Sam Altman says “…”, Tim Sweeney is against “…”
I scroll past a headline like that every single day.
anything having to do with celebrities
Pizza tastes great. Pineapples taste great. The math solves itself.
Being upset that female characters in video games don’t have huge boobs and asses and the intelligence of a watermelon.
Taylor Swift. Like, I get that billionaires are a problem, and her carbon footprint is huge. On the list of problematic billionaires, I feel like she really doesn’t do that much problematic shit compared to the others.
Musk is a Nazi that gutted the US govt, Ellison has a laundry list of major issues, bezos is killing small businesses and bought a news company to whitewash himself, gates was involved with Epstein and did some shady shit to grow Microsoft, the waltons single handedly massacred thousands (millions?) of small businesses with anticompetitive practices.
I really don’t think that Swift rises remotely close to the same level of degeneracy and existential threat that these guys do, yet the only other billionaire I see getting criticised as much as her is Musk.
Cultural appropriation.
So… You’re offended. People are living out of their cars now. I’m more worried about that.
Also, the person being offended usually isn’t even from the target culture. They’re being vicariously offended on behalf of somebody else, when the actual members of that culture usually dgaf or like it.
Don’t get me started on “Latinx.”
You’re not wrong.
Climate change deniers.
Is climate change bad? Very bad, existentially bad. Do I want it to happen? No. Do I try to take steps to mitigate it? Yes, I put my drop in the bucket and vote for people who support policies that would help.
But we’re eyeballs deep in Brandolini’s Law at this point and by the time we get ourselves out of the quicksand, massive change will have taken its toll.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t take action, but working ourselves in to a spittle-flecked outrage everytime someone says something stupid on social media is a waste of energy when we’re already in damage control mode. The battle lines have been drawn for decades and the backlash effect is a very real phenomena.
Economics is going to win this fight before logic and debate does.
Pineapple on pizza. I don’t even like it that much but holy shit, shut the fuck up about it. You must have zero personality if you think it bring it up
You gotta admit though, those videos about Italians being scandalised by the sight of it are pretty hilarious
The quandary of whether a taco is a sandwich. That’s the kind of thing some college student asked when they were high af.
Firefox purity testing. Oh no they ran an ad or made a post on a mainstream platform or developed a widget. Look at the state of the world this is such a non issue and compared to the other browsers out there they are fighting the good fight unequivocally.
Like ProtonVPN whos ceo once praised the appointement of some judge who had done good things before (anti big corpo something IIRC), but he was appointed by trump.
Yeah, not super duper smart there, but years and years and years of fantastic experience? Worthless I guess.
I’m glad someone said this. I don’t have two fucks to give about Firefox’s marketing department marketing their browser.
I had to lol at Firefox today, it wouldn’t let me log into my modem because it was DANGEROUS. Awwww. Lucky I have Librefox as well, it lets me play with matches and drink puddle water.
librewolf but also any flavor of chrome should show the same warning for self signed certs, for the first time. check it in a private window of librewolf
Especially with the World Cup stuff that you can turn off with two clicks. Everyone and their dog watches football, this is the single most uncontroversial thing the nerd browser can add to appeal to new people
Yup.
Brave is a better product.
The fuck it is, have a downvote.
I’ll take it. Have a Happy Friday, friend.
I haven’t tried ff recently, but for a long time it was chromium based browsers or bust. Don’t turn on the crypto ad crap and it works just fine.
I still have ff installed but it’s almost exclusively used for “have you tried accessing our page on a different browser?” support.
Yeah, the crypto stuff is opt-in, as is their AI-tool. I appreciate that they aren’t mandatory.
Insert latest corporate shareholder or position event here:
I have found almost none of the backlash or headlines that people on the internet, especially Lemmy, want you to be pissed off about, annoying to me enough to actually Care about.
Steam. Apparently I’m supposed to be angry they are a locked down monopoly but compared to practically EVERY OTHER GAMING COMPANY IN THE WORLD they are frickin’ saints.
I buy based on trust, and at this time, steam hasn’t lost it.
They’ve made their drm more lax over the years while Sony and microslop have worsened theirs. Like how you couldn’t easily play your games offline before steam deck.
