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Bush’s baked beans

Why didn’t he stop it?

Bush did nothing wrong.

I’d like to further my understanding about how the Soviet Union was structured from the lowest level in basic union organization to the highest levels of government.

I avoided this comm for the most part in the past and never subbed to it because I felt a sense of imposter syndrome and that I wasn’t neurodiverse enough with my “small amount of adhd” and didn’t want to intrude on the space

As more time passes though I realize just how much that “small amount of ADHD” affects me and I was undermining a part of myself that I had overlooked in the past. So I’m subbing to the comm and am gonna be paying more attention to it going forward.

How do you respond to this? It’s not something I’ve done a lot of research into, but it seems like one of the few critiques where you just say “critical support for the USSR, we need to learn from the past mistakes the soviets made and do better the next time around.”

So I have a coworker who is half Hawaiian and half Native American and we were talking about things they'll call white people over there and he just says "we'll sometimes call them "Māhū", don't look it up cause it's a slur."

And of course I looked it up and I'm just like ??? It's just the Hawaiian third gender? Everything about the term seems cool to me. Like, there's alot of cultural significance behind the word, in the past Māhū were held in very high esteem and had an important role in their culture and it only started getting used in a derogatory way because of western influence. He said it's like calling someone the F slur in Hawaii. So I challenged why he thinks of it as a slur and he got pretty uncomfortable with the conversation. I asked him if it's a slur than what's the "socially acceptable" Hawaiian term for trans folk there and he had no idea. Probably because bad actors have done their best to make the very existence of trans people socially unacceptable.

It's just a case of transphobia mixed with colonization. Westerners have made them uncomfortable with the idea of a nonbinary gender system, and tried to erase the existence of other genders in every culture they come across. It's just the equivalent of being called gay: something only straight cis people or internalized homo/transphobic people would take issue with. I think a step towards decolonizing their culture would be reclaiming the term and refusing to see it as a slur, and after doing some digging it does look like there's efforts to reclaim it as part of their cultural identity.

If there's any Native Hawaiians here who can provide more input and context here it would be appreciated.

Edit: Gonna repost this gender map I included in a Mega post I made ages ago:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?ll=8.016975588774075%2C64.4248907814756&z=2&mid=1zDWxhBN5aOofwpE-FkZWQsiFDlE

And if I do see it, then I'm still gonna flip the fuck out

a cracker barrel on every street corner

I'm perpetually behind on my bills. Was hoping to try and catch up this month but I'm barely keeping my head above water. If anyone is willing/ able to kick some money my way, it would be much appreciated. Over a month behind on my mortgage now so I'm fast approaching the Danger Zone. Cashapp is $SpicySerenade.

"DEADNAME" (Hestia) has been arrested. Authorities state that they have found bags full of drugs (estrogen) and numerous hard drives full of illicit films. (Indian cinema)

Heya Everyone, new Mega time and for it, I'm gonna advertise a TTRPG system called Thirsty Sword Lesbians.

A sword duel can end in kissing, a witch can gain her power by helping others find love, and an entire campaign can be built around wandering matchmakers flying from system to system.

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