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If you let your opponent define the very words you use, you already lost

Same here. I guess it’s a blessing.

I’m not coming back to Reddit through their app.

They could call for civil disobedience. They could maybe act like there is an attempt at a fascist takeover of government instead of prioritizing being nice and polite.

There are some democrat politicians that are sort of begging to take things seriously, such as AOC. But if the party itself doesn’t get its shit together, they’ll be remembered in history like the Weimar Republic.

Dems: literally do nothing except not make things even worse

Liberals: “they finally show some spine!”

“Hypno Fetish” had its own space on a bingo card over on /r/Traaaaannns2, so it can’t be that uncommon. Does anyone share this curiosity?

I have had this fetish since before coming out, but as an hipnotist. I don’t really like the idea of being sexually hypnotized, and my transition feels too “sacred” for me to like feminization/sissy content in general. I don’t even like it with other people honestly, it feels like the most boring kind of hypnosis to me.

Do people engage with erotic hypnosis in a responsible manner? The rational part of my brain says that’s impossible: it’s like inviting someone to “root” your “flesh robot,” for a combination of money and their own entertainment. Feels like asking to be taken advantage of.

At the end of the day it’s a lot about trust and informed consent. It’s fundamentally not that different from let’s say, if I’m a rigger. Me and my sub should have mechanisms to maintain consent, and they should trust that I will untie them if consent is removed.

inb4 “they can’t get you to do anything you don’t want to”

Oftentimes the point (at least for less scrupulous hypnotists) is to expand the limits of “consent.” Also, when you’re sufficiently horny you’ll do almost anything.

That’s why people have tags and similar stuff. That enters in con non con territory and some people are into it. Others are not and should be able to stay clear from it.

That’s one mental image that I didn’t need and is now forever burned in my mind

Sorry for the delayed answer.

I think we’re disagreeing on the definition of a “person”. I’m using the word to refer to a mind and its subjective experiences inside its own head. You’re using the word to refer to a body and other people’s relationships with a mind. It’s internal vs external.

Yes. You’re right. However, I would argue that there isn’t such thing as a “mind and it’s subjective experiences inside it’s own head” without a social reality supporting it. You’re coming from a Descartian point of view, and I’m going through a Hegelian one.

This is not dehumanizing high support needs disabled people who can’t communicate effectively, but pointing out that they are still part of our world, and we’re part of theirs. Even if neither us and them recognize that.

As you say, consensus reality is a social construct. If someone is not socially impressionable enough to be taught this construct, then they are not a member of reality.

That’s where I hard disagree beyond philosophy. Because it doesn’t matter if You don’t understand or recognize a social construct, it will still affect you and produce reactions, ingraining itself in you. As long as someone can experience anything at all in this world, they will experience the consequences of social decisions, and by consequence, a mirror of decisions made by this society. And as long a someone can produce any behavior at all (save reflex), they can and will communicate.

This consciousness is always imperfect even with NTs, but it’s always there.

I think you’re confusing politics, which is related to collective decision-making, with culture.

I’d also argue that there really aren’t apolitical people, even level 3 ASD people who can’t speak or traditionally communicate at all. Our existence is always political and collective, even if we don’t perceive it that way. There is no individual without society, to pretend otherwise is neoliberal ideology.

A meltdown in public due to bright lights is political, even if it isn’t a conscious, intentional protest. Reality itself is socially constructed and political, and we ASD people aren’t above or beyond it.

Of course, we miss some social rules or can’t adapt well to them, but that doesn’t mean they don’t affect and shape us. I don’t feel jealousy, I don’t understand monogamy at all and I think it’s kind if stupid to be honest. This does not stop me from putting in some of my partners very monogamous expectations based on time spent with me or other secondary things that only make sense in monogamy, because “that’s how relationships work”. Except that no, that’s how monogamous relationships work, but the only kind of deep relationship we’re presented are monogamous and there’s a lack of other frames of reference.

Politics isn’t something you can miss, because it is shoved down your throat from the moment you are born, even if you don’t understand it. Actually scratch that, since even abortions are at stake.

Very sad day indeed.

I was already using reddit less. I guess this is the final goodbye.

It still works if you’re a mod in a community. I don’t know why.

This doesn’t mean shit.

I was raised catholic. It’s basically church doctrine that anyone is a child of God, and pretty much almost anyone can be baptized.

It doesn’t mean you’re not a sinner who’s going to burn forever in hell. It’s just the famous anti-lgbt talking point “hate the sin, not the sinner”.

This will lead LGBT people to a false sense of security before they go straight up to conversion therapy.

The vaccine does not stop covid

It does.

It does not make you immune

Not to all strains, and not completely.

it does not stop you from spreading covid

It does, by reducing symptoms like cough, which spreads the virus in the air, and by lowering your chances of having it on the first place.

and you will have to get another dose after about 3 months

I haven’t checked this one, but even if true, it’s a small price to pay to not having my friends and loved ones dying.

And then there are possible adverse effects like myocarditis, especially for young men. All this should be considered.

Which are extremely unlikely to happen in comparison to dying of covid.

There are other ways to strengthen your immune system. They should be considered too.

There isn’t s way to strengthen your immune system, because it doesn’t work that way. You either have a healthy immune system or you are immunocompromised, which may happen when you are particularly fucking up your body with drugs, going through rapid environment changes or suffering with AIDS.

People with a immune system that is too strong (that is, more aggressive and more wasteful of body resources) actually tend to develop auto immune diseases.

Most people that have died due to covid have been severely ill, morbidly obese or very old.

Yeah. And they still deserved to fucking live.

Eating healthy, getting enough exercise and making sure Vitamin D levels are sufficient will make covid much less dangerous. I much prefer that to constantly getting new boosters.

Those are indeed good practices that will lead to a healthier life, and may affect your chances with covid (especially exercise if it’s cardio).

However, COVID doesn’t care. Being healthier mostly means that you can take a bit more physical damage on average than other people while your immune system tries to fight the infection. It will still fuck you up and possibly cause permanent damage.

Oh, and if you have bad genetics, got wet from the rain in a cold environment, or is just way too stressed out from work? Your chances are pulled down just as much.