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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

(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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

One 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? 🤦

[–] Whatsit_Tooya 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like this could kept the original “then you are lost” and it woulda worked better. Still funny tho.

[–] OscarRobin 7 points 1 year ago

With the original line I think it would've been more serious

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Is this trans panic thing happening anywhere else in the world or is it exclusively the US doing a stupid?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Canadian here. It's very much here too, in Ontario our idiot Premier just ranted about it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You 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.

[–] bi_tux 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

~~Don't~~ worry, 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.

[–] avapa 9 points 1 year ago

That’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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Happening 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.

[–] Pregnenolone 7 points 1 year ago

Drag 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”

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Canada is getting into it now.

[–] Thekingoflorda 6 points 1 year ago

Oh no, it contagious

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I 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.

[–] KillAllPoorPeople 2 points 1 year ago

Each state varies only so much in what the federal government and federal courts allow. California could turn into Florida the second Republicans take control over the three branches of government if/when they win in 2024. Unless something absolutely bonkers happens, this isn't on the table for the UK. The Tories are gone by late 2024/early 2025 and the anti-trans movement doesn't have nearly as much steam as it does in the US. Trans people (along with everyone with ovaries and regular gay/lesbians) in the US should be gearing up for some very tough, very scary times no matter where they are, even those in California. The UK may be worse than California right now for trans people, but the future could be brighter because Labour should be much more supportive of trans people, and that should last five years which will probably be enough time for the anti-trans movement to dwindle considerably. The US has already seen how much damage 4 years of Trump and only 2 years of a Republican controlled federal government can do to the US, and that was before the anti-trans movement kicked it into high gear. I think there's a case where the UK looks even better than California from a trans perspective, especially in the near future. But all this only matters to trans people who can afford to pack up their lives and seek out the most accepting places whenever a new extreme reactionary act gets into power.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's fair, what I see in the UK of US news is very monolithic.

[–] JJROKCZ 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] who8mydamnoreos 34 points 1 year ago

But a tiny amount of people are not submitting to my taboos! We must give a power abusing con man power!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I fuckin hate this meme because the meme is accurate, but the Jedi Order was the oppressive force that lead to Vader.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I wouldn't call the jedi order oppressive. Just incompetent at running an organization.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Honestly 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I can feel that.

[–] derekabutton 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They stole and then brainwashed children into their religion and forced their members into celibacy.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 6 points 1 year ago

Not celibacy. Just no attachment. One of the masters on the council Ki-Adi Mundi was allowed multiple wives due to his species being considered endangered.

Jedi could engage in pleasurable activities. They just weren't supposed to be attached to those activities.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No, they didn't. Parents had the right to refuse.

All education is propaganda. That doesn't make it wrong, and the Jedi were the guardians of a 10,000 year old Republic made of thousands of different species. They were clearly right about a lot of things.

Members were free to leave, like Dooku did, and the Order made plenty of exceptions, like with Ki-Adi-Mundi, and, thanks to canonization of Corran Horn, apparently all the Corellian Jedi were just getting married anyways. Lmao.

Tl;Dr Star Wars fans don't know shit about Star Wars, and Anakin was just a messy bitch.

[–] kameecoding 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://youtu.be/tUPD1w78D5I?si=iXmZT3-5qM1HIq52

The case against the Jedi Order