Still buying my games from GOG first though.
Yeah, it’s one of those things where one could argue that steam is successful in part to being entrenched (all of your friends are on steam and all of your games are on steam, so might as well continue using steam), but also… other game launchers are just worse? The fact steam has a lot of useful features, as well as surprisingly few scummy incidents in its history just makes it not worth switching off for me :p
Do other launchers have the workshop functionality to add mods directly from their launcher? That’s been something I love about steam
All the ones I can think of are for individual games rather than general launchers lol. And third party mod launchers that you have to add your own games obtained elsewhere :p
For me steam input the big one that pulls me towards steam; seamless proton integration too, but that one I could handle losing, steam input on the other hand I think is one of the best input remappers out there, I even added all my non-steam games to steam to make use of it too haha
I definitely have some games I need to use nexus mods for (looking at you stardew) but it’s honestly such little hassle that I don’t mind.
They’ve done so much for gaming on Linux I forgive them for having a convenient launcher that launches everything
Yeah, I saw an article about Epic’s CEO having a gormless rant about Steams AI filtering and how but Steam was for them.
All I could think was: “well, make a better product then”
GOG Galaxy is the only launcher / storefront that comes close to competing with Steam, and that is because the one thing they do better:
DRM-free games.
The rest is about equal or slightly worse.
If Epic looked at the customer base and analyzed what people wanted I am sure they could build a better platform than Steam, but with a CEO as unlikable as Epic’s and with his trackrecord it would take many years of hard work and effort to even begin to come close to Steam.
It would probably take some massive PE/VC enforced changes at Valve where they start to enshittify Steam and the loss of confidence in the platform that will follow to make the other platforms competitive.
It would probably take some massive PE/VC enforced changes at Valve where they start to enshittify Steam and the loss of confidence in the platform that will follow to make the other platforms competitive.
Make no mistake, it’s coming eventually. I held off on trusting discord for years buy finally they won me over. Now look where we are.
Never again.
Valve has been around since 1996, Steam since 2003
Discord has been around since 2015 and was funded on VC money.
Kind of different situations lmao.
Sure, but once Gabe passes the torch it’s just a matter of if the person(s) getting it gets a big enough blank check to walk away from it
That’s true, but we’re not at that point yet so… What is your point? They’ve managed to thrive as a private corporation up to this point, clearly everyone working there is making bank too and treated well. (From all accounts I’ve read) so I’d hope the incentive is higher to keep with the same philosophy for whoever comes after. Of course hard to say, can’t undercut the greed some people have for making more money then they literally could ever spend.
I have decided to bite the sour apple, as we say in Sweden, and overpay for the last two hard drives for my NAS build to complete it, then I will grab every offline installer for my games I can find and keep a local copy.
32TB of storage that can loose two drives before any data loss, a solid start for backups, media and software.
and that is because the one thing they do better:
DRM-free games.
Which games are DRM free on GOG but not on Steam?
When I say DRM free games, I mean those with a standalone installer containing the full game that can be downloaded for offline use.
If this is available on Steam, ai would be overjoyed
Installers are just fancy zipped folder. And AFAIK, all games that are DRM free on GoG are also DRM free on Steam. So you can download the game, zip the game data folder, copy it elsewhere, unzip it and play it there. I’ve done that with several games, in fact when I was trying to convince some friends to buy a game I did that so we could play it in lan with a single copy so they would try it and buy it so we could play it online later.
So, yeah, you can absolutely do that in Steam, which is why I never get the “oh, but GoG has DRM free games” appeal.
They don’t have any monopoly. There are plenty alternatives and all are trash.
Yeah, the only people actually upset at Steam are people who have money tied up in other platforms. Steam is nothing but good for normal consumers.
In comparison they are very good, however that can turn on a dime real damn quick.
Scenario: gaben ded, bilzzard exec buys steam and it goes public. Hello enshittification
This is exactly why I’ll never own a house in a HOA, no matter how good the current board is…
HOAs are hell. I’ll never go near one.
So? As opposed to what, a corporation that is impossible for someone bad to take over? That doesn’t exist. Anything can happen at any time, but no use speculating about a 180 in policy. And they don’t actually have a monopoly, people just love them so much that they but almost exclusively there. If Steam gets shitty, I will buy from a different PC game store.
