much easier than enduring shit that google forces upon you.

Well I’m not going in completely blind + I can’t know everything about every topic. But I’m seeking more knowledge, thus the reason why I made a post.

Thank you so much for the links! Started with Another View of Stalin

No no, don’t get me wrong, I totally get it. While I think that the statement is true, it’s not the only way I tried to explain my position. Like I said, we are having respectful discussions with one another and I try to not be overly emotional. It’s very important to find a nicer footing in the dialogue in order to convey your thoughts more clearly.

His response is interesting.

It also leads to racial hatred and division and doesn’t actually address the issues. It’s like Nazis saying that black people commit so much crime because of biology. It’s false, leads needlessly to hate, and nothing gets done.

He basically created a straw man because I rarely/ever see “woke” media that is genially racist towards white people. But then he’s trying to compare “white struggle” in the MEDIA to a real life struggle of black people, which is really fucked up. And what’s funny, he’s saying that “Nazis” say that, when people that are generally on the right are keen to be racist and make those claims, but he doesn’t want to associate with them, to not seem like he is battling one racism with the other, so he says that exclusively Nazis say this shit.

People probably have no idea how wonderful it is to see comrades from Ukraine here. I’m so glad to not feel alone, not only in the world, but in my own country as well.

Thank you, I’m really glad you liked my response)

To be honest, my claim was a bit hyperbolic, because essentially Cyberpunk as a genre is anti-capitalist, just CDPR doesn’t really want it to be.

It boils down to how you want to view this game and art in general, with the original intent of developers or without it, making assumptions based on the contents of the story. And I rarely can choose the latter.

The whole game tries to tell you that corporations are the main (and only) issue, Johnny Silverhand literally says: “I’ve declared war not because capitalism’s thorn in my side…”, implying that it’s not capitalism that he has problems with, but Corpos who: “Have long controlled our lives…”

But I don’t view anti-corporatism as a synonym to anti-capitalism, and neither does CDPR. That’s why they chose to paint a Marxist ideology as complete nonsense of some ai bot fortune teller (I’m talking about Bartmoss collective) and that’s why there’s not a word from Johnny criticising the system that let corporations become as powerful as they are today.

CDPR is the main reason, I presume.

Polish gamedev, who at the start of the war in Ukraine wrote: “Slava Ukraini” in their support letter.

Polish…

Slava Ukraini…

Yeah… Also not even a hint of anti-capitalist ideas in a CYBERPUNK GAME? Pretty fucked up.

I really hated the fact that there was no option to actually oppose those “people” from the government in a meaningful way, not just help another character.

What the fuck, we have an actual terrorist in our head that would lovely kill every single one of these fuckers if he had the chance, but we CAN’T??? And when we actually abandon them, it’s a mission fail and the whole DLC is inaccessible… Great

Fallout New Vegas lets you kill anyone you meet and story ACCOUNTS FOR IT. But in 2023 there’s not even a hint of that in a game that calls itself RPG.

CDPR really doesn’t want you killing bastards who actually are responsible for the horrible fucking state, not only of NC, but the entire country. Not even a hint of responsibility from their end, it’s just corporations.

“Read theory”, to me, is a first but very important step. The more people read theory, the more people really understand why the movement exists. Unfortunately, after we actually read it, not everyone can put it into practice.

Person who read the books might not have union in his workplace, or being a communist in his environment is really unpopular and could harm him physically or mentally. In this situation, what can he actually do? How can he put theory into practice? And that, to me, the question majority of communists deal with all the time.

In this situation, the best way to utilise knowledge we got is to share it, try to push our ideas into masses because red scare didn’t go anywhere, myths about USSR, China, communism are still here and although they look more like a rotten corpse than actual arguments, people still fucking use them.

And that’s what most of us already do, which is great. I personally do it all the time, but it is not easy, even family members (or especially them) could be really hard to convince that communism will not take their food or make them all use the same toothbrush.

Trying to make people understand, or even listen, is not an easy and a very lengthy process. Some give up, some push forward, but if you don’t have any other means to help the movement, what can you actually do?

UZZR KILLED MY FAVOURITE BOIS KULAKS, THEY JUST WANTED TO EXPLOIT PEOPLE WHY KILL THEM, THEY HONEST BUSINESSMEN

That would be awesome to have something like that because random comment sections can be really chaotic.

I get you, I’m surrounded with this narrative and even have people who openly hang the OUN flag in their bedroom and showcase it in online classes… no one speaks out. Why? Because they were forces who “fought against both sides”, even though it’s proven that it’s not true, it doesn’t matter, because government propaganda supports this narrative (you can already guess where I live).

Don’t be upset, you are not alone. Don’t let them discourage you. We are with you, comrade!