As a trans kansan who moved to a state with laws and protections of rights... I've been the victim of a hate crime and discriminated against. The law is a joke. Justice is dead.

@Soundtracks92

28 күн бұрын

I’m really sorry :(

@thisisjuleka6027

28 күн бұрын

I hope everything is alright with you lad!!

@nuxxy_

28 күн бұрын

never was aalive. justice is a madeup concept to justify a need to exist. our funny little brains do all sorts of stuff to rebel against our existance. but none the less we are here and have to watch it all happen.

@Reed5016

28 күн бұрын

@@nuxxy_Agreed.

@zugetzuzu

28 күн бұрын

Justice had never even existed/lived so it cannot be dead. Society is fked and capitalism is destroying us and everything except the rich

68 here. Had to fight all my life to survive. I'm so proud of you all. I want your futures to be what i know they can be. I was looking forward to a relaxing retirement. Since 2016 I've seen 3 hospitalizations. It's been tough. All I can say is never, never, never, give up. I believed in a lot of terrible futures that didn't come true when I was young, peddled by the same media. This all looks different, and exponentially worse now, certainly, but struggle to keep hope, never quit, and never stop fighting, always stand back up. Make this world yours. It belongs to you now. Show history that we can redeem our species and care for our home and its inhabitants, rather than exploit it. You make the future.

@radioattax

28 күн бұрын

I'm so scared but this is definitely encouraging. I will for sure keep a screenshot of this in case I feel petrification take over

@GrayYeonWannabe

28 күн бұрын

took a screenshot. honestly the isolation of generations has been so so so damaging to the potential of millenials & younger. we have been cut off so long from older people who have been fighting the same fights, unless we were (un?)lucky enough to be born into a family of activists. thanks for the words of encouragement

@Faus4us_Official

28 күн бұрын

Thank you 💙🤍🩷

Even the normies in my life are feeling worried and stressed after the last couple of weeks. It's tough

@devinnie7572

28 күн бұрын

As a person with very few normies in my life (at least ones that I can talk about politics with to gauge their feelings) this is almost comforting in a way. It means that the information is reaching outside of my little bubble. I guess what I mean is that at least if democracy dies it won't do so in darkness.

@quantumquackery

28 күн бұрын

Yeah maybe they should’ve shut the fuck up and listened to the weirdos sooner.

@EmmsReality

28 күн бұрын

I mean we got company now!!!! 😅

@EmmsReality

28 күн бұрын

@@devinnie7572yup totally. But no I think we’re screwed. It’s pouring Ls

Yes feeling super burned out and scared. Just one thing after another, no breaks. I'm exhausted being so scared.

@coopigeon619

28 күн бұрын

I'm sorry you're feeling that way. I empathize because I'm feeling that way as well. These are dark times we are living in. I'm also scared and burned out.... especially living in a red state myself...hugs. I'm not religious but I pray things get somewhat better soon.

@Vahlee-A

28 күн бұрын

@@coopigeon619- I live in Washington State which is supposedly the safest place on Earth so far for LGBTQ+ folks but I'm scared SCOTIS will rule against us somehow and force Washington to discriminate against us.

@margotpreston

28 күн бұрын

I’m right there with you mate. I’m overwhelmed and have no idea what to do.

The two options sadly: denying reality or being burnt out...

@alice1374

28 күн бұрын

denying reality hits further down the line. Being burnt out is like constant until it's over.

@AngelTail

28 күн бұрын

'sending care and solidaridad from our part of the world in Las Islas Filipinas to trans fam in the US and the Global North... It okies, HotdogTimeMachine-san, Alice-san, Lux-sensei! There's always a third and fourth option... now the time to organize and come together in collectives, communities and networks of care, connecting with trans and queer working-class folks in the Global North and the Global South, from Palestine to the Philippines to the heart of Empire... and resist! Individually, we're truly weak... but together, creating spaces of resistance together against the powers-that-be... Moi hopes ya find a group and folks whom you'd be able to trust, feel empowered with, and act towards effecting changes in your locales and beyond as well as connecting with diff struggles all over the world! Let me share this thing from the progressive working-class movements here... _Makibaka, huwag matakot!_ The queer version: _Makibeki, huwag mashokot!_ (Join the struggle, don't be afraid!) 💙🤍🎀✊🏽

It feels like i, and everyone I care about are tied to train tracks.