I’d argue they do have a monopoly. My friends don’t know how to get a game if it isnt on steam. They are scared if I show them a game on a website to get (like armegatron).
I’m just saying, do not trust steam, make sure your games are truly DRM free, and be ready to pay subscription pricing for downloads and steam cloud saves. With server storage pricing being insane and gonna keep climbing, they can’t keep giving you unlimited downloads and storage forever.
First one is a quintessential skill issue.
DRM free would improve Steam, I’m with you there. But if we’re talking about theoretical enshittification, there is nothing to stop them from adding DRM to existing purchases. And then you’d have to had to make a backup of every exe you downloaded, and not care about cloud saves, etc…so I’m saying I get your point kinda but there isn’t much point in speculating because services like that can always change unless the law prevents it. Which it SHOULD, but I’m not holding my breath. So all we can do is reward good behavior with how we spend money.
Yep I’d agree. I just am wary of any walled garden, because once they lock you in and kill off everything else (ie, the goal of capitalism) youre fucked. See: apple, amazon, google, etc.
How is steam a walled garden? Thus far they’ve been acting in favour of compatibility, to the contrary.
Its better than others. But still, its “where all your friends are”. No one is going to use anything else because everyone uses steam.
True, but every option comes down to a hypothetical scenario which does speak of how it is at a decent place.
And pc being an open hardware open OS system makes it so people can just hop to something, and have alternative means like piracy if worst comes to worse.
PC benefit in the end is control over hardware, the programs we can run on it, and modifications that can be done to it. Something that requires hoping for jailbreaks when it comes to consoles.
yeah but they support linux gaming!
and if you don’t use a linux PC to game, you’re a stupid ignorant complacent fool who is destroying society.
or so I have been told like every other day on lemmy. owning a playstation or a switch is like ragebait to the user base here. apparently if i buy a switch i might as well support blowing up babies in gaza and mass rape as a genocidal tool, according to these folks.
Linux becoming more user friendly and accessible is a plus though for individuals who like diy PCs, but stuck with Windows due to game support. Compared to then and now moving away from Microsoft is less of a hassle. That is pretty huge for long time Windows PC gamers. Not just for gaming, but regular usage of computers.
From the sounds of it you dont like pc gaming in general, and that is fine. Do hope you can see how a non corporate OS alternative is a win though. Just having an option that is not a huge downgrade to a trillion dollar backed OS is amazing.
You are on the fediverse after all which is an alternative from company run social media like reddit. Which also has its ups and downs when it comes to accessibility much like PC gaming, but there are similar pros to it too that some giving it a chance.
please lecture me more about how ignorant I am.
Um… Lecture lecture lecture.
Oh yeah that could be a whole different thread on here. I use Windows and Linux, I would love it if I could rid myself of Windows completely but Linux is not there, and I kinda doubt it will even be a total replacement for Windows. It’s worth remembering Windows didn’t become the monolith that it is for no reason, people wanted 1 application that could easily do… Well everything without needing a lot of manual fine-tuning. That ain’t Linux.
windows became a monolith because of sabotage. and then! the network effect. microsoft is actively trying to sabotage linux, and they’ve got internal documents stating that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents (the actual link is not loading)
microsoft doing monopolistic anticompetitive FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) practices dates back at least to 1992: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code (yeah... i found out about this from a youtube video.....)
and when was clippit (colloquially, clippy) introduced? <drumroll>… 1996. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_97)
thus, using a clippy pfp is stupid. q.e.d.i don’t even PC game anymore because it’s just not worth the headache. i also work on a PCs all day at work, so I want to sit on my couch to play games and not sit in front of a monitor for more hours of the day.
And the reply is always ‘you are a retard then’. Yes, clearly, I am.
There’s no headache with PC gaming, this isn’t the 90s. You can plug a computer into a tv and use a controller.
