But forcing us to use trans people's pronouns (and hence lie)? No, not really. Maybe people might complain about it on internet forums and amongst close friends (I have friend who finds it annoying like you do), but I don't think they'll do anything about it.
The important thing to keep in mind is that the chulthu swims to the left, preferred pronouns may feel like a new issue, but at this point in any sufficiently big organization, it is already claimed territory by the progs. As you say in the preceding paragraph, the new thing is trans kids. I don't think the millions of Americans with compelled speech in their workplace feel very strongly about it, they are fat and lazy and have very comfortable lives, but it will be interesting to see how they deal with their kids being transed.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
there is no /s at the end, so it's better to err on the side of not assuming things, it's 3 AC after all and Poe Law is in effect.
Pynewacket
2yr ago
"Conservatives Pounce"
Pynewacket
2yr ago
you cull it.
Pynewacket
2yr ago
Then the market crashes, which is not apocalyptic, and the replacement markets resort to different trusted actor systems.
"Hey Bob, how is your Pension?"
"What Pension?"
EDIT.- Just thought of a funsie:
"Papa, I'm hungry"
"Sorry Timmy, the dog was sold to round up the payment on the mortage."
Pynewacket
2yr ago
because in the other scenario you are assuming that companies are going to finance the same employees that they cut to maximize profit margins. And unless the Woke mind virus becomes a terminal case in the minds of their CEO's I don't see how they would justify doing it. Granted the unemployed can go into the wealthfare state arms, but I don't think that is sustainable.
Pynewacket
2yr ago
what is the utility of this distinction? just to identify the "Efective Altruists" from among the blues?
Pynewacket
2yr ago
This sounds like consensus building more than any other thing, considering the pushback affirmations like yours got in the recent thread about this topic in the main page. Is there anything significant that separates a blue triber from this so called grey one?
Pynewacket
2yr ago
Can't expect anything else when their sacred cow is attacked.
Pynewacket
2yr ago
I only found out transsexuals existed 18 months ago,
oh, wow. Speaking of bubbles yours looks to be pretty airtight. Anyway, considering your life situation, I don't think continuing this discussion is really worth the time spend; so let's agree to disagree.
Pynewacket
2yr ago
Don't think of it too literally, it wasn't a group of people in a conference room signing papers; it was done how everything else is agreed upon in society. A new idea came up in the zeitgeist, in this case the progs idea of Gender and Sex being separate and all that and it gained traction until it became mainstream. But because progs are progs they are pushing again to "Alter the Deal" and merge the 2 again but with their bullshit definitions tacked in.
Pynewacket
2yr ago
They promoted gender differences an alt right position.
Do you mean sex differences here? because gender differences or differences in gender roles is a mainly Leftist Idea, so it reads really weird if you mean that.
Pynewacket
2yr ago
but aren't Asians honorary whites at this point? I would imagine that we are approaching the reality of Asians being as white as Italians or Irish.
Pynewacket
3mo ago
As I like to say, Rationalists are thus named because they are excellent at rationalizing their biases.
Pynewacket
2yr ago
Let's not forget too the minority grooming/rape Gangs that were abetted for years too. No child is sacred, only the ideology.
Pynewacket
2yr ago
What is the ratio of Cannibals to trans activists in our society? and that is without the disproportionate impact that trans activists have when they introduce or modify laws. I'm unaware of cannibals trying to pass laws related to their proclivities.
Pynewacket
2yr ago
It's curious that a bunch of activists managed to do what all the might of the Alcohol and Tobaco industry didn't. Still remember those cigarettes commercials with Doctors seal of approval and whatnot.
Pynewacket
2yr ago
What about safe spaces, does that count?, and then we have Affirmative action, segregated graduation ceremonies.
Pynewacket
2yr ago
Considering the lenghts they and their allies went to discredit any other viewpoint for something on the level of an Influenza, it could be argued that at the very least they are incompetent. But if we take in consideration:
1.- The level of coordination between the parties (intended or unintended as part of the Protect the Narrative campaign)
2.- That there is a high chance Ecohealth efforts and by proxi Faucci's whole cabal are indirectly responsible for the pandemic
3.- That even after it was grokked out that it wasn't Ebola or the Black Death in airborne form, the mayority of the catedral refused to actualize priors.
4.- And that we will never know the why, how and when of the Pandemic due to the collusion of the Chinese CCP and gain of function establishment.
I would say that yeah, at least indirectly responsible of mass murder. And that is without taking into account the Nursery homes murders in New York and elsewhere (Minesota I think) and events like that. There wasn't self policing, just like with any other progressive cause as of late. Just an intransigency to give an inch on any front.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
this may sound out of left field, but How would you have felt if you didn't have breakfast yesterday?
Pynewacket
2yr ago
if your child is old enough
What range or limit are you thinking about here? 14 and up, less or more?
The way to deal with this is long before your 14-year-old has decided that they are trans, ...
How do you grok this with cases in which the children were groomed secretly by their teachers and they spring this up suddenly to the parents?
Pynewacket
2yr ago
This leaves me in a bind, because I still feel myself a liberal in my bones, and female equality is a natural and inevitable derived principle of liberalism.
Every time that impulse rears its ugly head in my heart I beat it bloody by remembering Ukraine and the draft, and concluding that enfranchisement should be only for those expected to die for it.
Pynewacket
10mo ago
Do you have any evidence of Trump endorsing 2025?.
As for the fine people, we have the recording of his remarks about it so I don't know what you are talking about.
that would be part of a deliberate strategy, not a mistake.
the strategy of giving your opponent easy rebuttals I suppose, but at that point your judgement on what constitutes a mistake and what is a Strategy is useless for normal conversation.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
and I believe retains some fraction of it's original spirit
can you define its "original spirit"?
well, according with that article, with the magic of a Zoom call they can. No idea why would you ask about it, unless you forgot that article.
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