@TheSeventhOutlaw

28 күн бұрын

Mood and a half...

The cancer is spreading. We get the final diagnosis Nov 5th-10th (depending how long it takes to count all the ballots). If Trump wins, the diagnosis is terminal.

@GrayYeonWannabe

28 күн бұрын

even if he doesnt--there's gonna be a lot of violence. bannon gets out of jail just in time for the election...

The active horror of climate disaster, the encroaching threat of fascism, an ongoing genocide happening on my country's payroll, housing being completely unaffordable, and AI threatening to make several pillars of modern society completely dysfunctional might be a bit much for the mind of an early 20 something like me...

@aubreyleonae4108

28 күн бұрын

68 here. Had to fight all my life to survive. I'm so proud of you all. I want your futures to be what i know they can be. I was looking forward to a relaxing retirement. Since 2016 I've seen 3 hospitalizations. It's been tough. All I can say is never, never, never, give up. I believed in a lot of terrible futures that didn't come true when I was young, peddled by the same media. This all looks different, and exponentially worse now, certainly, but struggle to keep hope, never quit, and never stop fighting, always stand back up. Make this world yours. It belongs to you now. Show history that we can redeem our species and care for our home and its inhabitants, rather than exploit it. You make the future.

@alliet.7582

27 күн бұрын

You're not alone, and it's not because of your age. I'm old enough to be your parent, and I feel the same way.

I've been feeling helpless, uncertain, frozen, like waiting on a pardon from the governor while strapped to a gurney with a needle in my arm.

@RileyAS

28 күн бұрын

You're describing my internal world perfectly. I feel like a Jew in 1930s Germany watching the Nazis rise and noticing the writing on the wall. As a trans woman who lives in Georgia, a very conservative state in the South, I am actually really terrified that I may be marked for death or deportation by the growing Christofascist state that the GOP is trying to establish with Project 2025 and Agenda 47. It's surreal as fuck.

I'm currently sitting in the mountains in a 5th wheel with the giant dog I adopted after he wandered onto the property, and four chicks. In that I mean baby chickens. Just kinda in a bin in the corner till they're big enough to go in the coop. A year ago I was a college student living alone in a studio apartment in a big city. I've never been happier. Sometimes you just gotta pull that sharp 180 in life when you know you're going in a direction that'll make you miserable. Bout to go work on the property for the next 7 hours, because that's my job. It'll probably be some combination of yard work down by the river followed by carpentry when It gets too hot. We just built this awesome lounge chair!

@Nic0Dr4ws

28 күн бұрын

That’s honestly amazing , I keep telling people I wanna be a cowboy when I grow up and they never believe me lol. How’d you actually go about being able to do that? I honestly can’t even see myself being able to move out of my moms house before I’m 30 or ever

Nothing wrong with taking time off for selfcare. It sounds like it is really necessary 🧡

@alliet.7582

27 күн бұрын

Nothing wrong, and everything right. Self care is health care.

I just want to say that I completely agree with how you're feeling right now. I developed an obsession with Dune to avoid looking at the news.

@LuxanderReal

28 күн бұрын

My thing is rewatching House of the Dragon episodes repeatedly and then watching all the review videos from my favorite channels

@LOSTnerd815

28 күн бұрын

Thanks for being level-headed and chill during these scary times.

It would be nice to feel like we had a real choice, like we had some actual power.

@cluelessmango768

28 күн бұрын

It’s actually crazy that we have to fight for the “live and let live” mindset. Why are so many people deadset on telling others how to live their lives?

@chuckpatenaude

27 күн бұрын

@@cluelessmango768 I'm relatively old on here and have not a clue.

This was oddly comforting and validating to hear someone else say how burned out they are and how much Palestine broke them. I genuinely feel like I was a different person 10 months ago, before all this.