Right, that’s why when I tried to play fallout last year it kept crashing and crashing and throwing errors and fucking up, and i had to download custom drivers and edit files to get it to be somewhat more stable.
but when i bought it on my playstation 5 it didn’t do that.
weird how that works. also did similar stuff when I tried to replay xcom. so i just gave up. or how i have to give my nephews tech support every other month for their gaming pcs where games won’t load or play or frequently crash.
but please tell me how I’m wrong and pc gaming is perfect and wonderful and clearly I’m an idiot if I have a bad experience with games not working.
To be fair Fallout is a special stupid idiot that doesn’t work on PC smoothly no matter what.
and i never bought into the pc gaming masterrace nonsense.
The strength of a gaming console is that it’s a known quantity. My Switch will work the exact same as your Switch. Game devs can build and test with confidence.
This isn’t true for PC; there’s a huge variability factor. My PC is almost guaranteed to be different than your PC. The unfortunate truth is that you’re correct: console games are more reliable, and they always will be. There is no world where that isn’t the case. If you just want to play games without any friction, a console is the better choice.
People here don’t want to hear that though and will lynch you 😂
yeah, i like console gaming because it just works. and i am too old too waste time trying to get games to work.
on rare occasional a console game will crash, but it’s like a handful of times year. on PC i’m lucky to play for a few hours without a crash, or multiple crashes.
I mean, I have a switch from like 8 years ago and while I enjoy it for the mobile gaming while on long flights I wouldn’t buy a new one after all the shit Nintendo keeps pulling. I don’t know which other handheld would be a good alternative, so I don’t really throw shade at people buying new ones but I would like the company to hurt a bit.
@Oni_eyes @AskewLord I use the steam deck for the same porpose. I bought a xbox few years ago to play read dead 2, the onlything that could probably make me buy another console would be gtav, and even there I already decided that im gonna wait for a version that works on linux or otherwise just gonna emulate it few years from now
If I didn’t already like palworld I would buy it just to hate on Nintendo more, but that’s just me.
I would argue that is the other way around?
“The internet” in general keep arguing that steam dominant position is not relevant, while they forbid any dev to sell their game on other plataforms for less (don’t even mention the steam keys because they are not part of the equation)
That’s a pretty standard retail agreement clause that’s been around for decades before digital distribution. It’s not unique to Steam at all, letalone them doing it uniquely.
And is abuse of dominant position when you control +80% of the market.
If a dev want a profit of 10us for game sold, it’s has to sell as 13us on steam. But if I open a marketplace and only charge 10% they could sell it for 12, getting a better margin selling for less, but they can’t if they want to use steam too. That affect players because cheaper options are not available, affect devs because they have less option, affect other stores because they can grow up competing on price.
And that’s only possible because of Steam dominant position, because steam can strongarm devs into getting the same price as their competitors without reducing their 30% slice.
Again, this is a standard retail clause that has existed long before Steam. It would apply no matter what combination of retailers they choose to sell at because they all have this. This is why digital games are sold at the same price as physical copies when they cost less to distribute: the brick and mortar retailers have this same clause.
There’s no good reason to treat this like a Steam-specific thing. Every retailer has such a clause, big or small. This entire idea is based on a frivolous class action suit that is not going anywhere because it’s launched on the shaky grounds of the belief that Steam exclusively uses the MFN clause and that they think a 30% cut is too much.
The problem is that Steam have a dominant position on the market, when you do that regulations are different. Some markets with natural monopolies like energy distribution for example can’t raise prices without being approved by a regulator, and so on. Again, the problem is not asking the same price for itself, is doing it while controlling+80% of the PC gaming market.
Which jurisdictions have this regulation? I’m pretty sure there’s no such thing as a leading retailer having to implement a disadvantageous sales agreement for the sake of their competition.
It’s doesn’t happen enough as it should be but, for example, it was found that Microsoft abused it’s dominant position on the OS market to stablish IE as the standard on browsers and was forced to ask what browser the user wanted to install between Firefox, chrome, Opera and IE. That stopped once chrome took over.
And it’s not a altogether bad clause, it prevents a bad actor from heavily subsidizing their games and then destroying the market once they’ve run everyone else out of business.
“What’s something the internet constantly gives a free pass to and simps for but should enrage people” wasn’t the question. The internet is overall much more a defender of steam than the opposite.
