Abt switch
The Abt switch is a kind of railway switch used on funiculars (inclined cable railways) that doesn’t have any moving parts. It allows two cars to pass each other going uphill/downhill while sharing the same tracks. While most train switches rely on physically moving a section of track so the train goes one way or the other, the abt switch doesn’t move at all. Instead each carriage has a grooved wheel which makes it turn left or right at a junction by sticking to the track on one side.
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doom, transphobia, brief dysphoria talk, climate. Misanthropy.
Stressed about the future. Shit is looking real bad for us. I want to not be genocided and oppressed for my next few decades before we all die and I’m clearly not going to get it. Going to be treated as subhuman forever just because I had the gall to get crippled with this.
Genuinely this whole situation never stops sucking shit.
-dysphoria and my body being ruined
-fascism targeting me solely because of this
-climate change prolly ending civilization within my lifetime
Anyone who has kids clearly has a better life then I do because I would never inflict this on a kid.
I resent and hate most of humanity tbh. Fuck them. Most people dgaf about truth and that is the root cause of all of my pain. They do not “try their best”. They are evil. If people cared about what is true I would not be oppressed. Climate change would not be on the trajectory it is. But they do not. It has been clear to me for a long time and I do not know how to move on.
If you don’t agree with me on the climate change stuff being so bad idrc, I don’t plan on blackpilling anyone with it. It is compounding to the other stress because I very much believe these are the best years on earth and clearly (gestures broadly) they are being spent doing this shit to us. Remove that from the equation if you want it really doesn’t change much. The vast majority does not care if their beliefs are true and people believing false shit is why we are oppressed.
People are hateful, ignorant pieces of shit who have and continue to ruin my life.
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For climate change, we’re in the situation we’re in because the people and workers in general do not have control over the means of production and are not directing production. Climate change is a perfect externality for capitalism writ large because it can diffuse pain and oppression out in space and also towards the future where it’ll be someone else’s problem. People may understand as a whole that something must be done on climate change but until theyre able and willing to seize control over production and their own destinies, we will dump more carbon into the atmosphere and pollute our shared environment. For now what you can do is take care of your local neighbourhood and what you can do yourself, it will literally help the environment but itll mostly be to help you feel more in control and less blackpilled (in the sense of hopelessness). From the bit of literature Ive read on it, climate change anxiety/doom is like a real rising phenomenon and the most effective treatment so far is doing things in the real world - like recycling, joining or organzining protests, etc etc. Yes it sounds weird but it does help and you will be a better socialist if youre not caught in a blackpill doomspiral state, fundamentally we must be optimisits because we believe a better future is possible and seizable even if its remote.
Being trans is absolutely hard and their is oppression and theirs no sugar coating it or caveats. They do use these differences and hierarchies in an attempt to keep us separated away from our identities as workers in the great class struggle. As a trans woman, you smash that hierarchy and show its fake - you put yourself on the side of the lower status in the gender hierarchy come what may and you prove being a woman is something worth being for all women, which is why we are targeted the way we are.
I respect you feel your body is “ruined” - personally, I love trans bodies of all kinds. They are beautiful. Would I have picked egg crack and HRT before puberty for myself? Well yeah lol. But I still think trans bodies that went through wrong puberty are beautiful including my own. I hope you come to see yourself as beautiful and worthy one day and it might be easier as the HRT continues and helps removal some body fat and give you boobs ♡
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Changing our mode of production is only part of the battle, we also need them to understand the gravity of the situation. And we need that to happen, like right now more or less. China plans to continue to emit until 2060 (pretty sure that’s a “net zero” goal too, not a halt on emissions). Far better then anywhere else but still inadequate. And good fucking luck with other top emissions producers. And like whatever, I’m not dooming about climate right now but life is only going to continue to get worse from here out. It’s upsetting because I don’t think if I buckle down for the next decade or two for the trans hate to lessen things will be okay. Even institutions are very much saying it won’t be.
Yes, and why is this possible? Why is it possible to blatantly lie about us and have everyone believe it? Why do cis people understand the pain a girl would experience from her voice changing, but not me? Because they’re willfully ignorant and horrible. And it’s like this basically the whole world over. It’s proven science and no one gives a shit. You can link someone papers and they don’t care. This isn’t just an American thing, a western thing, this is an issue everywhere I have heard about. People believing fake, ridiculous, transphobic shit about us. And that makes sense to me, people the world over believe other ridiculous shit and so why would they have good standards of evidence when it comes to us.
And tbh it’s so horrible it’s going to be one of my first reasons. I can’t deal with it.
Only because dysphoria forces me to. I would love to not. I *hate, hate doing this. This should prove to people how real and painful dysphoria is, and, if we want to assume people aren’t evil bastards for a moment, they should have compassion for me. But they do not.
I don’t really see what you’re saying. Capitalism needs women to accept being women. And yet trans women are targeted much more. Wouldn’t it make much more sense to put trans women on a pedestal, to show women how great being women is so they keep making babies?
That would be nice. I can’t imagine that happening though :/ boobs will also be nice, keep waiting for nipple pain even though I want to wait as long as possible…
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How am I supposed to get any fucking sleep when I’m full of hate, my life is ruined, and I need to kill myself? How can I sleep when this shit is my life?
My body and voice ruined. Living in a society that hates me. Living amungst people I hate. In a body I hate. Finding community doesn’t fix anything.
Just have to wait another year or whatever of this shit before I accept hrt won’t change my situation and I blow my brains out. FUCK THIS
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