I have to move out of the country. If Trump becomes pres (but also WHEN a Republican becomes pres. again) I will lose my disability, medicaid, food stamps, housing... I'll definitely check out your other stuff because I completely agree with you. It is another kick while we're down. I'm trying to find reasons to live too. I'm in KS too, right now.

@IntrovertAncom

28 күн бұрын

This part about when any Republican becomes president terrifies me. Project 2025 is written to kick in when any Republican takes office. If it doesn't happen in 2025, they'll just change it to Project 2029, Project 2033, and so forth. There's no way Democrats can win indefinitely, even if they were a decently progressive party that did something besides maintain neoliberal policies, and with the way Democrats like to compromise with Republicans, they'll eventually compromise their way into everything the Republicans want anyway. When that happens, I'll be there right beside you losing my disability, medicaid, housing, etc. as well. I wish could move out of the country. Most countries don't take disabled people. Maybe they will if it's an asylum issue tho. Coming up with moving money is a giant hurdle too. I feel trapped. When will humanity learn we can't defeat fascism by compromising with it?

I totally relate. All of the news has been exhausting me. I just have to focus on doing something that is productive like gardening and investing in skills that will benefit me in the future. Glad you have the new channel OneOasisLeft ♡

Im like next door ish, State-wise. My vote doesnt matter either.... but like just in case...imma still do it. Honestly i think the only thing saving my brain right now is the gardening im doing.....🤷‍♀️

I feel ya 💯 I’m burnt out on feeling like a hostage to the mediocre as hell Democratic Party basically allowing fascism to slip through the cracks. But I’m choosing to have some hope for my sanity. I feel very fatigued from doom scrolling, so I’m gonna take my broken heart and make it into art. I have no faith in the system at all. However, I believe that young queer revolutionaries are gonna change this screwed up world, even if things seem hopeless at the moment.

I relate to this so much. Things are looking bleak and I need self care because I’ve been so depressed.

On the overturning of Chevron, it applies to findings of law not findings of fact or to reasoning that is arbitrarily capricious, dies not follow, or that no reasonable person could agree with. So it does not mean that judges can overrule what the FDA says about a drug being safe or not safe based on a given statutory or regulatory standard, the interpretation of which, is not disputed. It does mean that judges can overrule the FDA to rule on what they think the law means by safety, for example (e.g. no possibility of harm of any kind, even hurt feelings or inconvenience vs. high possibility of death). So if the law says you can do xyz, the court can decide what the law means by xyz, but they cannot overrule the executive agency’s findings of fact (e.g., that a drug has been corrected or otherwise shown to lead to injury n percent of the time per patient per year). But the courts could always and still can rule that the agency’s conclusions do not follow from their reasoning, that no reasonable person could have concluded the way the agency did, or that the agency was arbitrary and capricious in its rulings.

@user-wi3yx3gy2o

28 күн бұрын

The agency must articulate its reasoning and must not ignore evidence me for no reason, anyway, in its findings of fact.

It's time to use all that symbolism I've studied. I'm posting flyers today and tomorrow. They're all pink, too! Resist Tyranny 💙🤍🩷

I'm crazy and think the world's going to be over in a few decades but don't trust me.

@LuxanderReal

28 күн бұрын

I mean, you as a religious person might be thinking more along the lines of rapture, but I've seen the data and we are on track for the death of billions of people and the collapse of the US economy, probably followed by the collapse of the central gov

In my own little bubble things have been going suspiciously well for a while (first time for everything!) but yeah when I think about the state of the world in general it does feel like we are in a race to the bottom.

I was going to sub anyway but the fact you crochet is doubling that reason :3

During FDR’s New Deal, the Supreme Court was extremely hostile to all the new legislation. In response, FDR proposed a bill that would cause all justices over the age of 70 (which was a lot of them) would become “justice emeritus” (something done in lower courts) who would have a combined single vote between them and allow FDR to appoint a bunch of liberal replacements. That scared two of them enough to allow Social Security to stand. Later on, a more liberal court (thanks FDR) was threatening Ronald Reagan’s policies. He enlisted a young lawyer to devise a way to avoid the Supreme Court’s control over legislation. The solution he came up with is called “court stripping” where a law includes a line at the end saying “the Supreme Court is not allowed to review this law”. It’s completely constitutional and has been used in random uncontroversial laws before, and it rocketed that young lawyer into national judicial politics. That lawyer’s name was John Roberts.

