r/raisedbynarcissists I (14m) visited my father (48m) recently after years of no contact due to him being a narc, and it turns out he only sent for me because he needs someone to pilot a robot.

i have a controversial take and i refuse to share it with the Internet. if you fuckers knew what i was thinking about right now you'd cancel my ass so hard. the discourse alone would last for weeks. but you can't. I beat the system.

woke up this morning with the phrase, "Ork pronouns, 'e / 'em" stuck in my brain so there you all go

Trump isn't "trailer trash" culture - he was born and raised in NYC. If anything he's an offspring of yuppie culture. We're engaged in mass cultural denialism that Donald Trump grew up listening to yacht rock.

love just absolutely devastating libs when they try to besmirch the great American hillbilly

My problem with the White House thunderdome isn’t that it’s “vulgar,” or “tacky,” qualities I often enjoy & terms which are often crudely classist when used pejoratively. My problem, as always, is the fascism. Don’t get distracted by taste, which is deeply subjective; it’s the fascism.

There is no such thing as harm reduction when it comes to genocide

Americans don't have a coherent understanding of "working class" because one of the foundational myths of early American settler-colonial society was that the frontier freed America of the old-world European aristocracy; we are able to comprehend class only through nebulous cultural signifiers.

This is still America

Reminder that the United States has literally done this to around 500 mountains in central Appalachia for just 3% of its total energy output.

so many leftists/liberals somehow still have a seething hatred of poor people it's astonishing sometimes

Yes, the GOP is trying to eradicate trans people - but why is it that we only started saying it out loud when it began to affect the most privileged amongst us?

modern society shows you just how important feeling superior to others is to a frighteningly large part of the population

A detail about the WV Coal War/Blair Mountain people *aren't* aware of is the link between the WV coal industry and later McCartyism. McCarthy delivered his infamous "Enemies Within" speech to donors at Wheeling, WV in 1950. Many of these same donors had previously dropped bombs on their employees.

And once again, Happy May Day

they're making beautiful people with interesting hobbies work 40 hours a week

cis people have not considered that trans people face employment discrimination, but californians have not considered that not everyone is a computer programmer

like they want a world where, instead of being able to be canceled for saying racist shit, you can be canceled for insulting the whiniest white men alive. this is most obvious in vance, who speaks like the mirror-universe racist version of a caricatured Tumblr user

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

there's principled radicalism and then there's personal excuses for blatantly anti-social behaviour disguised as principled radicalism. very important to disentangle these.

Although "rural America" has become synonymous with "white, working-class and conservative," in the national imaginary - the reality of rural life, community and politics is complex and (in my experience) poorly understood.

cross my sex and hope to die, stick a needle in my thigh

if DIY HRT was truly so dangerous than the best way to combat that would be to make HRT over the counter

they declare that trans people don't exist and that we're all going to detransition any day now *precisely because that's what they want to be the case* to eradicate us they have to believe they've already succeeded

being trans online is like [posts a silly joke] [sees news abt government trying to exterminate us] [like funny post by trans friend] [more news about gov wanting us dead] [repost funny joke] [trans friend shares horrible news about insurance issues/sexual violence/abusive family] [sees funny post]

its give trans people money monday

I think cis academics, cis feminists, and cis queer people are just as culpable for our current moment as every other group of cis people and their proximity to trans people means we need to have a more engaged conversation about their accountability to us

most anti-trans rhetoric just reiterates an incoherent ur-form: "you cannot change your sex. this is why it should be illegal."

adhd is a disorder where you're constantly getting pranked by yourself

who the fuck does youtube think i am

America is and has always been just one long act of robbery.

trans women have a biological advantage at being women

remember how the external review of camh's adolescent gender identity clinic documented the use of one-way mirrors and nonconsensual photographs by clinicians? i do

SHOCKING: Healthcare Provider for Trans Patients in Epstein Emails Not Will Powers

it's sinful tuesday. reskeet if you're beset by nefarious thoughts

inescapable conclusion is we have no laws, just cops

Theoryslop, the online practice of arranging words you found in literature in a way that validates the mainstream culture of suburban americans who use the internet, often directly at odds with what the theory actually says

chaser type 3847: guy who takes the "trans people have spiritual insights/magic powers" thing extremely seriously

history is a nightmare from which i am trying to awake

look at this cow. incredible.

wait, *that's* what we decided to post about?

my home country really sucks huh

people should be less mean to each other on the internet

posting my thoughts on the internet

i think we messed up the calendar somewhere actually. we're still in 2025

so excited for this new year!!!

marxism-lynneism

robot girl who dedicates all of her system resources to playing paradox games 24/7 so every time you talk to her she's an absolute bimbo but somehow has an encyclopedic knowledge of economics, warfare, history, and geography