• Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Put the gun away, you can still add your own pronoun, nobody cares.

    You just can’t make me do it. Gun or not.

  • weps@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    please not again with forcing all that weird sexual stuff on people who don’t care about it

    that already got trump elected

    • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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      Who “forced” what “weird sexual stuff” on anyone?

      Yeah makes sense Trump got elected after the Democrats forced every man to suck dick at gunpoint, except for the small detail that nothing like that ever happened.

  • StillAlive@piefed.world
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    3 hours ago

    Ok.

    I me my mine myself we us our ours ourselves you your yours yourself yourselves he him his himself she her hers herself it its its itself they them their theirs themself themselves

    • mad_lentil@lemmy.ca
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      2 hours ago

      You can just say “any” if you don’t feel like listing them all out

  • hirihit640@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    Context? Were MAGA people referring to people by their full names in order to avoid using pronouns?

    • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      I didn’t see any anti-trans ballot initiatives; there were a few school sports initiatives, and trans can still compete whenever they’d like.

      They just don’t get to pick their team. Like everybody else.

      • DaPorkchop_ [any]@lemmy.ml
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        here’s one.

        if you can’t see how “forced genital inspections” isn’t blatantly anti-trans i’m not really sure how to help you. this is going to result in the tiny number of transgender girls in sports being kicked or shamed off their teams, while simultaneously making things very uncomfortable for all the cis girls who will also be forced to undergo regular genital inspections. and for what?

        the fact that these passed, in supposedly “woke” states, is not only awful in and of itself, but also sets a terrifying precedent for things to come.

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          “opponents of the initiative say…”

          yeah, people say a lot of things. but sex can be tested using a cheek swab.

  • paranoid@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I have a name that can be for boys or girls. For some reason, most people assume it’s a girl’s name and act accordingly.

    When I was a kid, my parents signed me up for basketball. Someone thought it was a mistake for a person with my name to be on the boys team and moved me to the girls team, without telling me or my parents. I will never forget the embarrassment when I showed up to the first practice. I quit on the spot and didn’t play basketball after that.

    I like specifying the pronouns.

    • sompreno@lemmy.zip
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      44 minutes ago

      I feel like most gender neutral names are single sex leaning so I can kinda understand the confusion

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        tl/dr: kids should learn from older kids. also school kind of sucky

        sometimes i feel like before kids turn twenty, if you are more than four years older than them you basically can’t understand them at all. so maybe kids should learn from older kids. except they get put in a world where only other kids exactly their age and adults who don’t understand them at all exist. fuck school is what i’m trying to say. except i learned so many important things in school so fuck me i guess.

      • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works
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        And it’s a problem nobody cares about, because if you’re a kid, no one listens to you because you’re subhuman and beneath consideration, and if as an adult you support kids being people, you’re accused of being a pedophile.

        • MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world
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          The problem is that we refuse to take responsibility for brats and treat nervous kids like shit instead. And they can’t even speak up cuz they’re kids.

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    8 hours ago

    I’m a public sector employee, and when shit started going down about pronouns in emails, I added more pronouns to my emails.

    Do not obey in advance, there are more of us than there are of them ❤️‍🩹

    • DrPop@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Mine are still on full display. What’s the worst that can happen? I get written up?

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      You are correct and these people are fools. That said Democrats have dumped the transgender issues and I don’t expect a return of that in the near future.

    • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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      6 hours ago

      MAGA was created by declining material conditions, combined with billionaire funding, and suppression of other outlets for that frustration.

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        10 hours ago

        They didn’t latch onto anything, though. They latched into the things that got their base to turn out strong for bullshit candidates.

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          Yeah literally giving fatigued people annoying prods with every email or online interaction at work or home to vote against this new source of fatigue

    • Sundray@lemmus.org
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      I mean, mostly. The amount of right-wing fearmongering before Obama was elected was intense, and after he won, a large portion of the Republican party lost their goddamn minds, convinced it was the end of white people. This led to the Tea Party movement, which fed directly into MAGA.

      On a more personal level, Obama mercilessly roasted Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and the notorious slumlord was so monumentally, volcanically pissed-off at being humiliated by a powerful Black man that he became determined to prove he was his better, leading to his presidential ambitions, and courting of the existing Tea Party movement who became his initial base of support. (MAGA is basically TP 2.0.)

      The culture-war stuff was red meat for keeping the psychos’ attention, lest they wander off into dumber, less controllable conspiracy theories. But it could have been anything. (Sharia law, Socialism, FEMA camps, White Genocide, Great Replacement, Blood Libel, whatever the Murdochs could get their talking heads to complain about, basically.)

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      10 hours ago

      dont take the responsibility away from maga please. trump is president BECAUSE he knows they want someone who hates the same people they do. trump is a symptom, not the cause.

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      Not even close. Reactionary movements grow when standards of living drop while costs simultaneously rise, especially if the shift is significant. Much of this is usually attributed to weakening energy inputs (or at least a rise in their cost), as energy is foundational to post-industrial societies. Organized movements will latch onto cultural issues like “pronouns” in an attempt to divert blame for the deterioration in living towards an easy exploitable marginal group so that elites avoid things like guillotines. “Pronouns being in emails” is merely incidental and is not even close to how a movement like MAGA started or rose.

    • danc4498@lemmy.world
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      Not gonna lie, I saw this meme and thought, “You’re learning the wrong lesson!”

      Let’s not fuck this up lefties.

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          There was a lot of legitimate issues with the “woke” movement. Republicans used this as motivation to turn out the vote. Democrats have since chilled out quite a bit. Most didn’t do a 180, but just quit focusing on it.

          This win was more a reflection of that than it was legitimizing the “old ways”.

          Besides, pronouns never left the emails.