Samvega

As a non-binary person who is under the trans gender umbrella, without being transgender in the sense of having transitioned across genders, I am careful with my language. I am not transgender in the way people typically understand.

Feel free to participate in non-binary erasure, I'm used to it. Humans love creating outgroups so they can bully each other, that is why I find myself not labelling myself as human. I think gender is stupid, and I think humans are rude.

On my instance, the UI doesn't even give a downvote option. There's probably a way around that, though, not that I am interested.

Getting rid of downvotes is, I think, a good thing.

It’s a fundamentally uncomfortable position. The people of Gaza matter

Thank you for saying this.

If I were American, I would surely vote for Harris. But I would want to have been able to do more to keep people safe from state terrorism.

struggle with more than one issue that is 5000 miles away.

Humans could be killing innocent people in another galaxy. I still don't approve of killing innocent people. Distance doesn't matter.

If you must sacrifice humans elsewhere for the good of your political system, kill me. I accept the sacrifice. I will die in their place. I will give Israel my address. If someone must die, I will do it.

I just do not enjoy hearing, every day, about children being killed in bombings. It makes me not want to be alive.

It’s because there is a large, internally-polled segment of the Pennsylvania electorate who are Jewish and sympathetic to Israel.

Harris can’t afford to not court them.

I have no doubt she vehemently dislikes Bibi and would wish to cut aid.

I hope you are right. But, without evidence (if there is any, please share it), this might be wishful thinking. You might just be a more moral person than Harris. I might be being extremely unfair, but it doesn't seem impossible for an elected official to be willing to sacrifice the lives of innocent people in a country without American voters to gain power.

I think you might be on to something. Maybe the system is set up to limit the power of protest voting? I mean, it does deliver two right-of-centre parties to power, over and over again.

Where the wheels are coming off is that one of them - and some people say both - are moving further rightwards, and this is destabilising society in America.

Hey, I'm autistic, queer, and an immigrant. You can hate me if you want, plenty of people do.

My gender identity is trans. I'm also ethnically Ukrainian. Feel free to assume I'm Russian because I'm different to you. That's what human society does, create ougroups and scapegoat them. I try to avoid doing it, which makes me an enemy of those who do, because I say impossible things like "can we not kill innocent people?" For practical purposes, that will not happen, and asking for it is naive.

I know that. But, although impractical and naive, that does not stop it from being the morally correct outcome. My autism shows itself in a very strong sense of justice, and I find justice to be more important than practicality.

Yes. And when a teacher who knows that the institution we both work in does not have litter trays for cat children is believing this idea, you know that this belief is a matter of population-controlling gullibility.

Anyway, as an autistic being who doesn't relate to humanity, I respect neurodivergent people who identify as non-human. Humans should try to be better role models to fix that.

I think if you’ve found the majority

That's not what 'a lot' means, unless you're reading a different dictionary to me?