The downvotes are kind of proving me right lol.
The fact you have so much rage over that is amusing me greatly, I thought you should know.
Look at all the comments that came to steams defense. And yours, trying to like tease me? Lol.
You might think I’m wrong when I say there isn’t much difference between steam and the others, but I’m not wrong when I say Steam is the internets darling. You’re here literally proving me right, thank you for letting me know about it.
This would be the comment I would write if I was promoted to respond like the most stereotypical reddit gamer possible.
What a CEO or founder of a company does off the clock. Brave, Mozilla, Mullvad, Proton, GrapheneOS - I just don’t care. If I picked a product off of the CEO not being a dick, I wouldnt have any products or services to use.
“Shitlibs”
Weird fuckin’ american paradigm. I’ve simultaneously been called a shitlib, a tankie, a communist and a capitalist. Piss.
Trans people: I don’t care which sportball team you play on or what bathroom you use, just wash your hands when you’re done.
Whatever is in your pants is none of my business unless you’re trying to make it my business (in which case, I’m flattered, but in a monogamous relationship, sorry).
Ill keep this train going. I don’t care about sports, much less who is playing them.
It’s all a plot to steal my toilet paper! I’m onto you, trans dudes.
My only real interest in this as a controversy, is bringing back single use bathrooms open to all would be nicer for all of us while leaving this outrage nowhere to go
This should be the baseline bottom, but somehow its not. If you care or not or think its “wrong”, just keep it to yourself because Trans people are not harming anyone.
I have met 4 Trans people in my entire life, and they are just normal kind people. They’re not cheating at sports, or being weird in bathrooms, or anything people are fearmongering; they just want to live their life comfortable in their bodies
All I really care about is that there’s a toilet that aligns with my plumbing when I need to pee
I’m with you on this, but I’m also against the opposite: the blind praise and promotion of being trans for some reason. Look, if you have something wired in your brain different that makes you present as another gender, go ahead. Present yourself how you want, I can’t imagine why I’d give much of a shit. It’s a free country. But why do people have to constantly yap and take over every non right wing chud internet space to make it about being trans or related like talking about how hot femboys are. It’s like…I mean honestly? A trend. And something major and life changing like that shouldn’t be a trend. I’m sorry but that is dumb. Have your own spaces where you can talk about your own issues, sure. Don’t be afraid to mention it in other spaces, sure. I’m cool with that. But maybe don’t take over everyone else’s spaces and make everything about you. Being annoying on purpose just doesn’t work in your favor.
Also related, if psychologists and such agree that the best way to treat gender dysphoria is hormones, that’s cool. But like maybe don’t push socialized treatment for that so hard when we have literally nothing else socialized in healthcare. Priorities, you know? People are dying, every day, and cosmetic appearance for something a lot of people find weird and off putting is too easy of a target to keep healthcare terrible. I’m not saying it’s right, but you have to pick your battles sometimes. Just like if you want to make someone not racist towards black people, maybe show them something like jazz or soul first, not hip hop. Is hip hop art? Absolutely, one of my favorite genres. But it’s going to be an immediate turnoff if you jump to bad language and drug dealing and bitches and the other rap tropes. Should you have to cater to someone racist or transphobic? No, but that’s the world we live in. Everyone gets to vote. and everyone starts somewhere with understanding people different than themselves.
Trans rights are human rights in the sense that you should be free to look and present how you want and not be harassed about it. But that doesn’t mean you get to have everything you want, for free, and everyone has to not only treat and react to you exactly how you imagined it in your head, but also praise you for being different. That’s not how the world works, for anything.
I definitely understand the annoyance, but I let it go because I understand how “Pride” works as a concept.
Bigots and Nazis need to feel “popular”, like they live in a world of their making. One of the biggest weapons against them is showing how unpopular they are. The day that they make an offhand crass comment, and the whole room turns against them.
Pride moments, raising trans positivity unwarranted, are meant to trap and push out those mentalities; keep reminding hateful bigots that “You are not welcome. Cut it out.”
Where it gets tricky is for the many people who are fine with it and don’t care, but just get gradually annoyed. I’m partly there, but I also understand that Trans people have put up with enough of the world’s shit that they’re allowed to vent back for a generation or so at all the baseless hate.
