Kulturkampf

[Potato]

Pretty easy to spot the "apology" that was written by spin doctors. Also, fuck you Megan Rapinoe for bullying a young woman.

[benji]

I admit finding it a bit weird that I live in a time where people will just state things that nobody has even bothered to research. And it just dominates an entire subject of discourse. I had ignorantly figured the scientific method was more widespread as accepted in the West. Now I know better obviously but I still find it a bit weird.

[benji]

Also I want to note that I can believe in "making any type of space safer, more inclusive, more whole, any semblance of better, bringing out the best of anyone" specifically by rejecting false and harmful ideologies and refusing to affirm them for others, therefore proving I don't believe in hate. Checkmate, atheists retired soccer players.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

[Polident]

Always get the sense people like Rapinoe are quietly desperate for Trump to come back. Any attempts to be relevant in the Biden years aren’t working. Some of them tried pivoting to Elon and others. It’s not the same. Even if Trump comes back, it won’t be the same. There’s no shame in admitting one’s moment had passed.

[Nintex]

We've done a study in the Netherlands and most kids grow out of their gender confusion if you just leave them alone.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

It's almost as if being trans is a fad done for attention. It's the new emo, punk, goth phase.

[Nintex]

Exactly what it is and we were so wrong about the goths

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Most folx forget that PoC women are the strongest voices in Christianity. 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

“There have been whispers that some members in the middle-school community are intent on removing people of color, especially Black people, from leadership positions,”

 That's a rather smart grift.. White folks found out that by being trans they can outmaneuver the POC.

[benji]

Fun article about how intersectionality is not really working

A joke you hear a lot is that, in Amherst, only the “H” is silent. It’s a town known for raucous debate and lefty political infighting. Still, even by these disputatious standards, the arguments that have been carrying on around Amherst Regional Middle School, or arms, have been vociferous. How and when they started depends on whom you ask, but they broke into wider public view last May, when Amherst’s high-school newspaper, the Graphic, published a five-thousand-word article headlined “ ‘It’s Life or Death’: Failure to Protect Trans Kids at arms a Systemic Problem.” The piece anonymously quoted several trans and gender-nonconforming students, who recounted numerous incidents of bullying and harassment, harmful encounters with guidance counsellors, and fruitless complaints to administrators. Among the article’s striking details was that, at a prayer meeting at school, a guidance counsellor reportedly said, “In the name of Jesus, we bind that LGBTQ gay demon that wants to confuse our children.” (The counsellor later denied making this comment.) That same staffer, the piece alleged, handed out chocolate crucifixes to students.

An uncomfortable fact was that most of the concerned parents were white and the two counsellors under scrutiny were not: one of them, Hector Santos, is Latino, and the other, Delinda Dykes, is Black. Cunningham, who is Black, was the district’s head of diversity, equity, and H.R.; Morris, the superintendent, is white. At the school-committee meeting, which lasted nearly six hours, one of the few people who spoke in Cunningham’s defense was her son, who had worked at arms as a student-support specialist. “For a prime example of how women of color get treated in leadership positions,” he told the crowd, “I say look no further than Amherst public schools.” The troubles at arms, he insisted, were “not about the L.G.B.T.Q.+ situation,” but, rather, the product of an unusually combative teachers’ union and ordinary racism.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240403202944/https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-meltdown-at-a-middle-school-in-a-liberal-town

Exactly what it is and we were so wrong about the goths

https://twitter.com/AxiomAmerican/status/1776018436268712306?t=44zO9wk9czB2BfzVqa0pZQ&s=19
https://twitter.com/AxiomAmerican/status/1776018472171962767?t=7L8Gfg1ILDNqYnHGp0ms4Q&s=19

This dude went to this article, screenshot it a bunch and posted it as a "thread"? And he's monetizing.

[NekoFever]

“For some reason”

[Nintex]

[Nintex]

[Nintex]

It's crazy how broken these people are

[Nintex]

Lock her up. Lock her up.

[Puffy Fucking Baby]

She should be locked up for still looking 12 when she's about 30 now

[Potato]

She should be locked up for still looking 12 when she's about 30 now

She's 21. Although, she behaves like a 35 year old woman with a social circle made up primarily of several cats.

[benji]

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

🙏

[Polident]

Not clicking the profile. Despite the Barcelona mention, her language and attitude is… she lives in London, doesn’t she?

[Potato]

Yes. 

Also, what if those Jews lived in Barcelona and had no connection to Israel? 

Do you think she'd admit her blatant racism?

[Nintex]

Lol this clown yelling he's from America like it's some kind of immunity 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

May brother Somali be freed soon, Inshallah.

[HaughtyFrank]

Lock her up. Lock her up.

Edit: oh man they removed the community note about how her breasts are digitally altered. Way funnier with that footnote

[HaughtyFrank]

[HaughtyFrank]

[Uncle]

it's irresponsible to try to sell people on the benefits of climate change

[NekoFever]

Some of us pay good money to go to Southeast Asia for that kind of thing.

[benji]

He's making it sound like Socialist PS5 still would have no games.

[Eric Cartman]

He's making it sound like Socialist PS5 still would have no games.

So you're agreeing nothing would fundamentally change?

Also can't help but feel "Just like democracy now, you just have to #dealwithit with the group conensus" isn't something the biggest proponents actually want