Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • See, I’d interpret those same quotes with different emphasis.

    and likewise, as an older queer I’m doing my own educating here. I’m not going to sugarcoat the truth. Not now with the severity of the threat we collectively face while we’re having a fucking pissing match over pronouns and being offended by the innocent use of they/them purely to be outraged and feel important.

    No, call people you don’t know they/them until otherwise corrected and if they get pissy about it that’s their fault and not yours. // There’s real serious problems out there, being upset over being accidentally “misgendered” by having no gender recognition at all is fucking ridiculous attention seeking me me me behavior.

    ie, I interpret it not as “This is a real problem, but a minor one, and we have major ones to deal with”

    But rather as “This is not an offense any more than someone stepping on your foot by accident is an offense”




  • Oh yeah quote where I said they were direct responses or that that was relevant in any way?

    Oh, so you were just quoting those two statements as completely irrelevant to one another, just a little trivia in your comment added for aesthetic appeal that wasn’t meant to be relevant to your claim at all, cool cool cool. Very likely.

    Straight to the insult too. Glad you left the places I frequent you just fell off and got really mean.

    I was patient with you previously because I felt that you were generally ideologically aligned; after a few arguments, I realized we were ideologically aligned, but that what I originally perceived as a lack of perceptiveness online (itself not uncommon) was actually complete disingenuity in the same vein of conservatives who play stupid.

    Didn’t you say you were blocking me, btw?


  • You’re 100% right that I’m not feeling the anger you queers are feeling. And, again, I agree with the core of what you’re saying. It boils down to “goddammit can’t those bloody kids get their priorities right???”, doesn’t it?

    I interpreted the original statement more as “Accidental misgendering with gender-neutral pronouns is not an unreasonable thing to happen; attacking people over it is unreasonable” more than a question of priorities, and the addition of “I was queer Back In The Day” was meant to establish that the poster isn’t some outsider who doesn’t know what queer persecution is like, but someone who is genuinely pointing out that accidental misgendering is not an attack or an offense that needs the call to arms to be raised against the individual who made the mistake.













  • America does something bad: “America bad!” (fair enough)

    America does something good: “America bad!” (???)

    There is literally nothing that could interrupt their cozy campism. They’re the exact kinds of people who would’ve given ‘critical support’ to Hitler’s ‘anti-imperialism’ for as long as the Soviet Union told them to.

    Fuck’s sake. Imagine being an LGBT person in the USA, and blaming LGBT persecution in Russia on the fact that LGBT folk aren’t as persecuted in the US as they once were. Utter morons.

    Completely tracks with their preferred political course of “Aiming a gun at our collective heads and telling the people who want us dead that we’ll pull the trigger if they don’t give us what we want”

    Fascists’ little helpers.




  • Explanation: In the First Punic War, the Roman Republic utterly smashed its nemesis, Carthage. In the Second Punic War, things might’ve gone similarly, except for a brilliant Carthaginian general - Hannibal - who spent almost two decades terrorizing the Romans in their own heartland, using a number of novel stratagems to outwit and outmatch the numerically superior Roman forces, and crush them in open battle.

    During this time, a young Roman aristocrat, our dear Scipio (later given the name Africanus for his victories), entered into military service. Learning from Hannibal’s strategies and tactics, and with a razor-sharp mind of his own, Scipio managed to flip the script and used Hannibal’s own tactics against other Carthaginian forces, eventually culminating in a battle between Scipio and Hannibal himself, a battle which Scipio won.

    Learn from your enemies, kids - it could save your Republic one day!