What if I don’t give a flying fuck about Biden? And I find both the people dancing about his nearing demise and the people clutching their pearls about that fucking stupid? There are almost certainly more important things of substance to place your energy into.

I’m so fucking tired.

That was the nail in the coffin of their party.

Thing is, I heard that multiple times during his first term.

I’m not saying you are wrong, maybe you are right. But I’m not so easily convinced after all the shit he consistently gets away with. There were people on their covid death beds who were still anti-mask/vax and pro-Trump.

If people are still stubbornly holding onto their beliefs as they directly face their own mortality more or less because of them, its hard to imagine a bribe being the red line.

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Impeachment on its own I can’t bring myself to care about. It needs to come with “and removal” for it to matter.

And even then that means president Vance. It would still matter because Vance is a weaker villain lacking the full undying support of the MAGA death cult but shit would still suck, just suck in a way where there would be more hope.

Trans people seem to have a knack for hating men huh.

I’m not trans. I’m a cis male. (edit: well, mostly. TBH on a higher rational level I might as well be genderless, I’m a cis male by convenience)

Go on, try it there’ll be no tolerance for people who advocate for this levels of evil

Evil? I’m suggesting such not to punish males. Its to minimize loneliness and sadness in the world.

Trans man here to say that nobody needs to give any extra cred to MRA bullshit just because a trans person is saying it. I have also been through the full dude experience including profound loneliness. I likewise thought I was prepared but wasn’t. Its hard. I miss how things were before too.

I don’t think the author was giving credit to MRA bullshit. MRA’s seem to often hate women and I don’t think the article implies any hatred, if anything he still tries to essentially that men are the ones that need to put in the effort to push past toxic masculinity. Describing it as a problem to be fixed at the individual level rather than at systematic level. Saying "If I could advise men, it would be first to look inward. "

I also know that in general, in 2025, all people are more isolated than 20 years ago. Furthermore, it is a known phenomena for a longtime that friendships are more difficult to cultivate as an adult. I doubt how different things would have turned out for me had I not transitioned.

Suicide rates differ for a reason. It is far more painful to be a lonely man than a lonely woman. Men are very quick to self loathing.

I also know that the “distance” I now experience from women is a direct result of 20,000 years of patriarchal violence. Of course women relate to me as a potential threat; I am one. And without the presumed vulnerability I possessed as a woman, men relate accordingly. Of course.

We should have fewer male babies. It seems like it’d reduce the amount of fear and alienation in society. (I’m saying this in good faith, I’m serious.)

At some point, as a trans guy, you need to stop leaning on your experience “as a former woman” to compare your life to, especially in the negative. Being 22 is not the same as 42 no matter what your gender presentation at any point. Many people experience nostalgia for their youth.

Based on my own reading/discourse, trans women usually seem to feel very little youth nostalgia in comparison. They might complain that they’re older now, but that’s usually more of a melancholy over “what could have been” had they been AFAB.

Just as when cis guys make these complaints, I question this person’s definition of “you dont get to”. In fact the article describes him making a career out of doing so. Even specific instances of “going viral”, and the affirmative feedback he received. It seems that you do get to.

I’m pretty sure he was talking about social pressures. Sure, he got to because he was very motivated to push against that societal expectation, that doesn’t really mean that average men can get away with that unless they dedicate their whole career/life to it.

Which leads to pointing out that the whole thing is an advertisment for the author who is “a Professional Corporate Speaker and Stress Management Coach”.

I think calling it an advertisement is a stretch based only on that, but even if it was that doesn’t invalidate the point being made.

And it has anti-trans hate material suggested items in the middle of it:

I think that’s just because those are controversial yet related articles on Newsweek so their algorithm picked them. But yeah, those do seem to be especially trashy and obvious anti-trans articles. Its kind of gross that they ever ran on Newsweek to be honest…

Transitioning to a point of passing in my understanding (mtf or ftm) comes with pros and cons.

I often think about this article as well when it comes to trans men’s negative experiences once accepted as men: https://www.newsweek.com/trans-man-broken-men-1817169

The majority of the voting population answers this question based on name recognition alone.

Yeah I read the article, that headline is almost misleading in its support for Harris if anything. AOC has the best net

NOT complain and whine that everything isn’t handed to us on a platter.

She’s in second place and we have 3 years to move her into first, that sounds worth a shot to me. But go ahead and throw your hands up in the air, tuck your tail, and say there’s nothing we can do.

I shouldn’t have to educate grown adults on shit this important they ought to desire to learn on their own. They should know who the hell AOC is JFC. So I’m still disgusted, just significantly less so. And like, I’ll inevitably try to promote AOC, but I don’t owe this country shit. I want to leave, I only can’t thus far due to money/resources.

I jumped the gun, its still bad but AOC has the best net favorability out of them all. Harris has the most support by sheer name recognition. Its bad that people don’t know who AOC is though.

The important takeaway is that AOC, and presumably progressivism more generally, is getting more popular.

Embarrassing (for me)… upon actually reading the article, the headline is almost misleading. AOC has the highest net favorability of them all, and Harris is only past her due to name recognition.

I’m baffled how there is that many people unaware of AOC though.

Second place to Harris??? Holy fuck we deserve our fate.

Edit: upon reading the article (I know…) AOC has the best net favorability. So a little more hopium there.

Yes AOC, he is. We all know. Some pieces of shit Americans however earnestly did not give a fuck clearly.

I have nothing to say that’s constructive but I also have nothing to do to fill the void.

The people who refused to vote also deserve it. That means most of us deserves this.

I also tried to stop it. I not only voted, I traveled hours to a purple state and canvassed. I donated. I constantly agitated at my workplace at the risk of my job.

I know they exist but they’re still a minority.

At least they’re probably experiencing a growth spurt though. Little bit of hopium there.

I mean, the libs are going into the camp as well. Specifically, the ones that wanted you to vote for them most likely a target. Trump’s admin is clearly trying to flex their power, now that they’re ignoring the rightwing Supreme Court and completely ignoring due process. Why would they want to continue to tolerate any political threats to their power at all?

Maybe you’ll get to see Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Chuck Schumer, and Bernie Sanders all in the Salvadoran Gulag with you. Maybe you’ll even meet me there. We can all go and bitch at each other while the fascists torture us all to death.

The ones primarily saying that want to shoot liberals and leftists.

The few liberals and leftists who are pro-gun probably don’t have sufficient support or power to form a militia force. Because most liberals and leftists in the US are anti-gun.

Don’t be, most of us deserve it.

Zionist Democrats want to fine you and repress you in financial ways. They want to “tut tut” you for being anti-Semitic.

Zionist Republicans want to put you (and immigrants, and LGBT, and dissenters) in a death camp.

Typically first dates are not the same place you first meet someone.

I know, but that there aren’t a lot of places to meet people in person without spending a bunch of money is a major problem and meeting people online to date sucks.