imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]

trans people are a threat to the status quo of the patriarchal-capitalist Gender regime. the ideology of patriarchal capitalism is that your gender assigned at birth is immutable and there are only two. in patriarchal capitalism your gender defines a lot of what path your life will take, the societal expectations placed on you, and importantly what opportunities and privileges are afforded to you. obviously the setup is men dominating and oppressing women which has been going on for far longer than capitalism but worsened significantly under it. the division of reproductive labour is the social basis of gender. according to traditional gender roles, women are expected to act as broodmares to reproduce more worker stock and also perform most or all domestic labour in essentially a slave role. the existence of trans and trans nonbinary people disproves the two axioms on which this all rests, that your gender is immutable and one of just two. gender in capitalist ideology is little more than a tool or system of oppression, and by existing and living our lives as we see fit and not railroaded by traditional expectations based on assigned gender at birth, we show clearly that it doesn’t have to be that way. so to answer your question they come for us because we are a genuine threat to capitalist patriarchal orthodoxy, we show by our actions and existence that a better social order is possible, one where individuals are actually afforded self-determination instead of being locked into a predetermined role based on what genitalia you are born with.

sorry it’s kinda an incoherent thought dump, there is plenty more to say this is just a quickie of the root superstructural reasons that we are perceived as a threat to patriarchal capitalism. of course, most transphobes won’t have these specific reasons in mind (in fact probably couldn’t comprehend them at all due to ignorance) and have just been convinced by capitalist propaganda and transphobic media to hate us because we are icky etc. the prevalence of misogyny also is why it’s so easy to get people to be transphobic, a lot of it just boils down to either “hah! why would a man want to be a woman?”, or “hah! a woman could never be a man”.

it could easily last a few more years but after that long you should assume it could fail any day and either don’t keep anything critical on it or make regular backups of anything important.

my issue is that it both sides the troubles but it’s a banger anyway

alienation

they aren’t really left-wing at all… maybe from an american perspective because they have some welfare state aspects like state healthcare? they are still capitalist and any socialised aspects have been diminishing intensely since 2008 in favour of regular old neoliberalism. sweden is literally a monarchy which recently joined the nazi alliance NATO, and the scandinavian states are firmly on the side of the US and imperialism when it comes to geopolitics, as well as benefiting from the incredible exploitation of the global south like any global north countries. socially they have been trending more right-wing too like most of europe, anti-immigrant and anti-queer sentiments rising. nordic socialism was never real socialism, it was a flavour of european social democracy with all the national and social chauvinism and continued exploitation by a capitalist ruling class that entails. and any commendable aspects like i said have been steadily whittled away since 2008.

i was thinking of switching to vanilla arch but ended up going the other way and installed Nobara KDE on my laptop. I’ve had it on my main machine for a while and really like it. i prefer tiling on a laptop too and normally use i3 but i’ve been able to get a satisfactory tiling setup within KDE using Krohnkite.

i was liking endeavor but had to switch cause they started putting AI slop desktop backgrounds in updates

fedora or nobara KDE spin

lol

also solved this by updating the controller firmware but yeah, you have to do that on windows unfortunately

who made you the fun police

I just try to channel Gramsci:

“You must realize that I am far from feeling beaten…it seems to me that… a man out to be deeply convinced that the source of his own moral force is in himself — his very energy and will, the iron coherence of ends and means — that he never falls into those vulgar, banal moods, pessimism and optimism. My own state of mind synthesises these two feelings and transcends them: my mind is pessimistic, but my will is optimistic. Whatever the situation, I imagine the worst that could happen in order to summon up all my reserves and will power to overcome every obstacle.”

and this dude was dying in a fascist prison and able to hold this outlook. i find it inspiring

protonDB is my go-to and most people on there seem to be having a pretty smooth experience with it! it is fun!

? rivals works fine on my machine on Nobara. it has a Linux compatible anti-cheat.

i have faith this will be resolved eventually/they will have to admit kernel anticheat isn’t even meaningfully more effective and give up on it. anyway loads of people don’t play multiplayer AAA so it’s a no brainer already for them. as the mass of people migrating continues to grow devs/publishers hopefully will have to catch up. 2% of the steam hardware survey is linux now, it could be 5% within the decade. that’s my optimistic outlook, i know i shouldn’t underestimate how out of touch the epic games suits etc. are though

i got around this by opening cmd (Shift + F10) during the setup and disabling the network adapter.

wmic nic get name, index

wmic path win32_networkadapter where index = 2 call disable

index will be 1 or 2 probably depending on your setup it was 2 for me. this worked for me recently on boxes on fedora with a win10 iso.

lol

CEOs aren’t innocent

it’s fine to kill CEOs hope this helps!