Priority in socialized healthcare is a tricky fight. Everyone wants their cause supported, when really all of them should be. The infighting is based around fear, and not entirely unwarranted, so I don’t have easy answers.
I think this is well said. You should be proud to be who you are, and sometimes bigots need a reality check, but it gets to a point where it is counter productive. I remember a few years ago when people were upset about the Proud Boys militia, and leftists made memes about gay dudes wearing banana hammocks being our “proud boys” because of gay pride. And, uh…no. First, it’s just not funny, so it fails as a meme. Second, being gay does not make you the representative of leftist/progressive ideals, I’m sorry. And third, I don’t particularly want to see a dude’s dick imprint on my home page either, please stop.
Granted, I am in more leftist spaces than most people, but I see the trans flag more than any flag, even the US flag. Even during the world cup where every country was patriotic, I still saw more trans flag spam than anything else. And that is absolutely ridiculous to me, especially for a cause such as being trans, whose identity is generally “I want to be seen as the other gender and I’d prefer people don’t make a big deal about it”, not “my identity is being trans and I will never let you stop thinking about what’s in my pants”.
I hear you with healthcare but in most cases, “my cause or your cause” is the same cause, even if it doesn’t specifically apply to you. If life saving medicine is free, we all win, period. Nobody is like “fuck people with type 1 diabetes, my tax dollars shouldn’t go to them getting insulin which would be negligibly cheap in a socialized system” unless they’re just vehemently anti-socialized medicine in general. Trans “healthcare” is, ultimately, not health related, it is cosmetic surgery or changing your body for cosmetic reasons. Mental health related? Arguable, and I do agree that it is personally. But VERY arguable, and not a lot of people support it. So leading the charge on socialized medicine by making it about trying to psy-op people into thinking “trans rights=human rights, and trans rights=access to expensive treatment paid by tax dollars” only hurts everyone by being an easy scapegoat. Not to mention the whole related psy-op of trying to convince people being trans, particularly “girldick” is hot in porn and whatnot, which is a whole other can of worms. Trying to trick people with thinly veiled propaganda is not the move if you’re trying to start a serious movement. And it makes the trans movement, which is already polarizing and on shaky ground, come off to outsiders like a fetish, ESPECIALLY if you don’t personally know a trans person and only see what’s online. Which is a lot of people, since trans people are like 1% of the population, Trump is president so it is not popular to come out, and many trans people i didn’t know were trans until years of knowing them, because once again, the idea is to be quietly accepted as the other gender. Which makes all the trans spam even more perplexing. Who is actually posting all of this? LARPers? Well meaning supporters? Russian trolls trying to flanderize the movement?
Trans “healthcare” is, ultimately, not health related, it is cosmetic surgery or changing your body for cosmetic reasons.
In the same way someone getting their face reconstructed after a brutal car accident is “cosmetic.” Both are ultimately about making people comfortable in their skin.
Trans care saves lives. It saved mine. I don’t know what kind of monster can look at a 41% suicide attempt rate, look at the only care proven to massively reduce those rates, and then try to trivialize that care. Trans health care is one single most effective classes of medical care in modern medicine. Gender reassignment surgery has far better long term outcomes than knee replacements.
As for why there are so many trans people on Lemmy. Most of us left other spaces, often to get away from enlightened centrists who see our lives, healthcare, and civil rights as privileges to be granted if it’s politically convenient.
It is not about people’s lives being privileges, I resent you saying that. I thought I made it clear that I support trans people and do not tolerate bigotry. Everyone matters. Even if in a theoretical situation “just” 1% of the population is getting genocided, it is still genocide. I don’t value you or anyone else less than anyone else. I simply disagree with your premise, which I believe to be a false dichotomy. The statistics do indeed say there is a higher percentage of suicide rates for trans people. And why is that? In my opinion from looking at the evidence, I do not believe it is primarily or even very much at all related to bottom surgery being expensive. A lot of trans people are not even interested in that at all. It is because trans people are under a spotlight and a microscope, often scapegoated, and it really wears on somebody to be hated all the time and not know where it is safe to be themselves. And why is there such a spotlight? Part of it will always be bigots and right wing politicians deflecting blame. But part of it is self inflicted.
