Excellent candidates. I'd also put Tom Waits as Mr. Nick in the conversation, especially as more an Americana folk Satan.

And then also whoever played Satan in that horrifying bit of the claymation Mark Twain movie.

Thirty six here. Still fine.

I mean once in a while sure but it's not debilitating.

This is kind of a tangent but I've always had mixed feelings about his essay about not being gay in a time where there were a ton of rumors around the topic, which relates I think to his brand of masculinity.

Essentially his point was that if he was gay he would be the most out and loud person about it so that others could feel safe too do the same, and it always stuck me as an easy thing to say.

But now that I'm out I find it kinda inspiring since I DO get to be that out and loud queer and I would lie if I said his words didn't inspire that.

So. Well played I guess Henry.

I was present at several of the protests in Portland that supposedly burnt down the city.

In all cases they were pretty mild until the police escalated. Like people were rightfully pissed but they were largely marches and chants until driven into a corner by riot cops who were all too ready to blanket downtown in tear gas and rubber bullets

There were elements that would go to the justice center and shake the fence and scream at the cops but nothing that justified the national guard showing up. Looting and such always occurred in the chaos ensuing after an extreme attempt to clamp down on peaceful protest.

BRICS really limits the amount of impact a western sanction has. US/Europe isn't the only game in town by a long shot.

(not trying to get into a debate about the merits of such, just talking factually)

That's fair. It's well known in America as it's a big event for a big American holiday that's primarily watched by older, less online people and bored kids at a family members house which is why I bought it up. Local news was talking about the whole phenomenon because if it. But out of that American context you're right that it wouldn't be as meaningful.

I liked it but there's two main issues IMO

1. Leans really heavily into the "If you're smart you should get to do whatever you want"

2. A complete lack of women characters which is particularly telling combined with point 1

It wasn't a rule, but it was often done as a bit

I hope you die. I hope we both die.

I understand the breakdown but the brainworms are still really present even in this comment. So I'm gonna rant a little.

The issue "hon culture" and the term "hon" in general is that it others non passing trans women.

TTTT has such a huge self hating obsession with non passing, that they elevate it and create something that doesn't really exist outside their twisted world view.

The irony is that many of them do pass, they just have a horriblly mysogynistic view of women that they directed inwardly at themselves. Cis women don't really get to chose the woman they get to be either and many if not most would fail those standards.

The term toxic positivity and hugboxing is also largely misunderstood. Everytime I've seen it it's just TTTT people complaining that they can't spread their bile, or that they didn't get the masochistic hit of self hatred. People being overly supportive is not nearly as toxic as the alternative.

I understand why you feel the way you do. I'm probably one of those toxicly positive people you are taking about, but I still feel the same kind of dysphoria and self hatred too.

But I also know I don't have to let that same hated control me or my actions. And I know I would never direct it towards or even enable it in my trans siblings.

TL;DR: no /TTTT/ is wrong about everything

"hon culture"

/TTTT/ and its consequences has been a disaster for the human race.

He's my scum bag!