Problem: the face of the modern day train movement is a failure in both messaging and substance. Most people can't relate to trains at all and their political platform makes no sense to them. Their most prominent figures are inscrutable, to say the least.
However, even those of us with slight chud leanings are aware there are trains who just want to lead their lives without being a nuisance to the general public, who won't put you in a headlock for misgendering them, and are currently the victims of political crossfire.
Plan of action: trains need an engaging, non sexual, NON POLITICAL tv series where they're interacting with normal people much like the makeover show Queer Eye For the Straight Guy, which—along with the sitcom Will & Grace—was a groundbreaking show for its time. Homosexual men have intuitively understood what kind of media presence would gain them mainstream acceptance: be nonpolitical, be attractive, be non threatening, be funny.
Why haven't transpeople pursued the same?
Trains need a popular normie show where they don't browbeat people about gender ideology. Where they don't bring up the issues of bathrooms, sports, or children. Where they don't cry about transphobia. And OF VITAL IMPORTANCE: where they cast only non threatening, charismatic, and attractive trains.
Just pulling these examples from the top of transtimelines, they need to cast trains that look like this:
https://old.reddit.com/r/transtimelines/comments/1ida40i/1821_11_mo_to_33_mo/
Or this:
https://old.reddit.com/r/transtimelines/comments/19cm73x/i_still_have_the_jumpsuit/
Or this:
Gather attractive and entertaining trains, preferably with a good sense of humor, and make a show where they help regular men and women with different struggles. Put their competence, helpfulness, and amicability on display. It's important to show them displaying skills and helping people normies can identify with.
What sort of struggles could trains help with specifically? Not quite sure, but It might be something like helping normies blend into an unfamiliar situation or territory. Here's a transman giving other transmen advice on how to fit into a male dominated workplace…such advice could easily be given to a struggling spergy or effeminate man as well:
https://tiktok.com/@thegravelbro/video/7319501409366314286
Remember, the vital thing is to remove all politics and sexuality from such a show. Most people associate transpeople as being gratingly political (or perverted) because this is the essence of their main, and probably only interactions with trains online.
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This went on until well into the '60s and isn't completely gone in the '70s. Something they wont teach you in school: The majority of Americans didn't want segregation even at the beginning of this process. As for the ones who wanted it, this was mostly a regional thing in the South and among certain populations in big cities.
After McCarthy got destroyed by the Army's lawyers toward the end of the 1950s, this was pretty much over. The actual real commies had been rounded up in the late 1940s-early 1950s. By the time of the McCarthy hearings people were starting to get that we've caught them all and this is a witch hunt now. Some of this continued but faded out in early 1960s. After that commies were not considered that much of a threat because they were such fricking squares. We could see communism in action in both Russia and China and it involved wearing bad clothes, living in squalor in a crowded apartment building, not listening to non-socialist music, not seeing art that didn't follow Socialist Realism. Kids who wanted to rebel against their parents saw this and realized that the Soviet Union is like your parents but 10 times worse. Nobody took communism seriously.
3. Christian fundies (90s to late early 2000s)
That's an entirely different set of people. The ones who hated the commies most turned into the fundies.
As for their importance: They were annoying but ordinary people didn't really pay much attention. They would write books and the atheists would write books. This didn't get into personal animosity though. I had a fundie gf, I even went to her church. Most of my friends were pretty left-wing but none ever had a problem with her over politics. Unironically, if somebody said they didn't like her because of politics everyone would have wondered if they were mentally ill or something.
I dunno about the rest of the country but we've got a substantial Iranian population here. Some people were peepees to them occasionally. That's it.
So no, none of these things were trying to find a scapegoat. I can go into more detail if your little zoomer mind can process it.
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That's true for the train community too. But I'm talking about the mass panic each of them would cause. And how these issues were talked about inside families and closed places.
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I would be tearing out my hair right now if I had any to spare. The only one of these that caused anything like a "mass panic" was the commies and that was real. There were commies infiltrated all over the place. Honestly can't tell if you're a troll or just a zoomer.
I'm pretty sure I never had a single conversation with my family about s before I was here. That would be... 2016.
Tone Loc had a song 1988 where the punchline is him realizing the girl he picked up is actually a guy. There was a joke in Clerks in the mid-1990s about "chicks with peepees". That's all I'm coming up with. I don't remember s ever coming up in a conversation IRL. It's just not something that we thought about.
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And now it's come up.
How muslims would be the subject of a fun thanksgiving dinner in 2004.
Also, stop pretending like you're 90 something. You're at the most maybe in your 50s. You would have the same knowledge of commie infiltration and McCarthyism of the '50s as me.
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Redactor is right. Your view of history is like something that came out of r-slurred chat gpt.
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So, I'm correct?
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No. It's completely wack. Chat gpt would actually give you a better understanding of societal threats over that time period.
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So...I am more correct?
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No, just r-slurred.
It's ok though, we love our r-slurs here.
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Chatgpt is in someones butt, so we know exactly the caliber of intellect we are dealing with here.
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No because I'm not an r-slur.
Go watch a few episodes of I Led 3 Lives, read the declassified reports from the FBI about their infiltration of the CPUSA, read about Ted Hall, Klaus Fuchs, the Amerasia scandal. Do that and we can start to have a conversation.
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I have read the Mitrokhin Archives, the declassified CIA Dulles papers and several books especially on America's approach to the Sino-Soviet Alliance from 1949 - 1963 until the split occurred.
Also Klaus Fuchs was over by 1949. Neighbor stop being r-slurred fusing your timelines together. This isn't Nolan's Oppenheimer.
So I think I'm definitely more erudite than a fraud like you
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All of it?
Cuz I'm coming up with... 27566 results just of FOIA stuff that they put on the web.
The "who lost China" thing is more like 1945-1948. And there's something to be said for both sides. Curious how nobody ever talks about that anymore. The Sino-Soviet split everyone was waiting for years. They knew it was just a matter of time.
He wasn't the that important. Ted Hall was. :$tayhuh:
I feel like I'm being interrogated by the KGB Directorate of Special Needs.
I think you're a seething f-slur who won't admit that maybe I've lived a long time and I've read a lot of stuff from a lot of places and a lot of times.
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There you go again, with the whole spiel of "I've lived longer, I'm more educated on this stuff"
you're not lil bro. Stop larping. Just come out already as the sweaty basement nerd in their late 30s like you are
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I was in college in 2015 and there were multiple guys having rightoid meltdowns about ISIS ISIS sharia law is coming for us all
we didn't even have muslim population aside from a few exchange students
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Yeah none of that is true.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Yeah this guy is a cute twink. I saw creeping around in his car in NW Portland last night picking up multiple gay prostitutes.
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Joke's on you, you don't even need to pay to frick if you're gay.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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