And that’s what I mean by the “taking over spaces” part of my comment. You are perfectly welcome in Lemmy as far as I concerned. You shouldn’t have to “hide” that you’re trans or avoid talking about issues that concern you. That’s not what I’m trying to say.
Think about it like this: imagine the trans spam was literally anything else. Say like…it was about India. I have Indian friends and coworkers, Indian food is great, Hinduism is kinda foreign to me but I find the concept and ethos very interesting, traditional Indian clothing is pretty and cool. Positive opinions, neutral at worst. Now imagine if Indian people refused to shut up about India. Screenshot of a movie with a character wearing a white shirt, orange light from a sunset and green grass “OMG GUYS THE COLORS OF THE INDIAN FLAG, ARE THEY IMPLYING THAT THIS RANDOM CHARACTER IS ACTUALLY INDIAN?!” Every food or cooking sub is taken over by Indian food, people comment on non Indian food “why not just make Indian dish?” Any random brown person “yeah it’s giving Indian vibes” Comment on a pretty girl’s Instagram : “So cute! Glad to see a fellow Indian be loud and proud” “Actually I’m not Indian” “Not yet ;)”
I think you can imagine people would start to have more negative opinions on Indian people if this were the case, or at the very least find them immature. Except this actually makes a lot more sense because there are literally a billion of them, and there are nowhere near that amount of trans people.
This, combined with the false dichotomy makes the movement come off as immature teenagers to a lot of people. I have not found that to be the case from trans people i know in real life, but that is the perception.
Even if I were to believe the false dichotomy of “pay for trans surgeries with taxpayer money or trans people will die”, that’s not any more convincing than it was when my ex girlfriend threatened to kill herself if we broke up. Me having sex with her is not healthcare because of her potential actions. I think it is important to be precise with language. And to be clear, I would vote for covering trans stuff with universal healthcare if it got on the ballot, as long as there were legal protections from something like a mentally ill parent forcing transitioning on their child.
Lastly, you say “politically convenient” as if I’m running for office. As previously mentioned, people die every day because they can’t afford healthcare, and it’s only getting worse. I know someone who divorced his wife so she won’t have to pay his medical bills after he got cancer. After burning through his life savings that he worked hard on and made sacrifices for, for THIRTY YEARS. Not only does he not get to enjoy any of the money he saved by working overtime, but he can’t even die young in peace knowing that his wife will be supported. He now has to worry that debt collectors will sue her after his death if they suss out that their divorce was due to debt. That is dystopian, a nightmare. And that is not “my problem vs your problem”. It can happen to you. And it is probably more likely to happen to you, as transitioning can be hard on your body. I’m not a fan of politics, I just recognize the reality. To some, people, being trans is an affront on god himself. It sure is stupid, but they will vote against their own self interest just to spite you. There is no universe where we will be able to jump to “trans people should get whatever they define as healthcare paid for by someone else.” from absolutely nothing being covered. Not anymore than we should have campaigned Frederick Douglas for president of the United States before we, you know, got rid of slavery. Could he have been a good president in a vacuum? Yes, he was an intelligent and wise person. But you knowing that, and me knowing that doesn’t mean it would have been a good idea. And NOTHING exists in a vacuum. Ever.
You fundamentally do not see trans people’s healthcare as legitimate. You are not welcome here.
People come to Lemmy precisely to escape enlightened centrists like yourself. Stay on the mainstream sites where you won’t have to see the icky trans people talking about their issues.
Couldn’t agree more.
It’s like…I mean honestly? A trend.
This is the thing that really bothers me. So many kids claiming to be “trans”, when they are very clearly going through common teenage rebellion/finding themselves. It does a disservice to those who really do have gender dysmorphia. The conservative “anti-trans” crowd can point to this and say “see, they’re all just being weird”.
And sure, there are kids who really are that way. My old ass thinks they should wait until they’re actually adults to go messing about with their hormones. That shit is permanent and they’re still developing. They can live as another gender in the meantime, no reason to stop that. But at least make the body modification decision as an adult.
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