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@ragnaroek @ChristiJunior @PepeWalnuts @hourmutt And of course it's a word that applies to everyone under the LGBT umbrella ("attack on one of us is an attack on all of us" mentality). Another reason why I hate the term LGBT (along with the letters after that). Trying to lump gays, bisexuals, asexuals, and transgender people into one "community" so that trans issues are all the sudden gay issues as well.

It's also why I hate terms like BIPOC to refer to anyone who isn't white or "Neurodivergent" to refer to anyone with a cognitive disorder, no matter how minor.

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@ragnaroek @PepeWalnuts @hourmutt "Gender" is the hardest one to shed, because "gender" and "sex" used to be interchangeable, I don't like repeating words too much, and sex of course has multiple meanings making it the potentially the more awkward term to use.

@PepeWalnuts @ChristiJunior @ragnaroek @hourmutt *phobic is slowly being abandon by SJWs though. Many of them think it's "ableist" to equate "bigotry" with "irrational fear".

I think the word "heterosexual" is fine. "Hetero" is the opposite root of "homo". "Cis" is the opposite root of "trans". It comes from the Latin root meaning "on the side of".

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avoid the terms:
heterosexual
*phobic
cis
gender
trans

these are poison pill terms subtly designed to get you to accept their framework

@ChristiJunior Every time I hear the phrase "buck breaking", I immediately think of someone breaking a rabbit's spine.

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It's ok to use discord...
To convert people to open protocols.

@Moon @coolboymew @jenny I like it when games automatically give you the bad ending if you play on easy mode.

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@coolboymew @jenny Not every game needs to be accessible for everyone. Just like JRPGs shouldn't be dumbed down so that mobile gamers can understand everything in 10 minutes, Souls games don't need to be made so easy that game journalists can finish them.
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Someone sent me this claiming they took it themselves. Photo of the NYC Metro threatening passengers with state terrorism if they misgender troons on the subway.

If I said "Politician X better do what I want or he'll become past tense" I'd probably get a visit from the feds.
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(In response to a question on YT asking me about the new pride flags).

Both the hoist-side triangle and the + brown/black stripe flags are hideous. I don't know how to describe it better. The rainbow is a natural phenomena, and is pretty. It does a good job of positively representing concepts like "diversity" and does so in a fun way. It's such an infectious icon that whenever you see a rainbow you just assume now it's a gay related organization.

Painting shit brown and baby colors, especially altogether, just is an eyesore. What does brown on the rainbow flag even mean? Brown gay people?? Why does that need its own flag? We already assume black people can be gay. Who needs to be told otherwise?

The trans flag itself is hideous and confusing. It looks like something rotting. I see dead blue skin, pink exposed flesh, and white pus. It doesn't represent transition to me. All those other sexuality flags are cheap imitations of a once-great idea, and only in that shared concept of "cheap imitation" does it accurately represent what it tries to.

Neo-liberal movements are broad and confusing. There's so many conflicting groups trying to share one house that it cannot be accurately represented. Which is why there's also no good conservative flags, except perhaps the Gadsden, which itself says nothing but "I don't like the government and I will defend myself".
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Purityfagging is the dumbest shit. “You can’t be one of us unless you’re exactly all these things.” If we have the same ideologies why the fuck do you care what I do in my personal life? Better question is where does that shit end?

@mangeurdenuage @becassine @jeremiah @guizzy @coolboymew @ooignignoktoo Vaccine passports are not even a thing here. I think if you are not vaccinated, you are required to self-quarantine after traveling though. I'm just happy that I can most likely get away without being vaccinated.

@ooignignoktoo @becassine @jeremiah @guizzy @coolboymew @mangeurdenuage It's really crazy seeing how lockdowns are slowly being lifted where I live while up in Canada it's a completely different story.

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Researchers find dangerous misinformationists prefer science and facts to corporate propaganda :blubcatflip:
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