My stress has been rising for YEARS! I'm at the point where I want DESPERATELY to read, but my eyes just slide off the page. 😓 I can listen, but have to take breaks. You mentioned Inheritance and I actually got excited, though. Is that going on your second channel? I lost concentration a bit.

@LuxanderReal

28 күн бұрын

It will probably be a separate channel if we get that podcast up and running

@ambriasaunders1869

28 күн бұрын

@@LuxanderReal Fair enough! Just let us know on KZread, because I don't have Twitter or much of anything else! 😅 This is the only platform I'll be SURE to get the message on.

You gotta focus on the good and have fun goals to look forward to. We're definitely leaving the country if Trump gets elected and/or the Supreme Court rules against Trans youth. But in the meantime, we're trying to adopt. We've both wanted children longer than we've been together so it's so exciting (and terrifying). But it's not fun, even if it's a country I've wanted to live in most of my life, it's still terrible and expensive to move... I wish I could just feel safe here...

Hi luxander! You might have made my wife a fan of your content with this second channel chill out news! Shes American who emigrated to europe in 2019 and watching whats going on in her former country these past days has really burned her out! So yay for some stress free content! ❤

I've been looking for channel to breath in. Thank you an oasis is the perfect word.

Hi Luxander, I get it, we're all feeling the same level of hopelessness and doubt recently and during times like this, we lean towards love, hope, and religon.

Focusing on the ways we can support ourselves and each other through foraging, hunting, fishing and survival is fantastic! These fascists sure aren't going to support us so we need to start taking matters into our own hands. 100% support a trans survivalist channel

I'm so exhausted trying to keep up with all the shit going on in my personal life but I feel bad that I literally can't handle all the shit that's going on outside my personal bubble - it's all so important but I'm drowning

My glib supervisor is begging for Michelle to run 😭

Been through that therapy. 💜 you..hugs❤

Is there a stage beyond burned out? ...because that's where I'm at. I don't have the energy/spoons to deal with even a fraction of it, so I sleep a lot and exist in a state of semi-dissociation to keep myself from imploding into a total nervous breakdown. Edit: Your new channel inspires me and gives me hope. I wish I had a yard. Even a balcony would be awesome. If I can come up with the resources/materials and get my shit together, I could rig up stuff in my huge-ass windows for growing various greens.

@LuxanderReal

28 күн бұрын

You can also see if there are community gardens in your area! You can usually rent a plot for the year

Please look into the 7 mountains mandate unless it's too grim

@aubreyleonae4108

28 күн бұрын

Heard of that.

I'm going to subscribe to the new channel. I hope you'll CW hunting/meat content, at least when it's not obvious from the description. I wouldn't call myself a prepper,, but amateur radio, home gardening/hydroponics, mesh networking, permacomputing, solar are all my jam. I hope you find success in creating content that makes you happy.

@luxander thank you. Im pertty much not sure what to think any more

Found your other channel and subscribed

Gave you a sub let's go 1k

Only thing left to do is sing the Doom song.

Luxander: This is pretty overwhelming. Me: Understatement of a lifetime, but I appreciate the anti-doomer mentality.

this is just how life is we are lab rats of the universe. our ability to process our perception of this experience is more horifying than any of it actually happenening.

Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun.

I’ve been thumping my chest over these things for almost a decade now. I am exhausted, and I became quite exhausted a while ago. I would try and talk to my loved ones about the things going on, but was always shut down and dismissed because my loved ones would become exhausted by how dark and how deep everything I was talking about was. I went from begging anyone at all to care about the fact that trans rights were going to be stripped away, and was shunned by everyone because “They were only doing it to the kids”. So why should we panic? I get the fatigue.. I get the exhaustion. I’m right there with you… I wish it wasn’t like this and I never wanted anyone else to feel this way, and I totally get needing to focus on anything else. I’m trying to do the same, because if I don’t the heaviness starts to really weigh on me and I feel sick to my stomach. Much love to you all, stay safe out there.

