[-] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 3 months ago

I for one believe Bugs is Cis and thus is the worlds biggest drag queen icon.

[-] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I hate hate hate when people try to discredit a theory because "it's a theory not a fact" as if the label of "fact" exists on some kind of science ladder for an idea. "Facts" is a colloquial word like any other, it's not some special category above theories.

Moreover, the most tried and tested theories are facts. Science rarely just disproves an established theory outright. Einstein's General Relatively equations reduces into Newton's Laws of Motion in most situations. Newton's Laws of Motion weren't "wrong", it's just General Relatively is more specific and accurate.

The Scientific Method usually just builds on what already exists without claiming we were all unfactual for working with what we had.

[-] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And no Owl House? Crikey...

Spoilers

[-] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 4 months ago

In a D&D game that I got in through Roll20 matchmaking. One of the players asks if I want to join another campaign with his friends, said yes.

One of those friends is now my fiancee that I moved states for. The original guy ghosted all of us in a harsh way but I'll forever owe my new life to him.

[-] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Happened to my brother, normal democrat who agreed with feminism and disliked Trump.

Then fiancee left him for another man, took a hard right thanks to Jordan Peterson.

[-] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 5 months ago

I fully believe in using a person's preferred pronouns even if they're using it in bad faith. The flip side though is that if your identity or pronoun is very uncommon or has stringent rules, you need to accept that people will accidentally get it wrong from time to time. This isn't unique to pronouns, anything from gender, sexuality, names, politics, religion, occupation, ect. the less common it is the more confusion and explaining.

We need to be accepting of mistakes otherwise we'll be unwelcoming to newcomers and we'll fracture the different branches of LGBT over "rules lawyering".

Finally I feel like I should put in a word about my brief experience with Links. I was very against non voting and we debated in the comments, but we reached a common ground and sympathized about the dire state of everything and our fears about project 2025. We didn't change each other's mind but it was a very civil and positive end to what usually becomes a heated argument online. So in my experience I believe Links was not a bad actor and vocally shared the same concerns that the queer community has.

[-] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"Democracy is the worst system of government, except for all the others"

I still can't find a way to disprove this statement. Popular vote inherently favors the majority as opposed to minorities and only cares about charisma. And yet, nothing else seems to beat it.

The only one I could think of is putting in a guy/AI that's really benevolent and competent this time guys I pinky swear.

[-] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 7 months ago

So they're ending support but will use the remaining users like test guinea pigs.

Great...

[-] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 10 months ago

Diogenes walking in with a bottle of Viagra and a hard on: "Behold, a woman!"

[-] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 1 year ago

A chaser fetishize and go after trans people in the same way people fetishize asians, latinx, black people, ect.

It's not wrong to have a preference for trans people, it is wrong to reduce them to a sex object for your pleasure. That's what a chaser is.

[-] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"I hereby swear to submit to the orders of my superiors" 😏

[-] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 2 years ago

This is about whenever contradiction show up in a system what the general responses would be, but if you want a specific example by me.

I posit that privatized healthcare is a contradiction, base capitalism relies on supply and demand and healthcare will always have infinite demand. So profit motive =/= health motive.

According to the chart, the lefist would suggest getting rid of privatized healthcare in favor of universal healthcare funded by the government without patent gatekeeping.

The conservative would simply not acknowledge any flaw or contradiction.

The centrist would keep the system and implement bandaid half solutions, like state insurance or Obamacare.

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