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Worth noting that particular subreddit appears to be pretty heavily astroturfed. To the point where some detransitioners created r/actualdetrans to get away from the TERFs.

Japan has been in the year 2000 for the past 50 years.

... capitalism is the ideology that lets the 1% be the 1%.

This is like the one fight that isn't part of the culture war.

Because conservatives do not actually care about reducing the number of abortions that happen. If they cared about that, they would be all-in on affordable access to contraceptives and comprehensive sex education. Which they also, as a movement, oppose.

Conservatives do not care about reducing the number of abortions. They care about punishing the women who get them.

Yeah buddy that's what getting a loan is. Except in reality, you get them from the bank.

I mean. This is true. But there are two ways of using this statement.

1. Ignoring the plight of minorities, not fighting for their rights, and insisting they put their suffering aside because "no war but class war".
2. Uniting in support of people with minoritised identities, forming stronger alliances, and refusing to infight because "no war but class war".

I hope you mean the second one.

Racism doesn't require malice. Something can still be racist in effect, without intention.

But also the Tweet is probably tongue-in-cheek.

Gamers have gotten quite lucky so far that the company that has been in the position to turn the screws and establish a monopoly has been content to only make gobs of money, instead of trying to make all the money like pretty much every other entertainment industry.

Because it's not actually about the pronouns. These people aren't actually angry about pronouns.

They're angry about trans and non-binary people. They're angry that people are growing to accept these people, who they do not think should be accepted. They are angry that a group they don't think is normal, is being accepted as normal.

I've always wondered why some people tout "forcing a consistent appearance across environments" as a pro for spaces. That's a bad thing.

To be honest I'm surprised code format converters aren't ubiquitous. Let the repo have it's master format, enforced on commit. Then converters translate into each developer's preferred standard dialect on checkout and back again on commit.

I have never met a self-described centrist who was doing any critical thinking. And I say that as a former centrist who was not engaging in critical thinking.

It's almost always "there are two sides to this issue, and because there are two sides there must be some merit to both, so thinking that one side is right or wrong is bad, and so anybody holding particularly strong convictions one way or another must not be thinking critically". Which if you noticed, is a line of reasoning that doesn't actually engage with reality or the nuances of the situation at all. It's just a thought-terminating cliche that leads to not thinking about an issue, but then concluding that one is more enlightened than people who hold strong beliefs.

The second I actually started getting informed and thinking critically, I shifted drastically in my politics.

Not the OP, but if you are soliciting opinions...

For me it's the fact that nobody really believes us when we talk about our issues or even the things we personally experience. Even well meaning people, even friends, immediately assume that we are exaggerating or imagining things when we talk, or assume they know better about what is or is not harmful to us.

Like the obvious hateful transphobes are one thing. But getting that attitude from people one knows personally is tiring and more than a little scary.