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Gosh, yeah, why didn't I realise that reality being altered around me will have no effect whatsoever on my life?
Would you care to engage in meaningful discussion instead of dismissive sarcasm? We’re not on Twitter, here you can score points with intellectual essayposting instead. Go on, I’ve called you out on your Bailey of “leftist freaks wanting to file paperwork in strange ways is ruining my life”, please hit me with your Motte.
My motte is that if we start to bend physical facts in strange ways, this does affect everyone. My motte is that I was sold a bill of goods before about other things that would "never affect my life" and then it came about that "well in fact it does affect your life since now we've enshrined it in law that unless you say 'yes sir no sir three bags full sir' to this, you are at risk of fines and jail". My motte is that I don't care about this person's politics or who they're married to or what they call themselves, but the undeniable fact remains: they are father and not mother of the child.
What is your problem, here?
My problem is that your rhetoric is incendiary rather than illuminating. This site is devolving into mindless “boo outgroup” drivel.
The fact that you can be fined and arrested for acknowledging the ridiculousness of the situation is a valid example of how this affects your life and I wish you would have led with that. I’m sorry your country does not protect free speech.
Personally, I don’t mind people lying to themselves in the comfort of their own home, or, when it makes for meaningless paperwork issues. I do care about people lying to themselves when it affects others and I think many others are the same, and that’s why trans in bathrooms and sports are such contentious points in otherwise totally woke-d out societies. If the article you posted were in America, I, as an American, would think it’s stupid but inconsequential to my life. You, as an Irish person posting about Ireland are allowed to feel upset. I still think it’s mostly inconsequential to your life.
Ah yes, like the meaningless paperwork issues around ICE asking people for identification as citizens? I think a lot of people would not class that as meaningless paperwork, but indeed seem to see it as evidence of living in a totalitarian state.
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