(tw i guess) Just had a very interesting conversation with someone who seemed otherwise smart and friendly. He genuinely believes that people are choosing to be trans for attention.... without having ever talked to a trans person himself. Also legitimately believes that the government is ruled by lizard people, and that covid just never existed(???).
Apparently for some people, when "none of the mainstream media is willing to tell you this," that makes the information more credible to them. Bizarre.
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32Unlikely things to hear at a baptism
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I thought covid was caused by 5G towers and the vaccine contained nanobots. But apparently now it never existed. I hope I still have nanobots in my blood, I would hate to think that I had a sore arm for nothing.
Also he's right about the lizard people.
8One of my coworkers believes the nanobots thing. He was talking in the lunch room really loud about how you can tell if someone had the vaccine because they give off radio signals in the same bands as Bluetooth and WiFi. So he walks over to me with his phone out and goes: You've had the vaccine, you're giving off Bluetooth radio radiation.
So I take our my bluetooth headphones and say pardon me? 🤦9
I feel like this could kept the original “then you are lost” and it woulda worked better. Still funny tho.
48With the original line I think it would've been more serious
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Is this trans panic thing happening anywhere else in the world or is it exclusively the US doing a stupid?
35Canadian here. It's very much here too, in Ontario our idiot Premier just ranted about it
26You can refer to him as Doug Ford since everyone probably remembers his crack smoking brother and the former mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. Doug is about as great at running a province as he was at selling crack lol.
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Don'tworry, it's a thing everywere even in countries that should know better. Both world wars have been started from people from my country and it seems like we haven't learned anything. The fashist party is gaining more votes and holding anti- trans/drag ralleys because there was a transwomen reading a book to primary school kids. It has gotten so much out of hand, that the police (a lot of officers tend to be fashists) blocks certain journalists from reporting at those ralleys. Even the muslims now vote for fashism, because they hate women and members of the lgbtq comunity so much, that they don't realise their vote might get them kicked out of the country.23That’s because our conservatives and our far-right copy anything the Republican Party does in the US. And just like in the US, people here just gobble up that bullshit.
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19Happening a little bit in Aus too. Super weird. Trans and cross dressing and every flavour of divergence from the norm has been generally pretty accepted in most metropolitan areas my whole life.
Suddenly everyone wants to get their pronouns in a twist and it's this big deal.
We can't seem to just let the USA have their own culture war, we import all of it. Sky News has a lot to answer for.
13Drag has been a cultural icon in Australia for generations. Priscilla was a hit movie nearly 30 years prior to this bullshit drag/trans-phobia. Too many people drinking the Sky News American-adopted coolaid and Facebook fearmongering. It doesn’t help that shitheap news services like Channel 7 give the transphobes a platform under the false guise of “neutrality”
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Canada is getting into it now.
12Oh no, it contagious
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From what I’ve seen it is happening elsewhere as well, Canada and a few euro nations are having a small amount of complaining about it but it’s mostly US
10Nah it's all over the place, here in the UK it's perhaps less prevalent than the US but it's not a friendly time for trans people. I hear similar news from the rest of Europe. India, too, which given its Hindu majority has often been a bit more progressive (in some ways) on trans politics now has an anti trans leader.
10I am a trans from the US so this is a US biased perspective but I would rank the UK as better than Florida but worse than California in regards to trans rights. It's hard to compare single countries to the "entire" US when each state varies so much. Like I am personally considering leaving the US because of this stuff but its doubtful I would choose the UK when getting access to trans care there is so gatekept.
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But a tiny amount of people are not submitting to my taboos! We must give a power abusing con man power!
34I fuckin hate this meme because the meme is accurate, but the Jedi Order was the oppressive force that lead to Vader.
10I wouldn't call the jedi order oppressive. Just incompetent at running an organization.
20Honestly the jedi come off as neo liberals to me, they felt very in favor of the status quo even if there was obviously bad things going on in the galaxy like slave trade and shit
8I can feel that.
6https://youtu.be/tUPD1w78D5I?si=iXmZT3-5qM1HIq52
The case against the Jedi Order
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