I stopped this at the point where you said something like "I don't know how you feel" and went on to say "I am so stressed" because I absolutely don't want to forget to say this and that's easy on KZread. Forgetting I mean... Take a break, seriously, if you need one, and you obviously know you do, take it. If you don't it will get worse. I need to know the stuff you talk about and your ideas, opinions and analysis of all sorts of topics are not only more accurate than most, they are often deeply insightful and you are one of the people that I truly respect. I would rather you take a break for however long you need than watch as you burn out completely. Do I want to watch you go shoot a bunny? Nope. But will I do it anyway because it's your channel and you could use some support while you aren't on this one? Yep, without hesitation. If you are out hunting and gardening instead of doing what is burning you out it could do you a world of good. Besides, the world will be right here waiting with good people and bad, great stuff and utter total fuckery when you get back. After taking some time for yourself you might just have the energy to rip back into it. Also if you do shoot at bunny's I'm going to call you Elmer Fud. Fair warning. Also don't wound them, not many people know what a wounded bunny sounds like, I do, and it will haunt you. Seriously, its fucking awful.

Im burnt out, but also, im too scared to rest. There is SO MUCH going on and project 2025 has me too piss ass terrified to rest cuz even after resting, that threat is still there. And trying to get top surgery with zero savings (cuz im too dirt poor to save), trying to find a local surgeon that can take my insurance and get my top surgery done before the election. And the fear of being forced out of my home, separated from my family and friends forever and go to who knows wheres next year under project 2025; I don’t want to experience what the Jewish people experienced in WW2. I don’t want to be apart from my dad. I rather go on my own terms with dignity and not forced to extinction cuz im an AFAB non-binary person that refuses to marry, and have kids. I just can’t rest. I feel like if i rest, trump wins. It sucks bad enough that he now can have the powers of a king!!! America had a war to separate from the patriarchal kingdom, and now its becoming a thing. Our forefathers are rolling in their graves now.

I don't even live in America, I live in Russia. And I know exactly what you're talking about. It feels like you're in a boat that is pulled towards a giant waterfall and you can't do anything about it. Except we're already falling, have been for the past 3 to 10 years, depending on who you ask. The only advice I can give is hold on, and find small things to be happy about. Tasty food. Good weather. The fact that you're still alive. There aren't many more nice things like this, but they really help not to drown in all this horror.

I can't do it anymore.

I grew up watching the Palestinian vs Israel conflict. I was burned out on it years ago. I can't watch anymore. Governments just don't want a solution.

I feel you fr, it's different in the UK but I'm scared for the general election on the 4th, hoping green get more seats but having to vote tactically because of our first past the post system

I've been really enjoying the trans Atlantic call-in show back catalog (sometimes I skip the actual phobes)

i cannot find the link to your second channel. take care of yourself and stay safe!

@LuxanderReal

28 күн бұрын

It's in the description but youtube.com/@oneoasisleft

you should take your break/breaks as much as you can, itll only bring you back more productive, creative and able to read AITA posts! do what is better for YOU in the long run, otherwise you will be having less fun working at all. even small breaks from all things going on a small walk with just yourself (and your personal close music, best put in the one or other real deeply motivating song that edges on religious rituals when listening) that you can do regularly would help wonders in the long run, for that i can personally testify doing it basically daily now for about a year. take care of yourself first otherwise you cant care for others

today i was walking around looking for my neighbors cat and an old man smoking a joint in his van told me that when trump wins and the civil war starts the grocery stores and gas stations will all shut down and we won't have toilet paper anymore

I am an episcopal trans women faith is the only thing keeping me going. I think trumps a precursor antichrist or maybe the lawless one. But things will get worse. I have faith that God loves the marginalized, the persecuted, the minority most of all. So I have faith things will will be ok as long as I trust. I know faith is traumatic for some. But some christians believe faith is for everyone.

@thetaomegatheta

28 күн бұрын

Why people still actively decide to adopt pro-slavery religions the claims of which have invariably been proven baseless or false time and time again is beyond me.

Yes please; talk about House Of The Dragon!

i wish everyone in the world would just stop. like, just stop. ykwim.

