“Your letter was too long, it must be lies.”

“I had a lot to say, it was hard to make it short.”

“Your letter is too short, it must be lies.”

“???”

I’d also add that posts like this are not how a person effectively supports their friend through Internet drama. Actually, it’s extremely counterproductive. Rather, this is how someone addicted to the drama behaves.

If people cannot understand your experience, it’s not because you are trans and they are cis. There is no universal trans experience and you still need to work to make yourself understood to other trans people, who have entirely different experiences from your own. People have the capacity to understand things outside their direct experience. Some people go 40 years thinking of themselves as cis, and then change their mind!

Honestly, therapy is an almost necessary part of gender-affirming care. It doesn’t just prepare you or help you go through it, it’s fully part of it.

The principle medical reason for gender affirming care is that it SAVES LIVES. We have statistics on how often and severely people experience regret and we know it is not a significant factor. You’re talking about outliers. Not everyone has access to counseling. We can deal with X number of people with regrets if it means X*Y (for some reasonable Y) people don’t actually die.

Presumably you believe that anyone with a uterus should be permitted to have a child without first receiving counseling on how it is going to potentially destroy their body from the hormone exposure alone. What is the meaningful difference?

Bold thing to assume on Lemmy.

Certainly, everyone who is thinking of transitioning should have access to counseling. My partner is in this stage and it has been vital for them. I hate to think of people trying to go through it alone, without professional guidance.

Sorry, I did what? “All of my accounts?” Do I know you?

I DID receive a message from Beaver a day before the other moderator went wild with power, stating her intentions to perform a three day moderation blitz where things would be extra strict. Due to the limitations of the medium we’re working in, I don’t know if anyone replied to that, but it hasn’t been mentioned. According to the evidence I have, Beaver was trying to communicate and the other moderator was not.

I note that Beaver has now left the site completely, probably due to the dog piling and bullying. So, job well done. You made people unhappy. Good work, the Internet is safe once again.

If Beaver committed some kind of moderator offense by not responding in the second moderator’s unstated timeframe, then surely that second moderator committed an equal offense by demodding THREE moderators without consulting anyone else. No one even knew that this was up his ass before he went nuclear. I don’t know how you all can look at this and say it is anything less than a transparent coup.

Sorry you’re having trouble following this. It’s honestly not very complicated. I think if you read the thread from the beginning with an open mind instead of preconceived biases, you will find it easier to follow.

Clearly you are not interested in engaging. I still love you, though. I just don’t like you very much right now.

Downvoting a post can be brigading. Voting posts up or down is indeed the primary thing that brigades do.

I did not say that this was an example of brigading. I don’t know that. I pointed out that the views you are sharing imply that you would also be against taking action against brigading.

Thanks. Interesting thoughts.

A) is an opinion and it was stated as an opinion, since the post served in place of the discussion that was skipped. I feel justified in sharing my opinion about the direction I want the community to take. I can’t force my views on anyone, and it seems amazingly insecure to respond to that with a unilateral de-mod.

B) was a request for patience and discussion before people started de-modding each other. But okay, let’s call it “downplaying” for the sake of argument. I don’t see how such downplaying amounts to justification to de-mod me.

C) I can’t respond to but I do find it rather uncharitable. If you can give an example, I’d appreciate that. And D) I can never assure someone who wishes to believe otherwise.

When it comes down to it, it sounds like you are saying the other mod was justified in de-modding me because I voiced disagreement with his choices. Plus a bunch of other stuff about me just plain not deserving to be a mod for reasons I admit I don’t grasp; that I’m just intrinsically deserving of being de-modded. Have I got it?

I’m sure you are aware that brigading has been a problem in The Motherland since the very beginning. Now that we have the tools to detect and address such behaviour, are you prepared to say you are categorically against using that information to inform moderation decisions?

Aggressive? Gasp. BITCHINESS? I am wounded. But I still love you.

Would you care to assay on what justification exists to demod me?

I don’t wish for us to interact.

Look buddy, I’m just in this post to circlejerk. If you want to argue, kindly go back to the OP

He ain’t even done yet.

Am I a sockpuppet? Do my parents know this?? WHY DID THEY NEVER TELL ME?!

What frigging community do you think this post is in

I mean, it’s fair. You’re extremely awesome.

You don’t have to be super careful. You just have to make sure they get enough taurine. Any number of off the shelf products have sufficient synthetic taurine for a cat to thrive. It doesn’t make sense to get all freaked out about this one nutrient when you trust the pet food manufacturer for every other essential nutrient the cat would die without.

Cats cannot be vegan since veganism is a moral philosophy and not a diet, but it has been well established that cats can thrive on a plant based diet supplemented with synthetic taurine, like the taurine found in popular Monster products.

hey, it’s that guy from the meme, that’s so cool

A vegan would destroy another invasive animal that is wiping out the local ecology in a heartbeat if that was the only “practicable and practical” option.

Strictly adhering to veganism correctly sees companionship animals as animal exploitation. Pets are not vegan.

Pets are not vegan in the first place but only 5% of vegans will admit that.

– American southern baptists

(spanking = trauma? really? that’s absurd concept creep).

Please stop. Anything can be traumatic. Two people can have the same experience; one receives trauma and another does not. You likely know people who have trauma from parental violence. This isn’t rhetorical, the things you say affect people.

Yeah kind of buried the lede, you don’t need to unpack political ideologies to understand the hatred in the first response.

Technology and social advances have increased the wealth and income disparity that the working class will tolerate without destroying the system.

truth.social

Sea water is mostly water, do you doubt that it dehydrates you?

I cannot manage one tea a day if I consume it every day.

I have far more emotional resilience when I am not consuming caffeine. I have more self-control and I am less impulsive; those should be obvious consequences. I also need less sleep, and I am more resilient in the face of a night or two of lost sleep. I feel worse, but I function far better.

I find that caffeine is wildly counterproductive, after the first week of daily consumption. Like, absolute total executive lockup.

I sulk for three or four months. That usually does it.

Ah, so it’s okay to be obtusely racist in ways the go under the radar. Like dog whistles and complaining about being “gypped”.

And of course as an American with American values, I believe that “wrong” and “illegal” are entirely overlapping concepts.

Jesus you weren’t kidding. I thought you were talking about the visual layout, not the brain worms.