The wild man has been a staple of European mythology for ages, and sees use in a lot of coats of arms. There's a few examples if you scroll down to the bottom here.

Like how does the unified state deal with the DDR period?

Horseshoe theory bordering on holocaust minimization. Also, we had purges of socialists that were carried out with a fervor never seen when it came to purging fascists after WW2, absolutely crushing amounts of end of history / capitalist realism bs, neoliberal shock therapy that meant over 80% of people lost the jobs they had in the DDR oh and also 35 years of letting nazis move into the post-annexation political vacuum, organizing there and securing their footholds with daily violence on the streets against anybody nazis don't approve of.

What really gets my goat about this is that everyone here seems to be hyperaware about the reasons and consequences of the policing of bodies when it comes to transphobia

Not my experience. People will have a clear positioning on where they generally stand on trans issues, but what that actually means when we're talking about human bodies is often lackluster even among our trans comrades. Recognizing that trans women in sports actually isn't a complicated issue or that gender affirming care is a human right doesn't mean you can't have brainworms about what a woman is supposed to look like, even if you are a woman who is affected and harmed by that every single day. The brainworms run deep and ridding yourself of a lifetime of cishetnormative, misogynist, ableist and racist body propaganda is a fairly demanding task.

I need to stress that i do not mean this post (or my previous one ITT) as a callout. I'd say that you actually can't just shoot the cop inside your head, it's more like slowly strangling that fucker. It's a process, it takes time, and i try to be generous here. But you need to start somewhere and you don't do that by babystepping people, you need to make it clear that some stuff just doesn't fly.

Another relationship saved by detritivorous insects, the little guys really get the job done.

Triangular slices are now illegal in more than 30 states due to the resemblance to the red hamas triangle, but capitalist innovation quickly solved the problem.

You see mysterious strangers in the night. Leaning against unlit doorways, engaged in hushed conversation. A shadowy cabal exchanging looks, whispering in dark alleys and unmarked locales. A radical cell conspiring against the state -- and perhaps even against man and woman. Was that a secret handshake? What’s going on? Who are these secretive people? How will they accomplish their sinister and world-altering goals? And most importantly -- are you one of them? You could be. Maybe you forgot...

idk if people who have English as their first language feel the same way about it, but conker, especially in a phrase like "men's world conker championship", always sounds like some regional British slur to me.

I've thought about just getting platform boots to be able to look down on taller bottoms, but maybe an exosuit cargo loader is an even better idea.

It's funny how literally every single transphobic, pro-gatekeeping detransitioner is an unhinged right wing weirdo and how all of them started "desisting" after they got radicalized. I know several people who went off transmasc HRT, all of them still identify as trans and nonbinary, none of them have transition regret, they just decided that they didn't need to masculinize further and felt better on estrogen.

blamed it on the herd mentality

I know your heart's in the right place, Mark, but please read settlers.

I don't know about what's available in the US, but gel or injections have way less side effects than pills when it comes to estradiole, might want to look into these.

lol. lmao.