Kinda checked out till enough people figure out what we need to do. I do my best, but people are so determined to believe beyond all evidence that the system works the way they think it does. You cant depend on the corrupt to remove corruption, and you can't use a corrupt system to do so.

Eight commercials on the other channel? There were FIVE HERE

@LuxanderReal

28 күн бұрын

oh damn, I didn't place them manually this time

@RooneyMac

28 күн бұрын

@@LuxanderReal it was one to open, one at the end, and like quarterly interruptions

@LuxanderReal

28 күн бұрын

yeah I fixed it now, thank you. KZread does automatic placement and I didn't think to check how intrusive they were today

@RooneyMac

28 күн бұрын

@@LuxanderReal thanks, cuz there's few that I like enough that I'll put up with it, you're one of 'em. But too many commercials and it makes shit unwatchable. Example of that is that "oceanliner designs" completely unwatchable when not even five minutes and another two, three unskippable ads, then those long ass ones that are longer than the video itself? I went the fuck off and told Mike just block me. I don't wanna even see his shit suggested in the main page, even have it set as such AND STILL 😤

@RooneyMac

28 күн бұрын

Ig I'll be known as the one that rants about commercials, so be it. Grew up hating commercials, my dad being one of those that would get the giant satellite dish set up in the back yard to get direct feed, that works until the channels all got scrambled so ya gotta watch the commercials 😒 It didn't start with the "digital converters" this shit started way before "citizens united" this shit we're going through now has always been under way since the gipper days

house of the dragon was good. but i think im too cooked that i stopped caring after this last episode

I'm thinking about where to go if this country embraces the fourth Reich totally. I don't know of a place.

Move up here to Michigan, Lux. Less impacted by climate change and we are a swing state so your vote will matter... win-win! (You probably wanna go a bit further north than I am though).

I relate to this too. I feel hopeless about the direction of the country. Trump is about to win big unless the democrats fix the sorry state of their party and I’m terrified about it. I feel powerless to stop democrats from flying us into the sun.

Protest. Stop wasting time with this election garbage. Oh, and by protest I mean... You get what I mean.

Vote for biden everyone.

@LuxanderReal

28 күн бұрын

did you really think anybody needed to hear that?

@Lucky13Enterprise

28 күн бұрын

I will not be shamed into voting for Biden. 3rd party/ Independent is where I'll stay.

I'm voting for Rainbow Brite for president. The only way I know how to make voting not feel like shit is doing it with some levity. Wish I could do a move before then but it's probably not gonna happen, and even if it did...my issue with voting for Biden is the same as last time. Even if he weren't gladly participating in some genocides, he's still got multiple sexual assault allegations against him that I haven't forgotten. I would still be actively traumatizing myself if I voted for him. Life sucks but I guess I'm here to make it suck a little less? idk anymore. I'm just trying to survive because living is a sunk cost fallacy here at middle age.

you should still vote, Idc if it upset you for people to tell you this. You should do it. Takes 30 mins of your time. Do it

@LuxanderReal

28 күн бұрын

I am going to vote, I don't appreciate being repeatedly lectured about something I have every intention of doing. I complain about the fact that my *presidential* vote doesn't matter at all in heavily-gerrymandered Kansas. You're not endearing anyone to you by being condescending.

"I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." -- MLK Jr. (My advice comes from a libertarian point-of-view and I understand it might fit some people.) I like to promote self-sufficiency. At least try to save money for when SHTF. With businesses closing, a labor monopsony (a monopoly among employers) is growing. Those people that lost their jobs from a closure? They are competing for your job. Think outside the box. If you have the ability to, form a labor union. If that is not your thing, try a side-gig. Plant a garden. Invest in something. Do something. One of the problems now is too many people are relying on the government to solve their problems. Republicans are also guilty of this. You have to go out there and make your own life. As a freedom advocate, if you need to get medication on the Internet, you do it. You cannot let people stop you from living your life. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qG2dyM6Olry4hMY.html

@enderger5308

28 күн бұрын

Yeah, I’m considering DIYing my hormones should Trump get elected and starting to use my 3D printer and soldering iron to produce custom cabinet handles (with the soldering iron used to heat insert metal screw threads into the plastic).