When we were talking about characters that we wanted to make, he suggested an evil female yuan-ti (snakeperson). Starts detailing all these things about the character going further and further. It wasn’t until the combination of “won medals during a chariot race but then ran over someone with their chariot” that I realized he was making Caitlyn Jenner an evil snake person in DnD. Snaiklyn Runnyr.
Pure gold.
I tend to think of the Progress flag as a product of the times, not as a replacement for the rainbow Pride flag. We added these additional signifiers specifically because those groups were under-represented or under particular attack, not because they aren’t included in the Pride rainbow.
Denying children healthcare is child abuse. That is what you are supporting.
Sure, they can.
Not sure why you made this strawman of a meme then.
It’s not even important if it can actually be enforced. Just the spectre of it maybe being enforced is enough to change people’s behaviour.
This whole “letting the citizens sue other citizens” loophole that the Rs have started to use as a means to circumvent proper lawmaking processes has to be closed.
I completely glossed over that. That’s hilarious.
Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus
Well, would you be willing to do what they’re doing in the name of “winning”?
Not in the name of “winning” no. But in the name of helping people that the conservatives are trying to hurt, absolutely.
That’s the real dilemma. How exactly do you maintain your own morality against an amoral adversary? Is it possible? It’s the old trope of “becoming as evil as the evil you’re fighting”.
It’s not a dilemma at all. Conservatives aren’t evil because they are willing to use underhanded to accomplish their goals. They are evil because their goals are evil. Fighting back against them is not even remotely the same.
While it is true that the ends don’t justify the means, there has been this moderate liberal overcorrection where people only concern themselves with the “means” and think that it is wrong to ever focus on the “ends”. But it’s not, the ends matter. The process of government, the “means”, isn’t actually meaningful in-and-of-itself, it’s a tool to manage disputes in a non-violent manner. But it is also a contract, and it only works when all parties agree to it and abide by it.
If the conservatives break the contract, and are hurting people, then upholding the “means” and allowing those people to keep getting hurt rather than putting a stop to it, is complacency and it’s own sort of evil.
The sheer brazenness with which they will lie to your face when they say stuff like this is stunning.
But what is kind of terrifying is that I personally think that, in the moment that they are saying it, they genuinely fool themselves into believing it. They simultaneously know their true intentions and that the argument they are making is complete nonsense, but in the moment that they are making it, they convince themselves of it fully. That is a dangerous thing to get into the habit of.
As it turns out, “winning the moral victory” is still just losing.
They hate libraries for the same reason they hate public schooling, and every other public service. Because it’s money they pay to help people who are not them.
Terrible… And of course security gates were closed and locked, so people couldn’t get out. That’s terrifying.
Nibling is a great word. But we need a neutral version of aunt or uncle.
I think some people might read this comment and think you are describing some satirical hyperbolic scenario. But given what we have seen from conservatives over the last few years, It’s not just possible, it’s their normal.
And because of the electoral college, odds are decent that their votes count more than yours do. So actually, their views are more relevant than liberal views. Because “democracy”.
It’s weird, the second I disagree with you on this, you immediately make a whole bunch of weird assumptions about me. About what I think, what media I consume, and my actions. All of those assumptions based on nothing at all.
And all of those assumptions, are wrong. I know a decent bit about the MRA movement. I actually used to tangentially support it when I was younger. Because I think men’s issues are real, and that men need support.
But when I read through your forums, all I saw in response to actual problems was tribalism. I saw people bringing up genuine issues men face in the world, but not to actually try and address those problems, rather to point fingers and lay the blame at the feet of feminism and women and progressives. To reinforce an angry, misogynistic worldview. They were a space for men who were often justifiably upset to vent their frustrations, but not to be offered genuine support, but to be offered something and someone to blame.
And I think men deserve better than that.
MRAs are analogous to feminists.
No they aren’t. For one, feminists have been accomplishing meaningful upliftment of women, rather than just complaining on the Internet.
What a ridiculous argument.
The state isn’t spending resources, they are telling school districts to stop spending resources abusing kids.
I’m sorry you had to go through that.
Hang on. You completely mischaracterised the situation in your previous comment, but then when that is pointed out to you, you just continue on without acknowledging that you had the situation completely backwards?
No. Acknowledge that you previous argument was nonsense.
Imagine your kid coming home with a black eye
Why are you imagining a completely different situation and pretending that it is relevant to what is happening here?
A child trying out a different name or pronouns is not harmful to the child or anyone else. A child suffering physical abuse is.
But of course, they won’t. They’re leaning right in both economic and social policy. It’s awful.