Does anyone have the rant from an old /r/drama about the connection between communism and transexuality? I remember it being surprisingly good and accurate.

@Redactor0 posted it here but it originally came from @TrappySaruh

note in particular the lack of older (in yrs of transition) trans people that are involved in the broader transcommunity. in all my years of idling every kind of trans community, 1 constant: most of the people who are past their egg stage leave. theres a lot of reasons but the primary reason is that the transcommubity offers nothing to people who are "done". trans forums are full of mental illness that can easily suck up any happyness you have, especially if you're looked upto. imagine helping someone get over suicidal idealation only to have to deal with it again day after day after day.

because of this, what u get in very large communities (/r/traa) is a culture of people coming in, trying to figure out what to do and who they are, being mentored by people who largely just months prior were asking the same thing. repeat forever.

the final element is the general loss of purpose of life for, what seems like, most people. more people are online-only than ever before and a lot of people are deprived of deep fulfilling social connections.

what happens next has 3 stages:

1 -- conversion -- you have a vulnerable population (in the sense of confused and easily convinced by otherwise spacious arguments). communists come in and tell them that capitalism is the reason why they are suffering. capitalism and the systems embedded within it are the cause of the lose of purpose (living to make others profit isnt a fulfilling purpose). additionally, if it wasn't for profit above human suffering, HRT would be covered. SRS would be covered. everyone (not just trans but everyone) would be happier because they can work, or not work and do whatever they want and because of this hate and discrimination goes down. this means that the egg, whos likely greatest fear is 'looking like a 60 year old crossdressing transsexual', this provides fuel for anger to the egg who can think 'if i dont pass it is capitalisms fault'.

this message is popular, and it is effective. trans people are generally left anyway so being pulled far left is certainly easier than being pulled into some rightoid bs.

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Of all the people (and "people") who use this site, carp's posts are the ones that fill me with the most dread. Why? Because every fricking time this shithead posts anything it's completely arbitrary whether he's serious or not. It could be about anything, have any written tone, any subject matter, political slant - anything, and every single time you'd be better off trying to predict the seriousness of the post by flipping a coin and calling it than by conducting any sort of serious analysis. And when even a SINGLE person loses the coin flip, out of the dozens that respond, he then goes on to post shit like this, sneeding about synthetic meta-drama for the umptillionth time that week.