I was in favour of taxing them when I was a teen, those days are long gone.

I support your alternative.

I’ve been saving up for a sewing machine for a few weeks now.

And why is there one in the middle of nowhere

And they never will if we continue to direct people to corpoweb.

Use Mastodon/Sharkey

Fediverse alternative, not connected to nation states or capitalists.

Or so you think until you go out your hands in them and realise this world is a horrible lie.

“Australians can’t be trusted to vote, instead they should vote for someone who certainly cannot be trusted”

Politicians are the same people who support Israel, are in bed with LLM data centres, do jack shit on climate issues, focus on corporations over people, etc.

More often than not politicians act against the wishes of Australians.

Well if you remove the parties and get people voting directly on issues instead, you’re one step closer to a real democracy.

Representative democracy is just a way for the lobbyists and rich to have all the power by buying a few people and spamming them with financial/media support to win and advance their agenda.

So many on the Fediverse have this adverse reaction to defederation, but I think we’re reaching the point where instances need to start being more selective and cutting off those who don’t take serious effort to curb this behaviour in their userbase.

Yes LW is Lemmy.world

I’ve had them silenced for a few months now, haven’t missed much tbh.

Misogyny is rife on Lemmy.

Post about feminism or women’s issues in LW communities and you see so many misogynists crawl out of the septic tank to have their say.

I’ll go cyber-amish, with a mesh networked mini Internet to my local peoples.

The same woman who goes around screen capping a split second of a video showing upskirt of a woman in an interview and shares it will millions of her followers?

I bought some random straightener brush from a shop a few years ago and I love it compared to a flat iron. I find the gaps between the brush-prong-things helps grab between my curl strands.

This is beautiful. I love seeing people fight back, and I bet they feel confident to do this stuff because they know everyone else in the crowd will back them up to escape.

I apologise, I wasn’t trying to call you a TERF, and I don’t believe you are one.

I was trying to show where I see that language coming from, it’s something my entire existence depends on pushing back against and challenging these views in relation to womanhood and even motherhood.

I am not “attacking” cis women at all, I am attacking ideas about what biology means in relation to womanhood.

I never claimed dna being passed down was TERF, I used that word in response to your bioessentialiasm and socialisation language when I responded to your comment.

To this users comment I was talking about what motherhood is, and that is not defined by one’s mitochondrial DNA. Mothers and the people who birth us can be completely seperate things, to see the world as everyone’s mother is the person who birthed them strips motherhood from those who did not. It’s something to be mindful of in how we view things.

I’m removing myself from this conversation now, I’ve said my views on these topics and I feel this is starting to get heated.

I’m explaining my connections with these concepts and how they are not absolute truths.

What people think of as a mother/woman is a judgement on how society views mothers/women.

I may be a killjoy, but I need to challenge these ways of thinking.

So women without them are not protectors?

It’s problematic language and thinking, and like I said it’s upsetting to see it here.

Yes, and mine is that such a person is not my mother. The words used by the person I was responding to and the notion I am challenging that motherhood is biologically linked.