whiskers165 [she/her, she/her]

I put so much effort into trying to politely explain why this situation arose while making it clear that I’m cool with LGBT people, and I still get this demonization for not mindlessly siding with one side

It’s because you thoughtfully sided with transphobia. And to make matters worse you are so out of touch that you think you are being polite when you are actually coming off like a condescending bigot.

And no one reading what you wrote is going to think you are wise. That’s why they are not going to listen to you

You can’t even have a conversation with a trans person because you might say something that gets you banned. If that’s really the case you should just come out and say it so the powers that be can “self moderate” your probably transphobic ass out of here. Or maybe you could “choose different” communities because it would be a blessing to never see BillyGruf talking about trans people ever again

Well, if you don’t see how that aspect of yourself could be seen as transphobic, I can see why you don’t think you’re transphobic, but you’re clearly very passionate about a topic that most other people recognize as transphobia. There’s nothing wrong with that in itself, but I think you can see a conflict like this was fairly likely if you’re regularly posting indiscriminately with no little knowledge of the communities you’re talking about. It’s not the end of the world nor is it an attack on you or your passions. You’ll either learn to self moderate or choose different communities.

Now, if you don’t mind I’m gonna step away from this conversation because you are a waste of time

The way you use LGBT is uncanny, feels half way to a slur the same way Rush Limbaugh would say “Democrat party”. Try calling us LGBT people because whatever the fuck you are saying feels off, very wrong. Like you have a lot to say about LGBT people but you can’t even address us correctly

Or come correctly at all for that matter

Like, let’s just lay it out at a very high level: LGBT people, like everyone, are weird. Unlike most other weirdness they’re organized and vocal about their weirdness

You should just stop. Everything you are saying ja borderline offensive. Maybe you didn’t mean any offense but you need to spend more time with actual queer people before you write five paragraph essays about what we deal with because you clearly don’t have a clue

That said, I think the LGBT community knows it’s become a political element. Debatable whether they’re political pawns being used to seize power or a political faction in their own right.

You can straight up get fucked for this take. Trans people bear no responsibility or accountability for the hate and political persecution we are subjected to. Our lives and information about us isn’t political. We do not need to hide or censor information about trans people just because a bunch of childish bullies are making a scene about it.

Your five paragraph screed of benevolent transphobia is infinitely more political than the post that was removed on mander.xyz. You got vibes where you pretend to be a supporter of the LGBT community but then always find ways to take transphobic positions for allegedly not transphobic reasons. I’m sure it’s just that you don’t like politics, or incivility, or things that are disruptive. It just so happens queer lives have been made political by our adversaries, the bullying we are subjected to is disruptive, and we can be incredibly rude when we get mad about all of this, so you’ll always side against us.

Your comment was so long tripping over itself with squirrely qualifying language but you basically said: “Tr***ies are weird and controversial, and need to chill out and hide themselves my convenience. For me the most frustrating thing about the persecution and harrasment they face is how it could potentially disrupt my Internet communities. And these weird MFers know they are political too”

Id like to think you are a misguided ally who needs to shut up and listen the way you put “build allies” in quotes really does not leave a good taste in my nouth

The LGBT community works very hard to “build allies” (make disliking their weirdness socially taboo)

Like wtf that’s a weird and uncanny way to say it

if nothing else @[email protected] is very clearly a very political account who probably shouldn’t be posting on mander in the first place.

Oh yeah now we’re on to straight up unfiltered transphobia where any trans person who doesn’t try to hide their identity is political. And politcal is bad and trans is political so we should ban trans people posting trans sciencr from the science community. But it’s not because trans people are banned, just politics wink wink

Like you can 100% get fucked if you think a trans person posting about trans issues is political

Back in the day I used to game hard as fuck on the 650m on my 2012 MBP lol

I have Fedora on mine now and it works great once you figure out how to make the wifi and graphics drivers play

Definitely upgrade to 16 gb RAM if you haven’t already. DDR3 is stupid cheap

I remember a few years before I learned I was autistic privately remarking to myself, “damb, it really is starting to feel like whether it’s work, girlfriend stuff, or my own personal life all my friends end up being autistic”

Software worked out of the box much more reliably. I miss certain software but there’s nothing I haven’t found a happy replacement for. There’s a little nostalgia in there somewhere but honestly the feeling is mostly good riddance

Now I’m personally a Fedora KDE user but my wife’s 2017 era gaming PC runs Ubuntu flawlessly, it’s got an Nvidia GPU in it too. I think a lot of the issues you hear about Ubuntu basically boil down to user error. My wife occasionally will struggle with something on the machine but I’ll pop on and fix it pretty quickly. I imagine if she didn’t have me in house to troubleshoot she would be one of the people complaining about Ubuntu.

I’ve honestly been pretty impressed with Ubuntu using it on her machine; only thing wrong with Ubuntu is Canonical lol

I’m not much of a gamer anymore, I only play stuff from the prepandemic, mostly 10+ year old games but tbh Linux works great for everything. Mostly been using Steam on both Ubuntu and Fedora KDE but it works flawlessly so long as you have your graphics drivers configured correctly.

I haven’t tried to pirate any games or install anything with WINE/Lutris so I can’t comment on that but I did manage to get the non-Steam Windows only version of Final Fantasy 14 working for my wife using a third party launcher. I got the impression doing that that an adept user would easily be able to set up standalone or pirated games without much trouble